Argonne Press Room

Recent News Releases and Feature Stories

• Science world celebrates startup of 'Big Bang' machine (sept. 10, 2008)
• 'Omnivorous engine' hopes to run on many fuels (Sept. 5, 2008)
• NIH awards Argonne $800,000 to develop tool to measure distances within proteins (Sept. 3, 2008)
• Argonne hosts 1st Int'l Conference on Advanced Lithium Batteries for Automotive Applications Sept. 15-17 (Aug. 27, 2008)
• New process extracts pure hydrogen from contaminant in unrefined oil (Aug. 22, 2008)
• Computation Institute to bulk up data analysis capability with $1.5 million grant (Aug. 5, 2008)
• Argonne scientists discover networks of metal nanoparticles are culprits in alloy corrosion (Aug. 4, 2008)
• New bottle cap thwarts wine counterfeiters (Aug. 1, 008)

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• Argonne Backgrounder — Budget, employment, major programs, history, other basic facts (PDF)
• Argonne-University of Chicago partnership advances science and technology (PDF)
• Argonne National Laboratory — An economic magnet for Illinois and the United States (PDF)
• Did you know...? — Interesting facts about Argonne National Laboratory (PDF)
• Argonne technology strengthens Illinois economy (PDF)
• Argonne History
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User Facilities

• User Facilities — Attracting great minds to solve scientific problems (PDF)
• Advanced Photon Source — The Western Hemisphere's most brilliant X-rays for research (PDF)
• Center for Nanoscale Materials — A new center for the study of nano-sized materials (PDF)

Computing Science

• Computing Science — Developing new computing technologies for the new millenium (PDF)
• Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (PDF)
• Bioinformatics — Biologists and computer scientists join forces to lead biology revolution (PDF)
• Digital Bacteria — AgentCell software simulates cell populations as they sense, respond to their environment (PDF)

Energy and Environmental Research

• Sustainable Nuclear Energy — Disposing of nuclear waste and making future reactors safer, more economical (PDF)
• Transportation research — Argonne's transportation research focuses on DOE goals (PDF

Life Sciences and Medicine

• Bioscience — A multidisciplinary approach to understanding the fundamental mechanisms of life (PDF)
• Midwest Center for Structural Genomics — Cutting the time and cost of solving protein structures (PDF)
• Pharmaceutical research at the Advanced Photon Source (PDF)
• Rapid cooling technology could aid surgery patients, heart attack victims (PDF)
• Structural Biology Center — The world's most productive and efficient facility for solving the structure of proteins (PDF)

Executive Bios

• Robert Rosner, Laboratory Director
• Steve Richardson, Deputy Director for Operations/Chief Operating Officer
• Renee Carder, Chief of Staff
• J. Murray Gibson, Associate Laboratory Director for Scientific User Facilities
• Alfred P. Sattelberger, Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences and Engineering
• Rick Stevens, Associate Laboratory Director for Computing, Environment and Life Science

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