ARNOLD AFB, Tennessee, April 13 -- The U.S. Air Force Arnold Air Force Base issued the following news on April 12, 2024: By Kali Bradford, AEDC Public Affairs Arnold Air Force Base Cultural Resources leaders welcomed a Tribal Historic Preservation representative of a federally recognized tribe, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, to the base on March 6. The purpose of the visit was to provide a face-to-face, government-to-government consultation with the tribe while reviewing and discussing the  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: At the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, scientists studying plant characteristics have access to sophisticated robotic imaging tools and sensors at the Advanced Plant Phenotyping Laboratory, or APPL. This greenhouse-like lab offers one of the most diverse suites of imaging capabilities for plant phenotyping worldwide, letting scientists quickly   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: A first-ever dataset bridging molecular information about the poplar tree microbiome to ecosystem-level processes has been released by a team of Department of Energy scientists led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The project aims to inform research regarding how natural systems function, their vulnerability to a changing climate, and ultimately how plants might be   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) scientists have spent the past 20 years studying quantum photonic entanglement, which uses quantum mechanics to pair particles of light, or photons, then employs those particles to encode and deliver information across long distances. Their partnership with colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and private industry   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education issued the following news release on April 10, 2024: The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education has been recognized for the fourth consecutive year as a silver-level recipient of the U.S. Department of Energy's GreenBuy award for fiscal year 2023. The GreenBuy Award Program recognizes DOE sites for achieving stringent sustainable acquisition goals that go above and beyond the g  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: In 2023, liaisons from the Science Engagement section in the National Center for Computational Sciences at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory were recognized as part of the two teams who would go on to win the Association for Computing Machinery's Gordon Bell Prize and the Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling at the International Conference f  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The Neutron Scattering Society of America, or NSSA, recognized Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Ke An and Ken Herwig as fellows for their outstanding contributions to neutron scattering. The NSSA recognized An for sustained contributions in the development and application of neutron diffraction to the understanding of structure and properties of engineering materia  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 9 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Cybersecurity experts typically inform users how to stay safe online, such as protecting personal information and keeping passwords secret. But in the age of easy access to generative AI software, Suhas Sreehari, an applied mathematician at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, identifies misconceptions regarding generative AI that could lead to u  more

CELINA, Tennessee, April 9 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Detroit District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Nashville District is seeking public feedback related to a private concessionaire's request to lease and develop the Plankyard day use, access boat launch and primitive camping area near Byrdstown, Tennessee on Dale Hollow Lake. The request from Sunset Marina and Resort proposes an expansion of their existing marina facilities to encompass  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: David Sholl has been named the executive director of the University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute, or UT-ORII, and vice provost of University of Tennessee, Knoxville, after serving as the institute's interim leader since June 2023. Sholl's selection comes after an extensive national search and selection process that involved leadership across the UT Sy  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Three ORNL intellectual property projects with industry partners have advanced in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Technology Transitions, or OTT, Making Advanced Technology Commercialization Harmonized, or Lab MATCH, prize, which encourages entrepreneurs to find actionable pathways that bring lab-developed intellectual property, or IP, to market. For their  more