Latest News Releases

  • 01/28/2013

    Pleasant Valley High School of Bettendorf defeated Dubuque Wahlert High School (Dubuque, IA) 74-44 to capture the 2013 Ames Laboratory/Iowa State University Regional High School Science Bowl on Jan. 26. Pleasant Valley, which lost only one match all day in the morning qualifying round, advances to the Department of Energy’s National Science Bowl, April 25-29 in Washington, D.C.




     
  • 01/17/2013

    Some of the brightest high school students from across Iowa will travel to Ames on Jan. 26 to compete in the 23rd annual Ames Laboratory/Iowa State University Regional High School Science Bowl. Forty teams of students will compete to answer questions about biology, chemistry, earth and space science, energy, mathematics, and physics in the day-long, quiz-bowl format competition.




     
  • 01/09/2013

    The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that a team led by The Ames Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, has been selected for an award of up to $120 million over five years to establish an Energy Innovation Hub that will develop solutions to the domestic shortages of rare earth metals and other materials critical for U.S. energy security.  The new research center --  the Critical Materials Institute (CMI) -- will bring together leading researchers from academia, four Department of Energy national laboratories, as well as the private sector.




     
  • 01/07/2013

    Scientific research at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory continues to garner high marks.   The just released FY2012 DOE Laboratory Performance Report Card awards Ames Lab an A- for Mission Accomplishments (Science and Technology), a key performance measurement area.  This high grade reflects a continuance of the same high standard of excellence achieved in this area in 2011.




     
  • 12/05/2012

    Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames Laboratory have been awarded 45 million processor-hours of computer time on Titan, recently named the world’s premier open science supercomputer. They will use the enormous computational capability of Titan to identify promising compositions of new magnetic materials that do not contain rare earth elements, which are increasingly in short supply. Stronger non-rare earth permanent magnets are critical to replace the current rare earth magnets for energy efficient electric drive motors (used in hybrid and electric vehicles) and more powerful electrical generators (used in wind turbines).

     




     
  • 11/29/2012

    Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames Laboratory have discovered new ways of using a well-known polymer in organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), which could eliminate the need for an increasingly problematic and breakable metal-oxide used in screen displays in computers, televisions, and cell phones.




     
  • 11/27/2012

    Tom Barton of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory has been elected president-elect of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. He will be president-elect in 2013, president in 2014 and immediate past-president in 2015. Among his leadership priorities is improving elementary and secondary science education in America.




     
  • 10/24/2012

    Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory are working to more effectively remove the neodymium, a rare earth, from the mix of other materials in a magnet. Initial results show recycled materials maintain the properties that make rare-earth magnets useful.




     
  • 10/10/2012

    Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames Laboratory are learning more about how nano-scale catalytic systems work, and their research could be the key to improved processes for refining biofuels and producing other chemicals.




     
  • 10/05/2012

    Thomas Lograsso has been named Interim Deputy Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory.  The appointment is for one year. Lograsso replaces Bruce Harmon, who stepped down from the position of Ames Laboratory Deputy Director on September 1 to return to research and teaching at Ames Lab and Iowa State University.