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Scientists and engineers are searching for the best ways to store energy in batteries. The conference, held May 3-4, will showcase some of that research.
Argonne to host next-generation battery symposium May 3-4

Argonne National Laboratory will host on May 3-4 the symposium Research Opportunities in Electrochemical Energy Storage Beyond Lithium Ion: Computational Perspectives to discuss advanced battery technologies for transportation, electronics and renewable energy applications.

 April 19, 2010
At Argonne's Science Careers in Search of Women event last year, women researchers spoke to local students on their careers.
 Argonne to look back, ahead as it marks Earth Day, hosts aspiring female scientists

On April 22, 2010, Argonne National Laboratory will simultaneously mark the 40th anniversary of Earth Day while demonstrating to 350 young women from Chicago-area high schools why a career in science might be right for them.

 April 16, 2010
Michael Kaminski has been honored as a member of HE&IT's 2010 "40 under 40 in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics."
 Kaminski honored by Hispanic engineering magazine

The editors of Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine have selected materials engineer Michael Kaminski, of Argonne National Laboratory, for the prestigious "40 under 40 in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics" for 2010.

 April 14, 2010
Argonne scientists (from left) Stefan Vajda, Larry Curtiss and Jeff Greeley have developed a new way of creating propylene that eliminates the many environmentally unfriendly by-products.
 Scientists develop green method to produce propylene oxide

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory have identified a new class of silver-based catalysts for the production of the industrially useful chemical propylene oxide that is both environmentally friendly and less expensive.

 April 8, 2010
Charlie Catlett spoke on privacy at the TEDxNaperville event last month.
Talk of the town: Two Argonne scientists speak at TEDxNaperville

The TEDxNaperville conference, which was held last month at North Central College, hosted over 200 attendees and featured two researchers from Argonne National Laboratory among its eight speakers.

 April 1, 2010
J. Murray Gibson stands in front of Argonne's synchrotron, the Advanced Photon Source.
 Argonne's J. Murray Gibson to lead AAAS Physics Section

Argonne National Laboratory ‘s Associate Laboratory Director J. Murray Gibson has been elected chair of the Physics Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

 March 26, 2010
Maine South High School student Peter Kumon demonstrates the team's winning machine, which used hydraulics, Alka-Seltzer, ball bearings and a toy train to deliver a squirt of hand sanitizer into a waiting hand.
 Maine South High School wins 15th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest

A team from Maine South won Argonne National Laboratory’s 15th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, held Friday at the Chicago Children’s Museum on Navy Pier.

 March 15, 2010
Last year's winning team, from Wilmington High School in Wilmington, Ill., designed a machine to replace an incandescent light bulb with a more efficient fluorescent bulb.
 Students fight germs at the 15th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest

It may get a little messy at the 15th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on Friday, March 12, but at least it will be sanitary. Students are tasked with building complex machines that dispense an appropriate amount of hand sanitizer in 20 or more steps.

 March 10, 2010
Optimization server reaches two million milestone

NEOS, the Network-Enabled Optimization System developed by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory in conjunction with Northwestern University, has reached a new milestone: two million submissions to its optimization software.

 February 22, 2010
Dennis Mills, recently elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, has made education a priority as well as scientific progress, founding the National Neutron and X-ray School for graduate students.
 Argonne scientist named American Physical Society Fellow

Dennis Mills of Argonne National Laboratory has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society. The honor recognizes his development of synchrotron X-ray optics and related techniques, the build-out of beamlines at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne and the development of X-ray monochromators, phase plates, and timing techniques.

 February 10, 2010
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