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  • Karon Foster is a building services coordinator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), handling requests for the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) office buildings. She is known among SNS staff as the “go-to” problem solver for any facility issues. Foster has worked at ORNL for 15 years. (Credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
    Inside the Innovations: Karon Foster, building services coordinator
    September 5, 2019
  • Quantum scientist Huibo Cao.
    Unveiling quantum materials with neutrons
    September 5, 2019
  • Matt Howell is the lead engineer for superconducting linear accelerator systems at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). When he’s not working, Howell also raises and trains American saddlebreds, many of whom have competed in world championships. Howell has worked at ORNL for 17 years. (Credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
    Inside The Innovations: Matt Howell, lead engineer for superconducting linear accelerator systems
    August 29, 2019
  • ORNL’s Kate Page, left, received a PECASE citation from Kelvin Droegemeier, Director of The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Credit: Donica Payne/U.S. Dept. of Energy
    Two ORNL researchers receive presidential early career award
    August 27, 2019
  • Rhonda Moody is a Scientific Laboratory Technician at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)’s Spallation Neutron Source, where she helps visiting researchers run successful experiments. Moody paints in her spare time and has exhibited her work at First Friday events in downtown Knoxville. She has worked at ORNL for 11 years. (Credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
    Inside the Innovations: Rhonda Moody, Scientific Laboratory Technician
    August 20, 2019
  • Bryan Chakoumakos and Xiaoping Wang
    ACA recognizes ORNL's Chakoumakos, Wang
    August 20, 2019
  • Phong Nguyen is a Radiological Control Technician at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), where he ensures that visitors and personnel at the High Flux Isotope Reactor stay safe and exercise caution around radiation. He enjoys swimming, going to the gym, and watching Louisiana State University football games. Phong has worked at ORNL for 26 years. (Credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
    Inside the Innovations: Phong Nguyen, Radiological Control Technician
    August 12, 2019
  • Collaborators at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and U.S. universities used neutron scattering and other advanced characterization techniques to study how a prominent catalyst enables the “water-gas shift” reaction to purify and generate hydrogen at industrial scale. (Credit: Michelle Lehman and Adam Malin/Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
    Neutrons shed light on industrial catalyst for hydrogen production
    August 6, 2019
  • Jeremy Price is a vacuum systems team leader at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), managing the team who designs and operates vacuum systems for the Spallation Neutron Source’s linear accelerator. Price was an intern at ORNL while studying mechanical engineering and was inspired by his experience at the lab to pursue a career in vacuum systems. He has worked at ORNL for 13 years. (Credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
    Inside the Innovations: Jeremy Price, Vacuum Systems Team Leader
    August 5, 2019
  • Bryan Owens-Baird, a graduate student researcher from Iowa State University, prepares to study one of his samples, a powdered compound of phosphorous, silicon, and tin, with the NOMAD instrument at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source. (Credit: ORNL/ Genevieve Martin)
    Researchers raise the heat on molten metals to forge future technologies
    July 30, 2019
  • Leah Broussard leads a study of neutron decay to understand correlations between electrons and antineutrinos as well as subtle distortions in the electron energy spectrum. The physicist, who hails from Louisiana, influenced the color scheme of the experiment’s newly installed instrument to reflect her home state’s biggest celebration—its spectrometer sports Mardi Gras green on the magnet, purple on the shielding, and gold inside the magnet and on safety bars. Credit: Genevieve Martin/Oak Ridge National Labo
    Leah Broussard: Breaking the Standard Model to Fix Understanding of the Universe
    July 26, 2019
  • Artistic rendering of the VENUS imaging beamline under construction at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source. VENUS will provide impactful insights into research areas such as those featured, including nuclear fuels such as uranium (left), additively manufactured materials, biological processes, engineered components, studies of archeological and natural materials. (Credit: ORNL/Jill Hemman)
    Eyes on VENUS: ORNL to deliver unique US neutron imaging capability for science discovery
    July 23, 2019
  • Stacey Whaley is a radio frequency technician at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), designing and maintaining equipment vital to operating the Spallation Neutron Source’s linear accelerator. In her spare time, Whaley and her husband build classic cars. Whaley has worked at ORNL for twelve years. (Credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
    Inside the Innovations: Stacey Whaley, Radio Frequency Technician
    July 23, 2019
  • Caltech researchers Orland Bateman (left) and Rachel Ford prepare samples before using neutrons to study a novel form of mixed matrix membrane. (Credit: ORNL/Carlos Jones)
    Polymer-Polymer Membranes: a Cure for Industry’s Separation Anxiety
    July 15, 2019
  • Alex Johs studies the molecular interactions that drive mercury transformation in the environment. (Credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
    Alex Johs: Using neutrons for biological and environmental science
    July 1, 2019
  • The 2019 Neutron Scattering User Meeting was held at ORNL, June 4th-5th, and attended by more than 250 members of the global neutron research community. (Credit: ORNL/Megan Jamerson, Carlos Jones)
    ORNL neutron user meeting highlights novel research, DOE priorities, and facility upgrades
    June 26, 2019
  • Researchers from NIST and the University of Maryland are using neutrons to improve simulated DNA and RNA structures for broad medical and pharmaceutical applications. From left, Christina Bergonzo, Chad Lawrence, Roderico Acevedo, and Alexander Grishaev. (Credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
    Neutrons get a wider angle on DNA and RNA to advance 3D models
    June 19, 2019
  • Reflectometry cell
    Neutrons—Mastering magnetism
    June 17, 2019
  • ORNL’s Christopher Lam holds two samples of polymer gels, which have useful applications in medicine and consumer products. (Credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
    Neutrons allow analysis of polymer gels’ unusual attributes
    June 6, 2019
  • Crystalline ice phases
    Unexpected observation of ice at low temperature, high pressure questions ice, water theory
    May 22, 2019

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