Seventeen from Argonne recognized with Secretary of Energy's Honor Awards
Six groups that included seventeen scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory were recent recipients of the DOE's 2020 Secretary of Energy's Honor Awards.
Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing seeks applications for 2021
ATPESC provides in-depth training on using supercomputers, including next-generation exascale systems, to facilitate breakthrough science and engineering.
PNNL Technology Strengthens Grid, Earns National Awards
The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer has given three national awards to PNNL technology teams.
ORNL receives three 2021 FLC Awards for technology transfer
Three technologies developed by researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have won National Technology Transfer Awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium. The annual FLC Awards recognize significant accomplishments in transferring federal laboratory technologies to the marketplace.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Donovan Leonard named physical sciences director for Microscopy Society of America
Donovan N. Leonard, a researcher in the Deposition Science and Technology group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected to a three-year term as physical sciences director for the Microscopy Society of America, or MSA.
Argonne's Robert Ross earns prestigious DOE award
Argonne's Robert Ross receives the DOE's prestigious Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for seminal contributions in high-performance computing.
Argonne's Rick Stevens named ACM Fellow
Argonne's Rick Stevens was recently named a Fellow of the of the Association of Computer Machinery (ACM) for his continuing contributions to high-performance computing.
Science Begins at Brookhaven Lab's New Cryo-EM Research Facility
On January 8, 2021, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory welcomed the first virtually visiting researchers to the Laboratory for BioMolecular Structure (LBMS), a new cryo-electron microscopy facility.
Two Berkeley Lab Scientists Honored with the Lawrence Award
The Department of Energy has announced that Susannah Tringe and Dan Kasen, two scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), will receive the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, one of DOE's highest honors. Additionally, former Berkeley Lab scientist M. Zahid Hasan was also named as one of the eight recipients.
ElastiDry Wins DOE National Pitch Competition
A panel of five judges from the Bay Area and Silicon Valley investment community chose the PNNL innovation from 10 product pitches.
Fermilab receives DOE award to develop machine learning for particle accelerators
Fermilab scientists and engineers are developing a machine learning platform to help run Fermilab's accelerator complex alongside a fast-response machine learning application for accelerating particle beams. The programs will work in tandem to boost efficiency and energy conservation in Fermilab accelerators.
Argonne earns HPCwire awards for the best use of high performance computing in energy and industry
HPCwire magazine recognizes two Argonne teams for outstanding achievement in their use of high performance computing.
Rachel Slaybaugh to Lead Berkeley Lab's Cyclotron Road
The Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has named Rachel Slaybaugh, associate professor of nuclear engineering at UC Berkeley, to lead Berkeley Lab's Cyclotron Road Division.
$2.6 million Dept. of Energy grant to fund research into solar energy and power grids
A team of researchers from Binghamton University, State University of New York has been selected to receive $2.6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to develop ways to reliably support higher amounts of solar power on the grid.
Experiment to Precisely Measure Electrons Moves Forward
The MOLLER experiment at DOE's Jefferson Lab is one step closer to carrying out an experiment to gain new insight into the forces at work inside the heart of matter through probes of the humble electron. The experiment has just received a designation of Critical Decision 1, or CD-1, from the DOE, which is a greenlight to move forward in design and prototyping of equipment.
Physicists Hong Qin and Ahmed Diallo recognized for outstanding research at PPPL
Theoretical and experimental physicists receive PPPL awards for standout research in 2020.
Scientists collaborate on public-private partnership to facilitate the development of commercial fusion energy
Article describes PPPL work in coordination with MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a start-up spun out of MIT that is developing a unique tokamak fusion device called "SPARC."
In Memoriam: Jack Steinberger, 99
Jack Steinberger, who with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in physics for their 1962 discovery of the muon neutrino, died on Saturday, December 12, 2020, at his home in Geneva. He was 99.
Argonne scientists to use AI and machine learning to "tune" user facilities, starting with ATLAS
Argonne scientists awarded funding to improve Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System.
FSU Center for Advanced Power Systems to partner with City of Tallahassee on power grid research
Florida State University will join the City of Tallahassee and other research partners on a U.S. Department of Energy project to improve integration of solar panels into electrical grids.
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory receives two national environmental awards
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory received two national awards for its sustainability efforts, including a DOE Sustainability Award for instituting a water treatment method that is safer for wildlife and a gold EPEAT Award for purchasing 97 percent EPEAT-certified electronics.
PNNL Scientists Elected AAAS Fellows
Two Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers, one a world-leading authority on microorganisms and their impact on soil and human health, and the other an expert on coastal ecosystem restoration, have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
American Vacuum Society Honors Jefferson Lab Accelerator Scientist
Some of the most advanced work to enable research at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is focused on ensuring that nothing gets in the way of the electron beam produced for nuclear physics experiments. Now, one Jefferson Lab staff scientist is being honored for her work on producing ultra-high to extreme-high vacuum environments to do just that.
Brookhaven's Kevin Yager Named Oppenheimer Leadership Fellow
Yager, a group leader at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, is exploring challenges and opportunities for the U.S. Department of Energy.
JSA Announces 10 New Graduate Fellows
Jefferson Science Associates has announced the award of ten graduate fellowships to doctoral students for the 2020-2021 academic year. The fellowships will support students' advanced studies at their universities and research at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, a U.S. Department of Energy nuclear physics research laboratory managed and operated by JSA.