Argonne Press Room

Recent News Releases and Feature Stories

• Argonne, partners to receive $7 million in Recovery Act funds for solar energy projects (Nov. 5, 2009)
• Bacteria mix it up at the microscopic level (Nov. 2, 2009)
• Mark Peters named Argonne's new deputy lab director for programs (Nov. 2, 2009)
• New Theory & Computing Science building to foster collaboration (Nov. 2, 2009)
• Argonne scientists awarded Bonner Prize in nuclear physics (Oct. 29, 2009)
• Particle passion: Argonne physicist honored with HENAAC award (Sept. 28, 2009)
• Argonne dedicates new microscopy facility at Center for Nanoscale Materials (Oct. 22, 2009)
• Argonne scientists find new set of multiferroic materials (Oct. 20, 2009)
• DOE to explore scientific cloud computing at Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley labs (Oct. 14, 2009)
• Argonne partners with Kentucky to promote clean energy (Oct. 14, 2009)
• Argonne's Advanced Photon Source lit the way to chemistry Nobel (Oct. 7, 2009)

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General Information

• Argonne Backgrounder — Budget, employment, major programs, history, other basic facts (PDF)
• Argonne National Laboratory — An economic magnet for Illinois and the United States (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

• Eric Isaacs, Laboratory Director
• Mark Peters, Deputy Director for Programs
• Steve Richardson, Deputy Director for Operations/Chief Operating Officer
• 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

DOE Pulse

DOE Pulse highlights work being done at the Departmentof 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.