Daniel Suarez and Mackenzie Warwick joined us as full-time teaching professors. They are the first instructional faculty members the department has ever hired.

UT, ORNL, and Type One Energy are establishing a world-class facility to advance fusion energy, evaluating how materials react under extreme conditions. 

Professor Ivan Maldonado served as the general chair for the 2025 Advances in Nuclear Fuel Management (ANFM) Conference.

Sarah Donaher has been named to the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement PAC 5 group, helping position UT as a hub in the field.

Khalid Hattar is part of two Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy awards of more than $2M that focus on plasma-facing surface relationships for fusion energy systems.

Associate Professor and the Pietro F. Pasqua Faculty Fellow Ilja Popovs has been elected a foreign member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences.

Vald Sobes, Amanda Bachmann, Lane Carasik, Tyler Steiner, and Fan Zhang have been named to the second annual Nuclear News “40 Under 40” list.

Partnering with Stony Brook University, Nick Brown found using reactor waste as microreactor fuel reduces long-term waste storage while reducing energy costs.

Livia Casali was been honored by the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics (APS-DPP) with the Katherine E. Weimer Award.

Vladimir Sobes has been working on finding ways to use (AI/ML) capabilities to produce faster, more reproducible, and more reliable evaluation of nuclear data.