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Mike Papka, director of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, works with high school students at coding camp. Students learned the Python programming language, among other problem-solving skills related to computer science. (Click image to view larger.)
 Argonne programming camp sparks students’ scientific curiosity

Argonne National Laboratory hosted a summer coding camp with 42 students from Chicago-area high schools. Four days of lessons covered an introduction to the Python programming language, emphasized problem-solving skills and showed students what it’s like to be a STEM professional.

 August 10, 2015
At “Charging up the Classroom,” students check how much power they have produced after using wind turbines and solar panels to generate electricity. All photos by Mark Lopez/Argonne National Laboratory. (Click image to view larger.)
 JCESR introduces high school students to the future of battery science

Early this summer, 80 Chicago-area high school students got a glimpse of the importance of energy storage and how battery science is improving our world both today and tomorrow.

 July 30, 2015
Alexei Abrikosov (center), a distinguished scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and a Nobel Prize recipient, recently received the Gold Medal of Vernadsky of the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine. Abrikosov’s wife, Svetlana Yuriyevna Bunkova, was on hand when Argonne Director Peter B. Littlewood (right), presented the medal during an informal ceremony at the lab. (Click photo to view larger.)
 Abrikosov receives Ukrainian Gold Medal

Alexei Abrikosov, a distinguished scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and a Nobel Prize recipient, has been recognized again for his groundbreaking work. Abrikosov has received the Gold Medal of Vernadsky of the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine.

 July 28, 2015
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and Brandeis University may have found a way around an infectious bacterium’s natural defenses. To watch an illustration of the process, click the video below.
 Sweet spot: Disabling antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and Brandeis University may have found a way around an infectious bacterium’s natural defenses.

 June 17, 2015
Chemist Mercouri Kanatzidis of Argonne National Laboratory received the Eni Award for Renewable Energy for his work with thermoelectrics. (Click photo to view larger.)
 Argonne chemist receives Eni Award for work with thermoelectrics

Chemist Mercouri Kanatzidis of Argonne National Laboratory has received the Eni Award for Renewable Energy.

 June 15, 2015
Argonne mentors stand beside students from Chicago-area schools. Argonne’s ACT-SO STEM Research and Mentoring Program provides mentors and facilities to help students prepare their research for ACT-SO’s STEM competition. Photo by Justin H.S. Breaux; click to view larger.
 Argonne mentors students for the next generation of scientists

On May 6, the accomplishments of seventeen Chicago-area high school students that had been mentored by staff at Argonne National Laboratory were honored for their performance at this year’s Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) competition, held at the College of DuPage in March.

 May 28, 2015
Argonne's Energy Sciences Building has been certified LEED Gold. (Click image to view larger.)
 Argonne Energy Sciences Building achieves LEED Gold

Argonne’s Energy Sciences Building has been awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold rating by the U.S. Green Building Council.

 May 21, 2015
Lab-Corps is a U.S. Department of Energy program aimed at improving the rate of commercialization of technologies created at national labs that are in line with the mission of DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. (Click image to view larger.)
 Two Argonne teams win pitch competition, advance to national Lab-Corps training program

On April 17, the judges chose these two technologies from a pool of six finalists to participate in the national Lab-Corps training program.

 April 24, 2015
Argonne postdoctoral fellow Shalaka Desai explains her research to Chicago-area high school girls visiting Argonne as part of Science Careers in Search of Women, an annual one-day Science conference to explore careers in science, technology, engineering and math. (Click image to view larger).
 Conference for young women aims to encourage pursuit of science careers

More than 350 of some of the Chicago region's brightest young women will converge on the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory on April 16 to explore careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

 April 13, 2015
Argonne microbial ecologist Jack Gilbert (foreground) and Sparkling Pointe winemaker Gilles Martin take samples of the microbes living on the leaves, flowers, soil and roots of grapevines as part of a study on how microbes affect plant health. (Photo courtesy Kristin West (FMC Corporation) and Jack Gilbert. Click to enlarge.)
 Researchers study grapevine microbiota

A new study of the microbes growing in and around grapevines, led by researchers from Argonne National Laboratory, surveyed microbes on the plants and their influence on the plants' health.

 March 26, 2015
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