Argonne and partners take home nine R&D 100 Awards in 2019
Research teams at Argonne National Laboratory have won nine R&D 100 awards, three more are named finalists.
PNNL Garners R&D 100 Awards
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is the recipient of two R&D 100 awards and one gold medal.
Neutrino Physicist Kirsty Duffy Receives Leona Woods Lectureship Award
UPTON, NY--Kirsty Duffy, a Lederman Fellow at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), says neutrinos are the most interesting particles in the universe. As a recipient of the Leona Woods Distinguished Postdoctoral Lectureship Award, she'll have a chance to make her case in two talks she'll deliver at the U.
Janardhan Manickam, Former Head of Theory Division and International Collaborator, Passes Away
PPPL physicist Janardhan (Manny) Manickam was an international collaborator who was head of the Theory Division and an expert in magnetohydrodynamics and helped develop the PEST computer code used to predict disruptions in fusion experiments.
International honors for PPPL post-doctoral fellows helping to bring a star to earth
Profile of PPPL's Chris Smiet and Rupak Mukherjee and the post-doctoral honors they have won.
Jefferson Lab Establishes New Fellowships in Nuclear Physics and Accelerator Science
The Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is fostering innovation and growth in nuclear and accelerator physics by expanding its prestigious fellowship program for early career physicists. The lab is doubling the number of Nathan Isgur fellowships and is establishing a new fellowship in honor of Jefferson Lab's first director, Hermann A. Grunder.
Barbara Jacak Receives 2019 Distinguished Scientist Fellow Award
Barbara Jacak, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Nuclear Science Division since 2015, has been named a 2019 Distinguished Scientist Fellow by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science.
Two Brookhaven Lab Scientists Named DOE Office of Science Distinguished Fellows
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have garnered two out of five "Distinguished Scientists Fellow" awards announced today by the DOE's Office of Science. Theoretical physicist Sally Dawson, a world-leader in calculations aimed at describing the properties of the Higgs boson, and Jose Rodriguez, a renowned chemist exploring and developing catalysts for energy-related reactions, will each receive $1 million in funding over three years to pursue new research objectives within their respective fields.
Department of Energy Announces Private-Public Awards to Advance Fusion Energy Technology
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced funding for 12 projects with private industry to enable collaboration with DOE national laboratories on overcoming challenges in fusion energy development. The awards are the first provided through the Innovation Network for Fusion Energy program (INFUSE).
Denisov Leads High Energy Physics at Brookhaven
Dmitri Denisov, a leading physicist and spokesperson of the DZero experiment, has been named Deputy Associate Lab Director for High Energy Physics at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Chemistry Postdoc Receives Battery500 Young Investigator Award
Zulipiya Shadike, a postdoctoral fellow in the Chemistry Division at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, received a Young Investigator Award from the Battery500 Consortium, a DOE-sponsored consortium led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) that aims to improve electric vehicle batteries.
Two Brookhaven Lab Scientists Named Fellows of the American Physical Society
The American Physical Society (APS) has elected two scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory as 2019 APS fellows.
Versatile physics leader Stefan Gerhardt elected an APS fellow
Profile of physicist Stefan Gerhardt who has been elected a 2019 fellow of the American Physical Society.
PNNL, Sandia, and Georgia Tech Join Forces in AI Effort
Scientists from DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, DOE's Sandia National Laboratories, and the Georgia Institute of Technology will collaborate on solutions to some of the most challenging problems in AI today, thanks to $5.5 million in funding from DOE.
Argonne Receives More Than $1 Million for Quantum Information Science
Argonne scientists receive $1.19 million from DOE for quantum research.
Department of Energy Announces $6.6 Million to Study Dark Matter
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $6.6 million for four new research awards to develop design concepts for dark matter search experiments.
Department of Energy Office of Science and NNSA Award $3.5 Million for High Energy Density Plasma Research
The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science and DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have awarded eight research grants totaling $3.5 million to support work related to High-Energy Density Laboratory Plasmas (HEDLP).
Department of Energy Announces $21.4 Million for Quantum Information Science Research
The following news release was issued on Aug. 26, 2019 by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). It announces funding that DOE has awarded for research in quantum information science related to particle physics and fusion energy sciences. Scientists at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory are principal investigators on two of the 21 funded projects.
Top names in artificial intelligence in Chicago 2019 Innovation XLab Artificial Intelligence (AI) Summit
The 2019 Innovation XLab Artificial Intelligence (AI) Summit will focus on effective ways artificial intelligence can be harnessed to make life better for all Americans.
Senior Research Scientist Appointed Hall B Group Leader
The Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) has announced that after an extensive search, long-time researcher and experienced international collaborator Marco Battaglieri has assumed leadership of the lab's Experimental Hall B group.
ORNL to develop clean water solutions in new DOE $100M innovation hub
The National Alliance for Water Innovation, a partnership of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, other national labs, university and private sector partners, has been awarded a five-year, $100 million Energy-Water Desalination Hub by DOE to address water security issues in the United States.
New $100M Innovation Hub to Accelerate R&D for a Secure Water Future
The National Alliance for Water Innovation, which is led by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has been awarded a five-year, $100-million Energy-Water Desalination Hub by DOE (pending appropriations) to address water security issues in the United States. The Hub will focus on early-stage research and development for energy-efficient and cost-competitive desalination technologies and for treating nontraditional water sources for various end uses.
Super Computing
The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) is building the Frontier supercomputer and eight teams of scientists have been chosen by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) to develop applications for the new machine. One of them will be led by UD's Sunita Chandrasekaran, an assistant professor of computer and information sciences.
DOE awards Argonne $4.15 million for research in quantum computing and networking
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has recently awarded Argonne National Laboratory a total of $4.15 million for research in quantum computing and networking as part of the 2019 Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Quantum Computing and Quantum Network Awards. The awards will fund three multi-year projects aimed at securing the nation's leadership in the field of quantum information science.
Argonne organization's scholarship fund blazes STEM pathway
In the past 10 years, Argonne's Hispanic/Latino club has awarded more than $35,000 in education funds to area youth. In 2015, Noemy Escamilla was one of those recipients. Escamilla was awarded a summer 2019 internship, and serendipitously chosen to work alongside the very people who chose her for the scholarship years before.