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AMES, Iowa –The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory is making science exciting this summer for eight science teachers from middle schools across the Midwest.  These dedicated and motivated teachers are participating in their second year of the Laboratory’s Academies Creating Teacher Scientists, or ACTS, program.  ACTS began on June 23 and runs through July 25, 2008.  This year the teachers had the added bonus of visiting both the DOE’s Argonne and Fermi national laboratories, where they toured facilities and met with scientists and teachers participating in the ACTS program in Illinois.

AMES, Iowa –Pat Thiel, Ames Laboratory Division Director for Science and Technology, received the 2008 Iota Sigma Pi Honorary Member Award from the National Honor Society for Women in Chemistry on June 27 at the organization’s 29th Triennial Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Thiel is the 33rd recipient of the award which was established in 1921 and has gone to three Nobel Laureates, including Marie Curie.

AMES, Iowa – The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory is being called home for 10 weeks for 12 undergraduate students from colleges and universities across the country.  The students are participating in the Lab’s Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship, or SULI, program, which began on May 27 and runs through Aug. 1, 2008.

AMES, Iowa –Dan Shechtman, a research scientist  with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and a faculty member in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University, has been named the recipient of the European Materials Research Society 25th Anniversary award.