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Mallapragada, Schmidt-Rohr and Kraus Three researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have been named AAAS Fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

AMES, Iowa – Brita Kilburg, one of four undergraduate interns at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory to compete for the 2008 DOE Science and Energy Research Challenge, placed third in the environmental sciences division of the competition.  Kilburg, a student at Loras College and who was mentored by ISU scientist Forrest Nutter, was a participant in the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship, or SULI, program this past summer.

AMES, Iowa –Mark S. Gordon, a senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, has been named the recipient of the 2009 American Chemical Society Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research. The international award recognizes outstanding achievement in the use of computers in research, development or education in the chemical and biological sciences.

AMES, Iowa – Thomas Lograsso has been appointed assistant director for the Division of Materials Science and Engineering, or DMSE, at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory.  The appointment, which became effective immediately, was announced by Alex King, Ames Laboratory director.