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DOE announces $70 million in research training opportunities for students and faculty from historically underrepresented institutions

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $70 million in funding to support research by historically underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and to diversify leadership in the physical sciences. The funding, through DOE’s Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (RENEW) initiative, will support internships, training programs, and mentor opportunities at 65 different institutions, including 40 higher-learning institutions that serve minority populations. Ensuring America’s best and brightest students have pathways to STEM fields will be key to leading the world’s energy transition and achieving President Biden’s ambitious energy and climate goals.

Department of Energy announces $16 million for research on artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) for nuclear physics accelerators and detectors

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $16 million for fifteen projects that will implement artificial intelligence methods to accelerate scientific discovery in nuclear physics research.

Quantifying qudits: New measurements provide a glimpse of the quantum future

DOE/US Department of Energy

The qubits that make up quantum computers have a lesser-known cousin called qudits. Qudits can carry more information and are more resistant to the noise that can cause qubits to lose information. However, qudits have historically been difficult for scientists to measure and modify. To address this issue, researchers developed an effective method of measuring qudits encoded in light sources with more precision than was previously possible.

Journal: Nature Communications

Department of Energy announces $16 million for particle accelerators for science & society

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $16 million in funding for advanced research projects in particle accelerator science and technology.

DOE’s Office of Science is now accepting applications for Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Awards

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science is pleased to announce that the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting applications for the 2023 Solicitation 2 cycle. Applications are due on November 8, 2023, at 5:00 pm ET.

DOE to support 139 outstanding undergraduate students through internships and 5 faculty members from institutions underrepresented in the scientific research enterprise

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science will sponsor the participation of 139 undergraduate students and five faculty members in three STEM-focused workforce development programs at 14 DOE national laboratories and a national fusion facility during Fall 2023. Collectively, these programs ensure DOE and our nation have a strong, sustained workforce trained in the skills needed to address the energy, environment, and national security challenges of today and tomorrow.

Researchers improve production for short-lived scandium radioisotopes

DOE/US Department of Energy

Scandium radioisotopes are potentially useful for cancer therapy and medical imaging such as positron emission tomography (PET) scans, but the difficulty of producing sufficient amounts and purities of these isotopes limits their use. New research describes ways to make and irradiate accelerator targets for scandium to increase production and purity. The process recycles the calcium target material with more than 95% efficiency.

Journal: Frontiers in Chemistry

Department of Energy announces $112 million for research on computational projects in fusion energy sciences

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science (SC), announced $112 million in funding for 12 projects that focus on collaborations among fusion scientists, applied mathematicians, and computer scientists to maximize the use of high performance computing, including exascale computers.

Theoretical and experimental physics team up in the search for particle flavor change

DOE/US Department of Energy

Scientists recently discovered that neutrinos have mass, counter to long-held understanding. This means that neutrinos can change flavor. Now, advances in theory and experiment are helping scientists to determine whether the neutrinos’ charged counterparts—electrons, muons, and tauons—can also change flavor and how future experiments can look for those changes.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

Department of Energy announces $11 million for exploratory research in extreme-scale science

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $11 million in funding for 15 projects in exploratory research for extreme-scale science that will leverage emerging trends and advances in high-end computing, massive datasets, scientific machine learning, artificial intelligence, and novel computing architectures.

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