2010 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

1/5	Fermi Large Area Telescope Points the Way to New Millisecond Pulsars
1/19	Sea Node Completes Trident Warrior 2009 Exercise with Positive Military Utility Assessment
2/12	NRL Develops Technique To Speed Detection Process
2/24	A New Way Forward for Nanocomposite Nanostructures
3/8	NRL-SSC Scientists Support Haiti Relief Operations
3/22	Naval Research Laboratory Takes a Close Look at Unique Diamonds
3/30	NRL Voted as a Top Place to Work for Postdocs
3/31	Father of GPS and Pioneer of Satellite Telemetry and Timing Inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
4/6	NRL Scientists Use Atomic Physics Codes to Study Coronal Mass Ejections
4/8	NRL breaks ground for Autonomous Systems Research Laboratory
4/19	NRL Researchers Study Galaxy Mergers
5/10	NRL-SSC Scientists Investigate Acoustics in Gulf of Mexico
5/12	NRL Contributes to Book on Infrasound
5/17	NRL-SSC Microbiologist Returns from Haiti
5/19	NRL's TEPCE Spacecraft Undergoes Successful Deployment Test
6/1	HICO™-RAIDS Team Honored with Rotary National Award for Space Achievement
6/11	Scientists Strive to Replace Silicon with Graphene on Nanocircuity
6/14	Flotilla of NRL Space Sensors Study Upper Atmosphere
6/17	Aerogeophysical Survey Provides Promising Prospects of Economic Development in Afghanistan
6/21	Naval Research Laboratory/George Mason University Team Observes Record-Low Densities in Upper Atmosphere
6/23	NRL Scientists Explore the Mystery of Active Region Outflows
6/26	NRL Scientist Commemorated in Launch of Namesake USNS Howard O. Lorenzen
7/1	NRL Scientists Develop New Laser-Machining Techniques for Radiation Detectors
7/7	STEREO Reveals Solar Storm May be Related to Failure Aboard Communications Satellite
7/8	Naval Research Laboratory voted a "Best Diversity Company 2010"
7/15	NRL's Microwave Imager/Sounder Passes Major Program Milestone
8/10	NRL Researchers Receive seven Top Scientists and Engineers Awards
8/19	NRL holds inaugural Celebration of NRL Service ceremony
8/23	Fermi Detects Gamma-rays from Exploding Nova
8/25	Prediction of Intrinsic Magnetism at Silicon Surfaces Could Lead to Single-Spin Magnetoelectronics
8/27	NRL Scientist Seeing Clearly the Effects of Pyrocumulonimbus
8/31	NRL Ready to Deploy Virtual Mission Operations Center
9/22	Schultz Named as First Director of Autonomous Systems Research Laboratory
9/27	NRL's Wide-field Imager Selected for Solar Probe Plus Mission
10/14	NRL Scientists Unravel Complex Quantum Dot-Dopamine Interactions
11/5	NRL History - November 1930
11/15	LASCO Coronagraphs Obtain the First Complete Solar Cycle Set of CME Observations
11/17	Navigating Underwater Using Spiral Sound
11/22	Scientists Imitate Nature to Engineer Nanofilms
12/9	NRL Partners with Maryland Chesapeake Bay Oyster Restoration Efforts
12/16	NRL-SSC Scientists Author Premier Book on Tile-Based GIS
12/17	NRL Launches Nano-Satellite Experimental Platforms
12/21	NRL Team Provides Mission Support in Iraq
12/28	NRL and NASA Team to Offer Unique Teacher Resource

Featured Stories

1/6	Dr. Kevin Jensen Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
2/16	Dr. Kazhikathra Kailasanath Receives the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award
2/16	Barron, Rowley Awarded Meritorious Civilian Service Medal
2/22	Dr. James Butler Receives 2009 Hillebrand Prize
2/23	Dr. John N. Russell Jr. Recognized for Distinguished Service to AVS
3/1	Dr. Tom Mehlhorn Named Superintendent of NRL's Plasma Physics Division
3/2	Dr. Irwin Singer Elected Fellow of the American Vacuum Society
3/9	From Take-off to Landing, NRL First in U.S. History to Remotely Fly Pilotless Aircraft
3/10	Dr. Donald Gubser Honored with 2010 TMS Leadership Award
3/11	Dr. Kathryn Wahl is elected Fellow of STLE
3/31	CDR John Coffey elected ICCAGRA Chairman
4/5	Dr. Bhakta Rath honored by Ravenshaw University
4/12	Dr. Earl Williams Receives ASME Award
5/11	Dr. Marshall Orr Receives Meritorious Civilian Service Award
5/27	NRL's James Butler Receives Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award
6/9	Pete Wilhelm, 2010 Service to America-Career Achievement Medal Finalist
6/15	Dr. Rhonda Stroud Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
6/24	Navy To Christen USNS Howard O. Lorenzen
6/28	John Young Receives DoD Team Excellence Award
7/19	NRL Scientist Selected as CEDAR Prize Lecturer
8/3	Dr. Tim Andreadis Named DEPS Fellow
8/18	Dr. John Russell Elected Fellow of the ACS
9/13	Dr. Ruth Preller Receives Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Executive
9/13	Dr. Jack Davis Receives Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Senior Professional
9/27	Doan Receives Award for Joint Service Achievement Medal
11/8	STPSat-1 Team Honored by AIAA
11/29	NRL's Peter Wilhelm Receives DoD Distinguished Civilian Service Award
12/6	Dr. Donald Gubser Selected IEEE Fellow
12/13	Dr. James Doyle Named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
12/13	Dr. Richard Hodur Named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society