Recent News Releases

ORNL's Office of Communications and External Relations works with national, regional, and local media outlets on news stories about the laboratory.

For more information on ORNL and its research and development activities, please refer to one of our Media Contacts. If you have a general media-related question or comment, you can send it to news@ornl.gov.


Two ORNL researchers designated AAAS Fellows
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Jan. 12, 2009 — Two scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are among the 486 to be elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) at the 2009 Annual Meeting next month in Chicago.

UT-Battelle-funded children's home opens in India
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Dec. 31, 2008 — About 60 needy children in Trivandrum, India have received a very special Christmas gift: a new home.

Gift of lab equipment fosters fun and learning in the classroom
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Dec. 23, 2008 — Physics and chemistry classes at Roane County High School recently received new lab equipment that makes learning a lot more fun, thanks to a $10,000 corporate donation from UT-Battelle.

2009 DOE INCITE projects allocated at ORNL
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Dec. 18, 2008 — In 2009, Oak Ridge National Laboratory will make nearly 470 million processor hours available on Jaguar, its Cray XT supercomputer, under the Department of Energy's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment, or INCITE, program.

Physics society honors six from ORNL
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Dec. 17, 2008 — This year's newly elected fellows of the American Physical Society (APS) include six research scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Seven companies selected for ORNL mentor protege program
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Dec. 12, 2008 — OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Dec. 12, 2008 - Seven companies have been selected to participate in the mentor protégé program sponsored by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

UT-Battelle aids Norris school's fire recovery    Audio Clip
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Dec. 12, 2008 — OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Dec. 12, 2008 -- UT-Battelle has chipped in to help Norris Elementary School recover from a fire that destroyed its new science facility.

ORNL to move "Mouse House" research
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Dec. 4, 2008 — Following more than six decades of developing a unique population of mice to study human diseases, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory is moving its colony of 8,000 mice known as the Collaborative Cross to the University of North Carolina.

ORNL's Smith, DOE's Brown winners of Muddy Boot Award
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Dec. 4, 2008 — Jeff Smith, deputy director of operations at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Robert Brown, deputy manager for the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office, are the 2008 recipients of the Muddy Boot Award.

ORNL director earns honor from McMaster University
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 25, 2008 — Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thom Mason is the recipient of the 2008 Distinguished Alumni Award for the Sciences from McMaster University in Canada.

DOE, TVA partners in groundbreaking energy efficiency project
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 21, 2008 — Three houses under construction in East Tennessee carry the story of "The Three Little Pigs" to an entirely new level and will become a model for the nation when it comes to determining energy efficiency.

ORNL supercomputer simulation wins prize for fastest-running science application
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 20, 2008 — A team led by Thomas Schulthess of the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory received the prestigious 2008 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize Thursday after attaining the fastest performance ever in a scientific supercomputing application.

Oak Ridge supercomputer is the world's fastest for science
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 17, 2008 — A Cray XT high-performance computing system at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the world's fastest supercomputer for science. The annual ranking of the world's top 500 computers (www.top500.org) will be released Tuesday in Austin at an annual international supercomputing conference.

Singh honored as ORNL's 2008 top scientist
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 17, 2008 — David Singh of the Materials Science and Technology Division in the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory earned the UT-Battelle Director's Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Science and Technology during UT-Battelle's Awards Night held Friday at the Knoxville Convention Center.