Latest News Releases

Nanofarming Technology Extracts Biofuel Oil Without Harming Algae

04/14/2009

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University have developed groundbreaking “nanofarming” technology that safely harvests oil from the algae so the pond-based “crop” can keep on producing.

Read More
Ames Laboratory Director Receives Materials Research Society Fellow Distinction

04/08/2009

Alex King, director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, has received the distinguished title of Materials Research Society Fellow. King will be recognized for the award at the MRS’s 2009 Spring Meeting April 14, 2009, in San Francisco.

Read More
Ames Laboratory to Receive Approximately $1.7 Million in Recovery Act Funding

03/23/2009

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames Laboratory will receive approximately $1.7 million as part of President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The funds are part of $1.2 billion announced by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today from funding allocated under the Recovery Act to DOE’s Office of Science.

Read More
Ames Laboratory Students Present Research at State Capitol

03/10/2009

Two Iowa State University undergraduates working with Ames Laboratory researchers were among the 23 ISU students who presented posters on their research at the Iowa State Capitol on March 9. Student Daniel Stoecklein, Lakeville, Minn., works with Ames Lab mentor physicist Ruslan Prozorov and Charles Fisher, Mount Auburn, works with Ames Lab scientist Scott Chumbley.

Read More
Yeung Receives ACS Analytical Chemistry Award

03/09/2009

Ed Yeung, senior chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, has been selected to receive the American Chemical Society’s Division of Analytical Chemistry Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Analytical Chemistry.

Read More
Dubuque’s Eleanor Roosevelt Wins 2009 Middle School Science Bowl

02/25/2009

Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School of Dubuque edged Johnston Middle School to win the 2009 Ames Laboratory/Iowa State University Regional Middle School Science Bowl here on Feb. 21. Roosevelt advances to the National Science Bowl, to be held April 30-May 5 in Washington, D.C. and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Read More
Nanoscale Materials Grow with the Flow

02/11/2009

Ames Laboratory researchers have discovered nanoscale self-assembled structures that are spontaneously and quickly created by unusually mobile atoms.

Read More
Ames Laboratory Graphics Department Shines at Case District Competition

02/10/2009

Ames Laboratory Graphic Designer Grant Luhmann won two awards in the 2009 CASE District VI awards competition. The awards were announced at the District VI Conference held in Kansas City, MO, Jan. 25-27, 2009.

Read More
Ames Laboratory Receives High Marks on Annual Report Card

02/10/2009

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory received high marks in Science and Technology Project/Program Management in 2008 as part of the DOE Office of Science’s laboratory appraisal process.

Read More
Central Academy 2009 Science Bowl Champion

01/31/2009

Des Moines Central Academy defeated Home Schools of Eastern Iowa 56-22 to win the championship of 19th annual Ames Laboratory/Iowa State University Regional High School Science Bowl here on Saturday, Jan. 31. Ames High School finished third and West Des Moines Valley (Team 1) fourth in the daylong science and mathematics quiz bowl.

Read More

Latest News Releases

NEWS CENTER