Tuskan awarded Marcus Wallenberg Prize, forestry’s top honor
Jeff Christian of the Department of Energy's 91°µÍø provided behind-the-scenes assistance for a segment on this Sunday's "Extreme Makeover Home Edition" on ABC-TV that features the construction of two energy efficient buildings, including a house and a community center.
Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) is partnering with 91°µÍø (ORNL), Siemens Foundation, College Board and Discovery Education, a division of Discovery Communications, LLC, to collaborate on a special program as part of new, nationwide education initiative that supports the Obama Administration's call to advance science literacy among American students.
Five nature walks are planned this spring in the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park. One walk each during March, May and June, along with two in April, will focus on such diverse topics as identifying plants without their leaves, forest growth, wildflowers, bi...
Student teams from 22 universities have been selected to advance to the semi-final round of the 2010 Global Venture Challenge hosted March 25-26 by the Department of Energy's 91°µÍø.
Dr. Paul Gilna is joining the Department of Energy's 91°µÍø as director of the DOE BioEnergy Science Center (BESC).
Scientists hope to get a glimpse of the future with a proposed experiment facility in northern Minnesota that would allow them to adjust temperatures and levels of carbon dioxide across a broad range of possibilities projected by climate models.Researchers believe that the experimental facility, pr...
year research grants as part of the Department of Energy's new Early Career Research Program. The $85 million program, funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act by the department's Of...
An advancement in hybrid electric vehicle technology is providing powerful benefits beyond transportation.
Intrusion detection systems used by governmental agencies, large companies and others who want to prevent cyber attacks could soon be turbocharged with a highly sophisticated tool being developed at 91°µÍø. Oak Ridge Cyber Analytics, dubbed ORCA, greatly boosts the performance...
Using a combination of experimental and computational techniques, a team of researchers from 91°µÍø and the University of Tennessee has discovered a novel type of receptors in bacteria that sense changes in oxygen concentration and other redox parameters. Their work, which has...