The event was part of the University’s on-going commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction. Nuclear physicist Barbara Jacak delivered a lecture entitled ...

Purdue University and Duke Energy will host the next installment of the Understanding Tomorrow’s Nuclear Energy Lecture Series in January. Kathryn D. Huff, assistant secretary for nuclear energy in ...

In the wake of last month’s meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, the Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) will bring world-renowned nuclear physicist Dr. Kelvin ...

The Program on Science and Global Security, part of Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, is holding the Bruce Blair Memorial Lecture 2025 on October 9, 2025. The Lecture ...

Twice every year, the University of Chicago’s Enrico Fermi Institute sponsors the Arthur Holly Compton lecture series, which provide the public an inside look at the questions about the universe with ...

Hands on: an NTEC student operating the VR-1 Reactor at the Czech Technical University. “What we offer is a vocational programme, the whole goal of which is to support the nuclear industry,” says ...

The International Nuclear Information System (INIS) hosts one of the world's largest collections of published information on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology. INIS is a unique and ...

1 The Arts and Humanities (AH) and Social Sciences (SS) perspectives are subsets of the Breadth of Knowledge (BOK) requirements in the Core Curriculum. No more than two BOK courses can be taken with ...

CEDAR FALLS -- A University of Northern Iowa alum working at the Los Alamos National Lab will hold a lecture on J. Robert Oppenheimer and nuclear chemistry. Cassara Higgins is a 2016 UNI graduate who ...

Lise Meitner was a pioneering physicist who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics. She was part of a team that discovered nuclear fission — a term she coined — but she was overlooked in 1945 when ...

In his school days Gamow became very much interested in astronomy, examining the starry sky through a little telescope, his father's present on the thirteenth birthday of his son. Gamow then decided ...