ORNL quantitative geneticist Wellington Muchero is working to help arctic plants capture carbon for long-term storage and conversion into renewable bioproducts. He is also one of four ORNL recipients in 2016 of an Early Career Research Program award from DOE’s Office of Science.

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Recycling is nothing new; microbes have been doing it for a long, long time. ORNL’s Melanie Mayes is exploring how.

ORNL is proud of its role in fostering the next generation of scientists and engineers. We bring in talented young researchers, team them with accomplished scientists and engineers, and put them to work at the lab's one-of-a-kind facilities. The result is research that makes us proud and prepar...

ORNL early-career award-winner Travis Humble promotes quantum computing at the lab.

"I chose a career in science for my innate curiosity for something much bigger than myself."

ORNL prepares young researchers to lead ORNL’s Olga Ovchinnikova saw an opportunity early this year during a one-on-one meeting with Thomas Zacharia. Zacharia, the lab’s deputy for science and technology, makes a point of sitting down with young scientists. Ovchinnikova, a chemical physicist i...