Vivien Zapf has been named deputy director of the Quantum Science Center headquartered at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The QSC combines resources and expertise from national laboratories, universities and industry partners to accelerate the design and development of novel quantum technologies.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Michelle Kidder has received the lab’s Director’s Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Science and Technology for her decades-long work mentoring students, teachers and early-career staff.

Laboratory Director Thomas Zacharia presented five Director’s Awards during Saturday night’s annual Awards Night event hosted by UT-Battelle, which manages ORNL for the Department of Energy.

Several significant science and energy projects led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory will receive a total of $497 million in funding from the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA.

The IRA funding from DOE’s Office of Science will enable progress on several significant scientific facilities underway at ORNL and fund projects that the lab manages on DOE’s behalf.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has appointed Peter Thornton as director of its Climate Change Science Institute, or CCSI, effective November 1, 2022.

Matthew Craig grew up eagerly exploring the forest patches and knee-high waterfalls just beyond his backyard in central Illinois’ corn belt. Today, that natural curiosity and the expertise he’s cultivated in biogeochemistry and ecology are focused on how carbon cycles in and out of soils, a process that can have tremendous impact on the Earth’s climate.