OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Speakers, scientific workshops, speed networking, a student poster showcase and more energized the Annual User Meeting of the Department of Energy's Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, or CNMS, Aug. 7-10, near Market Square in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee. Organized by the CNMS User Executive Committee, or UEC, and the CNMS User Program Office, the meeting bri  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Sept. 9 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release on Sept. 7, 2023: * * * Companies Allowed Team Lead to Sexually Harass Female Employees, Federal Agency Charges * * * Prestigious Placement and Prosero d/b/a Spinnaker Management Group, operating as joint employers, violated federal civil rights law when they engaged in discrimination by subjecting female employees to a sexually hostile work environment, the U.S. Equal Employment Oppo  more

ARNOLD AFB, Tennessee, Sept. 6 -- The U.S. Air Force Arnold Air Force Base issued the following news: By Bradley Hicks, AEDC Public Affairs The static aircraft displayed outside the Main Gate and Gate 2 of Arnold Air Force Base hold a far greater significance than decorative purposes. The displays symbolize the importance of the work performed across Arnold Engineering Development Complex, headquartered at Arnold AFB. Testing conducted within AEDC facilities played a role in either the develo  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: FEMA announced that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the state of Tennessee to supplement recovery efforts in the areas affected by the severe storms and straight-line winds on July 18-21, 2023. Public assistance federal funding is available to the state, tribal and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations o  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Tom Karnowski (left) and Jordan Johnson (right). Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Tom Karnowski and Jordan Johnson of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been named chair and vice chair, respectively, of the East Tennessee section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE. After expressing interest in   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched a new entrepreneurial start-up program, Safari, as an addition to the Department of Energy Office of Technology Transitions Practices to Accelerate the Commercialization of Technologies, or PACT, program. Safari seeks to connect post-exit entrepreneurs with commercially relevant technologies developed by world-leading scient  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration issued the following news release on Sept. 6, 2023: The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced nearly $50 million to four organizations to expand middle mile high-speed Internet infrastructure in New Hampshire, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wyoming. Today's announcement is a critical milestone in Biden-Harris Administration'  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, a Department of Energy Office of Science user facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will host its 19th annual user meeting on Oct. 17-18, 2023. For the first time in three years, the meeting will have in-person attendance at ORNL. Attendees may also register to attend virtually. The user meeting has been held online  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The Department of Energy's Office of Science has selected three Oak Ridge National Laboratory research teams to receive funding through DOE's new Biopreparedness Research Virtual Environment, or BRaVE, initiative. BRaVE, announced earlier this year, aims to build on biopreparedness research that delivered high-impact results in the fight against COVID-19. In the hei  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 -- The White House issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2023: Today, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that a major disaster exists in the State of Tennessee and ordered Federal assistance to supplement state, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe storms and straight-line winds from July 18 to July 21, 2023. Federal funding is available to state, tribal, and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Sept. 8 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release: Small nonfarm businesses in 33 Arkansas counties and neighboring parishes and counties in Louisiana, Missouri and Tennessee are now eligible to apply for low interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Director Jeffrey Lusk of SBA's Disaster Field Operations Center-West. These loans offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by excessi  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 8 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, Henry C. Leventis, issued the following news release: Three indictments were unsealed yesterday charging multiple Russian cybercrime actors involved in the Conti ransomware and Trickbot malware schemes. Conti was a ransomware variant used to attack more than 900 victims worldwide, including victims in the Middle District of Tennessee, approximately 47 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and appr  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 6 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, Henry C. Leventis, issued the following news release: A federal jury in Nashville has convicted Doctor Benjamin T. Toh, 68, of Chicago, Illinois, for his role in a more than $9.5 million health care fraud conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Henry C. Leventis for the Middle District of Tennessee. The defendant was indicted by a federal grand jury in December 2022. He was convicted of conspiracy to   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release on Sept. 8, 2023: A mother and son from Tennessee were sentenced in the District of Columbia today on felony and misdemeanor charges related to their actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Their actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 president  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Cadet Elyse Wages, a rising junior at the United States Air Force Academy, visited the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory with one goal in mind: collect air. As a physics major with a focus in nuclear science, Wages took air samples near the High Flux Isotope Reactor and the Spallation Neutron Source for a project that will help her learn more about  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Yaoping Wang, postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received an Early Career Award from the Asian Ecology Section, or AES, of the Ecological Society of America. The award recognizes the research excellence of early career AES members and is given for an outstanding ecological research paper published in the   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: ORNL researchers are demonstrating an automation system for this portable system, currently based in Colorado, for treatment of non-traditional water sources to drinking water standards. Credit: Tzahi Cath/Colorado School of Mines Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are developing advanced automation techniques for desalination an  more