Lawrence Paul Lewis and Linda Hansen were recognized for their contributions to infrastructure security and nuclear nonproliferation, among others, at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary’s Honor Awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., on August 29.

Physicist Kawtar Hafidi has been appointed Associate Laboratory Director, Physical Sciences and Engineering (PSE) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.

Argonne will receive more than $10 million in funding over three years as part of a series of grants tied to quantum information science.

Seven employees from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory were among those presented with a Secretary of Energy Achievement Award at the Secretary’s Honors Awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., on August 29.

Lei Cheng, an assistant chemist in the Materials Science division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, has received a Midwest Energy News 40 Under 40 Award.

Graphene comes up big to increase the lifetime of photocathodes, which convert light to electricity in accelerators and other physics experiments.