Ava Benkhatar

NSSC Faculty, Prof. Bob Svoboda (UCD), has been selected to receive the 2024 APS DPF Instrumentation Award for his work on developing neutrons as a precision calibration source for Super-Kamiokande and for DUNE. He worked to develop a submersible neutron generator for Super-K that took the absolute energy calibration from 4% to 0.7%, allowing precision … Read more

NSSC Executive Director and UCBNE Professor, Bethany Goldblum, was elected to the Radiation Instrumentation Steering Committee (RISC) of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS). The RISC oversees and manages activities related to radiation instrumentation technology within the IEEE NPSS, including issues related to education, research and development. She will serve a three-year term beginning January 1, … Read more

The NSSC is excited to congratulate three of our alumni—Dr. Kathryn Huff, Dr. Karen Koop Hogue, and Dr. Sarah R. Stevenson, Ph.D.—on being named to American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear News inaugural 40 Under 40 list! These former NSSC scholars were recognized for their impactful contributions to the nuclear field, from engaging the public and influencing … Read more