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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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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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