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ORNL’s Dai ranked among world’s most influential scientists

Posted at 12:37 pm December 18, 2015
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Sheng Dai

Sheng Dai (Photo by ORNL)

 

Sheng Dai of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been named to a list of the most highly cited researchers in the world.

Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers is an annual list that recognizes some of the world’s leading researchers in the sciences and social sciences. About 3,000 researchers were named to the 2015 list.

Dai is a UT-Battelle Corporate Fellow and serves as the group leader of the Nanomaterials Chemistry Group in ORNL’s Chemical Sciences Division. He also holds a joint appointment with the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee. His research focuses on the synthesis and characterization of materials for energy-related applications. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Chemical Sciences Division, chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Essential Science Indicators, highly cited researchers, Nanomaterials Chemistry Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Sheng Dai, Thomson Reuters, Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers, U.S. Department of Energy, University of Tennessee, UT-Battelle Corporate Fellow

Miaofang Chi of ORNL named top scientist at UT-Battelle’s Awards Night

Posted at 10:59 am November 23, 2015
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Miaofang Chi

Miaofang Chi (Photo by ORNL)

Miaofang Chi of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has earned the ORNL Director’s Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Science and Technology.

ORNL Director Thom Mason presented the award to Chi on Friday during the annual Awards Night event in Knoxville hosted by UT-Battelle, the management and operating contractor for ORNL.

Chi was honored for her pioneering early career research in analytical electron microscopy. Chi’s research has advanced the understanding of defect and interface chemistry and structure and how such defects control materials properties at the atomic level. Her work includes the recent development of transformative insitu microscopy methods to probe transport phenomena at the atomic scale.

Chi also earned the Early-Career Researcher Award. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: analytical electron microscopy, Ann Weaver, Battelle Laboratory Operations Supervisor Academy, Buddy Bland, Center for Computational Sciences, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, chemistry, Chris Patton, Director's Award for Outstanding Team Accomplishment, Director’s Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Mission Support, Division Award, Glenn Buckley, Judith Henry, LOSA, Miaofang Chi, microscopy, Mike McIntosh, Mike Mitchell, Mission Support Leadership, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, ORNL Director’s Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Science and Technology, Thom Mason, Titan supercomputer, UT-Battelle

ORHS AP Chemistry students place third in nation in science competition

Posted at 11:30 pm May 23, 2015
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Eddie Anderson

Eddie Anderson

Advanced Placement Chemistry students at Oak Ridge High School placed third in the nation in chemistry in the National Science League competition, the school’s Science Department said.

The students are in the AP Chemistry class taught by Eddie Anderson at ORHS.

The test was given to all AP Chemistry students, the Science Department said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, Front Page News, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: Advanced Placement Chemistry, AP Chemistry, chemistry, Eddie Anderson, National Science League, Oak Ridge High School, ORHS, science competition, Science Department

UT: Expertise in materials science, additive manufacturing helps draw CVMR to Tenn.

Posted at 12:54 am March 20, 2015
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Michael Hargett and Kamran Khoza of CVMR USA

CVMR President Michael Hargett, left, and Kamran Khozan, chairman and chief executive officer, joined local, state, and federal officials on Friday, March 13, to announce they’re moving company headquarters from Toronto to Oak Ridge, investing $313 million and adding 620 jobs.

 

Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam and Economic and Community Development Commissioner Randy Boyd announced last week that CVMR Corporation is relocating its global headquarters to Oak Ridge from Toronto, Canada. CVMR provides materials for additive manufacturing and announced it will create 620 jobs.

During recruitment of CVMR, University of Tennessee officials assisted the state and hosted the company at UT Knoxville to visit with engineering and chemistry faculty and learn about graduate programs, such as the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, as well as internships and co-ops for students, a press release said. UT System officials provided information about technology transfer, the UT Research Foundation, and Cherokee Farm Innovation Campus. CVMR also learned more about the University’s role in leading the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation, or IACMI, a $259 million partnership announced by President Barack Obama in January. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, College, Education, Front Page News, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: 3D printing, additive manufacturing, Barack Obama, Bill Haslam, Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, chemistry, College of Engineering, CVMR, CVMR Corporation, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Economic and Community Development, economic development, engineering, IACMI, Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation, Jimmy G. Cheek, Joe DiPietro, Kamran Khozan, Kurt Sickafus, Masood Parang, materials science, Michael Hargett, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, Randy Boyd, Taylor Eighmy, Tennessee, University of Tennessee, UT, UT Knoxville, Wayne Dean

Paul Langan to lead ORNL’s Neutron Sciences Directorate

Posted at 9:45 am December 22, 2014
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Paul Langan

Paul Langan

Paul Langan, a senior scientist and distinguished research staff member at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named ORNL’s associate laboratory director for neutron sciences.

Langan will lead the laboratory’s neutron science activities, which include two leading DOE Office of Science user facilities for neutron scattering analysis: the Spallation Neutron Source, or SNS, and the High Flux Isotope Reactor, or HFIR.

“As associate laboratory director, Paul will further broaden our role in neutron sciences globally, expand our instrument capabilities, and prepare for a second target station at the SNS,” ORNL Director Thom Mason said in a press release. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: associate laboratory director for neutron sciences, biology, Biology and Soft Matter Division, Center for Structural Molecular Biology, chemistry, DOE, HFIR, High Flux Isotope Reactor, Neutron Sciences, Neutron Sciences Directorate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Office of Science, ORNL, Paul Langan, physics, Ron Crone, SNS, Spallation Neutron Source, Thom Mason, U.S. Department of Energy, University of Tennessee

Five ORNL scientists rated among world’s most influential

Posted at 12:33 pm August 1, 2014
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Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Five Oak Ridge National Laboratory physicists, including Deputy for Science and Technology Ramamoorthy Ramesh, have been named by Thomson Reuters as some of the best and brightest of our time.

The list consists of scientists whose work has been most frequently cited by peers as identified by Thomson Reuters platforms. Citation data was divided into two categories—2002-2012 and 2012-2013—with the latter labeled “hot papers,” ranking in the top 0.1 percent by citations in their field. Seventeen researchers earned this distinction while some 3,200 were included in the second section of the ranking with citations ranking in the top 1 percent for their field and year of publication.

Ramesh, who was actually listed in two categories—physics and materials science—was named to his position at ORNL in June 2013 after serving as the Plato Malozemoff Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, with a joint appointment as a faculty senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He holds a doctorate in materials science from the University of California, Berkeley, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 in recognition of his contributions to the science and technology of functional complex oxide materials. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, Science, Slider, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Athena Safa-Sefat, Brian Sales, chemistry, citations, condensed matter physics, crystallographic studies, David Singh, distinguished scientists, electronic materials, Eugene Wigner Fellow, magnetic materials, materials science, Michael McGuire, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, ORNL Directors Award, ORNL scientists, physical property measurements, physicists, physics, R&D 100, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, rare-earth materials, scientists, solid-state chemistry, solid-state chemistry and metallurgical synthesis techniques, Thomson Reuters

Chemistry experiment waste starts trash can fire in ORHS classroom

Posted at 11:24 am October 26, 2013
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Oak Ridge High School Trash Can Fire

A small fire in a trash can in a chemistry classroom at Oak Ridge High School on Friday night was the result of an unintended reaction from waste products left over from a chemistry experiment earlier in the day. (Photos courtesy of Oak Ridge Fire Department)

A small fire in a trash can in a chemistry classroom at Oak Ridge High School on Friday night was the result of an unintended reaction from waste products left over from a chemistry experiment earlier in the day, Oak Ridge Fire Department Chief Darryl Kerley said.

The fire occurred just before 9 p.m. Friday. The classroom was filled with smoke when firefighters arrived, but they were able to use a fire extinguisher to put out the fire in a fire-resistant wastepaper container, which was inside a locked classroom, Kerley said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: chemistry, chemistry experiment, classroom, Darryl Kerley, fire, Oak Ridge Fire Department, Oak Ridge High School, ORFD, reaction, trash can

ORHS students place first on National Chemistry Olympiad Exam

Posted at 8:04 am May 28, 2013
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Eddie Anderson

Eddie Anderson

A group of 10 chemistry students at Oak Ridge High School placed first on the National Chemistry Olympiad Exam, a teacher said.

The 40-question exam is given to all second-year chemistry students and any first year students who want to take it, said Eddie Anderson, ORHS chemistry teacher, track coach, and science department chair. The school score is compiled by adding the Top 10 student scores. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: chemistry, David Krispin, David O’Neil, Eddie Anderson, environmental science, Huiming Xia, Jaspreet Singh, Jim Andress, Kyoung-A Cho, Megan Kelly, National Chemistry Olympiad Exam, Oak Ridge High School, ORHS, Sara Agle, Tim Blackwell, Zeph Meares

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