News from May 2023
Lincoln University Wins DOE Grant to Train a Diverse STEM Workforce
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
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.
Postdoc wins prestigious fellowship
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
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.
Three graduate students chosen for DOE program
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
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.
Physicists discover ‘stacked pancakes of liquid magnetism’
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
Physicists have discovered “stacked pancakes of liquid magnetism” that may account for the strange electronic behavior of some layered helical magnets.
Strings Of Magnetic Energy Shown To Flex, Wiggle, And Reconnect
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
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.
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
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
Chicago is experiencing the impacts of climate change—from extreme weather to flooding and heat waves.
An Intuitive Approach to Physics Research: Get to Know Graduate Student Marshal Ohana Benevides Rodrigues
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
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.
IU students to conduct research at Department of Energy’s National Laboratories
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
Three Indiana University Bloomington graduate students will conduct research at National Laboratories as part of the United States Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research program.
Study presents new clues about the rise of Earth’s continents
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
New research from Cornell and the Smithsonian Institution deepens the geological understanding of Earth’s continents by testing and ultimately eliminating a popular hypothesis about why continental and oceanic crusts have contrasting compositions.
Australian Bushfires Likely Contributed To Multiyear La Niña
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
The catastrophic Australian bushfires in 2019-2020 contributed to ocean cooling thousands of miles away, ultimately nudging the Tropical Pacific into a rare multi-year La Niña event that dissipated only recently.
Machine Learning-Based Protein Annotation Tool Predicts Protein Function
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
Microbes drive key processes of life on Earth. They affect global elemental cycles—the movement of carbon, nitrogen, and other elements.
New Insights on the Interplay of Electromagnetism and the Weak Nuclear Force
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
Outside atomic nuclei, neutrons are unstable particles, with a lifetime of about fifteen minutes.
A Simple Solution for Nuclear Matter in Two Dimensions
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
Understanding the behavior of nuclear matter—including the quarks and gluons that make up the protons and neutrons of atomic nuclei—is extremely complicated.
New Strategy Can Harvest Chemical Information on Rare Isotopes with a Fraction of the Material
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
Studying radioactive materials is very difficult due to the potential health risks they pose to scientists.
Precision Nuclear Physics in Indium-115 Beta Decay Spectrum using Cryogenic Detectors
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
Certain isotopes such as Indium-115 (In-115) are extremely long lived, taking over 100 trillon years for half of the Indium atoms to decay away.
Biden-Harris Administration Announces $150 Million Through Investing in America Agenda for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), today announced a $150-million investment into the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) that will help the laboratory keep America on the cutting edge of clean-energy technology and lead the world in the transition to carbon-free power sources.
DOE Announces Nearly $60 Million to Advance Clean Hydrogen Technologies and Improve the Electric Power Grid
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced nearly $42 million in funding for 22 projects in 14 states to advance critical technologies for producing, storing, and deploying clean hydrogen.
DOE Launches New Energy Earthshot to Decarbonize Transportation and Industrial Sectors
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the launch of the Clean Fuels & Products ShotTM, a new initiative that aims to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from carbon-based fuels and products critical to our way of life.
First Historically Black University Joins Board at National Renewable Energy Laboratory
By DOE Newswire Report | May 29, 2023
Howard University, one of the nation’s leading historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU), became the first HBCU to join the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) governing alliance board of directors, which consists of leaders from universities with top-tier science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs.
ICYMI: Manchin Secures MVP in Debt Ceiling Agreement
By DOE Newswire | May 29, 2023
News Release: Charleston, WV - Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin III (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement on his securement of the Mountain Valley Pipeline into the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023.