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

Graduate Students Awarded Department of Energy Fellowship

Anda Trifan, a doctoral candidate in professor of biochemistry Emad Tajkhorshid’s research group, has been awarded a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship to support her research in theoretical and computational biophysics. Edward Hutter, a doctoral candidate in professor of computer science Edgar Solomonik’s research group, was awarded the fellowship to support his research in computer science.

Rochester Joins New Nationwide High-intensity Laser Network

To help foster leadership in the application of high-intensity lasers, the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) is partnering with eight other high-intensity laser facilities across the country in a new national research network called LaserNetUS.

Double Awards for Grad Student Sean Burcher

Physics Graduate Student Sean Burcher toured this world this summer, presenting his research on classical novae and winning two awards in the process.

Physicists Brainstorm World’s 21st-Century Energy Challenges

A team of international scientists led by UC San Diego is working to devise computing hardware capable of functioning as effectively as the human brain.

New Fuel Cell Concept Brings Biological Design to Better Electricity Generation

A University of Wisconsin–Madison team has designed a fuel cell using cheaper materials and an organic compound that shuttles electrons and protons.

UCLA Professors Justin Caram & Anastassia Alexandrova are co-PIs on DOE QIS Research Grant

Team from UCLA, USC, Caltech and Harvard, led by UCLA physicist Wesley Campbell, awarded 2.7 million 3-year DOE Quantum Information Science Research Award.

Scientists Present New Clues to Cut Through the Mystery of Titan's Atmospheric Haze

A research collaboration, involving scientists in the Chemical Sciences Division at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and led by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Professor Ralf Kaiser, has zeroed in on a low-temperature chemical mechanism that may have driven the formation of multiple-ringed molecules—the precursors to more complex chemistry now found in the moon’s brown-orange haze layer.

Study Opens Route to Flexible Electronics Made from Exotic Materials

MIT researchers have devised a way to grow a single crystalline compound semiconductor on its substrate through two-dimensional materials.

Grad Students Earn Prestigious DOE Research Awards, Funding

Two Buckeye engineers are among only 47 graduate students nationwide chosen to receive highly competitive Department of Energy (DOE) research awards. Materials science and engineering (MSE) PhD students Cory Myers and Chris Kovacs each earned DOE’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research award.

NOvA Experiment Reports Strong Evidence of Antineutrino Oscillation

Tricia Vahle, professor of physics at William & Mary and longtime NOvA participant, became a NOvA co-spokesperson on March 21. William & Mary has a sizeable presence on NOvA and even maintains a remote control facility in Small Hall to monitor the experiment based in Batavia, Illinois.

New Process Turns Wood Scraps Into Tape

Engineers at the University of Delaware have developed a novel process to make tape out of a major component of trees and plants called lignin.

Physicists Devise Method to Reveal How Light Affects Materials

Physicists at Emory University developed a way to determine the electronic properties of thin gold films after they interact with light.