2008 News Releases

More information and visuals that are not available electronically may be obtained by contacting the NRL Public Affairs Office. New items are added as they are released.

Scientific & Technical Interest

1/8	Scientists Detect Lowest Frequency Radar Echo From the Moon
1/28	NRL EVIS Capability Transitions to the Fleet; Provides Tactical Weather Forecasting Tools for Military Operations
2/12	NRL Scientists Produce Carbon Nanotubes Using Commercially Available Polymeric Resins
3/10	Dr. Dahlburg Appointed Superintendent of NRL's Space Science Division
3/11	NRL To Design Telescope to See Into the Dark Ages
3/17	Vanguard I Celebrates 50 Years in Space
3/26	NRL Partners with Google for Live Weather Data on Google Earth
6/9	NRL's Dragon Eye on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
6/23	NRL Coronal Physics Explorer (CPEX) Approved for Extended Study
6/30	NRL's Large Area Telescope Launches Aboard GLAST
8/1	STPSat-1 Operations Transfer to Naval Research Laboratory
8/18	NRL inventors on 7 out of every 10 Navy nanotech patents
9/18	NRL's HICO-RAIDS Experiments Ready for Payload Integration
10/1	Ship Island Used as Navy Lab
10/3	NRL Change of Command Captain Paul C. Stewart Relieves Captain Daniel R. Gahagan
10/14	Navy Names Ship After Howard O. Lorenzen 'Father Of Electronic Warfare'
10/20	Ghostly Glow Reveals Galaxy Clusters in Collision
11/14	NRL's SHIMMER Successfully Observes Earth's Highest Clouds
12/1	Scientists Study Cracks in Brittle Materials
12/15	NRL's P-3 Aircraft Support Project to Study Tropical Cyclones

Featured Stories

1/7	Dr. Baruch Levush Receives E.O. Hulburt Annual Science Award
2/19	Dr. Bhakta Rath Elected to National Academy of Engineering
3/7	Dr. Phillip Sprangle Receives IEEE Award
4/3	Dr. Simon W. Chang Receives Presidential Rank Award
4/3	Dr. Francis Klemm Receives Presidential Rank Award For Meritorious Senior Executive
4/3	Dr. Elaine Oran Receives Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Senior Professional
4/3	Dr. Mel Kruer Receives Presidential Rank Award For Meritorious Senior Professionals
4/10	Dr. Alexander Efros Receives Humboldt Research Award
4/30	Updated Version of GAIM Model Goes Operational
7/15	NRL Researchers Receive 13 Top Navy Scientists and Engineers Awards
8/28	NRL Receives 2008 Federal Laboratory Consortium Awardsfor Excellence in Technology Transfer
9/11	Dr. Sergio Restaino Named SPIE Fellow
10/31	Dr. Kathryn Wahl Receives Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award
11/7	Mr. Stanley Chincheck is the Recipient of the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award
11/21	Dr. Stephen Eckermann Receives Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award
12/8	Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award Presented to Dr. Brian Houstonfor Contributions to Low Frequency Broadband Mine Classification
12/23	Dr. John McLean Receives Meritorious Presidential Rank Award for Senior Executive