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2022-11-07 Zapf named deputy director of the Quantum Science Center	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.
2022-11-05 Kidder takes top award at ORNL’s Awards Night for leadership in mentoring	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.
2022-11-04 ORNL to receive $497 million in Inflation Reduction Act funding	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.
2022-11-03 Thornton named director of the Climate Change Science Institute at Oak Ridge National Laboratory	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.
2022-11-01 Deep learning underlies geographic dataset used in hurricane response	As Hurricane Fiona made landfall as a Category 1 storm in Puerto Rico on Sept. 18, 2022, some areas of the island were inundated with nearly 30 inches of rain, and power to hundreds of thousands of homes was knocked out. Only 10 days later, Hurricane Ian, a Category 4 storm and one of the strongest and most damaging storms on record, landed in Lee County, Florida, leveling homes and flooding cities before moving up the coast and making landfall again as a Category 1 storm in South Carolina.