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National Lab Press Releases
with Quotes from DOE officials

2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002

 

                           2008

09/15/08 DOE's Jefferson Lab Receives Approval for Start of $310 Million Upgrade
08/04/08 Tevatron Experiments Double-Team Higgs Boson; Joint CDF, DZero Effort Lands Fermilab in Higgs Territory
07/30/08 JLab's 12 GeV Upgrade Project Clears Critical Hurdle
07/18/08 Prager to Lead DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
07/10/08 MIT Opens New 'Window' on Solar Energy; Cost Effective Devices Expected on Market Soon
07/09/08 Physicists Discover New Particle: The Bottom-most "Bottomonium"
05/23/08 PPPL to Phase Out Compact Stellarator Experiment, Upgrade Spherical Torus Program (Princeton University news release)
05/20/08 New "Particle Detector" Space Telescope to Launch
05/15/08 Jaguar Upgrade Brings ORNL Closer to Petascale Computing
05/01/08 Mike Kluse Named Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
04/22/08 Earth Week Marks PPPL Designation as ENERGY STAR® Partner
04/21/08 DOE Dedicates Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
04/03/08 New Director Named to Lead U.S. Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab
02/29/08 Last Large Piece of ATLAS Detector Lowered Underground; Brookhaven Leads Collaboration
02/29/08 Last Large Piece of ATLAS Detector Lowered Underground; Argonne Employees Play Key Role in Acquiring, Selecting, Storing and Accessing Data
02/25/08 Crystal Bells Stay Silent as Physicists Look for Dark Matter; U.S. Experiment Retakes the Lead in Competitive Race
02/21/08 Association for Computing Machinery's Grace Murray Hopper Award
02/14/08 Chicagoland Observatory for Underground Particle Physics  Experiment Tightens Limits on Dark Matter
01/25/08 UC Riverside Space Scientist Receives Unusual Grant from the Department of Energy
01/24/08 Department of Energy's ORNL, Jackson State Sign Mentor-Protege Agreement
01/21/08 Energy Department Awards PPPL Scientist Two Million Hours of Supercomputing Time to Advance Scientific Research Project
01/18/08 DOE Awards NETL Researcher with Three Million Hours on Premier Supercomputer
01/17/08 Argonne's Blue Gene/P to Host Large Cadre of INCITE Researchers
01/17/08 DOE Allocates NERSC Supercomputing Resources to Research Combustion, Climate Change, Energy, Accelerators
01/17/08 Oak Ridge Leads DOE INCITE Effort in 2008
01/17/08 (UC Davis release) Department of Energy Grants Supercomputer Time for Water Studies
 

                           2007

12/20/07 The Midnight Ride of the CMS Tracking Detector
12/13/07 PPPL Director Goldston to Step Down, Search Begins for Successor
12/06/07 Persis S. Drell Named Fourth Director of U.S. Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
11/21/07 DOE Joint Genome Institute Plumbs Termite Guts to Yield Novel Enzymes for Better Biofuel Production
11/20/07 Jefferson Lab Achieves Critical Milestone Toward Construction of $310 Million Upgrade Project
11/08/07 Auger Observatory Closes in on Long-Standing Mystery, Links Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays with Violent Black Holes
11/01/07 Brookhaven Lab Physicist Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
11/01/07 Berkeley Lab's Pennacchio Wins Presidential Early Career Award
11/01/07 ORNL's Ho Nyung Lee Cited as Top Early Career Scientist
11/01/07 PNNL Scientist Honored with "Early Career" Award
11/01/07 Argonne's Green Blue Gene/P Gets More Muscle to Address Most Challenging Scientific Problems
11/01/07 National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center Announces Acceptance of One of World's Largest Supercomputers
10/31/07 University of Minnesota Receives $45.6 Million from Department of Energy to Build New Lab in Northern Minnesota (University of Minnesota news release)
10/22/07 Ames Laboratory Director Named
10/22/07 Department of Energy's Joint BioEnergy Institute Gets New Home: EmeryStation East to Host Biofuels Research Center
09/28/07 Bay Area's Joint BioEnergy Institute Gets Financial Kick-Start from DOE
09/28/07 University of Wisconsin Bioenergy Research Center Gets Early Boost from U.S. Department of Energy
09/28/07 HP Supercomputer to Enhance Molecular Research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
09/24/07 $6.7 Million Kick-Starts DOE BioEnergy Science Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
08/30/07 America Regains Leadership with World Record at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
07/27/07 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Morehouse College Sign Mentor-Protégé Agreement
07/27/07 U.S. Department of Energy Recognition of the Mentor-Protégé Agreement between UT-Battelle, LLC and Morehouse College
07/17/07 Department of Energy Advances NSLS-II Project; Facilitity Sited at Brookhaven National Laboratory
07/05/07 SLAC Announces New Director and Deputy Director of Particle and Particle Astrophysics
06/27/07 ORNL Supercomputer Rises to No. 2 Worldwide; Leadership Computing System Promises to Accelerate Scientific Discovery
06/26/07 ORNL-Led Team Wins DOE Bioenergy Center
06/26/07 Major Bioenergy Initiative Takes Flight in Midwest
06/26/07 Bay Area Partnership to Host DOE Bioscience Center
06/26/07 Inaugural IBM Blue Gene/P System to Expand Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
06/14/07 First Compact Proton Therapy Machine for Cancer Treatment Enters Development
06/13/07 Femilab Physicists Discover "Triple-Scoop" Baryon
05/25/07 Thom Mason Named Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory
05/21/07 Brookhaven National Laboratory Celebrates Opening of Center for Functional Nanomaterials
04/25/07 New Materials for Making "Spintronic" Devices; Pushing the Development of Electronics Beyond the Limits of Electric Charge
04/11/07 MiniBooNE Opens the Box; Results from Fermilab Experiment Resolve Long-Standing Neutrino Question
02/28/07 Down with Physics: Giant CMS Magnet Goes Underground at CERN
01/08/07 CDF Precision Measurement of W-Boson Mass Suggests a Light Higgs Particle
                             2006
11/02/06 DOE Awards $6.4 Million, Three-Year Aerial Vehicles Program to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
10/20/06 Ground Breaking New Science at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
10/04/06 Stanford University's Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory at SLAC Contributes to 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
10/03/06 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Cosmologist George F. Smoot Wins 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics
09/25/06 Fermilab's CDF Scientists Make It Official:
They Have Discovered the Quick Change Behavior of the B-sub-s Meson, Which Switches Between Matter and Antimatter 3 Trillion Times A Second
09/25/06 Open Science Grid Receives $30 Million Award to Empower Scientific Collaboration and Computation
09/25/06 Fermilab Receives $5.5 Million for Role in Open Science Grid
09/18/06 Argonne Dedicates New Center for Nanoscale Materials
09/14/06 The First Tree Genome in Published;
Poplar Holds Promise as Renewable Bioenergy Resource
09/13/06 Fermilab Contributions Help CMS Magnet Reach Full Field at CERN
08/25/06 ORNL Jaguar Supercomputer Surpasses 50 Teraflops
08/18/06 Sam Aronson Named Director of Brookhaven National Laboratory
07/26/06 Argonne Researcher Wins Prestigious Presidential Award
07/26/06 Brookhaven Lab Scientist Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
07/26/06 Oak Ridge National Lab’s Bardayan among Nation’s Top Young Scientists
07/26/06 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Physicist Wins Presidential Honor
07/26/06

U.S. Scientists Join in "Cosmic Challenge" at CERN's Large Hadron Collider

06/16/06

Visionary Projects Receive Time on Blue Gene/L Supercomputers at Argonne, IBM

05/23/06

DOE Joint Genome Institute Finishes 100th Microbial Genom

05/17/06

Space Telescope Leaves SLAC for Washington, DC

05/09/06 Particle Physics Panel Launches "Discovering the Quantum Universe" Report
05/02/06 Brian Greene to Address the Revolution in 21st Century Particle Physics at May 9 Congressional R&D Caucus Briefin
05/01/06 First Neutron Produced by DOE's Spallation Neutron Source
04/21/06 Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab Sign Collaborative Agreement Aimed at Multi-Billion-Dollar Project; Governor Blagojevich Proclaims Illinois Particle Accelerator Day
04/11/06 Fermilab's CDF Scientists Present A Precision Measurement of A Subtle Dance Between Matter and AntiMatter
02/28/06 Argonne Part of National Team Studying Mexico City Air
02/15/06 U.S. Researchers Put Global Science Grid to the Test
01/27/06 Argonne's Structural Biology Center First to Produce 1,000 Structures that Improve Understanding of Human and Environmental Health
01/10/06 Report Highlights DOE Joint Genome Institute Achievements
                             2005
12/22/05 DOE Joint Genome Institute Issues New Call for Large-Scale Sequencing Proposals
11/10/05 Pierre Auger Observatory Celebrates Progress on Detector Array and Presents First Science Results
10/27/05 World’s Fastest Supercomputers Dedicated at Livermore Lab
10/17/05 First Director Appointed for New Stanford Ultrafast Science Center
09/27/05 Stöhr to Direct Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
07/11/05 Sloan Digital Sky Survey II Will Map the Universe, the Milky Way and Dark Energy
06/24/05 Department of Energy Dramatically Increasing Bandwidth to Support Scientific Research Throughout San Francisco Region
06/22/05 Young Scientists Travel to Germany to Meet Nobel Laureates
06/22/05 Argonne Researchers Receive Presidential Early Career Awards
06/13/05 Two Brookhaven Lab Physicists Honored with Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers
06/13/05 Ashmanskas’ Work at Fermilab Earns Prestigious Early Career Award
06/13/05 PPPL Scientist Hong Qin Receives Presidential Award
06/02/05

DOE JGI Sequences DNA from Extinct Cave Bear; Method Blazes Trails for Characterizing Human Predecessors

05/25/05

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Reorganizes to Position Itself for Major Discoveries

05/18/05

Scientists Team Up for Multiyear Studies of Microbial Mysteries

05/12/05

DOE Joint Genome Institute Announces 2006 Community Sequencing Portfolio

05/06/05 Argonne Holds Cornerstone Ceremony at New Center for Nanoscale Materials
05/05/05 ORNL, UC Berkeley Unravel Real-World Clues to Earth’s Mysteries
05/05/05 Protein Study Finds Clues to Microbes’ Survival Techniques
05/05/05 Fermilab’s Saturday Morning Physics Program Marks 25th Anniversary at Graduation Ceremonies on May 14, 2005; Media Invited to Attend
04/21/05

Study Reveals New Technique for Fingerprinting Environmental Samples

04/18/05

RHIC Scientists Serve Up "Perfect" Liquid;
New State of Matter More Remarkable than Predicted — Raising Many New Questions

04/15/05 Brookhaven Lab Holds Site Dedication Ceremony for the Center for Functional Nanomaterials
03/15/05

Robert Rosner Named Director of Argonne National Laboratory

03/04/05

MINOS Neutrino Experiment Launched at Fermilab
For more information, see the March 7, 2005 issue of Fermilab Today.

                             2004
12/06/04

Northern Illinois University Launches Institute for Neutron Therapy at Fermilab

11/19/04

Pier Oddone of Berkeley Lab Named Fermilab Director

11/15/04

New MicroMRI Facility Expands Brookhaven's Brain-Imaging Capabilities

11/01/04

Rocky Kolb to Direct New Fermilab Particle Astrophysics Center

10/14/04

Argonne Plays Important Role in Development of Artificial Retina

10/14/04

Livermore Scientists Join DOE Consortium in Partnering with Private Company to Develop Artificial Retina

10/14/04

Los Alamos Studies Nerve Activity to Improve Artificial Retina

10/14/04

ORNL Is A Major Player in DOE Artificial Retina Project

09/21/04

The Book Opens on the First Tree Genome:
Forest Tree Fact Sheet

09/21/04

Sequencing of Poplar Genome Giant Step for Research Community

08/02/04

Physicists Discover Dramatic Difference in Behavior of Matter versus Antimatter

06/17/04

Nobel Laureate Steven Chu Named Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

06/10/04

JGI, VBI Unravel Sudden Oak Death and Soybean Disease; Gene Sequence Will Produce Major Benefits for Forestry and Agriculture

06/09/04

Fermilab Results Change Higgs Mass Estimate

05/14/04

Argonne to Play Major Role in New Computer Facility

05/11/04

First Fermilab LHC Magnet Leaves Illinois, Bound for Geneva

 

Photos of the Fermilab LHC Magnet

05/03/04 First Data from Deep Underground Experiment Narrow Search for Dark Matter
04/22/04 Scientists Post A Lower Speed Limit for Magnetic Switching
04/15/04 Robotic Floats Shed New Light on the Iron Hypothesis
03/31/04 Gene-Rich Human Chrmosome 19 Sequence Completed
02/27/04 ORNL Earns Four Federal Laboratory Consortium Awards
02/09/04 Charles Shank to Step Down As Berkeley Lab Director
02/02/04 Livermore Scientists Team with Russia to Discover Elements 113 and 115
02/02/04 First Genomes Revealed from Environmental Microbial Communities
02/02/04 Groundbreaking Marks Berkeley Lab's Leap into Nano-Revolution
01/30/04 Dazzling New Light Source Opens at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
                             2003
11/24/03 ORNL to Design High-Speed Experimental Network Called UltraNet
11/12/03 Quest Begins to Unmask Dark Matter- And Perhaps Supersymmetry
10/14/03 NASA and DOE Dedicate New NASA Facility at Brookhaven Lab
09/29/03 NSF Grant to ORNL is Big Step Towards National Cyberinfrastructure
09/08/03 Imaging Study Reveals Effect of Smoking on Peripheral Organs
08/14/03 Data-Taking Begins at MINOS Neutrino Detector, Half a Mile Underground
08/13/03 Genomes of Tiny Microbes Yield Clues to Global Climate Change
06/30/03 Jeff Wadsworth Named Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory
06/30/03 Oak Ridge National Lab to Advance Research Programs with New 256-Processor SGI ALTIX 3000 System
06/11/03 Exciting First Results from Deuteron Gold Collisions at Brookhaven: Findings Intensify Search for New Form of Matter
06/09/03 Two Mathematicians from Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Honored for Contributions to Computational Science and Engineering
04/28/03 SLAC Experiment Identifies New Subatomic Particle
02/24/03 ORNL, Cray Teaming for Next-Generation Supercomputer
02/17/03 Dr. Leonard K. Peters Named Director of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
02/07/03 SLAC Scientists Help Set Data Transfer Speed Record
01/30/03 Dr. Praveen Chaudhari Named Director of Brookhaven National Laboratory
01/21/03 CERN Receives First US-Built Component for Large Hadron Collider
01/15/03 Stanford to Receive $7.5 Million Gift for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology Institute
                             2002
12/10/02 Researcher Earns Prestigious Fernbach Award
12/06/02 Disappearing Neutrinos at KamLAND Support the Case for Neutrino Mass
10/21/02 Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor Removal Successfully Completed
10/07/02 World Physics Community Gathers for 40th Anniversary of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
10/01/02 PNNL to Use Power Produced by Local Wind Farm
09/26/02 Synchrotron Lab Director Hodgson Wins E.O. Lawrence Award
09/12/02 New Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab Goes Live
08/14/02 High-Speed Network Connection Ties Top Universities to ORNL
07/23/02 From Theory to Certainty: BaBar Announces New Result on Charge Parity Violation
07/02/02 Underground Dedication of MINOS Detector Marks Milestone in Neutrino Physics
04/16/02 PNNL Orders 24.5M Supercomputer from Hewlett Packard

 

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