OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: View a hi-res version of this image This map created for ARM's 30th anniversary shows past, present and future ARM data collection sites. Credit: ARM User Facility, PNNL/U.S. Dept. of Energy View a hi-res version of this image ARM Data Center Giri Prakash works with the latest ARM computer cluster at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S.  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: ORNL's 3D-printed polymer composite mold was used to produce precast concrete parts for a New York City building. Researchers conducted a techno-economic analysis that highlights the benefits over wood molds. Credit: ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy and Gate Precast Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have conducted a comprehensive life cycle, cost and carbon emiss  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Sept. 20 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southeast Regional Information Office issued the following report on Sept. 19, 2023, entitled "County Employment and Wages in Tennessee - First Quarter 2023": * * * Employment rose in all of Tennessee's six large counties from March 2022 to March 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (Large counties are those with annual average employment levels of 75,000 or more in 2022.) Re  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Bob Bolton has spent much of his career studying environmental change in Alaska. He recently moved to East Tennessee to join the ORNL-led NGEE Arctic project as deputy for operations. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Bob Bolton has spent much of his career studying environmental change in Alaska. He recently moved to East Tennessee to join the ORNL-l  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory hosted its Smoky Mountains Computational Science and Engineering Conference for the first time in person since the COVID pandemic broke in 2020. The conference, which celebrated its 20th consecutive year, took place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown Knoxville, Tenn., in late August. This year's conference  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Sept. 23 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release on Sept. 22, 2023: * * * Staffing Agency and Its Client Deny Employment Opportunities to Black Workers, Federal Agency Charges * * * Aaron Thomas Company, Inc., a distribution company, and Supreme Staffing, LLC, a staffing agency, both based in Memphis, violated federal law by denying individuals employment on the bases of race, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alle  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Sept. 23 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release on Sept. 22, 2023: * * * Restaurant Tolerated Ongoing Harassment and Fired Employee After He Complained, Federal Agency Charges * * * 4Top Hospitality Group, Inc. and J.H.S. Holdings, LLC, operating as an integrated enterprise and doing business as Amerigo Italian restaurant in Memphis, violated federal law when it subjected an employee to sexual orientation discrimination and discha  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Conceptual art depicts an atomic nucleus and merging neutron stars, respectively, areas of study in ORNL-led projects called NUCLEI and ENAF within the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing, or SciDAC, program. Credit: Adam Malin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory is leading two nuclear physics research projects within the Scientific  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release on Sept. 20, 2023: The National Park Service (NPS) awarded $3,290,919.25 in Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants through the American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) today to protect 119.98 acres, including five battlefields in Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia. State and local governments spearhead the projects funded by ABPP grants to protect significant battlefield l  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Valuable chemicals are selectively produced from mixed plastic waste by an ORNL-developed plastic deconstruction process. Credit: Tomonori Saito, Md Arifuzzaman and Adam Malin, ORNL/U.S. Dept. of Energy Almost 80% of plastic in the waste stream ends up in landfills or accumulates in the environment. Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists have developed a technolo  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 21 -- 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 DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is pleased to announce a new allocation program for computing time on the IBM AC922 Summit supercomputer. The program, called SummitPLUS, will provide allocations to computationally ready projects and run from January to Octob  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Attendees of SMC23 pose for their annual group photo in downtown Knoxville, TN. ORNL's Scott Atchley, a Senior Research Scientist who leads the System Architecture team in the lab's National Center for Computational Sciences Division, gives SMC23 attendees an overview of the Frontier exascale supercomputer. Garrett Granroth (left), an instrument scientist on the A  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Xiaohan Yang is using his expertise in synthetic biology and capabilities like the Advanced Plant Phenotyping Laboratory at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to accelerate the development of drought-tolerant, fast-growing bioenergy crops suited for conversion into clean jet fuels. Credit: Genevieve Martin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Scientist Xiaohan Yang's research at  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: As part of the Quantum Science Center headquartered at ORNL, Robert Moore probes the interface between a topological insulator and a superconductor with spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy ORNL's Matt Brahlek used molecular beam epitaxy to grow a thin film interface of topological insulating and sup  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Members of the Analytics and AI Methods at Scale group in the National Center for Computational Sciences at ORNL developed the mixed-precision performance benchmarking tool OpenMxP. From left are group leader Feiyi Wang, technical lead Mike Matheson and research scientist Hao Lu. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy As Frontier, the world's first exascal  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Sept. 19 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, Kevin G. Ritz, issued the following news release on Sept. 18, 2023: Kevin G. Ritz, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, today announced that a Memphis nonprofit organization was awarded a Department of Justice grant for $500,000 to help reinforce community-based reentry programs and create more opportunities for formerly incarcerated community members to make successful transition b  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Sept. 19 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, Kevin G. Ritz, issued the following news release on Sept. 18, 2023: Today, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Tennessee announced that the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) awarded $600,000 to a community-based organization to provide legal services and improve the effective coordination of justice systems impacting survivors of sexual assault, domestic violenc  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2023: Based on a review of the best available scientific and commercial information, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined that two southeastern species - the Yazoo crayfish and Tennessee cave salamander - are not at risk of extinction and do not warrant listing under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). For each species, the Service brought toget  more