2007 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

1/3	NRL Scientists Analyze Comet Wild 2 Samples
1/23	GAIM Model Goes Operational
3/1	STEREO Panorama Previews Improved Solar Storm Tracking
3/9	NRL SHIMMER and CITRIS Experiments Launched on STPSat-1 to Study Earth's Atmosphere
3/29	Prototype for Long Wavelength Array Sees First Light
3/29	NRL Scientists Derive First Bottom-Up Determination of Air-Sea Momentum Transfer Under a Major Hurricane
4/23	NASA Spacecraft Make First 3-D Images of Sun
4/26	NRL Providing Data Analysis and Modeling for NASA AIM Mission
7/9	Significant new method developed for characterizing density wave features and Calculating Morphological Transformation Rates in Galaxies
8/12	NRL Scientists Demonstrate Efficient Electrical Spin Injection into Silicon
8/27	NRL Developing Space "Tow Truck" Technology For Satellite Operations
10/1	NRL Instrument on NASA Satellite Sees Solar Hurricane Detach Comet Tail
11/26	NRL researchers develop optical technique for controlling electron spins in quantum dot ensembles
12/10	NRL Scientists Demonstrate Generation, Modulation and Electrical Detection of Pure Spin Currents in Silicon
12/14	SECCHI Team Obtains Images of the Solar Wind at Earth
12/19	NASA's GLAST Satellite gets unwrapped for the holidays

Featured Stories

1/23	Dr. Joel Schnur Receives Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Senior Executive
2/5	NRL's Jim Templeman Selected for Outstanding Navy Employee with Disabilities Award
2/19	Dr. John Seely Elected APS Fellow
3/12	Dr. Jeffrey Wieselthier Named IEEE Fellow
3/12	Dr. Victor Chen Elected IEEE Fellow
4/10	Dr. Kafafi Named OSA Fellow
4/10	Dr. Brian Justus Elected OSA Fellow
4/23	ONR Recognizes Dr. Frederick W. Williams with Dr. Arthur E. Bisson Prize for Naval Technology
5/7	Mr. James Waterman Receives Levinstein Award
5/21	Dr. Elaine Oran Receives Honorary Doctorate from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon
6/4	Royal Astronomical Society Confers Honorary Fellowship on NRL Space Scientist
6/18	SPIE Honors Dr. G. Charmaine Gilbreath as a Fellow
7/2	NRL's Dr. Baruch Levush Receives 2007 IVEC Award for Excellence in Vacuum Electronics
7/30	Dr. Michael Hadjimichael Receives SAE International's Arch T. Colwell Merit Award
9/28	Dr. Thomas E. Rosmond Recognized with Fred E. Saalfeld Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Science
10/15	Dr. Ronald Sheinson Recognized with EPA's Best-of-the-Best Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award
10/29	AVS Presents Albert Nerken Award to NRL's Dr. Richard Colton
11/13	NRL Information Assurance Researchers Recognized With Department of the Navy Information Technology Award
12/21	DTRA Presents Chemical and Biological Defense Award to Anne Kusterbeck