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Materials produced at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory were launched into space on May 14 with the European Space Agency’s Planck Mission. Ames Laboratory’s Materials Preparation Center synthesized over 20 kilograms of a lanthanum-nickel-tin alloy for use in a metallic hydride sorption cryocooler system—built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory—that will cool instruments during the space mission.

Central Academy of Des Moines finished in the prestigious “Sweet 16” bracket of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National High School Science Bowl held in Washington, D.C. April 30-May 4. The finish near the top of the competition netted the team $1,500 for Central Academy’s science program.

Kurt Brorsen, a doctoral student in chemistry at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and at Iowa State University, recently received the DOE’s Computational Science Graduate Fellowship.

Spring semester marked the launch of a new education program at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory called Pre-Service Teachers, or PST. The program provides Iowa State University pre-service science teachers a chance to work in a research lab and gain first-hand experience that will equip them with a better understanding of the scientific research process.