LONG BEACH, California, June 29 -- California State University issued the following news on June 28, 2024: By Andrew Edwards Cal State Long Beach today welcomes Dean Mark Suazo as the new dean of the College of Business. Suazo arrives with a wealth of experience in higher education leadership and public service, plus a vision to establish The Beach as the region's premier destination for business education. "If (parents') kids are going to college for business, it's 'I want them to go to Long  more

AUSTIN, Texas, June 27 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release on June 26, 2024: Governor Greg Abbott today announced that Norman Roy Garza, Jr. has been named as the Executive Director of the Texas Space Commission. The Texas Space Commission was created to further cement Texas' position as a national leader in the space industry and secure its future in space exploration and development for the next generation of Texans. "The Texas Space Commission was created last ye  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report for week ending June 7, 2024: * * * TO: Timothy J. Dwyer, Technical Director FROM: D. Gutowski, Resident Inspector SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending June 7, 2024 Staff Activity: C. Jones, Y-12 resident inspector, was onsite to benchmark oversight approaches. Area G-Emergency Response: On Wednesday, Area G experien  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report for week ending May 31, 2024: * * * TO: Timothy J. Dwyer, Technical Director FROM: D. Gutowski, Resident Inspector SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending May 31, 2024 Plutonium Facility-Radiological Control: Last Tuesday, workers attempted to move an empty fissile material transfer cart out from between two gloveboxes i  more

WASHINGTON, June 26 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Scientists used powerful modeling software to find patterns in the continuous seismic waveforms during a series of stick-slip, magnitude-5 earthquakes * * * A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory used machine learning -- an application of artificial intelligence -- to detect the hidden signals that precede an earthquake. The findings at the Kilauea volcano in Hawa  more

MCLEAN, Virginia, June 28 -- MITRE, a company that advances national security and serve the public interest as an independent adviser, issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: MITRE announced today that Mark Peters, Ph.D., will become its 10th president and chief executive officer, effective Sept. 3, 2024. He will succeed Jason Providakes, Ph.D., who previously announced his intention to retire after 37 years with the not-for-profit research and development (R&D) company and seven ye  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, June 26 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: Key researchers from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories converged on NETL's Albany, Oregon, site to discuss hydrogen energy-related research work of eXtremeMAT-H2-- an NETL-led consortium of laboratories that accelerates the development of cost-effective alloys for use in the harsh environments of advanced energy systems. Clean hydrogen is int  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Technique addresses key issue in performance of material for microelectronics * * * Advanced materials, including two-dimensional or "atomically thin" materials just a few atoms thick, are essential for the future of microelectronics technology. Now a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a way to directly measure such materials' thermal expansion coe  more

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news: The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation has awarded $50 million in cooperative agreements to two university consortia to support the basic science that underlies its nuclear security and nonproliferation missions. The two consortia, led by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and the G  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Resident Inspector at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: * * * TO: Timothy J. Dwyer, Technical Director FROM: Frank Harshman Resident Inspector SUBJECT: Oak Ridge Activity Report for Week Ending June 7, 2024 Staff Activity: Clint Jones traveled to Los Alamos National Laboratory this week. Building 9212: CNS entered its formal event investigation process due to a maintenance pipe fitter not  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces released the following joint testimony from a May 22, 2024, hearing entitled "The Department of Energy's Atomic Energy Defense Activities and Department of Defense Nuclear Weapons Programs in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2025 and the Future Years Defense Program." The witnesses are National Nuclear Security Administrator Jill Hruby and Marvin L. Adams, deputy administrator for defens  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces released the following testimony by William 'Ike' White, senior advisor of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management, from a May 22, 2024, hearing entitled "The Department of Energy's Atomic Energy Defense Activities and Department of Defense Nuclear Weapons Programs in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2025 and the Future Years Defense Program": * * * Chairman Kin  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 25 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education issued the following news: It's not often that high school students get to spend part of their summer exploring a new part of the country, touring national laboratories, meeting research scientists, and creating memories that will last a lifetime. That was the reality for the participants of this year's Joint Science and Technology Institute (JSTI). From June 8-21, 2024, ORISE hosted   more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, June 24 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: The University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources (SER) is launching an "Energy Roadshow" public outreach series. The first meeting will take place in Rawlins Thursday, June 27. The meeting will be from noon-2 p.m. at the Rawlins Library, located at 215 W. Buffalo St. The event is free and open to the public, and lunch will be provided. The series is intended to provide a platform for community member  more