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  • AMES LABORATORY GRADUATE STUDENT TO MEET NOBEL LAUREATES IN LINDAU, GERMANY
    05/22/2008

    AMES, Iowa – Matthew Vannette, a graduate student in the Condensed Matter Physics program at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, has been selected by the DOE Office of Science as one of 16 outstanding research participants to attend the 58th International Convention of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, June 29 – July 4. The 2008 meeting will focus on physics.

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  • AMES LABORATORY TO SPONSOR “SAFE KIDS SUNDAY”
    05/12/2008

    AMES, Iowa –The United States Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, in cooperation with the Ames Police and the Ames Public Library, will sponsor Safe Kids Sunday, a free child photo ID event, on Sunday, May 18, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Ames Public Library, 515 Douglas Avenue.

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  • AMES LABORATORY SCIENTISTS RECEIVE "OUTSTANDING MENTOR" AWARDS
    05/08/2008

    AMES, Iowa – In a ceremony on Wednesday, April 30, 2008, eight Ames Laboratory scientists received “Outstanding Mentor” awards from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The awards were for their work mentoring students in the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship, or SULI, program coordinated by the DOE’s Ames Laboratory.

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  • IOWA TEAM PARTICIPATES IN DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY'S NATIONAL SCIENCE BOWL
    05/08/2008

    AMES, Iowa – Cedar Rapids-Marion Home Schools placed fourth in its division at the U.S. Department of Energy National High School Science Bowl held May 1-5 in Washington, D.C.

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  • THIEL APPOINTED AMES LABORATORY DIVISION DIRECTOR
    04/28/2008

    AMES, Iowa – Patricia Thiel has been appointed division director for Science and Technology at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory.  The appointment, which becomes effective May 1, 2008, was announced by Alex King, Ames Laboratory director.

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  • AMES LABORATORY SCIENTISTS RECEIVE APS OUTSTANDING REFEREE AWARD
    04/28/2008

    AMES, Iowa – Three scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have been recognized for their exceptional efforts in assessing manuscripts for American Physical Society journals.  Doug Finnemore, senior physicist, Bruce Harmon, deputy Lab director and senior physicist, and a third physicist who requested to remain anonymous are in the inaugural group of Outstanding Referee award winners.

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  • EVANS OF OTTUMWA WINS MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE BOWL
    04/21/2008

    AMES, Iowa – Evans Middle School of Ottumwa edged out LeMars 34-26 to win the 2008 Ames Laboratory/Iowa State University Middle School Science Bowl here on Saturday, April 19. Council Bluffs St. Albert was third and Home Schools of Eastern Iowa was fourth in the 16-team science and math quiz bowl competition.

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  • FUEL-CELL RACERS HEADED FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE BOWL
    04/14/2008

    AMES, Iowa – The competition is expected to be fierce on Friday, April 18, when middle school students from across the state of Iowa gather to race hydrogen fuel-cell cars they’ve built for the highly popular Middle School Science Bowl, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University.

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  • RESEARCHERS MIMIC BACTERIA TO PRODUCE MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES
    04/10/2008

    AMES, Iowa –When it comes to designing something, it’s hard to find a better source of inspiration than Mother Nature.  Using that principle, a diverse, interdisciplinary group of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory is mimicking bacteria to synthesize magnetic nanoparticles that could be used for drug targeting and delivery,  in magnetic inks and high-density memory devices, or as magnetic seals in motors

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  • LINUS PAULING, THE ROLLING STONES AND FISHING FOR NEW MATERIALS
    04/01/2008

    AMES, Iowa –What do Sophocles, the Rolling Stones, and Linus Pauling have in common and what do they have to do with fishing? Well, the unlikely trinity is quoted in a perspective piece on new materials in the March issue of Nature Physics by Paul Canfield, a senior physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory. In it, Canfield argues that more effort and funding needs to go toward the design, discovery and growth of materials that exhibit new or exotic properties.

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