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  • Ames Laboratory Employees to Help Winterize Homes
    10/29/2009

    Employees from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory will help keep Story County families warm this winter. On Saturday, Oct. 30, three teams of Ames Lab employees will volunteer at the Story County Winter Weatherization Challenge.

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  • 2009 Solar Decathlon Winners Announced
    10/19/2009

    U.S. Department of Energy Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman today announced the winners of the 2009 Department of Energy Solar Competition on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.  Team Germany, the student team from Darmstadt, Germany, won top honors by designing, building, and operating the most attractive and efficient solar-powered home.  The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign took second place followed by Team California in third place.

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  • Thiel Selected for APS Adler Lectureship Award
    10/14/2009

    Pat Thiel, senior chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, has been named the winner of the 2010 David Adler Lectureship Award. The award, presented by the American Physical Society, recognizes Thiel as an outstanding contributor to the field of material physics, who is noted for the quality of her research, review articles and lecturing.

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  • Four Ames Laboratory Employees Win Tech Transfer Awards
    10/08/2009

    Four employees at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have won technology transfer awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium.

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  • Ames Laboratory Scientist Using Low-Gravity Space Station Lab to Study Crystal Growth
    09/21/2009

    Rohit Trivedi, a senior metallurgist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory will use equipment recently delivered to the International Space Station by the Space Shuttle Discovery  to conduct crystal growth experiments he first conceived more than a decade ago.

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  • Ames Laboratory Research Among Most Cited Articles
    09/14/2009

    A paper by Victor Lin, Chemical and Biological Sciences program director at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, has been recognized among the most-cited papers published in the journal Chemical Communications.

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  • Ames Laboratory Chemist Named American Chemical Society Fellow
    09/02/2009

    Mark S. Gordon, director of the Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences program at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, was named to the inaugural class of American Chemical Society Fellows.

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  • Thiel Selected for ACS Adamson Award for Surface Chemistry
    08/27/2009

    Pat Thiel, senior chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, has been named the winner of the 2010 Arthur W. Adamson Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Surface Chemistry.

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  • Ames Laboratory's Cochran Receives NSF Career Award
    08/04/2009

    Ames Laboratory associate scientist Eric Cochran has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the organization’s most prestigious award for junior researchers.

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  • Ames Laboratory Scientists Win R&D 100 Award for Virtual Engineering Software
    07/23/2009

    Two researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University have won a 2009 R&D 100 Award for software that will help engineers design the next generation of highly efficient and low-emission power plants.

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