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![ORNL welcomes six new research fellows to Innovation Crossroads](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2020-06/ORNL_welcomes_six_new_research_fellows_to_Innovation_Crossroads___ORNL_0.jpg?h=611591ee&itok=N2ioWM81)
ORNL welcomed six technology innovators to join the fourth cohort of Innovation Crossroads, the Southeast’s only entrepreneurial research and development program based at a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory.
![A nanobrush made by pulsed laser deposition of CeO2 and Y2O3 with dim and bright bands, respectively, is seen in cross-section with scanning transmission electron microscopy. Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2020-06/HAADF-137804_FIRE_scale_0.jpg?h=ea2c671e&itok=8URQqQi6)
A team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory synthesized a tiny structure with high surface area and discovered how its unique architecture drives ions across interfaces to transport energy or information.
![Matthew R. Ryder](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2020-06/Ryder_Headshot%5B1%5D.jpg?h=5c245560&itok=LrhlzkyS)
Matthew R. Ryder, a researcher at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named the 2020 Foresight Fellow in Molecular-Scale Engineering.
![Before the demonstration, the team prepared QKD equipment (pictured) at ORNL. Image credit: Genevieve Martin/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2020-05/2020-P01652_0.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=qHZPZfd6)
For the second year in a row, a team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge and Los Alamos national laboratories led a demonstration hosted by EPB, a community-based utility and telecommunications company serving Chattanooga, Tennessee.
![Gina Tourassi, left, has been appointed as director of the National Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Tourassi replaces NCCS director Jim Hack, who will transition to a strategic leadership role in CCSD. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-12/2019-P17723%5B12%5D_0.jpg?h=b032db07&itok=4qKTt_Oz)
Gina Tourassi has been appointed as director of the National Center for Computational Sciences, a division of the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
![St John's CyberForce team](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-11/Cyberforce-CroppedStJohnsDec2018_0.jpg?h=d23b96dd&itok=lSiev61W)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory will give college students the chance to practice cybersecurity skills in a real-world setting as a host of the Department of Energy’s fifth collegiate CyberForce Competition on Nov. 16. The event brings together student teams from across the country to compete at 10 of DOE’s national laboratories.
![CellSight allows for rapid mass spectrometry of individual cells. Credit: John Cahill, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/U.S. Dept of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-10/4CellSightPhoto_0.png?h=67debf3e&itok=fmsxiN_b)
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have received five 2019 R&D 100 Awards, increasing the lab’s total to 221 since the award’s inception in 1963.
![The Sycamore quantum processor. Credit: Erik Lucero/Google](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-10/Google_AI_Quantum_Sycamore_Erik_Lucero.png?h=4a7d1ed4&itok=MKR_1dTp)
A joint research team from Google Inc., NASA Ames Research Center, and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated that a quantum computer can outperform a classical computer
![Summit supercomputer](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-09/42957291821_d77b1c6051_o_0.jpg?h=b241dec4&itok=K_s_UmII)
Processes like manufacturing aircraft parts, analyzing data from doctors’ notes and identifying national security threats may seem unrelated, but at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, artificial intelligence is improving all of these tasks.
![quantum mechanics to advance a range of technologies including computing, fiber optics and network communication](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-09/2017-P08412_0.jpg?h=b6236d98&itok=ecQNon31)
Three researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will lead or participate in collaborative research projects aimed at harnessing the power of quantum mechanics to advance a range of technologies including computing, fiber optics and network