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An Intuitive Approach to Physics Research: Get to Know Graduate Student Marshal Ohana Benevides Rodrigues
Most people think of Neapolitan ice cream when they hear vanilla, chocolate and strawberry, but Ohana Benevides Rodrigues G’22 uses vanilla, chocolate and strawberry to explain one of the main features of the complex world of neutrinos—tiny, nearly massless, chargeless particles that travel at near light speeds and are abundant in the universe.
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Data Collected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Urban Integrated Field Laboratory will Help Scientists Understand Climate Change in the City’s Most Vulnerable Neighborhoods
Chicago is experiencing the impacts of climate change—from extreme weather to flooding and heat waves.
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Strings Of Magnetic Energy Shown To Flex, Wiggle, And Reconnect
A multi-institutional team exploring the physics of collective behavior has developed and measured a model nanomagnetic array in which the behavior can be best understood as that of a set of wiggling strings.
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Physicists discover ‘stacked pancakes of liquid magnetism’
Physicists have discovered “stacked pancakes of liquid magnetism” that may account for the strange electronic behavior of some layered helical magnets.
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Three graduate students chosen for DOE program
Matthew George Signorelli, Ningdong Wang and Aileen Luo are among the 87 students selected to receive the prestigious U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award (SCGSR) for the 2022 Solicitation 2 cycle.
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Postdoc wins prestigious fellowship
The Electron-Ion Collider Center at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has awarded a research fellowship to Sebouh Paul, a postdoctoral researcher in the UCR Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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Lincoln University Wins DOE Grant to Train a Diverse STEM Workforce
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently awarded an $800,000 grant to a Lincoln University of Missouri professor to fund efforts to develop a more diverse STEM workforce over the next four years.
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RPI Doctoral Student One of 87 Nationwide To Receive Research Opportunity at National Lab
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute doctoral student Riley Barton has been selected as one of 87 outstanding graduate students in the United States by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program (SCGSR).
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Trees may hold the solution for keeping engines running smoothly and efficiently – and possibly replacing gasoline
When it comes to making internal combustion engines run better, the solution may come from trees.
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MIT engineers “grow” atomically thin transistors on top of computer chips
Emerging AI applications, like chatbots that generate natural human language, demand denser, more powerful computer chips.
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Iowa State’s Mallapragada Named To Key Doe Advisory Committee
On April 21, 2023, Iowa State University Associate Vice President for Research, Surya Mallapragada, was sworn in as a member of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC) for a term that runs through December 31, 2025.
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Two physics graduate students chosen for DOE program
Matthew George Signorelli and Ningdong Wang, graduate students in the field of physics, are among the 87 students selected to receive the prestigious U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award (SCGSR) for the 2022 Solicitation 2 cycle.
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Improving Crystal Engineering with DNA
Sodium-ion batteries have been touted as a sustainable alternative to lithium-ion batteries because they are powered by a more abundant natural resource.
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X-ray imaging captures fleeting defects in sodium-ion batteries
Sodium-ion batteries have been touted as a sustainable alternative to lithium-ion batteries because they are powered by a more abundant natural resource. However, sodium-ion batteries have hit a significant snag:
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Two UC Davis Chemistry Graduate Students Selected to Conduct Research at DOE National Labs
Two UC Davis chemistry graduate researchers have been selected to spend several months to a year conducting research at U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories.
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Study Finds Archaea in a Warming Climate Become Less Diverse, More Predictable
Led by Jizhong Zhou, Ph.D., the director of the Institute for Environmental Genomics at the University of Oklahoma, an international research team conducted a long term experiment that found that climate warming reduced the diversity of and significantly altered the community structure of soil archaea.
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Cmu Doctoral Candidate To Serve Extended Residency At Netl Under Doe Graduate Student Research Program
NETL will host an extended residency for a Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) doctoral candidate in chemical engineering under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program.
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Self-folding origami machines powered by chemical reaction
A Cornell-led collaboration harnessed chemical reactions to make microscale origami machines self-fold – freeing them from the liquids in which they usually function, so they can operate in dry environments and at room temperature.
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Inventor Saito honored at Battelle Celebration of Solvers
Tomonori Saito, a distinguished innovator in the field of polymer science and senior R&D staff member at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was honored as ORNL Inventor of the Year on May 11 in Columbus, Ohio, at Battelle’s Celebration of Solvers.
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Claudia Bernhardt: An early career engineer finds her “dream job” at PPPL
During her time at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Claudia Bernhardt has rotated through several engineering jobs, been promoted to staff mechanical engineer in the design group and has become one of the leaders of PPPL’s Women in Engineering (WiE) employee resource group.