Don V. Roberts, chairman of the World Engineering Partnership for Sustainable Development, will present "Sustainable Development - A Challenge for the Engineering Profession" at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 19, in the D. J. Nelson Auditorium, Building 1505, in the Environmental Sciences Division (ESD)...
Construction and testing of a full-sized wall made of straw bale will be conducted at the Buildings Technology Center (BTC) of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Feb. 24-27 with a contest to follow to calculate the wall's R-value (resistance to heat transfer).
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C.T. Liu, a senior corporate fellow of Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corporation and a researcher in the Metals and Ceramics Division of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been appointed a visiting professor at Zhejaing University in Hangzhou, China.
Hundreds of participants will be involved in a large-scale emergency management exercise set for Wednesday, February 18, at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).The February 18 exercise will involve a hypothetical scenario that results in the simulated release of ha...
Dr. Yevgeni P. Velikhov, a renowned Russian physicist, former member of the Supreme Soviet (legislature) and president of Moscow's Kurchatov Institute, will present a distinguished lecture at 11 a.m., Friday, Feb. 20, in Wigner Auditorium at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Labor...
The Transportation and Packaging Management Organization of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been presented a Tennessee Quality Commitment Award.Tennessee Gov. Don Sundquist presented the award to organization manager Randy Walker during an awards dinner in ...
Dr. Michelle V. Buchanan of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of Fresenius' Journal of Analytical Chemistry, a well-known German-published journal.Buchanan joined ORNL in 1978 in the Chemical and Analytical Scien...
Dr. Patrick J. Mulholland of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) recently was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).Election of Fellows in the AAAS in 1997 was limited to 270 of the 140,000 members. This honor recogni...
Dr. Michael Sale of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been selected as a fellow of the American Water Resources Association (AWRA).This recognition is given to long-term AWRA members who have served in leadership positions in the organization and have records...
A tribute to black inventors and scientists is planned from 9:30 a.m to 5:30 p.m Monday, Jan. 19, and Tuesday, Jan. 20, in the Knoxville Civic Auditorium as part of the observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.