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MSU Students Selected for Department of Energy Graduate Student Research Program

Two Michigan State University graduate students, Crispin Contreras-Martinez and Roy Ready, have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy for its 2017 Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program.

New Protein Study Broadens Knowledge of Molecular Basis for Disease

Determining how proteins function on a molecular level is crucial to understanding the underlying basis for disease. Now scientists at the University of Notre Dame are one step closer to unraveling the mystery of how intrinsically disordered proteins work.

Understanding Rare Earth Emulsions

Olvera de la Cruz and her team at Northwestern University are working to better understand why rare earths are strongly attracted to each other across long distances, making separation and extraction tediously difficult.

OSU Physicists Land $1.266 Million Grant from Department of Energy

Five high energy physicists from the Oklahoma State University Department of Physics have secured a major grant from the U.S. Department of Energy worth $1.266 million to conduct fundamental research in elementary particle physics

Grad Students Earn Department of Energy Computational Fellowships

Four first-year graduate students have been awarded U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Computational Science Graduate Fellowships to support their research. Fellows receive full tuition and fees plus an annual stipend and academic allowance, renewable for up to four years. Less than 5 percent of applicants are chosen for the fellowship each year.

Rice U. Lab Surprised by Ultraflat Magnets

A new paper in Advanced Materials outlines how researchers at Rice, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Southern California (USC) and Kumamoto University in Japan used chemical vapor deposition (CVD) to make atom-thick sheets and, in the same step, tailor their properties by adding other elements through a process known as doping.

A Stanford Battery Based on Sodium May Offer More Cost-Effective Storage than Lithium

Industrial forecasts predict an insatiable need for battery farms to store renewable energy like solar and wind. Lithium ion batteries may remain tops for sheer performance, but when cost-per-storage is factored in, a Stanford design based on sodium ions offers promise.

Two Princeton Astrophysicists Receive Funding to Study Merging Neutron Stars

Adam Burrows, a professor of astrophysical sciences, and David Radice, an associate research scholar, have won funding for a multifaceted five-year project to investigate “some of the most explosive phenomena, some of the most violent, that occur on a regular basis in the universe,” said Burrows.

Studying Entropy in Metallic Glasses

A team led by Caltech recently solved a decades-old materials science mystery by tracking down the origin of entropy in metallic glasses.

A Quark Like No Other

University of Iowa physicist Usha Mallik is at the forefront of the search for a missing particle that could prove whether the Higgs boson—believed to give mass to all matter—exists.

Recreating Conditions Inside Stars With Compact Lasers

A multi-institution experiment conducted at Colorado State University used smaller, compact lasers to create ultra-short laser pulses and validate numerical models measuring the irradiation intensities and the extreme pressures generated.

My Summer Learning about High-performance Computing from Argonne National Laboratory

In the computational science community, there is a need to train engineers and scientists on how to effectively use current and future high-performance computing (HPC) systems. A couple of years ago, a training program was established by the federal government that would be able to address this deficiency. This program, known as the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC), contains over 100 hours of lectures and hands on training in the span of two weeks.