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ORNL was recently awarded six Federal Laboratory Consortium awards, including the 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award, for technology commercialized by Element3 that enables the extraction of lithium from oil and gas wastewater.

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Adrian Sabau, a computational materials scientist at ORNL, has received the Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division (MPMD) Distinguished Service Award from The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), recognizing his sustained contributions to the field and service to the professional community.

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Jennifer Morrell-Falvey, a senior staff scientist at ORNL, has been elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher

Alex Walters works with the ORNL SMART Plant 1.0 system that robotically samples and treats plant tissue, expediting the plant transformation process.

To meet the growing demand for faster scientific discovery that strengthens bioeconomy, plant scientists worked with manufacturing systems engineers at ORNL to develop robotics and computer vision to accelerate the development of new stress-tolerant plants. 

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ORNL has launched a novel robotic platform to rapidly analyze plant root systems as they grow, yielding AI-ready data to accelerate the development of stress-tolerant crops for new fuels, chemicals and materials. The new platform adds belowground imaging to ORNL’s Advanced Plant Phenotyping Laboratory.

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After more than 25 years of experience in condensed matter physics, as a student, researcher and in high-ranking executive roles at neutron scattering sources around the globe, Jon Taylor brings a wealth of experience and accomplishments to his new

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Anne Campbell, an R&D staff member in the Advanced Nuclear Materials Group in the Materials Science and Technology Division at ORNL, has been elected vice chair of the Composite Materials Committee of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society. 

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Chemist Bruce Moyer, a Corporate Fellow at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has won the 2025 Carl Hanson Award, the highest international recognition for achievement in solvent extraction. The International Solvent Extraction Community bestows the medal every three years based on nominations from the global community.

Gerald “Jerry” Tuskan accepts the Marcus Wallenberg Prize from HRH Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden

Gerald “Jerry” Tuskan received the Marcus Wallenberg Prize, known as the Nobel Prize for forestry, for his pioneering work in sequencing and analyzing the first tree genome, enabling successive breakthroughs for genome-based breeding of commercially important trees, including as biomass feedstock crops.

A visualization showing a quantum computing system connected to classical supercomputing infrastructure. On the left, a cryogenic quantum processor is suspended within a metal frame, linked by golden cables to nearby electronics and control units. These control units are connected to several large black server racks on the right, representing a hybrid quantum–classical computing environment. The image highlights the data flow and integration between quantum hardware and classical computing resources.

ORNL, NVIDIA, and HPE are partnering to integrate quantum computing, AI, and high-performance computing using NVIDIA NVQLink and CUDA-Q, establishing a hybrid testbed at ORNL to advance quantum–classical convergence and scientific discovery.