National Nuclear Security Administration

The National Nuclear Security Administration awarded a $25 million grant to the UC Berkeley-led Nuclear Science and Security Consortium to advance the next generation of nuclear science and security for the next five years.

Four members of the greater UC Berkeley community are likely to serve leadership positions within the incoming Biden Administration, as of press time. 

The U.S. Department of Energy is awarding more than $5 million in scholarships and fellowships for nuclear engineering programs to many U.S. colleges, including UC Berkeley.

Student regent Devon Graves said he expects that on Wednesday, the regents will continue to support their current enrollment policy welcoming nonresident students in addition to rather than in place of California residents.

The UC Board of Regents unanimously approved the submission of a bid to manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory, or LANL, and reviewed progress on meeting audit recommendations from April 2017 on Wednesday.

A UC Berkeley-led consortium of eight universities will reinvigorate the phrase “knowledge is power” after receiving a $25 million grant to research nuclear energy and security, intended to attract young scholars to the field.

A helicopter flew over Berkeley and the surrounding Bay Area at low altitude on Wednesday, as part of a federal research project to measure natural background radiation.

The nuclear science conference draws in top scientists from 7 different universities and 4 national laboratories, including Lawrence Berkeley, Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia laboratories.