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Gu elected fellow of Geological Society
Baohua Gu, a distinguished senior scientist in Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Environmental Sciences Division, has been elected a fellow of the Geological Society of America. Gu, who earned a...
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New element to be called Tennessine; recognizes work of ORNL, as well as UT...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which played a key role in the 2010 discovery and later confirmation of a series of new super-heavy elements, has been rewarded with the naming of one of the elements...
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Sen. Alexander comments on ‘Tennessine’
Sen. Lamar Alexander’s office this afternoon released a statement on the proposal to name a new element — Element 117 on the periodic chart — as “Tennessine” to recognize the contributions to the...
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Vanderbilt’s contribution to Tennessine
I’ve known Vanderbilt Physics Professor Joe Hamilton since the 1990s, when he served on the steering panel for a series of studies that assessed the health impacts of environmental releases from the...
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Protest on ORISE contract
Department of Energy spokeswoman Claire Sinclair said the $1.4 billion contract to manage DOE’s Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education “is operating as intended with its new scope.” This is...
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Tennessee shares in DOE’s nuke technology awards
A look at the core of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s High Flux Isotope Reactor. (ORNL photo) State of Tennessee institutions received almost $3 million in funds out of the $82 million the Department...
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ORNL’s Rich Norby honored
Rich Norby, environmental scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (ORNL photo) Rich Norby, a physiological ecologist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected a fellow of the Ecological...
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DelCul wins Seaborg Award
Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Bill DelCul has received the Glenn T. Seaborg Award at the 40th Actinide Separations Conference. He was honored for his long and extraordinary career in nuclear science...
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ORNL has 9 energy-tech projects funded by DOE
The U.S. Department of Energy announced Tuesday that it providing $16 million in funding for 54 projects — nine of them at Oak Ridge National Laboratory — to help commercialize promising energy...
View ArticleFlashback: Dec. 23, 1996
In a newly published post, Recalling the Joys of Reporting, I make reference to a column I wrote in December 1996 about being trapped in ORNL’s Wigner Auditorium (formerly known as the Central...
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Liang accepts leadership role at Pacific Northwest Lab
Liyuan Liang, a celebrated chemist and emerging science administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named director of the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory in Washington state....
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Talking science like it’s 1994
It was April 29, 1994, and Energy Secretary Hazel O’Leary was taking a tour of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She’s shown here listening to a presentation at ORNL’s High Temperature Materials...
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ORNL part of administration’s beat-cancer program
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is part of the Obama administration’s sweeping program to defeat cancer, joining with other labs and the National Cancer Institute on pilot projects that use...
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