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![Six people are standing, holding awards, posing in front of a wall with mountain wallpaper. Left to right it goes girl, boy, girl, boy, boy, boy.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-06/2024-P10490.jpg?h=036a71b7&itok=SBNHE3lK)
Six firms received Small Business Awards from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The companies, selected from small business service providers to the lab, were recognized by ORNL's Small Business Programs Office for their specific capabilities and contributions.
![Four thermometers are pictured across the top of the image with an image of a city in the bottom left, with a color block version of that city in the bottom right.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-06/buildingsTool08%20%281%29.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=xyBuoRLt)
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed free data sets to estimate how much energy any building in the contiguous U.S. will use in 2100. These data sets provide planners a way to anticipate future energy needs as the climate changes.
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Researchers at ORNL and the University of Maine have designed and 3D-printed a single-piece, recyclable natural-material floor panel tested to be strong enough to replace construction materials like steel.
![Three team members looking at plants stand in front of a mountain scene, two are in orange safety vests.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-06/IMG_6533.jpg?h=71976bb4&itok=27R2TL42)
When Oak Ridge National Laboratory's science mission takes staff off-campus, the lab’s safety principles follow. That’s true even in the high mountain passes of Washington and Oregon, where ORNL scientists are tracking a tree species — and where wildfires have become more frequent and widespread.
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Erin Webb, lead for the Bioresources Science and Engineering group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers — the society’s highest honor.
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Lætitia H. Delmau, a distinguished researcher and radiochemist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received the 2024 Glenn T. Seaborg Actinide Separations Award.
![Two robotic arms, one on the left side of the frame and one on the right - are pointing at a brown three pronged shape on a table. There are people in the background looking at this setup.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-05/Innovation%20Days%20MedUSA%20photo.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=D45HERPH)
Momentum for manufacturing innovation in the United States got a boost during the inaugural MDF Innovation Days, held recently at the U.S. Department of Energy Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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A technology developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory works to keep food refrigerated with phase change materials, or PCMs, while reducing carbon emissions by 30%.
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Researchers set a new benchmark for future experiments making materials in space rather than for space. They discovered that many kinds of glass have similar atomic structure and arrangements and can successfully be made in space. Scientists from nine institutions in government, academia and industry participated in this 5-year study.
![From left, Clarice Phelps, Jimmie Selph and Rich Franco are ORNL personnel who teach classes in the Chemical Radiation Technology Pathway program at Pellissippi State Community College.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2024-05/2024-P06806.jpg?h=036a71b7&itok=nHzGUT9C)
Students from the first class of ORNL and Pellissippi State Community College's joint Chemical Radiation Technology Pathway toured isotope facilities at ORNL.