Stephen E. Nagler and Richard J. Norby were named UT-Battelle Corporate Fellows in 2007, the highest level of recognition for career achievements in science and technology leadership at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Nagler, chief of ORNL's neutron scattering scientists, is internationally known as a leader in probing magnetic excitations and quantum critical behavior in materials. Norby, science team leader for experimental ecology, is a pioneer in large-scale manipulative field experiments, including one in which he demonstrated the importance of root and soil processes in mediating tree responses to elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide.

UT-Battelle Corporate Fellow Steve Zinkle received the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society's 2006 Fusion Technology Award and the American Nuclear Society's 2007 Mishima Award and was elected a fellow of the American Nuclear Society for his pioneering contributions to the understanding of radiation effects in structural materials for fission and fusion energy systems.

Eugene P. Wigner Fellow Peter Maksymovych received the Nottingham Prize for his thesis-based presentation, "Non-local Hot Electron Surface Chemistry in Scanning Tunneling Microscope."

ORNL researchers who developed Hybrid Solar Lighting earned the Excellence in Technology Transfer Award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer. Winners include David Beshears, Melissa Lapsa, Art Clemons, Dennis Earl, John Jordan, Randall Lind, Curt Maxey, Jeff Muhs, Christina Ward and Wes Wysor.

Thomas Thundat has been selected by Nanotech Briefs magazine to receive a Nano 50 Award, recognizing that his nanomechanical cantilever sensor technology for physical, chemical and biological detection, is one of the "top 50 technologies, products, and innovations that significantly impacted, or is expected to impact, the state of the art in nanotechnology."

An ORNL-developed technology titled "Nanocomposites via Epitaxial, 3-D Self-Assembly of Nanodots of One Complex Material within Another" has been named one of the top 25 MICRO/NANO technologies by MICRO/NANO Newsletter. Key contributors to the technology are Amit Goyal, Sung-Hun Wee, Karren More, Claudia Cantoni, Yuri Zuev, Yanfei Gao, Jianxin Zhong and Malcolm Stocks.

Xiaoguang Zhang and Thomas Schulthess shared in an inaugural award presented to William H. Butler, formerly of ORNL, by Japan's National Institute for Materials Science. Butler, director of the University of Alabama's Center for Materials for Information Technology, the two ORNL scientists and a Tulane University researcher received the NIMS Award for Recent Breakthroughs in Materials Science and Technology for research expected to lead to smaller, better and cheaper computer hard drives.

ORNL has been accepted into the Environmental Protection Agency's National Performance Track Program in recognition of the Laboratory's outstanding environmental compliance record.

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