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(Domesticfuel.com) Carolyn Hoagland was recently awarded the Volkswagen Distinguished Scholar for her work in learning about how farmers choose to grow bioenergy crops. Hoagland, an adult student, is an environmental science major at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). She conducted her research while working as an intern at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory...7/1
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Over the past few months, the city of Knoxville has been looking for locations appropriate for ECOtality's electric vehicle charging stations. A finalized list of proposed sites for the Knoxville area was released Friday...[Jacob] Tisinger also said the city and ECOtality are working with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to put in 10 solar-assisted charging stations in the Market Square and Civic Coliseum parking garages...7/5 |
(WTSP.com) Jurors have begun deliberating in the Casey Anthony murder trial. Each of the charges against Casey Anthony was spelled out for the jurors by Judge Belvin Perry...[Jose] Baez harshly criticized the testimony of Dr. Arpad Vass, of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Vass testified that chloroform levels from air samples taken from the trunk of Casey Anthony's car was surprisingly high.7/4
(domain-b) A first of its kind combination of experiment and simulation at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is providing a close-up look at the molecule that complicates next-generation biofuels...7/4 |
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DOE
(Oak Ridger) A proposed reorganization and other changes at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office could help increase accountability, reduce costs, and make operations more efficient, according to Paul Golan, the Office's acting manager...7/1
State & Regional
(WBIR) Tennessee will soon have a new sex offender registry which will contain the names of teenagers between 14-18 who have been convicted of rape, rape of a child or aggravated rape of a child...7/4
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Dale Burress was caught off guard when the notice from the Internal Revenue Service showed up in the mail...7/5
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National
(USA Today) Florida's Space Coast, with NASA's Kennedy Space Center as its anchor and identity, is bracing for an economic meltdown when the shuttle program officially ends later this month...7/4
(Washington Post) At the most recent Zhuhai air show, the premier event for China’s aviation industry, crowds swarmed around a model of an armed, jet-propelled drone and marveled at the accompanying display of its purported martial prowess...7/4
(New York Times) Catching up to the reality already faced by many of its members, the nation’s largest teachers’ union on Monday affirmed for the first time that evidence of student learning must be considered in the evaluations of school teachers around the country...7/4 |