Latest News Releases

  • 09/14/2010

    Ames Laboratory has won a 2010 R&D 100 Award for osgBullet, a software package that creates 3-D, real-time computer simulations that can help engineers design complex systems ranging from next-generation power plants to highly efficient cars and tomorrow’s video games.




     
  • 08/16/2010

    Andrew Fidler, a former student in the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has been awarded a prestigious DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship award.




     
  • 08/06/2010

    The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has been named a 2010 Industry Leader Award winner by the National Safety Council. The Ames Laboratory was one of only 81 companies/organizations to receive the award for their safety performance and the only DOE national laboratory on the list.




     
  • 07/09/2010

    Duane D. Johnson has been named Chief Research Officer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory following a national search that spanned several months. Johnson becomes the first to hold the CRO position, which is responsible for initiating, developing and supervising the Lab’s scientific programs and overseeing the scientific division, including approximately 90 researchers, 200 students, and 20 support staff.




     
  • 07/08/2010

    The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has won a 2010 R&D 100 Award for osgBullet, a software package that creates 3-D, real-time computer simulations that can help engineers design complex systems ranging from next-generation power plants to highly efficient cars and tomorrow’s video games.




     
  • 05/06/2010

    The team of five high school students from Central Academy in Des Moines pocketed a check for $1,000 for their school’s science program by placing in the “Sweet 16” bracket of the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2010 National Science Bowl competition, held April 29 through May 3 in Washington D.C.




     
  • 04/28/2010

    Three U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory scientists have won national Excellence in Technology Transfer Awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium.




     
  • 04/04/2010

    Two scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have been appointed to National Academies committees. Paul Canfield, Ames Laboratory senior physicist, has been named to the National Academies’ Condensed Matter and Materials Research Committee. Pat Thiel, Ames Laboratory senior chemist, has been appointed to the National Academies’ Chemical Sciences Roundtable.




     
  • 03/16/2010

    Karl A. Gschneidner Jr., a senior metallurgist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, today cautioned members of a Congressional panel that “rare-earth research in the USA on mineral extraction, rare-earth separation, processing of the oxides into metallic alloys and other useful forms, substitution, and recycling is virtually zero.”




     
  • 03/01/2010

    Central Academy Middle School of Des Moines won a pair of matches against Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School of Dubuque here on Saturday to capture the 2010 Ames Laboratory/Iowa State University Regional Middle School Science Bowl.