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Haim Waisman: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner

DOE/US Department of Energy

Haim Waisman develops computational models of the mechanics of materials. He focuses on fracture phenomena, such as ice breaking due to climate warming, infrastructure aging and deteriorating, energy extraction from rocks, and fractures in biomaterials such as bones.

Sandia applied mathematician wins DOE Early Career Research Award

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Examination of very fine real-world data can improve the fidelity by which complex computer simulations are guided, says Sandia National Laboratories applied mathematician Pete Bosler. Bosler investigates multiscale simulations that, integrated, could combine individual raindrops, thunderstorms and the entire global atmosphere, guided by data currently thought too fine to be used, that is, too small to be seen on a data grid, or in other words, subgrid.

Brookhaven Lab's visiting faculty program fosters new nano center at SUNY – Buffalo State

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

In a successful pilot extension of the Visiting Faculty Program, Saquib Ahmed leveraged the program’s resources to build out a nanoscience center at his home institution.

Enriching science education with thin films

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Tiffany Kaspar’s work has advanced the discovery and understanding of oxide materials, helping develop electronics, quantum computing, and energy production. She strives to communicate her science to the public.

Radar gets a major makeover

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working to replace legacy analog radars commonly used by the military with a new, digital, software-defined system called Multi-Mission Radio Frequency Architecture.

Aluminum alloy manufacturing now 50% more energy efficient

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

A new extrusion process eliminates pre-heating to provide significant energy savings during production of extruded aluminum alloys.

Journal: Materials & Design

Meet Kayla Hernandez: Electrical engineer helps send particle beams into RHIC

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Meet Kayla Hernandez: Electrical Engineer Helps Send Particle Beams Into RHIC

20th anniversary of Sandia tribal energy internship program

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

2022 marks a major milestone for Sandia National Laboratories’ groundbreaking tribal energy internship program: two decades of meeting the growing renewable energy technical needs of Native American tribes and providing valuable, real-world experience for Native and Alaska Native STEM students.

Statistics unlock secrets of particles, pandemics, and more

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

What do physicists exploring the fundamental particles that make up our universe and doctors tracking COVID-19 cases have in common? Statistics! Both sift through enormous amounts of data looking for patterns. Now members of this not-so-unlikely partnership are spreading the word about the power of statistics with math and science teachers and students.

Neuroscience simulations shed light on origins of human brain recordings

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Using simulations run at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a team of researchers has found the origin of cortical surface electrical signals in the brain and discovered why the signals originate where they do.