BLACKSBURG, Virginia, May 13 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has named Layne Watson, a professor in three departments at Virginia Tech - computer science, mathematics, and aerospace and ocean engineering - and core faculty at the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, part of the 26-member 2024 class of SIAM fellows. SIAM is an international community of more than 1,400 individual members and nearly  more

LIVERMORE, California, May 13 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: Three new systems currently or soon-to-be sited at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) on Monday debuted on the latest Top500 list of most powerful supercomputers in the world, including the first portion of the exascale machine El Capitan. Unveiled at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, the June 2024 Top500 lists thr  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, May 17 -- The New Mexico Department of Economic Development issued the following news release: The New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD), through its Office of Strategy, Science & Technology (OSST), has awarded $760,000 in grant funding and entrepreneurship consulting to three teams commercializing technology developed at New Mexico research universities in the inaugural round of the Research University Team Pitch Award. First announced in September 2023, the N  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, May 15 -- The New Mexico Department of Economic Development issued the following news release: The Outdoor Recreation Division (ORD) of the Economic Development Department (EDD) has announced the fourth round of fiscal year 2024 Outdoor Recreation Trails+ Grant recipients. ORD is awarding $1,944,944 in funding to 13 projects throughout the state to expand outdoor access and grow the New Mexico outdoor recreation economy. "Since Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham created the Outd  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, May 14 -- The New Mexico Department of Economic Development issued the following news release: The New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD), through its Office of Strategy, Science and Technology (OSST), has awarded $3.4 million in competitive grant funding to seven New Mexico companies in the inaugural round of the Advanced Energy Award Pilot Program. First announced in September 2023, the New Mexico Advanced Energy Award Pilot Program is a competitive state-fund  more

WASHINGTON, May 18 -- The Senate Armed Services Committee released the following written joint testimony by Energy Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm and Jill M. Hruby, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, from a hearing dated April 17, 2024, entitled "The Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration Atomic Energy Defense Activities in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2025 and the Future Years Defense Program": * * * Chairma  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, May 17 -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: By David Holt When young Chicago native Ken Washington '82 walked onto the Texas A&M University campus for the first time, he was ready for a challenge. Little did he know he would one day lead advancements in technology that would impact generations, reshaping the relationship between humankind and innovation. Washington graduated with his bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. in nuclear engin  more

WASHINGTON, May 17 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: This week, during a hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Budget Request for the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) asked Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo about how the CHIPS and Science Act is revitalizing American semiconductor manufacturing, including at Intel's facility in Rio Rancho, N.M.; the opening of a new Minority Business Development Rural Center in Las  more