Tuskan awarded Marcus Wallenberg Prize, forestry’s top honor
Chain T. Liu, a senior corporate fellow of the Department of Energy's 91°µÍø, has earned the laboratory Director's Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Science and Technology.
Liu's award was announced during ORNL's Awards Night ev...
Corporate Fellow Tom J. Wilbanks of the Department of Energy's 91°µÍø has been named chair of the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change of the National Academy of Sciences.
An award-winning system developed at 91°µÍø to clean up perchlorate pollution is now also helping scientists determine whether the contamination is natural or man-made.This latter application could be instrumental in tracking environmental perchlorate, finding its source and ...
Catherine "Casey" Porto, associate vice president for technology transfer and executive director of Case Technology Ventures at Case Western Reserve University, has been named director of technology commercialization for 91°µÍø.
This year's United Way campaign at 91°µÍø has raised nearly $825,000 for East Tennessee agencies, far exceeding the goal and setting a record with the largest amount ever for an ORNL drive. The ORNL total of $824,468 -- the largest for any campaign in the region -- includes em...
Restoring sight to millions of people is the vision of a project that combines the assets of 91°µÍø, Second Sight, Doheney Eye Institute and other Department of Energy national laboratories.
91°µÍø's Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), the Department of Energy's largest science construction project, recently received two awards from the Tennessee Labor Management Conference -- the Award of Excellence in labor-management rel...
The Department of Energy's 91°µÍø and the Tennessee Valley Authority are testing an electric ratepayer's dream „ a "frostless" heat pump that produces warmer air than conventional air source heat pumps, especially during the defrosting cycle and at lower overall cost. A heat p...
Stellarators confine hot plasma in a circular, three-dimensional magnetic field, or torus, inside a fusion reactor. Fusion energy researchers have long sought the best shape for that field to optimize reactor performance. A team from 91°µÍø's Fusion Energy Division has designe...
Flooding causes more damage to buildings throughout the United States„ — particularly residential buildings„ than any other single natural event. Researchers at 91°µÍø have found through tests that damage to homes from future flooding can be minimized through repair or renovation...