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Dr. Fang C. Chen, a group leader in the Energy Division of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has been elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).Among his other honors, Chen has won an R&D 100 Award, Martin Marietta Energy Systems' T...
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Dr. Myint Thein, head of the Radiation Dosimetry and Records Section of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), recently was presented the Founder's Award during the 41st annual Conference on Bioassay, Analytical and Environmental Radiochemistry in Boston, Mass.
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Dr. Jerome E. Dobson, a senior research staff member in the Computational Physics and Engineering Division at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), was recently elected president of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS).Beginning in No...
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Dr. Cyrus Baktash, senior scientist and group leader for nuclear structure physics within the Physics Division of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society through the Division of Nuclear Physics.
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It's unlikely that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will ever be among people's favorite government agencies, but researchers at one of the Department of Energy's (DOE) technology centers are working on a project that could help the agency's image.
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A picture of five Wartburg Central High School students and their teacher will be included in a time capsule scheduled to be buried in the new Tennessee Bicentennial Mall in Nashville for 100 years.
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Four researchers at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) recently received the Best Poster Paper Award for their work presented during the fourth International Conference on Trends in Welding Research held in Gatlinburg, Tenn.
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John Graham Merkle, a researcher for 33 years at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has been recognized by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) for outstanding service and technical contributions to the organization.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Central Auditorium has been renamed the Eugene P. Wigner Auditorium to pay tribute to the late Nobel Prize-winning physicist and mathematician who spent part of his career in Oak Ridge.Wigner, who died Jan. 1, 1995, came to Oak Ridge in 1946 as director of research o...
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Alvin W. Trivelpiece, president of Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corporation and director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has announced the appointment of officers for Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corporation (LMER), which assumed management of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)...