From the Lab Director
Historic site
The American Physical Society’s president-elect, Laura Greene, recognized ORNL’s Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility as an APS Historic Physics Site at the recent Nuclear Structure 2016 Conference and Neutrinos in Nuclear Physics Workshop held in Knoxville.
It’s always gratifying to see ORNL’s legacy in the sciences documented, particularly by such an esteemed professional society. The Holifield Facility, in its evolving arrangements as a heavy ion facility, a radioactive ion beam facility and as home of the Oak Ridge Isochronous Cyclotron and Tandem Electrostatic Accelerator, contributed decades of important physics research and hosted scores of researchers from around the world.
ORNL Review
Our science magazine, ORNL Review, has revamped its website. Articles that are featured in the magazine will be included on the website, along with other science and technology news from the Lab. Our Communications and Information Technology Services staff members have collaborated to present the latest work of the Lab to the public in a sleek new blog format.
Energy and Environmental Sciences Directorate
Congratulations to Moe Khaleel on his new post as Associate Laboratory Director for Energy and Environmental Sciences. Since coming to ORNL last year, Moe has managed the Laboratory’s Office
of Institutional Planning and ARPA-E program and has been a motivator for major initiatives such as Big Science Questions. In EESD, he will be responsible for a range of science and engineering activities serving several DOE programs. He succeeds Martin Keller, who is now director of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. I’d particularly like to thank former Environmental Sciences Division Director Gary Jacobs for coming out of retirement to so ably run the directorate during the interim.
Kudos
We have several new professional society fellows. The Materials Science and Technology Division’s Michael Brady is a fellow of ASM International. Nidea Gallego, also of MSTD, has been elected fellow of the American Carbon Society and
US ITER’s Graeme Murdoch is a fellow of the UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Congratulations to our four finalists for this year’s YWCA Tribute to Women: Diana Hun, Suzanne Parete-Koon, Andrea Rocha and Athena Safa Sefat. Finally, everyone
from ORNL who entered a technology for this year’s R&D 100 competition is a finalist. The R&D 100 awards winners will be announced in November.