WASHINGTON, May 3 -- George Washington University issued the following news: WASHINGTON (May 3, 2024) - Twelve public servants from a number of federal agencies will be honored at the 75th annual Arthur S. Flemming Awards. The winners are recognized for performing outstanding service in the fields of applied science and engineering, basic science, leadership and management, and social science, clinical trials, and translational research. Exceptional employees with three to 15 years of federal   more

ARGONNE, Illinois, April 30 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Groundbreaking report provides ambitious framework for accelerating clean energy deployment while minimizing risks and costs in the face of climate change * * * In the face of accelerating climate change, the U.S. aims to reduce the net carbon emissions of its economy to zero by 2050. Achieving this goal will require an unprecedented deployment of clean  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board issued the following letter on April 29, 2024: * * * Department of Energy Activities Relating to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Fiscal Year 2023 Report to Congress April 2024 Message from the Secretary This is the U.S. Department of Energy's (Department or DOE), including the National Nuclear Security Administration, Fiscal Year 2023 annual report to Congress addressing the activities related to the Defense Nuc  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news on April 29, 2024: As NETL's new associate director for Computational Sciences & Engineering (CSE), Tammie Borders knows the clock is ticking in the battle against climate change and understands the urgent need to expand the Lab's capabilities in high-performance computing (HPC) to find solutions. Tremendous strides have been made by world-class researchers in t  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- NASA issued the following news release on May 3, 2024: President Joe Biden will present Dr. Ellen Ochoa, former center director and astronaut at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston, and Dr. Jane Rigby, senior project scientist for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, each with the Presidential Medal of Freedom Friday in a ceremony at the White House in Washington. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest civilian honor award, and these two NASA reci  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies issued the following testimony by Rep. John Garamendi, D-California, at a member day hearing on April 10, 2024, on renewable energy and clean water appropriations for fiscal year 2025: * * * EI join you today to call the committee's attention to the billions of dollars being spent on our nuclear weapons programs and raise significant concerns that momentum is leading us in a dangero  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: In the face of accelerating climate change, the U.S. aims to reduce the net carbon emissions of its economy to zero by 2050. Achieving this goal will require an unprecedented deployment of clean energy technologies, and a significant transformation of the nation's energy infrastructure. It is an exceptionally complex and daunting challenge. But it is not impossible i  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 (TNSfact) -- The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued the following fact sheet on May 1, 2024: * * * As Part of the Inaugural National Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Month, Biden Cancer Moonshot Announces New Actions to Strengthen Preventive Cancer Care and Expand Accessibility of Cancer Screenings Today, the Biden Cancer Moonshot announced actions from across the Cancer Cabinet and the private sector, as well as employers and labor unions, to ex  more

LIVERMORE, California, May 3 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: Representatives from the Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories, academia and industry convened recently at the University of California Livermore Collaboration Center (UCLCC) for a workshop aimed at aligning strategies for ensuring safe artificial intelligence (AI). The daylong event, attended by dozens of AI researchers, included keynote speech  more