ORNL researchers recognized as among world’s most cited
Entries from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) won five awards at recent international competitions sponsored by the Society for Technical Communication (STC). First-place winners in regional competition are eligible for international judging.
The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a collaborator on six of 13 university-led projects that have received funding from DOE's Energy Efficiency Science Initiative. The projects promote the more-efficient production and use of energy. The projects, their total budgets (...
Arthur Stewart of the Environmental Sciences Division of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been named editor of "Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. "The publication is an international journal dedicated to advancing the sciences of environmental toxicolog...
Lars Petersen, a Wigner fellow working with the Solid State Division at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has earned an award from the Danish Academy of Natural Sciences for his outstanding doctoral thesis of 1999.The title of the thesis is "Scanning Tunneling M...
Edmund Wise, physician assistant in the Health Division of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has received a certificate of completion for his participation in the first postgraduate occupational and environmental medicine program offered at Duke University.Wise ...
According to popular culture, survival depends on rugged individualism, ruthless cunning and athletic prowess. In practice, however, real-world survivors more often exhibit benevolent leadership, personal sacrifice and endurance born of sheer will, says Jerry Dobson, a geographer at ORNL and directo...
Turning the drab brownish-gray zebrafish green isn't a St. Patrick's Day stunt for researchers at ORNL. Actually, the research is helping scientists study the effects of contamination on fish and relates the effects back to other wildlife and people. Of particular interest are chemicals such as pest...
Like the Visible Man and Visible Woman, the Digital Pig could serve as an important model in cardiovascular and pulmonary studies as well as other areas of biomedical research. Researchers at ORNL, Walter Reed Army Institute Research and the University of South Florida envision the digital pig as be...
ORNL researchers are saving key industries of the future hundreds of thousands of dollars in energy costs with a process that starts by simply taking a look around. The DOE program, called BestPractices, encourages industries to examine their most energy-intensive plant utility systems and make impr...
While Greg Maddux's curveball might break 19 inches at Atlanta's Turner Field, conditions at Denver's Coors Field can cut the amount of break by 10 percent, according to some groundbreaking research performed at ORNL. The fluid mechanics research, which aims to precisely quantify the interaction bet...