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Engineering professor to lead $5 million project investigating materials for safe storage of nuclear waste
October 31, 2024 - Carly Bowling
Eric Lang, assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering, will lead a new consortium funded by the Minority Serving Institution Partnership Program in the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration to develop materials for safe and effective nuclear storage while creating a job pipeline to national laboratories.
The University of New Mexico, which is a designated Hispanic Serving Institution, will lead the project in collaboration with Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University and Prairie View Agriculture and Mechanical University, which are both designated Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories will work with the universities to help give students hands-on experiences at the labs throughout the year and over the summer.