2018 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

Engineering Professors Receive Department of Energy Early Career Awards

Two faculty members in the Tickle College of Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have received Early Career Awards from the Department of Energy for their work in nuclear fusion and structural materials for nuclear energies, respectively.

DOE Early Career Award for alumna Elizabeth Biddinger

CBE alumna Elizabeth J. Biddinger, assistant professor of chemical engineering in The City College of New York's Grove School of Engineering, is one of 84 recipients nationwide of the U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Awards.

Research Center Receives Additional Department of Energy Funding

The Spins and Heat in Nanoscale Electronic Systems center, known as SHINES, at the University of California, Riverside, has received funding for two more years from the Department of Energy. SHINES received $12 million from the department in 2014.

Tiny Brushes That Make Surfaces Slippery May Not Work as Intended

A type of molecular surface thought to be extremely slippery may not stay that way under all conditions, according to new UChicago and Argonne research in Science.

With Project, UA Physics Professor ‘Pushing the Limit of Our Understanding’

Dr. Wang-Kong Tse, University of Alabama assistant professor of physics, was recently awarded a grant from the 2018 Early Career Research Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, one of 84 scientists from across the nation to receive funding.

Assistant Professor Siddharth Misra Receives Department of Energy Award to Study Fractures in Subsurface Rocks

Siddharth Misra, assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy, is a 2018 winner of the Early Career Research Program award from the U.S. Department of Energy.

UMD Engineers, Colleagues Work to Triple the Energy Storage of Lithium-ion Batteries

A collaboration led by scientists at the University of Maryland (UMD)’s A. James Clark School of Engineering, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the U.S. Army Research Lab have developed and studied a new cathode material that could triple the energy density of lithium-ion battery electrodes.

Trace Metals Make a Big Splash with Marine Microorganisms

A new Cornell-led study shows that trace metals, deposited by aerosols like dust and other particles in the atmosphere, have a hefty impact on marine biota, affecting biological productivity and changing the ocean ecosystem.

‘Molecular Movie’ Captures Chemical Reaction on Atomic Scale

A team of physicists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Stanford University and Europe has captured the clearest glimpse yet of a photochemical reaction — the type of light-fueled molecular transformations responsible for photosynthesis, vision and the ozone layer.

DE Leon Receives Early Career Research Award to Investigate Diamond's Fundamental Properties

The Department of Energy has named Nathalie de Leon, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University, as a recipient of a 2018 Early Career Research Program award.

Neuroscientist Leads Unprecedented Research to Map Billions of Brain Cells

Reverse engineering the human brain is one of the great scientific challenges of our time, and scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory are combining new techniques in microscopy, neurobiology and computing to reveal the brain’s inner mechanisms in unprecedented detail.

Purdue Receives $2.6 Million DOE Grant for High-Energy Physics Research

Ongoing research in elementary particle physics will be expanded, thanks to a $2.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to fund Purdue University’s High Energy Physics Group.