Thursday - November 21, 2024
News Tipoffs - New Jersey Editors Newsletter for Saturday November 09, 2024 ( 3 items )  

DOE Idaho National Laboratory: Breaking Barriers - How a Fresh Perspective Helped Solve Challenges in Nuclear Safeguards
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Nov. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news release: By Sarah Lusk Luis Ocampo Giraldo moved from Armenia, Colombia, to Morristown, New Jersey, when he was in eighth grade. While most teenagers struggle to navigate the many changes that come with adolescence, Ocampo Giraldo was also navigating the intricacies of a new country: learning a new language, adjusting to a new culture and, to keep things interesting, skipping a piv  more

Physicist William Tang Wins Prestigious Award for Pioneering Work Applying Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning to Fusion Energy Research
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: William Tang, a principal research physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy (https://www.energy.gov/)'s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) for five decades and a lecturer with the rank of professor in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University, has won the 2024 Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award (https://www.computer.org/volunteering/awards/fernb  more

Verizon Maryland to Pay $115,000 in EEOC Disability Discrimination Suit
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: BALTIMORE Verizon Maryland, LLC, will pay $115,000 and furnish significant remedial relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. According to the EEOC's lawsuit, a management employee who suffered from hypertension asked his manager for a change to a field position or to an alternate ma  more