Distinguished Engineer

Winner: George Flanagan

Organization: Reactor and Nuclear Systems Division

Citation: For sustained contributions to the development and safety of commercial nuclear power plants, advanced reactor concepts, and research reactors through the application of innovative engineering approaches

Early Career Award for Engineering Accomplishment

Winner: David Wood

Organization: Materials Science and Technology Division

Citation: For high-impact research results related to the development of high-performance battery materials and their implementation into commercial processes

Inventor of the Year

Winner: Philip Maziasz

Division: Materials Science and Technology Division

Citation: For sustained and outstanding development of new steels and alloys with significant commercial and economic impact, based on the engineered microstructure method

Distinguished Scientist

Winner: Patrick Mulholland

Organization Environmental Sciences Division

Citation: For a distinguished career in environmental science that has made critical contributions to our understanding of forested watersheds and their response to environmental stressors, including acid precipitation, nitrogen deposition, and climatic variability and change

Early Career Award for Scientific Accomplishment

Winner: Petro Maksymovych

Organization:  Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences

Citation: For pioneering quantitative analysis of local electronic transport in wide-band gap oxide films, revealing an unanticipated universal mechanism leading to a tunable metal-insulator transition in ferroelectric nanoscale domains

R&D Leadership, Director Level

Winner: Jeffrey Binder

Organization: Nuclear Sciences & Engineering Directorate

Citation: For outstanding service as leader of the Coupled End-to-End fuel reprocessing project, manager of ORNL’s Isotope Production Program, and director of the Fuel Cycle and Isotopes Division

R&D Leadership, Group Level

Winner: John Galambos

Organization: Research Accelerator Division

Citation: For outstanding leadership of the Accelerator Physics Group as it ramped the Spallation Neutron Source up to 1 megawatt

Administration and Operations Leadership

Winner: Ricky Kendall

Organization: National Center for Computational Sciences

Citation: For exemplary leadership of the Scientific Computing Group and advancement of high-performance computing

Science and Technology, Technical Support

Winner: Julia Luck

Organization: Materials Science and Technology Division

Citation: For outstanding contributions to the advancement of high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy

Administrative and Operational Leadership, Director Level

Winner: Suzy Tichenor

Organization: Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate

Citation: For outstanding leadership in the creation and launch of the ORNL High-Performance Computing Industrial Partnerships Program

Bargaining Unit Support

Winner: Steven Whitted

Organization: Energy and Transportation Science

Citation: For excellence and innovation as an Automotive Research Mechanic in supporting and leading research staff in the Fuels, Engines, and Emissions Research Center

Secretarial Support

Winner: Lora Wolfe

Organization: Computer Science and Mathematics Division

Citation: For exemplary administrative secretarial support to the Computer Science and Mathematics Division and to the ORNL SciDAC proposal process

Community Outreach, Exceptional Community Outreach

Winner: Tina Curry

Organization: Creative Media

Citation: For 15 years playing an integral role in the Side-By-Side Visual Arts Apprentice Program, working one on one with students to teach the intricacies and value of the artistic process

Community Outreach, Community Leadership

Winner: Sherry Livengood

Organization: Energy and Environmental Sciences Directorate

Citation: For over 15 years of volunteer community service to impoverished families in Anderson County and East Tennessee

Laboratory Operations, Administrative Support

Winners:
Cecilia Rowe;
Becky Wagner;
Tracey Lawson;
Robert Tannert, Jr.;
Nancy Wright;
David Hetrick;
Cindy Sonewald;
Irene Sharp;
Jennifer Seiber;
Tina Moore;
Justin Keck

Organizations: Contracts Division:
Business Services;
Information Technology Services;
HR Consulting Services;
Computational Sciences and Engineering;
Computer Sciences & Engineering;
Computer Science & Mathematics;
EESD Safety & Business Operations;
Nonreactor Nuclear Facilities

Citation: For transforming, automating, and improving the ORISE educational appointment hiring process, thereby promoting outstanding customer satisfaction, significant time reductions, and substantial cost savings

Exceptional Community Outreach

Winners:
Lonnie Love;
Craig Blue;
Ray Boeman;
Tommy Phelps;
Randall Lind

Organizations:
Measurement Science & Systems Engineering Division
Energy Materials Program
Energy & Environmental Sciences Directorate
Biosciences Division
Measurement Science & Systems Engineering Division

Citation: For outstanding dedication in the mentoring of young people, through a complex engineering challenge, to be science and technology leaders

Engineering R&D

Winners:
Klaus-Peter Ziock;
Lorenzo Fabris;
Thomas Karnowski;
Ryan Kerekes;
James Goddard;
Anil Cheriyadat;
Donald Hornback;
Robert Jason Newby;
Curtis Fitzgerald

Organizations:
Global Nuclear Security Technology Division
Measurement Science & Systems Engineering Division
Computational Sciences & Engineering Division
Fuel Cycle and Isotopes Division

Citation: For development of the Roadside Tracker, a highly innovative instrument for the detection of illicit nuclear materials in freely flowing vehicular traffic

Excellence in Technology Transfer

Winners:
Michael Brady;
Bruce Pint;
Yukinori Yamamoto;
Philip Maziasz;
Michael Santella;
Alexander DeTrana;
Joseph Marasco;
Alan Liby;
Craig Blue

Organizations:
Materials Science and Technology Division
Energy & Engineering Sciences
Intellectual Property Management

Citation: For development and licensing of AFA steels, a revolutionary new class of heat-resistant steels for higher-efficiency energy production and chemical process industry applications

Operations Support

Winners:
Jack Stellern;
Gary Bloom;
Debbie McCarter;
Cecil Peters;
Chris Tavino;
Pete Wiegand;
Joel Poteat;
Mark Turner;
Ken Brown;
Wayne Underwood;
Kim Jeskie;
Doug Freels;
Joseph Pickel

Organizations:
Facilities Development Division
Contracts Division
Safety Services Division
Physical Sciences Directorate
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences

Citation: For outstanding execution of planning, design, and construction of the Chemical and Materials Sciences Building

Safety and Security

Winners:
Tina Heath;
Douglas Alred;
Philip Arwood;
Eddie Bishop;
Travis Burnette;
Ryan Adamson;
Matt Disney;
Janel Easterling;
Corey Martin

Organizations:
Information Technology Services Division
National Center for Computational Sciences

Citation: For providing outstanding integrated safeguards and security management service to ORNL programs, organizations, and individuals by planning, executing, communicating, and delivering the Unclassified Cyber Security Program's recertification and accreditation package to DOE

Science Communicator

Winners:
Lynn Kszos;
Dale Heidenreich;
Mark Cardinal;
Charlie Horak;
Genevieve Martin;
Renee Manning

Organizations:
Research Accelerator Division
Neutron Sciences Directorate Communication and Outreach Group

Citation: For exceptional efforts in reaching out to middle-school children and the general public with a multifaceted communication effort

Scientific Research

Winners:
Sergei Kalinin;
Nina Balke;
Stephen Jesse

Organization: Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences

Citation: For significant contributions in revealing dynamics in energy storage materials through the development of scanning probe methods capable of addressing ionic motion on the nanometer scale