Jacob Fritchie and John Leland win awards at UPR 2025 conference

Last week, Jacob Fritchie and John Leland each presented their work at the NNSA University Program Review, attended by NNSA-funded university consortia.

Jacob’s oral presentation “Temperature Dependence of Noise in Silicon Photomultipliers” won the Best Oral Presentation award in the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium

John’s poster presentation “PSD and Image Reconstruction for a High-density Channel System-on-Chip Digitizer for Nonproliferation Applications” won the Best Poster Presentation award in the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium

Congratulations to these two! See their presentations under our Publications tab.

Prof. Di Fulvio is the new Director of ACDIS

Professor Angela Di Fulvio is the new Director of the Program in Arms Control & Domestic and International Security (ACDIS). ACDIS is an interdisciplinary venture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that facilitates objective research, academics, and outreach about international security issues within the academic and policymaking communities.

The mission of ACDIS is to inform domestic and international security policy decision making and implementation through focused interdisciplinary research, thoughtful and objective analysis, and effective communication and teaching.

She is excited to further ACDIS work at the interface between policy and engineering, particularly in the domain of nuclear security, international safeguards, and nonproliferation.

Ming Receives Prestigious Award from IEEE NPSS

Ming was awarded the 2024 NPSS Glenn F. Knoll Graduate Educational Grant, which is the most prestigious award to students (submitted before he graduated) in radiation measurements given by the IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society. This award recognizes outstanding graduate students in the field of nuclear science instrumentation, medical instrumentation, or instrumentation for security applications.

Ming Passed PhD Final Exam

Congratulations to Ming for successfully defending his PhD thesis! Ming’s thesis project focuses on developing advanced methods for the tracking and tagging of TRIstructural ISOtropic (TRISO) fuel pebbles in pebble bed reactors (PBRs), under the guidance of Prof. Di Fulvio. Read more.