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Kathy Hylton, development engineer in the Instrumentation and Controls Division at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), received the AEG/Modicon Rising Star Award from the Industrial Commuting Society at its annual conference and exhibition in Anaheim, Calif.
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James F. Mincey has been named head of the Nuclear Criticality Safety Section in the Office of Operational Readiness and Facility Safety at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The section's mission is to help prevent accidental nuclear chain reactions from occurri...
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Dr. Tuan Vo-Dinh of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will join the editorial staff of the new peer-reviewed Journal of Biomedical Optics.
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Dr. Ajay K. Rathi, research and development program manager in the Energy Division's Center for Transportation Analysis at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has been appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of the American Society of Engineers' Journal of Transportation Engineering and to the Transportation Research Board's Committee on Traffic Signal Systems.
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have won five 1995 R&D 100 Awards. The awards are presented annually by R&D Magazine in recognition of the year's most significant technological innovations.Four awards were for research done exclusively at ORNL, w...
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Ceramic research performed at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) was recently recognized with a First-In-Class Award presented during the 97th annual meeting of the American Ceramic Society in Cincinnati.
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a technique to convert sulfur dioxide - a pollutant from coal-fired steam plants that causes acid rain - into a useful product - sulfur. Their biological process could save energy while reducing poll...
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One of the longest studies of a forest tree species in an atmosphere enriched in carbon dioxide suggests that in this environment trees absorb airborne carbon more efficiently. The study, conducted at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), examined the response of ...
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Dr. Robert V. O'Neill, senior research ecologist for the Environmental Sciences Division of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has received the 1995 Award for Distinguished Landscape Ecologist from the U. S. Regional Chapter of the International Association of La...
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Frederick Schultz of the Applied Radiation Waste Management and Remedial Division at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been named an adjunct faculty member at Western Kentucky University.Employed at ORNL since 1978, Schultz has been head of the department sin...