Argonne Press Room

Recent News Releases

• Shpyrko receives APS organization's Young Investigator Award (May 6, 2008)
• Argonne's Crabtree elected to National Academy of Sciences (April 29, 2008)
• Innovative cement helps DOE safeguard nuclear facilities (April 25, 2008)
• Argonne engineer earns alumni award from Cornell University (April 23, 2008)
• Scientists discover how the structure of plutonium nanocluster contaminants increases risk of spreading (April 22, 2008)
• DOE dedicates Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (April 21, 2008)
• Argonne scientists develop techniques for creating molecular movies (April 15, 2008)
• Newly discovered 'superinsulators' promise to transform materials research, electronics design (April 4, 2008)
• Algae could one day be major hydrogen fuel source (April 1, 2008)
• Argonne tests find near-zero emissions for BMW Hydrogen 7 (March 28, 2008)

Fact Sheets

General Information

• Argonne Backgrounder — Budget, employment, major programs, history, other basic facts (PDF)
• Argonne-University of Chicago partnership advances science and technology (PDF)
• Did you know...? — Interesting facts about Argonne National Laboratory (PDF)
• Argonne technology strengthens Illinois economy (PDF)
• Argonne History
• White Deer at Argonne

User Facilities

• User Facilities — Attracting great minds to solve scientific problems (PDF)
• Advanced Photon Source — The Western Hemisphere's most brilliant X-rays for research (PDF)
• Center for Nanoscale Materials — A new center for the study of nano-sized materials (PDF)

Computing Science

• Computing Science — Developing new computing technologies for the new millenium (PDF)
• Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (PDF)
• Bioinformatics — Biologists and computer scientists join forces to lead biology revolution (PDF)
• Digital Bacteria — AgentCell software simulates cell populations as they sense, respond to their environment (PDF)

Energy and Environmental Research

• Sustainable Nuclear Energy — Disposing of nuclear waste and making future reactors safer, more economical (PDF)
• Transportation research — Argonne's transportation research focuses on DOE goals (PDF

Life Sciences and Medicine

• Bioscience — A multidisciplinary approach to understanding the fundamental mechanisms of life (PDF)
• Midwest Center for Structural Genomics — Cutting the time and cost of solving protein structures (PDF)
• Pharmaceutical research at the Advanced Photon Source (PDF)
• Rapid cooling technology could aid surgery patients, heart attack victims (PDF)
• Structural Biology Center — The world's most productive and efficient facility for solving the structure of proteins (PDF)

Executive Bios

• Robert Rosner, Laboratory Director
• Steve Richardson, Deputy Director for Operations/Chief Operating Officer
• Renee Carder, Chief of Staff
• J. Murray Gibson, Associate Laboratory Director for Scientific User Facilities
• Alfred P. Sattelberger, Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences and Engineering
• Rick Stevens, Associate Laboratory Director for Computing, Environment and Life Science

Argonne in the News

• Argonne Lab powering U.S. auto industry — In a steel warehouse on the grounds of Argonne National Laboratory, a battery in a metal case roughly the size of a filing cabinet sits wired to a computer. For the past six months, it's been put through the paces of an imaginary trip powering a fictitious electric car across the continent. Daily Southtown, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007.
  
  
• Smoking out terrorism— Argonne National Laboratory scientist Nachappa "Sami" Gopalsami explains how this passive millimeter-wave device can identify chemicals that might be used as weapons. Daily Herald, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007. Related editorial.

DOE Pulse

DOE Pulse highlights work being done at the Department of Energy's national laboratories. DOE's laboratories house world-class facilities where more than 30,000 scientists and engineers perform cutting-edge research spanning DOE's science, energy, national security and environmental quality missions. DOE Pulse is distributed twice each month. Each issue will include research highlights, updates on collaborations among laboratories and profiles of individual researchers.