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

Primed for a Quantum Leap in Research

Scientists at the University of Chicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering are exploring a vast new field made possible by the ability to manipulate quantum systems.

Microbes Reveal How Humans Adjusted to a Changing Atmosphere

Ancient microbes that thrive in some of the world’s most extreme environments and modern-day humans have more in common than meets the eye—namely, they both respire and conserve energy using a similar molecular mechanism, one that has adapted to changing environmental conditions over billions of years.

Protonic Ceramic Fuel Cells are Highly Durable, Fuel Flexible

In the first long-term study of its kind, researchers from Colorado School of Mines have shown that the relatively new class of fuel cells exhibit both the long-term durability and fuel flexibility needed to become a viable commercial alternative to other existing fuel cell technologies.

Q&A: Graduate Student Awarded Department of Energy Fellowship

A graduate student here at Oregon State University was recently awarded a fellowship from the United States Department of Energy. Funded by the DOE’s office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration, the recipient of the fellowship, Lawrence Roy, will have his studies towards a doctoral degree in computer graphics paid for in full for up to four years.

Nuclear Engineering Program Collaborating in Energy Frontier Research Center

The Ohio State University is a collaborator on a new U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC). A cohort of 42 new and renewed centers announced in June 2018 have been established to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to strengthen U.S. economic leadership and energy security.

Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Could Increase Computer Speed, Memory

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) possess optical properties that could be used to make computers run a million times faster and store information a million times more energy-efficiently, according to a study led by Georgia State University.

How Some Algae May Survive Climate Change

Green algae that evolved to tolerate hostile and fluctuating conditions in salt marshes and inland salt flats are expected to survive climate change, thanks to hardy genes they stole from bacteria, according to a Rutgers-led study.

Could Bacteria Fuel the Future?

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Eleftherios (Terry) Papoutsakis, the Unidel Eugene du Pont Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware, a three-year, $1.5 million grant to study the production of clostridium bacteria as platforms for biofuels.

Renewed Project Could Protect Environment for Millennia

A team that has included more than 85 researchers from three South Carolina universities is receiving $2 million to continue investigating how buried nuclear waste would react with soil and groundwater if it were to leak into the environment.

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.

Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Faculty Receive U.S. Department of Energy EFRC Awards

The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences is proud to announce that two of its faculty have received notification for funding to expand or develop Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

Physics Ph.D. Candidate Rosin Receives Award from U.S. Department of Energy

Physics Ph.D. candidate Guy Rosin was recently named one of 47 young scientists in the nation to receive the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Science Graduate Student Research Program award, which prepares graduate students for STEM careers critically important to the DOE Office of Science’s mission by providing graduate thesis research opportunities at DOE laboratories.