ARNOLD AFB, Tennessee, Jan. 16 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following news: The Air Force and Northrop Grumman conducted a static fire test today for the Stage-2 solid rocket motor of the LGM-35A Sentinel weapon system at the Arnold Engineering and Development Complex, Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee. This closed chamber test is the second in a series of static fire tests during Sentinel's development to validate the design and performance of Sentinel's three-  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 16 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education issued the following news release on Jan. 15, 2024: The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) is inviting all current and former ORISE interns, fellows and mentors to join its online platform, ORISE Connections (https://oriseconnections.org/), for networking, expanding knowledge and sharing STEM experiences by visiting: oriseconnections.org. ORISE Connections,  more

ARNOLD AFB, Tennessee, Jan. 17 -- The U.S. Air Force Arnold Air Force Base issued the following news: The Air Force and Northrop Grumman conducted a static fire test today for the Stage-2 solid rocket motor of the LGM-35A Sentinel weapon system at the Arnold Engineering and Development Complex, Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee. This closed chamber test is the second in a series of static fire tests during Sentinel's development to validate the design and performance of Sentinel's three-stage p  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Jan. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $47,728 in back wages and liquidated damages for two former employees of two separate Tennessee-based healthcare providers that violated their rights to protected leave under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act. Investigators with the department's Wage and Hour Division found Nashville's Wellpath LLC illegally fired a medical of  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following statement on Jan. 18, 2024, by Commissioner Allison Clements on a decision (Docket No. CP22-493-000) involving Tennessee Gas Pipeline: * * * I concur with the result of today's Order, but I dissent from Paragraph 55, which addresses the Commission's ability to assess the significance of the impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.[1] This is the same language I have criticized man  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: ORNL's Tomas Rush examines a culture as part of his research into the plant-fungus relationship that can help or hinder ecosystem health. Credit: Genevieve Martin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy A new computational framework created by Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers is accelerating their understanding of who's in, who's out, who's hot and who's not in the soil  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Jan. 17, 2024: The Justice Department announced today that Patriot Bank (Patriot) has agreed to pay $1.9 million to resolve allegations that the bank engaged in a pattern or practice of lending discrimination by redlining majority-Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Memphis, Tennessee. Redlining is an illegal practice in which lenders avoid providing credit services to individuals living in, or seeking to  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 18 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release: The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor Isotek are moving forward on the highest priority cleanup project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL): eliminating the remaining inventory of uranium-233 stored onsite. Isotek recently began the second phase of its current processing campaign. This portion of the urani  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release on Jan. 18, 2024: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today the selection of Laura Wilkerson as chief engineer for the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and the reassignment of Erik Olds from communications director for the DOE Office of Environmental Management (EM) to OREM deputy manager. As a recognized leader and techni  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Susan Hubbard, left, deputy for science and technology at ORNL, and Vanessa Chan, director of the Office of Technology Transitions and chief commercialization officer for DOE, discuss the role of the national laboratory system in moving leading-edge technology to industry during a chat at CES 2024 in Las Vegas. Credit: Karen Dunlap/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Technol  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Gina Tourassi, associate laboratory director for computing and computational sciences at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE, the world's largest organization for technical professionals. Fewer than 0.1% of voting IEEE members are selected to be elevated t  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: From July 15 to 26, 2024, the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will host the second U.S. Quantum Information Science, or QIS, Summer School. Organized by the Quantum Science Center, or QSC, headquartered at ORNL and the Quantum Systems Accelerator, or QSA, led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, this joint event is the culmination of combin  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Solving today's most complex scientific challenges often means tracing links between hundreds, thousands or even millions of variables. The larger the scientific dataset, the more complex these connections become. With experiments generating petabytes and even exabytes of data over time, tracking the connections in processes such as drug discovery, materials develop  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Jan. 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee posted the following news release on Jan. 17, 2024: The Justice Department announced today that Patriot Bank (Patriot) has agreed to pay $1.9 million to resolve allegations that the bank engaged in a pattern or practice of lending discrimination by redlining majority-Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Memphis, Tennessee. Redlining is an illegal practice in which lenders avoid providing credit s  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 16 -- 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 hosted its Quantum on the Quad event to promote its Quantum Roadmap, a document that outlines how best to align the lab's world-class quantum facilities and expertise to accomplish DOE's mission. The roadmap represents a strategy to leverage the lab's 20-plus years of quantum R&D, more than 30 full-time quantu  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program, or OSELP, has selected Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Yarom Polsky and Jim Serafin as fellows for its 2024 cohort. Polsky is division director of the Manufacturing Science Division, and Serafin is the interim division director of the Facilities Management Division. "The Oppenheimer program is a unique opportun  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (TNSrep) -- The Veterans Affairs Inspector General issued the following oversight report (No. 23-00777-52) on Jan. 10, 2024, entitled "Care Deficiencies and Leaders' Inadequate Reviews of a Patient Who Died at the Lt. Col. Luke Weathers, Jr. VA Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee." Here are excerpts: * * * Executive Summary The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted a healthcare inspection to assess the quality of care provided during a patient's hospitalization,  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Jan. 16 -- 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 named Robert Wagner associate laboratory director for the Energy Science and Technology Directorate, effective Feb. 1. "A large part of our applied research portfolio is stewarded by our Energy Science and Technology Directorate, which is developing solutions for the grid, buildings, transportation and man  more