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ORNL employees, UT-Battelle donate $900K+ to nonprofits

Posted at 11:27 am January 31, 2022
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory employees gather on the campus quad for the Facilities and Operations Charity Carnival for Kids and Barbecue Cookoff to benefit East Tennessee Children’s Hospital and St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital on June 23, 2021. (Photo credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Department of Energy)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory employees and the lab’s managing contractor UT-Battelle donated more than $900,000 to local nonprofit organizations in 2021.

Most of the donations, almost $800,000, came from laboratory employees. UT-Battelle provided an additional $144,000 in corporate contributions, a press release said. That’s a total of $944,000 in donations.

The contributions from ORNL’s employees benefit 169 area and regional nonprofits, the press release said.

Organizations receiving funds include:

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Filed Under: Community, Front Page News, Nonprofits, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, Slider, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: donations, giving campaign, Jeremy Busby, nonprofit organizations, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, ORNL Gives, Steve Ventura, Thomas Zacharia, UT-Battelle

George joins elite group as ORNL-UT Governor’s Chair

Posted at 10:42 pm December 17, 2016
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Easo George becomes the 15th Governor’s Chair. (Photo courtesy Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

 

Easo George, one of the world’s foremost authorities on advanced alloy development and theory, has been named the 15th Governor’s Chair at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee.

George comes from the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, where he has been professor of materials design and director of the Center for Interface Dominated High Performance Materials since November 2014. Prior to that, he had a career of nearly three decades at ORNL, where he was a distinguished research staff member and head of the Alloy Behavior and Design Group. He was also a professor of materials science and engineering at UT since 2002, a press release said.

“I am honored to have been chosen for this position,” George said in the press release. “There is already tremendous synergy between ORNL and UT in advancing materials research, and I cannot wait to help build even more momentum.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: advanced alloys, Alloy Behavior and Design Group, amorphous materials, Center for Interface Dominated High Performance Materials, Easo George, Governor's Chair, Governor’s Chair for Advanced Alloy Theory and Development, high-entropy alloys, Indian Institute of Technology, Jeremy Busby, Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, ORNL-UT Governor’s Chair, precious metals, Ruhr University, Tickle College of Engineering, U.S. Department of Energy, University of Tennessee, UT, Wayne Davis

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