OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 9 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Rigoberto "Gobet" Advincula, a leader in advanced materials, polymers and nanomaterials with joint appointments at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has been named to the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine's Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology. Advincula is a UT-ORNL Go  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- The U.S. Army Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command issued the following news: By Kaitlyn Newsum The Tennessee Valley Chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association recognized six Soldiers, civilians and teams from the Army Materiel Command workforce during its annual awards dinner April 23 in Huntsville. The NDIA-TVC presented leadership, management and technology awards to the following AMC personnel and teams: * Col. Wheeler Manning, Leadership Exc  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Four Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers traveled to Warsaw, Poland, during the first week of April to support the opening of Poland's first Clean Energy Training Center, or CETC, a regional hub dedicated to providing workforce development and training to expand new nuclear capacity in Central Europe. The center is a joint effort between the U.S. Department of  more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the following news release on May 8, 2024: * * * OSHA creates two regions to reflect changing demographics, population, areas of need * * * The Department of Labor today announced strategic changes to the structure of its Occupational Safety and Health Administration's regional operations designed to direct its resources effectively and make the agency more resilient. The changes include  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau issued the following order (WC Docket No. 09-197) on May 7, 2024: * * * In the Matter of Telecommunications Carriers Eligible for Universal Service Support, Petition for Limited Designation as an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier in the states of Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, New Hampshire, North Carolina, New York, Tennessee, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the District of Columbia ORDER   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The last time this team used Oak Ridge National Laboratory's 3D scanning vibrometer, it was to measure a gigantic composite panel. This time, they're measuring the vibration amplitudes of a cryogenic ion trap - around 10 nanometers, peak to peak. "This is the first real test of the absolute limits of the machine," said researcher Blake Van Hoy of the Isotope Scienc  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 9 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: If you ask Howard Wilson what first led him to study fusion energy almost 40 years ago, it was the opportunity to realize an almost impossible dream for the good of society. "I think it's the audacious challenge that drew me, basically seeking to reproduce here on Earth the conditions that exist in the sun and in stars," he said. "It seems like an impossible ask, but   more

LEXINGTON, Tennessee, May 9 -- The Department of Housing and Urban Development issued the following news release on May 8, 2024: Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Office of Multifamily Housing Programs, announced it has completed a $750,000 grant transaction under the Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP) with Wesley Living of Tennessee. The transaction will be used to finance energy efficiency and climate resilient renovations of the Woodland Homes apart  more

ARNOLD AFB, Tennessee, May 8 -- The U.S. Air Force Arnold Air Force Base issued the following news: By Bradley Hicks, AEDC Public Affairs A pair of upcoming events are designed to provide those with entrepreneurial interests a plethora of information related to small businesses. These events, being collectively referred to as the 2TN Business & Workforce Innovation Summit, will take place on May 8 and May 10 at the Gossick Leadership Conference Center on Arnold Air Force Base, headquarters of  more

FRANKFORT, Kentucky, May 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky issued the following news release: Three Tennessee physicians were sentenced on Wednesday and Thursday, by U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove, following their convictions for conspiracy to illicitly prescribe controlled substances and related fraud and money laundering offenses. Evann Herrell was sentenced to 120 months in prison, Mark Grenkoski to 108 months, and Stephen Cirelli to 48 m  more

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, May 7 -- The U.S. Department of Labor issued the following news release: * * * Investigations found 24 children, some just 13 years old, doing dangerous work in Iowa, Virginia * * * The Department of Labor has entered into a consent order and judgment, approved by a federal court in Iowa on May 6, 2024, with a Tennessee cleaning contractor that requires the employer to pay $649,304 in civil money penalties, hire a third-party to review and implement company policies to prev  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 11 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Detroit District issued the following news release: By Jeremy Croft, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District On your way to the Smyrna, Tennessee National Guard Base, you'll pass the Capt. Jeff Kuss USMC Memorial. The instantly recognizable monument is an actual Blue Angels F/A-18C Hornet in full regalia, tail number six --- the same number Kuss was flying on June 2, 2016, when a tragic in-flight accident cost him his lif  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Engineering. Security. Education. Leadership. Culture. Martial Arts. Martial Arts? Absolutely. For Mohamad Zineddin, these six interests have coalesced into vital areas of engaged expertise. When he joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory in August 2023, Dr. Z - as he is known to his students, friends, and colleagues - brought more than 35 years in government, private  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Plans to unite the capabilities of two cutting-edge technological facilities funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Science promise to usher in a new era of dynamic structural biology. Through DOE's Integrated Research Infrastructure, or IRI, initiative, the facilities will complement each other's technologies in the pursuit of science despite being nearly 2,50  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the following news release on May 8, 2024: The Department of Labor today announced strategic changes to the structure of its Occupational Safety and Health Administration's regional operations designed to direct its resources effectively and make the agency more resilient. The changes include the creation of a new OSHA regional office in Birmingham, Alabama, overseeing agency operations in   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using a machine-learning model to answer 'what if' questions stemming from major events that impact large numbers of people. By simulating an event, such as extreme weather, researchers can see how people might respond to adverse situations, and those outcomes can be used to improve emergency p  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 10 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Detroit District issued the following news release on May 9, 2024: After heavy rains blanketed middle Tennessee Wednesday night and into Thursday morning, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District has continued to monitor water levels at our Cumberland River Basin facilities. Several peak stages are expected this evening, with others to follow on Friday. USACE locks and dams throughout the basin are performing as designe  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: For the past several months, the most visible component of the Proton Power Upgrade, or PPU, project for the Spallation Neutron Source, or SNS, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory was the construction of about 3,000 square feet of a curved concrete tunnel extension. The new section of tunnel will provide the turning and connecting point for the accelerator beamline betw  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: In industries such as healthcare, where data generation grows by 47% each year, information collected within electronic health records could help inform more efficient care operations or more accurate diagnoses. However, personal health data is highly protected and largely goes untouched by analysts and researchers. To balance personal safety and research innovation,  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: As the Department of Energy continues to prioritize a diversified energy portfolio, ORNL researchers are lending their expertise to create new pathways for a net-zero future. Femi Omitaomu and Melissa Allen-Dumas of the laboratory's Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate, as well as Randy Belles of the Fusion and Fission Energy Sciences Directorate, contribu  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Robots revolutionized the manufacturing industry by automating assembly lines. Now, more and more, they are being used to expedite the pace of scientific discovery. Neutron scattering instruments are like giant high-powered microscopes that use beams of neutrons to study materials at the atomic scale. The BIO-SANS instrument, located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: Nearly 1,000 people from across the United States attended Safety Fest TN last week to take advantage of free safety and health training. The four-day event offered more than 130 courses, seminars and demonstrations on a wide range of topics. "We have everything from CPR and automated external defibrillator training to high-end electrical  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: A collection of seven technologies for lithium recovery developed by scientists from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been licensed to Element3, a Texas-based company focused on extracting lithium from wastewater produced by oil and gas production. The technologies were developed through the Critical Materials Innovation Hub, a DOE Energy   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Local decision-makers looking for ways to reduce the impact of heat waves on their communities have a valuable new capability at their disposal: a new study on vegetation resilience. Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory completed a study of how well vegetation survived extreme heat events in both urban and rural communities across th  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Computational scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have published a study in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation that questions a long-accepted factor in simulating the molecular dynamics of water: the 2 femtosecond (one quadrillionth of a second) time step. The femtosecond is a timescale used by scientists to measure the ul  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, May 8 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee issued the following news release: A federal grand jury in Memphis, Tennessee, returned an eight-count indictment today charging former Memphis Police Officer Patric J. Ferguson with federal civil rights, kidnapping and weapons offenses in connection with the fatal shooting of a victim identified as R.H. The indictment also charges Ferguson and a civilian, Joshua M. Rogers, with federal offenses f  more

ABINGDON, Virginia, May 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia issued the following news release: A Bristol, Tennessee man who conspired with others, including a man incarcerated in Georgia, to distribute multiple kilograms of methamphetamine was sentenced last week to 180 months in federal prison. Michael Paul Brown, 39, pled guilty in November 2023 to one count of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute and distribute more than 500 grams of meth  more