X-rays for early Alzheimer's disease detection
...aboratory Directed Research and Development program. The National Synchrotron Light Source is funded by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences within the doe Office of Science. How it works To make a diffraction-enhanced image, x-rays from the synchrotron are first tuned to one wavelength before bei...Stimulus Spending Targets Modernization of the Nation's Research Infrastructure
...nda, CA (PRWEB) March 18, 2009 -- The $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), allocates billions of dollars to the NIH, NSF, NIST, doe and state governments for new construction, renovation, and modernization of the nation's research facilities. These funds will be distributed to res...Dr. Robert W. Conn Named President of The Kavli Foundation
...s of the U.S. Government, particularly the Department of Energy (DOE). He has served as chair of the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee of the doe and, in the late 1990's, as Chair of the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Physics Division Advisory Committee. He is currently a member of the Univer...Anita Goel to be Featured Luncheon Speaker at FDLI's Annual Nanotechnology Conference
... largest academic center focusing on the intersection of law with science and technology, and is currently engaged in a three-year study funded by the doe on regulation of nanotechnology. To register for the conference, visit www.fdli.org or call (800) 956-6293 or (202) 371-1420. Founded in ...Food and Drug Law Institute Sponsors Major Conference on Nanotechnology Law, Regulation and Policy
... largest academic center focusing on the intersection of law with science and technology, and is currently engaged in a three-year study funded by the doe on regulation of nanotechnology. To register for the conference, visit www.fdli.org or call (800) 956-6293 or (202) 371-1420. Founded ...VA Announces $36 Million in Grants for Homeless Programs
...politan Homelessness Project $32,500 One van N.Y. Brooklyn doe Fund $23,976 One van Long Island City of New $1,090,500 Renovation, City York...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- March 5, 2008
...ials fear that the cuts could delay cleanup of Hanford and other sites indefinitely. ARTICLE #5 EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, March 10, 2008 doe Falling Behind in Cleanups This story will be available on March 10 at http://pubs.acs.org/cen/government/86/8610gov2.html FOR ADVANCE INFORM...Hair Tells Tale of Where You've Been
...t about my victim, the better the odds will be for me to find out who she is." More information Learn more about unidentified bodies from The doe Network . SOURCES: James Ehleringer, Ph.D., biology professor, University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Todd Park, detective, Salt...Vanderbilt engineers play key role in new DOE energy frontier research center
A team of Vanderbilt engineers will play a key role in a new federal effort to significantly improve our understanding of how gases and liquids interact with solid surfaces basic studies that have potential applications ranging from better batteries to more efficient methods for converting solar ...Argonne advancing DOE INCITE scientific research projects
Based on their potential for breakthroughs in science and engineering research, twenty eight projects have been awarded 400 million hours of computing time at Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) through the Department of Energy's (DOE) Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory...2009 DOE INCITE projects allocated at ORNL
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. Dec. 18, 2008 -- In 2009, Oak Ridge National Laboratory will make nearly 470 million processor hours available on Jaguar, its Cray XT supercomputer, under the Department of Energy's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment, or INCITE, program. Thirty ...ORNL nanotechnologies big winners in DOE call
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 23, 2008 -- Eight Oak Ridge National Laboratory nanomanufacturing technologies have won $8.4 million in funding from the Department of Energy's Industrial Technologies Program. The awards, which will bring $6.8 million to the lab and $1.6 million to partners, are the resu...Mascoma and UT join in $26M DOE grant
KNOXVILLE - The development of a sustainable biofuels industry in Tennessee has taken another leap forward. The U.S. Department of Energy has announced that Mascoma Corporation, with the University of Tennessee, is among the recipients of a $26 million grant for the development of biomass conversi...Mechanisms of plant-fungi symbiosis characterized by DOE Joint Genome Institute
WALNUT CREEK, CA, Plants gained their ancestral toehold on dry land with considerable help from their fungal friends. Now, millennia later, that partnership is being exploited as a strategy to bolster biomass production for next generation biofuels. The genetic mechanism of this kind of symbiosis,...Upgraded IMG 2.3 Data Management System released by DOE JGI to eager user community
WALNUT CREEK, CA -- A powerful set of computational tools established to ease the visualization and exploration of genomes flooding the public domain is now available in IMG Version 2.3 -- the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) data management system hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint G...Latest advances in DNA sequencing highlighted at DOE Joint Genome Institute User Meeting
Four hundred researchers tapping the massive flow of DNA sequence information will gather March 28-30 to share their recent developments at the 2nd Annual U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) User Meeting. DOE JGI is the world's only user facility dedicated to making high-thro...Obama administration announces more than $327 million in Recovery Act funding for science research
...tives to advance civilian supercomputing, in which doe national laboratories now hold the global lead; New equipment for the doe Bioenergy Research Centers, the world's most advan...mental research on biofuels; New equipment for doe Joint Genome Institute, the world's largest genomi...New supercomputer to reel in answers to some of Earth's problems
...es, and industry with an unprecedented research tool," said Anna Palmisano, doe Associate Director for Biological and Environmental Research. "This new sup...ical processes that underlie the environmental and energy challenges facing doe and the nation." Chinook is fast and dexterous. Its designers tailored i...Solar cells, geological storage research receive DOE funding at the University of Texas at Austin
AUSTIN, TexasWith two $15 million grants, scientists and engineers aim to revolutionize solar cells and provide the fundamental science for geological storage of greenhouse gases as part of two Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) established at The University of Texas at Austin by the U.S. De...Oak Ridge leads DOE INCITE effort in 2008
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Jan. 17, 2008 Scientific studies on climate change, energy and alternative fuels are among the 30 projects awarded more than 145 million processing hours on supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory through the Department of Energys Innovative and Novel Computational Impac...Wisconsin applicants urged to pursue DOE funding for cellulosic biomass
Editor's note: Attorney Greg Lynch, a partner with the law firm Michael Best & Friedrich , collaborated on this article with Laura Riske, the firm's director of government affairs . Milwaukee, Wis. - The United States Department of Energy has announced $200 million in new financing for...DOE awards $377 million in funding for 46 energy frontier research centers
... of scientific experts. In total, the EFRC initiative represents a planned doe commitment of $777 million over five years. EFRC researchers will take a...percomputing, and other advanced instrumentation, much of it developed with doe Office of Science support over the past decade, in an effort to lay the sci...New clues about a hydrogen fuel catalyst
...e catalyst. Rousseau added that the research benefitted from being based at PNNL. "An important part about this work is that we have these kinds of doe teams where we can start with experiments and go to theory and back again. We get a lot more information this way than doing either one alone." ...Verenium Completes Amendment to 8% Senior Convertible Notes
... Verenium. "This along with the recent news that our joint venture with our partner BP has been selected to enter into the due diligence phase of the doe Loan Guarantee Program, puts us in a much stronger position as we look toward securing the necessary financing required for our first commercial facil...SRNL to study applicability of solar cell coatings
...commercial and home-based solar cells, as well as harsh environments, such as those encountered by satellites in space. This work is sponsored by the doe Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Nanomanufacturing Program, and funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). "Sol...BlueFire Ethanol To Present at BIO 2009 International Convention
...om the U.S. Department of Energy for construction of a second plant in Southern California, and has received the first installment of funding from the doe for the development of the BlueFire Mecca, LLC plant in Southern California. BIO 2009 International Convention will take place May 18-21, 2009 at...Spring 'blockbuster' movie now showing
... for Transmission Electron Aberration-corrected Microscope. The newest instrument at Berkeley Lab's National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) - a doe national user facility and the country's premier center for electron microscopy and microcharacterization - TEAM 0.5 is capable of producing images wi...