McNutt to be next president of National Academy of Sciences
Marcia K. McNutt, a geophysicist and editor-in-chief of Science who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005, has been nominated to be the next president of the NAS. She will succeed...
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HFIR restarts following unplanned shutdown
Operators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s High Flux Isotope Reactor manually shut down the 85-megawatt research reactor last Wednesday after a large 36-inch valve “closed a bit too much.” According...
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Johney Greene to speak at FORNL lunch
Johney Green, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s director for energy and transportation sciences, will be the guest speaker at the Friends of ORNL lunch on July 14. Green will give an overview of the...
View ArticleTest your science knowledge
Ok, Commander Smartypants and all your pals, let’s see just how smart you are. Take the Science.gov Trivia Quiz.
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ORNL to play big role in small-biz pilot program
Aerial view of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s main campus. (ORNL photo) The Department of Energy this week announced a new Small Business Vouchers Pilot Program that will allow small businesses to...
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DOE’s long-time Inspector General to retire
Greg Friedman, whose distinguished and extraordinary 48-year federal career is capped by the past 17 years as the U.S. Department of Energy’s Inspector General, will retire from government service,...
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Robotics & engineering
Oak Ridge Associated Universities last week hosted 26 students (7th, 8th and 9th graders) for the annual Oak Ridge Robotics Academy. “We call it a robotics academy, but it’s really an engineering...
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UT/ORNL computing institute gets $3M from NSF
The Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, a partnership of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received a $3 million award from the National Science Foundation to...
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DOE releases RFP for ORISE contract
Workers conduct an emergency exercise at the Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site in Oak Ridge. REACTS is a part of DOE’s Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. (ORISE photo) The...
View Article13 ORNL technologies make the cut
Over the years, Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been a force in the R&D 100 Awards presented annually by R&D Magazine. This year, the magazine has changed the format, added categories and...
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How much does a security clearance cost?
The answer to the above question depends on what type of security clearance you’re talking about. In the Department of Energy’s Request for Proposals for the contract to manage the Oak Ridge Institute...
View ArticleTourassi to speak at Friends of ORNL
Georgia Tourassi, director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Biomedical Sciences and Engineering Center, will speak at the Friends of ORNL luncheon on Aug. 11. Her topic will be “Data-Driven Health...
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Jack Gibbons, former presidential science advisor & ORNL stalwart, dies at 86
Presidential science advisor Jack Gibbons, right, talks with Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Al Trivelpiece during a 1994 visit to Oak Ridge. (ORNL photo) Jack Gibbons, former science advisor...
View ArticleCherry Murray nominated to be DOE’s science chief
Cherry Ann Murray has been nominated by President Obama to be the director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science.
View ArticleRestart underway at SNS; neutrons available by Friday
The Spallation Neutron Source is undergoing a phased startup following a lengthy summer maintenance period, which began June 28 after a series of events — good and bad. “We’re raising power and...
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SNS prepped and ready for research after ‘extremely productive’ maintenance...
Kevin Jones, who oversees operations at the Spallation Neutron Source, said the long summer maintenance outage — from June 28 to Aug. 7 — was “extremely productive.” The SNS is one of Oak Ridge...
View ArticleSuper-duper microscope at ORNL
Oak Ridge National Laboratory this week announced development of a hybrid microscope that will allow researchers to simultaneously look at what’s taking place on and beneath the surface of materials....
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A sunny day at the atomic museum
The American Museum of Atomic Energy was opened in 1949 in an old building that was used as a cafeteria during the World War II Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge. The museum changed to its current...
View ArticleBuddy Bland to speak at FORNL
Arthur “Buddy” Bland, director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Leadership Computing Facility, will be guest speaker at the Sept. 8 meeting of Friends of ORNL. The meeting, which begins with social...
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Alexander and additive manufacturing
As part of a multi-stop visit to the Knoxville area on Thursday, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander got a briefing and look-see at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility — one of...
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