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

New Options for Breast Cancer Drug Development Found in Estrogen Receptors

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have uncovered a previously uncharacterized, bridge-like structure within the human estrogen receptor that could serve as a valuable new drug target.

Professor Benjamin Safdi Awarded DOE’s Early Career Award

Theoretical physicist Benjamin Safdi has been awarded a 2018 Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Award. The five-year grant provides funding to support his research on the particle nature of dark matter. “

Grants for Quantum Information Science

The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced $218 million in new grants for “Quantum Information Science” and researchers with the Center for Quantum Mathematics and Physics (QMAP) at UC Davis are among the recipients.

A New Path to Solving a Longstanding Fusion Challenge

A class exercise at MIT, aided by industry researchers, has led to an innovative solution to one of the longstanding challenges facing the development of practical fusion power plants: how to get rid of excess heat that would cause structural damage to the plant.

Physics Graduate Student Takes Her Thesis Research to a Department of Energy National Lab

For 12 months, Ashlyn Burch, a University of Alabama at Birmingham physics student will work at Sandia National Laboratory, high in the semi-arid Western city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, supported by a U.S. Department of Energy Science Graduate Student Research award.

Luminous Blue Variable Star

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) have developed new, three-dimensional simulations that reveal the inner workings of one of the universe’s most mysterious stars.

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New, Highly Stable Catalyst May Help Turn Water Into Fuel

In the journal Angewandte Chemie, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign report on an electrocatalytic material made from mixing metal compounds with substance called perchloric acid.

Chemical Engineering Alumna Receives Federal Early Career Award

Elizabeth J. Biddinger, an Ohio University chemical and biomolecular engineering alumna, has received one of 84 early career awards from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Columbia Receives $10.7 Million for Department of Energy Frontier Research Center

Columbia University and collaborators have been awarded $10.7 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a new Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC). The center, named “Programmable Quantum Materials (Pro-QM),” will focus on exploring the behavior of quantum materials with desired properties when under the influence of extremes of light, pressure, temperature, magnetic proximity, nanomechanical manipulation, electrical field, and other conditions.

Copper Ions Flow Like Liquid through the Frozen Atomic Network of a Crystal

In a new study, scientists from Duke University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) probed one such superionic crystal containing copper, chromium and selenium (CuCrSe2) with neutrons and X-rays to determine how the material’s copper ions achieve their liquid-like properties.

Kansas State University Graduate Student Awarded Department of Energy Fellowship

Olivia Hull, a doctoral student in Christine Aiken's research group at Kansas State University, has been awarded a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship to support her research into physical chemistry.

Hampton University Physics Graduate Student is the first Office of Science Graduate Student Research Awardee

Hampton University physics graduate student, Sahara Jesmin Mohammad Prem Nazeer, is officially the first Hampton University Office of Science Graduate Student Research Awardee.