OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release: DOE's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor UCOR have begun demolishing Building K-1600 at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP), marking the final teardown to end a decades-long effort to remove a shuttered uranium enrichment complex. ETTP, formerly known as the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant, once contained five m  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- The U.S. Department of Education issued the following news release on July 29: U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced more than $180 million in new grant funding will be awarded to 11 states rethinking education to better serve students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Rethink K-12 Education Models Grant will support states' efforts to create new, innovative ways for students to continue learning in ways that meet their needs. Awardees include Georgia, Iowa, L  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release: In recognition of the upcoming centennial of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, the Trump Administration announced the designation of the Hermitage Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, as a National Historic Landmark. The 19th Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote, and the Hermitage Hotel was a critical centerpiece for the women's suffrage movement as the hotel was used as a headqua  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 1 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has licensed two additive manufacturing-related technologies that aim to streamline and ramp up production processes to Knoxville-based Magnum Venus Products, Inc., a global manufacturer of fluid movement and product solutions for industrial applications in composites and adhesives. The first co-developed techn  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following joint news release: In recognition of the upcoming centennial of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, the Trump Administration announced the designation of the Hermitage Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, as a National Historic Landmark. The 19th Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote, and the Hermitage Hotel was a critical centerpiece for the women's suffrage movement as t  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: After its long journey to Mars beginning this summer, NASA's Perseverance rover will be powered across the planet's surface in part by plutonium produced at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. "Mars 2020 will be the first NASA mission that uses ORNL-produced plutonium-238," said Alan Icenhour, associate laboratory director for nuclear science a  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Analyses of lung fluid cells from COVID-19 patients conducted on the nation's fastest supercomputer point to gene expression patterns that may explain the runaway symptoms produced by the body's response to SARS-CoV-2. A team led by Dan Jacobson of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used the Summit supercomputer at ORNL to analyze genes from ce  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release on July 29: Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed an intelligent power electronic inverter platform that can connect locally sited energy resources such as solar panels, energy storage and electric vehicles and smoothly interact with the utility power grid. Inverters convert electricity from the direct current generated by power sources to the alte  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 1 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Scientists seeking ways to improve a battery's ability to hold a charge longer, using advanced materials that are safe, stable and efficient, have determined that the materials themselves are only part of the solution. In fact, studies at the interface of battery materials, along with increased knowledge of the processes at work, are unleashing a surge of knowledge n  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 28 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated a direct relationship between climate warming and carbon loss in a peatland ecosystem. Their study published in AGU Advances provides a glimpse of potential futures where significant stores of carbon in peat bogs could be released into the atmosphere as greenhouse gases. Peatlan  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: From materials science and earth system modeling to quantum information science and cybersecurity, experts in many fields run simulations and conduct experiments to collect the abundance of data necessary for scientific progress. But gleaning useful insights from those data can be a challenge, especially when multiple complex variables influence research results. To  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education issued the following news release: The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education will host a virtual career fair on Wednesday, July 29, 2020, from noon to 3 p.m. ET, to highlight the paid internships, fellowships and research associate programs available to college students and recent graduates at U.S. Department of Defense facilities across the country. During this virtual career  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture issued the following statement by Interim Director Spencer Crew on the death of Herman Cain, American businessman and ex-Republican Presidential candidate and political commentator: It is with great sadness that we at the National Museum of African American History and Culture mourn the passing of Herman Cain. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, but raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Herman Cain was raised in a mo  more