News from May 2023


Chairs Rodgers, Griffith Announce Oversight Hearing on Prescription Drug Shortages

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today announced a subcommittee hearing titled “Examining the Root Causes of Drug Shortages: Challenges in Pharmaceutical Drug Supply Chains."


Chairs Rodgers, Griffith Announce Oversight Hearing on Prescription Drug Shortages

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today announced a subcommittee hearing titled “Examining the Root Causes of Drug Shortages: Challenges in Pharmaceutical Drug Supply Chains."


Chairs Rodgers, Guthrie Announce Health Hearing on Reauthorizing Key Biodefense and Public Health Preparedness Programs

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) today announced a subcommittee hearing titled “Preparing for and Responding to Future Public Health Security Threats."




PAMS-SC grant application closes on July 5

Research, Development, and Training in Isotope Production grant opened on May 5.


Chairs Rodgers, Guthrie Announce Health Hearing on Reauthorizing Key Biodefense and Public Health Preparedness Programs

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) today announced a subcommittee hearing titled “Preparing for and Responding to Future Public Health Security Threats."


Chairs Rodgers, Guthrie Announce Health Hearing on Reauthorizing Key Biodefense and Public Health Preparedness Programs

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) today announced a subcommittee hearing titled “Preparing for and Responding to Future Public Health Security Threats."


Notice published on May 4 by Energy Department

The US Energy Department published a three page notice on May 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Scientists use computational modeling to design “ultrastable” materials

Materials known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have a rigid, cage-like structure that lends itself to a variety of applications, from gas storage to drug delivery.


Improved film is a big step on the road to sustainable hydrogen

Hydrogen is not only the most abundant element in the universe, it’s also one of the most promising green fuels.


White House honors campus chemists Darleane Hoffman, Gabor Somorjai

The White House honored campus professors Darleane Hoffman and Gabor Somorjai on Tuesday with the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award, one of the government’s “oldest and prestigious” awards.


UCI researchers join DOE-funded project to reinvent lithium-ion battery recycling

The U.S. Department of Energy has granted $10 million to a multidisciplinary team, including researchers at the University of California, Irvine, to devise new methods for recycling end-of-life lithium-ion battery materials.


Researchers discover new class of ribosomal peptide with hemolytic activity

Living organisms produce a myriad of natural products which can be used in modern medicine and therapeutics.


Assessing Ice Formation in the Atmosphere

The formation of ice crystals in the atmosphere is a phenomenon that impacts cloud formation, weather, and precipitation amounts, and is thus essential for life on earth dependent on water.


Chemistry Professor Wins DOE Faculty Award

Gerard Dumancas, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry at The University of Scranton, was selected as a Visiting Faculty Fellow by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).


MSU to refurbish world’s first superconducting cyclotron for chip testing

Michigan State University (MSU) will build on its 60-year track record in accelerator-based nuclear physics leadership by refurbishing the history-making K500 cyclotron and installing it as the heart of a new chip-testing facility for next-generation semiconductor devices.


Shedding Light on Mechanisms of Electrochemical Energy Storage

Understanding why certain materials work better than others when it comes to energy storage is a crucial step for developing the batteries that will power electronic devices, electric vehicles and renewable energy grids.


Penn State Biochemist Applies Aging Research to Yeasts

Biochemist Melanie McReynolds researches metabolism and aging, and the role of stress in that process.


New atomic-scale understanding of catalysis could unlock massive energy savings

Catalysts are materials that accelerate chemical reactions without undergoing changes themselves.