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Dr. Peter J. Blau of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been presented the Frank C. Brautigam Award by the American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM) Committee G-2 on Wear and Erosion. He has also been elected to a second term as vice-chairman of the ASTM G...
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Dr. Glenn Allgood of the Instrumentation & Controls Division of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will present a showcase lecture at 3 p.m. Thursday, March 12, on the topic "The AMTEX Computer-Aided Fabric Evaluation (CAFE) Project: An R&D investment in the U.S. ...
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Margaret Boone (Bonnie) Nestor of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been elected an associate fellow of the Society for Technical Communication (STC).Nestor began at ORNL in 1976 as a technical editor in the Fusion Energy Division, and she has been the manage...
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winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, will present a distinguished lecture at 10 a.m. Thursday, March 5 in Wigner Auditorium of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).Kroto's topic will be C6O Buckminsterfullerene: Not Just A Pretty Molec...
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Don V. Roberts, chairman of the World Engineering Partnership for Sustainable Development, will present "Sustainable Development - A Challenge for the Engineering Profession" at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 19, in the D. J. Nelson Auditorium, Building 1505, in the Environmental Sciences Division (ESD)...
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Construction and testing of a full-sized wall made of straw bale will be conducted at the Buildings Technology Center (BTC) of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Feb. 24-27 with a contest to follow to calculate the wall's R-value (resistance to heat transfer).
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Hundreds of participants will be involved in a large-scale emergency management exercise set for Wednesday, February 18, at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).The February 18 exercise will involve a hypothetical scenario that results in the simulated release of ha...
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C.T. Liu, a senior corporate fellow of Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corporation and a researcher in the Metals and Ceramics Division of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been appointed a visiting professor at Zhejaing University in Hangzhou, China.
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Dr. Yevgeni P. Velikhov, a renowned Russian physicist, former member of the Supreme Soviet (legislature) and president of Moscow's Kurchatov Institute, will present a distinguished lecture at 11 a.m., Friday, Feb. 20, in Wigner Auditorium at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Labor...
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The Transportation and Packaging Management Organization of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been presented a Tennessee Quality Commitment Award.Tennessee Gov. Don Sundquist presented the award to organization manager Randy Walker during an awards dinner in ...