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![The first-ever 3D printed excavator will include a cab designed by a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign student engineering team and printed at DOE’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL using carbon fiber-reinforced ABS plastic. The first-ever 3D printed excavator will include a cab designed by a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign student engineering team and printed at DOE’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL using carbon fiber-reinforced ABS plastic.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/1%20ORNL_3D-printed_excavator%201_0.jpg?itok=aNsY53b9)
Heavy construction machinery is the focus of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s latest advance in additive manufacturing research. With industry partners and university students, ORNL researchers are designing and producing the world’s first 3D printed excavator, a prototype that w...
![Melissa Allen’s work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is focused on urban infrastructure and atmospheric transport, creating models to determine the effects of temperature and climate changes on human activity. Melissa Allen’s work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is focused on urban infrastructure and atmospheric transport, creating models to determine the effects of temperature and climate changes on human activity.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/allen16-P04600_0.jpg?itok=46CM_3W6)
![Neutrons facilities welcome 20,000th user Neutrons facilities welcome 20,000th user](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/CG-3%20user%20Irina%20Nesmelova-0352_sm.jpg?itok=neCg30sj)
![Dianne Bull Ezell enjoys the variety of projects offered in a national laboratory setting. Dianne Bull Ezell enjoys the variety of projects offered in a national laboratory setting.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/DianneEzell2.jpg?itok=5MeiCsrf)
![ORNL’s Manjunath Gorentla Venkata helped develop a new approach to analyze thousands of genetic samples by connecting powerful computing resources. ORNL’s Manjunath Gorentla Venkata helped develop a new approach to analyze thousands of genetic samples by connecting powerful computing resources.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/2016-P05087.jpg?itok=mSLI1AgK)
ORNL helps develop hybrid computational strategy for efficient sequencing of massive genome datasets
Computing experts at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory collaborated with a team of university researchers and software companies to develop a novel hybrid computational strategy to efficiently discover genetic variants
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Just a few years ago, Emilio Ramirez spent his days operating and adjusting settings to optimize thermal performance at a Central California bioenergy power plant. Ramirez, a California native who is now a University of Tennessee doctoral candidate working with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridg...
![Emilio Ramirez studies the slugging transition in a bench scale reactor made possible by the Computational Pyrolysis Consortium, a multilaboratory collaboration formed to develop infrastructure ready fuel from biomass feedstock. Emilio Ramirez studies the slugging transition in a bench scale reactor made possible by the Computational Pyrolysis Consortium, a multilaboratory collaboration formed to develop infrastructure ready fuel from biomass feedstock.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/ramir16-P03942.jpg?itok=Ab3ddamx)
Just a few years ago, Emilio Ramirez spent his days operating and adjusting settings to optimize thermal performance at a Central California bioenergy power plant. Ramirez, a California native who is now a University of Tennessee doctoral candidate working with the Department of...
![Miaofang Chi Miaofang Chi](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/miaofangchi200.jpg?itok=Sy8kHw2n)
Miaofang Chi is an early career scientist making a name for herself—and microscopy—at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She is a researcher at ORNL’s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences whose early-career
![From left, David Dean, Alfredo Galindo-Uribarri and Chris Bryan of Oak Ridge National Laboratory check on a prototype detector at the High Flux Isotope Reactor, a Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility that creates continuous neutron beams. From left, David Dean, Alfredo Galindo-Uribarri and Chris Bryan of Oak Ridge National Laboratory check on a prototype detector at the High Flux Isotope Reactor, a Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility that creates continuous neutron beams.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/01%20PROSPECT%20Detector-6073_sm_0.jpg?itok=q7GIBzj1)
Approximately 100 trillion neutrinos bombard your body every second—but you don’t notice these ghostly subatomic particles. Because they are electrically neutral and interact with other matter via the weak force, their detection is difficult—and the subject of challenging experimen...
![Diana Hun likes ORNL's state-of-the-art facilities and range of expertise. Diana Hun likes ORNL's state-of-the-art facilities and range of expertise.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/2016-P03165.jpg?itok=eMw4War1)
When Diana Hun left her home in Panama City, Panama, to attend school at the University of Texas in Austin, she knew she wanted to be an engineer. Exactly which branch of engineering to pursue was not quite as straight-forward. Hun studied both mechanical and electrical engin...