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Emily Carter wins prestigious Marsha I. Lester Award from American Chemical Society

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Nominees for the award must be members of the ACS’s physical chemistry division. The winner receives the award at the meeting, gives a research presentation, and receives an honorarium. Carter is just the second person to receive this newly established award.

Kowalski, Salonvaara receive ASHRAE Distinguished Service Awards

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Building equipment and envelope scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory were recognized for research excellence during the ASHRAE 2024 summer conference held in Indianapolis.

Department of Energy announces $5.65 million for research on high energy density plasmas

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

Funding of $5.65 million for 11 research projects in high energy density laboratory plasmas to better understand extreme environments was announced by the Department of Energy (DOE) today.

U2opia signs license to commercialize anomaly-detection technology for cybersecurity

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

U2opia Technology has licensed Situ and Heartbeat, a package of technologies from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory that offers a new method for advanced cybersecurity monitoring in real time.

Flexible circuits made with silk and graphene on the horizon

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Ultra-thin layers of silk deposited on graphene in perfect alignment represent a key advance for the control needed in microelectronics and advanced neural network development.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

McInnes named DOE Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellow

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Lois Curfman McInnes, a senior computational scientist at Argonne, has been named a 2024 DOE Distinguished Scientist Fellow for her contributions to software and high performance computing leadership.

Constriction junction, do you function?

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have shown that a type of qubit whose architecture is more amenable to mass production can perform comparably to qubits currently dominating the field. With a series of mathematical analyses, the scientists have provided a roadmap for simpler qubit fabrication that enables robust and reliable manufacturing of these quantum computer building blocks.

Journal: Physical Review A

Three PNNL researchers receive DOE Early Career Research Awards

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Three PNNL researchers will receive five continuous years of funding for projects through highly competitive DOE Early Career Research Program awards.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Giulia Galli wins Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Giulia Galli has been awarded the prestigious Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry. She is being recognized for her groundbreaking work in developing computational methods to predict and design material properties.

US Department of Energy awards $138 million to 91 early career scientists

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the selection of 91 early career scientists from across the country who will receive a combined $138 million in funding for research covering a wide range of topics including artificial intelligence, fusion energy, and quantum. These awards are critical to the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts to develop the next generation of STEM leaders to solidify America’s role as the driver of science and innovation around the world.

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