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![Chengyun Hua applied for a Liane B. Russell Distinguished Early Career Fellowship after meeting ORNL researchers at a Society of Women Engineers conference. Chengyun Hua applied for a Liane B. Russell Distinguished Early Career Fellowship after meeting ORNL researchers at a Society of Women Engineers conference.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/ChengyunHua17-P03617.jpg?itok=JvCd-FlO)
In Chengyun Hua’s research, everything revolves around heat and how it moves. As a Russell Fellow at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Hua carefully analyzes nanoscale heat transfer mechanisms using laser spectroscopy. “Heat is being generated from every...
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For many scientists and engineers, the first real test of their mettle comes not in a classroom, but in a lab or the field, where hands-on experience can teach volumes. For Susan Hogle, that hands-on experience just happened to be with material that was too hot to handle—literally....
![Former University of Tennessee football coach Phillip Fulmer (right) helps ORNL celebrate $858,000 of contributions to this year’s United Way campaign. Former University of Tennessee football coach Phillip Fulmer (right) helps ORNL celebrate $858,000 of contributions to this year’s United Way campaign.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/2017-P06396.jpg?itok=cvS6GwxG)
![Rick Raines](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2016-P01518.jpg?itok=CLxD0Xga)
Richard “Rick” Raines has been on the forefront of protecting critical communications systems from attack since before the term “cyber” was in vogue, and he is bringing that leadership to bear as he takes on the role of director for the Electrical and Electronics Systems Research Division (EESRD) at...
![Baldwin with the HERMIES III robot at ORNL in 1988. Photo courtesy, ORNL. Baldwin with the HERMIES III robot at ORNL in 1988. Photo courtesy, ORNL.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/Photo1_0.jpg?itok=6Ufcj-NT)
Michelle Baldwin’s engineering work has taken her from the public to the private sector and back again, although it was not certain early in her academic career that she would pursue a technical field at all. Baldwin applies her technical programming expertise to several proj...
![Niyanth Sridharan's research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has contributed to understanding the unexpected behavior of irradiated alloys. Niyanth Sridharan's research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has contributed to understanding the unexpected behavior of irradiated alloys.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/Niyanth17-P01904.jpg?itok=Yss1aMtd)
Niyanth Sridharan grew up in a family that indulged his questions by using real-world examples to explain scientific concepts. That natural curiosity still drives the materials researcher today as he explores additive manufacturing techniques at the Department of Energy's Oak Ri...
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The field of “Big Data” has exploded in the blink of an eye, growing exponentially into almost every branch of science in just a few decades. Sectors such as energy, manufacturing, healthcare and many others depend on scalable data processing and analysis for continued in...
![Computational climate scientist Salil Mahajan simulates the complex and chaotic aspects of climate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Computational climate scientist Salil Mahajan simulates the complex and chaotic aspects of climate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/Mahajan13-P00022.jpg?itok=1VYC2OZF)
Simulating the global climate in high resolution at multiple scales will help answer questions about future global and regional climates. However, as performance expectations increase for Earth system models, so do computing challenges. Salil Mahajan, a computational climate sci...
![Mindy Clark with a crop of more than 5,000 Populus plants in an ORNL greenhouse. Mindy Clark with a crop of more than 5,000 Populus plants in an ORNL greenhouse.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/MClark17-P03502.jpg?itok=G1HnX-wD)
Mindy Clark’s enthusiasm for plant biology has only grown from her time in the classroom at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) to her years working in greenhouse operations for private industry and more recently at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory....
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Working backwards has moved Josh Michener’s research far forward as he uses evolution and genetics to engineer microbes for better conversion of plants into biofuels and biochemicals. In his work for the BioEnergy Science Center at ORNL, for instance, “we’ve gotten good at engineering microbes th...