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For the second straight year, Des Moines Central Academy emerged as the champion in the Ames Laboratory/Iowa State University Regional High School Science Bowl here on Saturday, Jan. 30. Central Academy didn’t lose a single match in the day-long quiz-bowl event, defeating Ames High School 68-34 in the final match. Dubuque Hempstead finished third and Home Schools of Eastern Iowa was fourth in the event that marked its 20th year.

A series of seminars entitled "Taking Technology to Market" is being offered through an Iowa State University 2009/2010 Women's Enrichment Grant. The series is aimed at giving students, young scientists and engineers, potential entrepreneurs and other interested parties insight into the process of taking innovation to market and encouraging students and staff to participate in this process.

Ames Laboratory employees raised more than $3,700 for two local charities at Ames Laboratory’s annual benefit auction on Dec. 4. Story County Winter Weatherization Challenge and Bethesda Community Food Pantry will share the auction proceeds.

Jerel Zerestky and Philip Ryan were part of a team, led by Argonne National Laboratory, that published an article in Nature Materials.  The article is titled “Enhanced Ordering Temperatures in Antiferromagnetic Maganite Superlattices.”  Zereskty performed neutron scattering measurements at the High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Ryan performed X-ray diffraction at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.