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Argonne to construct $95 million energy research facility The U.S. Department of Energy is providing $8 million to Argonne National Laboratory for detailed design work for a new, world-class energy research facility. This is the first step in beginning work on what is expected to be a $95 million construction project. |
November 17, 2009 | |
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First ARRA-funded transuranic waste shipment leaves Argonne for disposal facility in New Mexico Argonne National Laboratory has been removing transuranic waste from its site for three years, but the Oct. 15 shipment of radioactive material to a disposal facility near Carlsbad, New Mexico marked the first time the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act picked up the tab. |
November 16, 2009 |
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Argonne, partners to receive $7 million in Recovery Act funds for solar energy projects The U.S. Department of Energy awarded Argonne National Laboratory nearly $2.7 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding for three solar-energy related research projects. |
November 5, 2009 |
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Mark Peters named Argonne's new deputy lab director for programs Mark Peters was recently appointed deputy director for programs for Argonne National Laboratory. Peters assumed his duties as one of the top administrators at the laboratory Sunday. |
November 2, 2009 |
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Argonne scientists awarded Bonner Prize in nuclear physics Steven Pieper and Robert Wiringa, senior scientists at Argonne National Laboratory, have won the 2010 Tom W. Bonner Prize in nuclear physics. The award will be presented by the American Physical Society in Washington, D.C., in February 2010. |
October 29, 2009 |
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Argonne dedicates new microscopy facility at Center for Nanoscale Materials The Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory dedicated its new scanning probing microscopy building recently during its annual users conference. The new building will house a new scanning probe microscope that measures spin-polarized electrons on surfaces. |
October 22, 2009 |
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Argonne scientists find new set of multiferroic materials The trail to a new multiferroic started with the theories of an Argonne National Laboratory scientist and ended with a multidisciplinary collaboration that created a material with potential impact on next generation electronics. |
October 20, 2009 |
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Argonne partners with Kentucky to promote clean energy Argonne National Laboratory will play a key role in the commonwealth of Kentucky’s comprehensive energy plan designed to develop clean, reliable, affordable energy sources that will improve energy security, reduce carbon emissions and provide economic prosperity. |
October 14, 2009 | |
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DOE to explore scientific cloud computing at Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories A new program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the U.S. Department of Energy will examine cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient computing paradigm for scientists to accelerate discoveries in a variety of disciplines, including analysis of scientific data sets in biology, climate change and physics. |
October 14, 2009 |
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DOE labs take pride in award-winning IBM Blue Gene series The IBM Blue Gene series of energy-efficient supercomputers, central to breakthrough scientific research around the world, will be singled out by President Barack Obama as a Medal of Technology and Innovation award-winner on October 7 in Washington, D.C. |
October 7, 2009 |