UT-Battelle Corporate Fellow Steven J. Zinkle has been named a winner of the Department of Energy's Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, which honors mid-career scientists and engineers for exceptional contributions in research and development. Zinkle, who came to ORNL as a Eugene P. Wigner Fellow and is now director of the Materials Science and Technology Division, was honored largely for his research on radiation's effects on ceramics and metallic alloys for fusion, fission and space reactor systems.

UT-Battelle Corporate Fellow David Greene received the 2007 Barry D. McNutt Award "for excellence in automotive policy analysis" during the recent Society of Automotive Engineers Government-Industry meeting in Washington, D.C. Greene and Paul Leiby received the 2007 Department of Energy Hydrogen Program R&D Award, "in recognition of outstanding contributions to hydrogen scenario analysis."

Ned Sauthoff, who is leading the U.S. role in the international ITER fusion project, has been named a fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Sauthoff, who heads the U.S. ITER Project Office at ORNL, was honored for his work in plasma physics and fusion energy at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

UT-Battelle Senior Corporate Fellow Herbert A. Mook Jr., has been elected to the inaugural group of fellows of the Neutron Scattering Society of America.

Masanori Murakami received the inaugural Nuclear Fusion Award from the International Atomic Energy Agency for a paper he coauthored on making fusion reactors efficient enough to produce power in this century.

Elissa Chesler, leader of the Mouse Systems Genetics Group in ORNL's Biosciences Division, received the annual Young Scientist Award of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society.

Thomas Papenbrock, who holds a University of Tennessee–ORNL Joint Faculty Appointment, received an Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics. This program supports the development of research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers.

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