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(Knoxville News Sentinel) Lonnie Love, a member of the Robotics & Energetic Systems research group in Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Measurement Science & Systems Engineering Division, is among 85 engineers chosen for the National Academy of Engineering's 17th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium...
(New America) A new database is giving researchers deeper insight into the potential of the energy resource contained in tidal zones around the US. The online tool, developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology with a $469,500 award from the Department of Energy, maps energy available in the nation’s tidal streams. Georgia’s Savannah campus used a regional ocean model to simulate tidal flows along the entire US coastline. DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory validated the model’s accuracy and the data is now publicly available. |
(Scientific Computing) Each year, tornadoes tear across the United States, causing numerous deaths and physical damage to the environment and infrastructure. The National Weather Service estimates there have been about 1,475 this year alone, outpacing the last decade's yearly average of 1,274... The researchers then began using supercomputers such as Kraken, a Teragrid computer that is currently the eighth fastest computer in the world, to generate simulations.
(AtoZ Optics) Researchers are involved in creating new technologies that coalesces laser and electric fields to segregate liquids and small particles such as virus, bacteria, and DNA, enabling wide range of industrial application from food safety to drug production...Aloke Kumar, staff member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, stated that combination of these techniques not only allows manipulation of larger objects such as droplets, but also for small molecules like DNA present inside the droplets...7/7
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DOE
(DOE Press Release) Furthering the Obama Administration's goal to cut U.S. oil imports by one-third by 2025, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that six new corporate partners have joined the National Clean Fleets Partnership. ..7/5
State & Regional
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Acknowledging the "very real possibility" that most Tennessee schools would fail federal "No Child Left Behind" standards when they are raised, Gov. Bill Haslam said Wednesday that his administration may seek a waiver from federal officials...7/7
East Tennessee
(WATE.com) The Knoxville Utilities Board says the late June storms that left most of its customers without power have cost at least $4 million. That number is expected to increase as the utility continues to survey damage...7/6
(Knoxville News Sentinel) RAIL Solution board member A.L. "Pete" Lotts said the study would cost about $5 million and the group would like to see the Tennessee Department of Transportation, transportation centers with the University of Tennessee or Virginia Tech or other recognized body undertake it...Lotts, a retired Oak Ridge National Laboratory director and former Knox County school board member, said the challenge now is to sell the idea so the money will be forthcoming.
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National
(Christian Science Monitor) With Atlanta in the middle of an unprecedented teacher cheating scandal where at least 178 teachers and principals in more than half the city's elementary schools changed test answers in order to make themselves and the district look good, the looming question now is whether those educators could, or should, face jail time...7/6
(Forbes) Planned job cuts increased for a second consecutive month in June, hitting 41,432, according to a recent report on the state of layoffs and downsizing...7/6
(Washington Post) President Obama is pressing congressional leaders to consider a far-reaching debt-reduction plan that would force Democrats to accept major changes to Social Security and Medicare in exchange for Republican support for fresh tax revenue...7/6
(New York Times) A juror in the Casey Anthony trial broke her silence on Wednesday and said the jury was emotionally shattered by its own verdict of not guilty. The juror, Jennifer Ford, a 32-year-old nursing student, said that jurors were “sick to their stomachs,” ABC News reported...7/7
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Love engineering
X marks spot for tidal power
Spinning Giants: Tornadoes Simulations Transform Understanding
Steel Interstate: RAIL Solution meeting with officials to get study for train system 
Atlanta cheating scandal: Should educators face jail for 'robbing' kids?
The Rise and Rise of the Flying Reptiles: Pterosaurs Not Driven Into Extinction by Birds, Study Reveals
Earth Has "Spare Tire"—And Ice Melt's Keeping It That Way