SAN MARCOS, California, April 12 (TNSfund) -- California State University's San Marcos Campus issued the following news: Cal State San Marcos physics professor Justin Perron led a California State University-wide effort that has resulted in a grant of more than $2.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy that will help develop a workforce capable of thriving in a quantum landscape. Perron is the principal investigator for a three-year, $2,534,399 grant titled "QIST in the CSU: Expanding Ac  more

STANFORD, California, April 6 (TNStalk) -- The Hoover Institution at Stanford University issued the following Q&A on April 5, 2023, with Air Force Lt. Col. James 'Jimmy' Michael Harrington, National Security Affairs Fellow for the academic year 2022 23 at the Hoover Institution: * * * Lieutenant Colonel James "Jimmy" Michael Harrington, representing the US Air Force, is a National Security Affairs Fellow (NSAF) for the academic year 2022 23 at the Hoover Institution. In this interview, Harrin  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news on April 10, 2023: Lightweight sensor technology developed by NETL has taken off and provides an effective airborne tool to locate the remnants of abandoned oil and natural gas wells that emit methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Methane leaking from undocumented orphaned wells is a serious safety hazard and a significant contributor to climate change. According to  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news release: The Minority Serving Institution Partnership Program (MSIPP) of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration awarded nine new grants totaling $40.8 million to Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) to leverage untapped potential in students and expand the DOE-NNSA talent pathway. The program now has a total of 33 active consortia partners  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 12 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release on April 11, 2023: Andrew Ullman had the pleasure of graduating high school not once, but twice. He had enough academic credits in Delaware, where he grew up, to graduate midway through senior year, and then he graduated, again, from a high school in Adelaide, Australia, where his father, a professor, was taking a year's sabbatical. "School started in Febr  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Pantex issued the following weekly report: * * * TO: Christopher J. Roscetti, Technical Director FROM: C. Berg, Acting Resident Inspector SUBJECT: Pantex Plant Activity Report for Week Ending March 17, 2023 Nuclear Explosive Safety (NES): Late last year, Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) transmitted a Specification Exception Release (SXR) to Pantex authorizing the use of a nonconforming part within   more