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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.

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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.

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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.

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Students to Put Their Science Knowledge to the Test

01/26/2009

Teams of high schools students from across Iowa will converge on Ames for the 19th annual Ames Laboratory/Iowa State University Regional Science Bowl on Jan. 31, 2009.

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THREE AMES LAB RESEARCHERS NAMED AAAS FELLOWS

12/22/2008

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.

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TOUGH NANOCOATINGS BOOST INDUSTRIAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY

11/18/2008

AMES, Iowa – Friction is the bane of any machine. When moving parts are subject to friction, it takes more energy to move them, the machine doesn’t operate as efficiently, and the parts have a tendency to wear out over time.

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AMES LABORATORY INTERN PLACES THIRD IN DOE SCIENCE AND ENERGY RESEARCH CHALLENGE

11/13/2008

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.

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AMES LABORATORY’S MIDWEST FORENSICS RESOURCE CENTER RECEIVES FLC PARTNERSHIP AWARD

10/22/2008

AMES, Iowa – The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory Midwest Forensics Resource Center received the Outstanding Partnership award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer Mid-Continent Region. The FLC Outstanding Partnership award recognizes the MFRC’s efforts to promote technology transfer between federal government facilities and the private or public sectors.

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AMES LABORATORY’S GORDON RECEIVES ACS COMPUTING AWARD

10/22/2008

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.

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NEW INSTRUMENT PUTS NEW SPIN ON SUPERCONDUCTORS

10/10/2008

AMES, Iowa –Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory are part of collaborative team that’s used a brand new instrument at the DOE’s Spallation Neutron Source to probe iron-arsenic compounds, the “hottest” new find in the race to explain and develop superconducting materials. Rob McQueeney, an Ames Laboratory physicist, was part of that team whose findings, published in the Oct. 8 issue of Physical Review Letters, mark the first research produced with the aid of the new tool.

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