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Vinod Sikka of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) received a special recognition award today at the annual National Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Awards in Washington, D.C.
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Dr. Janet Strong-Gunderson, a research staff member in the Environmental Sciences Division at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), was recently appointed to the Department of Toxic Substances Control Ad-Hoc Workgroup for California's Environmental Protection Agency...
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Marina B. Ruggles, a development staff member of the Engineering Technology Division of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has been named associate technical editor of the Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology (PVT), the premier international journal for pressure...
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The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is leading the design of a next-generation spallation neutron source for the Department of Energy (DOE).During a recent lecture at ORNL's Wigner Auditorium, a team of researchers presented proposals for the construction of the National Spallation Neutron Sou...
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Three employees of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) recently participated in the arrangements for the 20th anniversary celebration of Habitat for Humanity held in Atlanta.Representing ORNL were Ron Shelton, Michaela Abraham and Mark Ternes of the Buildings Techn...
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Thanks to a problem with a high-tech microscope, researchers at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed microscopic sensors. These hairlike, silicon-based devices are at least 1,000 times more sensitive and 1,000 times smaller than currently used sensors...
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Dr. Oakley Crawford, a research staff member in the Health Sciences Research Division at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), was recently elected as a scientific member of the Bohmische Physical Society.
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Philip Maziasz, a senior development engineer at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has won the grand prize for the 1996 American Powder Metals Industries (APMI) Powder Metallurgy Metallography Competition.
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George Wrenn, group leader in the Engineering Technology Division of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has been named Outstanding Engineer of the Year by the Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers (TSPE).He was honored for "outstanding contributions to his ...
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Novel bacteria that produce magnetic material and could remove heavy metals from contaminated soils and groundwater have been discovered by microbiologists from the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).The bacteria were discovered by Tommy Phelps of ORNL's Environment...