Joseph Lukens picked electrical engineering as his undergraduate major at the University of Alabama, thinking it might help him manipulate sound. 

When biological engineers try to genetically modify an organism, they often don’t know what most of the organism’s genes actually do. 

Even as a child, Catherine Schuman liked the challenges fundamental to computer science.

Polymers, the focus of Yangyang Wang’s research, are all around us.

PECASE winner Kate Page knows the world of neutron research from the inside out, having worked both as a scientist supporting users at neutron facilities at Oak Ridge and Los Alamos national laboratories and as an accomplished experimentalist in her own right.

For having just won a PECASE award, Dave Cullen is a pretty humble guy.

Of the techniques available for studying the structure and dynamics of matter at the smallest scales, neutron scattering is distinguished by the fact that it interacts with an atom's nucleus.