Feature Stories
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Argonne scientist Ali Erdemir named ASME fellow Argonne Distinguished Fellow Ali Erdemir of Argonne National Laboratory has been named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. |
July 20, 2010 |
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DOE awards Argonne projects 200 million hours of supercomputer time Five researchers at Argonne National Laboratory will lead projects that have been awarded almost 200 million processor-hours of computing time at Argonne’s Leadership Computing Facility. |
July 28, 2010 | |
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Argonne makes great strides in reducing legacy nuclear waste Argonne National Laboratory took a significant step in reducing its legacy waste earlier this week by ridding itself of a 22,000-pound device once associated with a historic reactor. |
August 10, 2010 |
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Different energy mixes will fuel plug-in hybrid cars Led by engineers Michael Wang and Amgad Elgowainy, the Argonne team expanded and used the laboratory’s Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions and Energy Use in Transportation model to assess which types of power plants are likely to satisfy the additional electrical demand that PHEVs will represent in different regions of the United States. |
August 17, 2010 |
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Exploring the role of gut bacteria in digestion Scientists know the bacteria inside our gut can influence our maturation, immune system development, metabolism and production of essential biocompounds. |
August 19, 2010 |
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Two Hispanic researchers from Argonne receive national acclaim Jorge Alvarado was honored by the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation, and Monica Regalbuto was named one of the 2010 Powerful Hispanics in Energy by the editors of Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology. |
August 25, 2010 |
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Supercomputing brings the climate picture into focus Recent advances in supercomputing have brightened the future of climate modeling, but they also bring to light complicated questions about the fundamental workings of our planet and our atmosphere. |
August 31, 2010 |
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LCLS comes online, with some help from Argonne The recently opened Linac Coherent Light Source at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory provides scientists around the world with a brilliant new tool to understand fundamental properties of atoms and materials at previously unreachable dimensions. Its birth, however, could not have occurred without the expertise of Argonne scientists. |
September 3, 2010 |
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Argonne cleans contaminated Kansas site by feeding bacteria When cleaning the bathroom, we usually consider bacteria the enemy. However, a new study conducted by environmental scientists at Argonne National Laboratory has demonstrated a way to enlist bacteria in the fight to cleanse some of the country’s most intractably polluted locations. |
October 8, 2010 |
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Argonne Distinguished Fellow receives Buckley Prize for physics research Juan Carlos Campuzano, an Argonne National Laboratory Distinguished Fellow, together with P. Johnson of Brookhaven National Laboratory and Z.X. Shen of Stanford University, was awarded the prestigious Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize by the American Physical Society for 2011. |
October 13, 2010 |