The year 1993 marked the 50th anniversary of the Graphite Reactor's startup, on Nov. 4, 1943. A good number of Manhattan Project veterans were still around at the time, and ORNL invited them to a luncheon and ceremony at the Lab.

Former Director Alvin Weinberg, in fact, was still spry enough to p...

Former University of Tennessee football coach Phillip Fulmer praised UT-Battelle employees at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during a Leadership Givers Breakfast for contributing $858,000 to this year’s United Way campaign.

Fulmer, who is involved with several United Way agencies, said many East T...

In an interview with Laboratory Communications Director David Keim, ORNL Director Thomas Zacharia described his introduction to ORNL and East Tennessee, building a high-performance computing capability from the ground up, his vision for the Laboratory and his thoughts on leading a world-class research institution in a changing landscape.

Knoxville radio and TV personality Hallerin Hilton Hill encouraged employees to support those in need during opening ceremonies for ORNL’s 2017 United Way campaign held June 1 on the ORNL Quad. “One of the lessons of life is that of giving,” Hill said. “When you learn to give something without expec...

As I assume the responsibilities of director at ORNL, this is something I could have neither envisioned nor fully appreciated when I arrived as a postdoctoral fellow in 1987. –

I was recruited at a conference in Gatlinburg by Corporate Fellow Emeritus Stan David, then a group leader in the former...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., July 19, 2017 – Researchers Baohua Gu and Parans Paranthaman have been named Corporate Fellows of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ORNL’s Corporate Fellows are recognized for significant career accomplishments and continued leadership in their scienti...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 1, 2017 – Thomas Zacharia, who built Oak Ridge National Laboratory into a global supercomputing power, has been selected as the laboratory’s next director by UT-Battelle, the partnership that operates ORNL for the U.S. Department of Energy.

“Thomas has a compelling vis...