OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: In a game-changing study, Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists developed a deep learning model a type of artificial intelligence that mimics human brain function to analyze high-speed videos of plasma plumes during a process called pulsed laser deposition, or PLD. The PLD technique uses powerful laser pulses to vaporize a target material, creating a cloud-like   more

ARNOLD AFB, Tennessee, Sept. 21 -- The U.S. Air Force Arnold Air Force Base issued the following news: By J.D. Dill, AEDC Installation Emergency Manager September is National Preparedness Month and the perfect time to remind personnel of the severe weather threats we have here at Arnold Air Force Base. The climate in middle Tennessee gives us two distinct severe weather seasons - fall and spring. The Arnold Engineering Development Complex Installation Office of Emergency Management is here to  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The goal is to better understand how Arctic ecosystems are changing as icy soil layers called permafrost melt, the land subsides, vegetation transforms and carbon long locked away in soils is emitted to the atmosphere in the form of greenhouse gases. Drones equipped with multispectral, hyperspectral, thermal and light detecting and ranging, or LiDAR, instruments can  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news on Sept. 17, 2024: Crews at Oak Ridge recently achieved a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management 2024 priority by initiating demolition on a facility in the Manhattan Project-era Alpha-2 complex at the Y-12 National Security Complex (https://www.energy.gov/orem/y-12-national-security-complex). The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Manage  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: ORNL building technologies researchers Stephen Kowalski, left, and Mikael Salonvaara received the 2024 ASHRAE Distinguished Service Award during the annual summer conference. Credit: ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Building equipment and envelope scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory were recognized for research excellence during the ASH  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: In 1543, Copernicus pitched the heliocentric idea that the Earth orbited the sun. His theory took 150 years to catch on and more than 400 years for the Vatican to officially accept it. Likewise, distinguished materials scientist Takeshi Egami has spent his career revealing the complex atomic structure of metallic glass and other liquids sometimes sharing theories wi  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Kashif Nawaz, distinguished researcher and section head for Building Technologies Research at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, or ASME. The Fellow grade recognizes outstanding engineering achievements for members with 10 or more years of active practice. Nawaz joined O  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: A key aspect of the project involved building a curved tunnel extension leading from the existing accelerator toward the location of the planned Second Target Station. Workers added about 3,000 square feet of concrete tunnel, capped off by an 18-foot-thick wall of more than 7,000 concrete blocks to provide radiation shielding during normal SNS beamline operations. O  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Three flights, five thousand miles and half a dozen clearances and permissions stood between Tetiana Maltseva and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. When she finally arrived at the lab to represent Ukraine at the 2024 Nuclear Energy Management School, her vision was clear. "I am here for career development, to expand my knowledge and to get   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education issued the following news: The Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program [science.osti.gov] is an opportunity for accomplished K-12 educators in in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to serve in national educational arenas in Washington, D.C. Throughout the 11-month fellowship, educators from all over the country apply their  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Through a new technical collaboration program, companies will be able to propose research projects that utilize the labs and expertise in ORNL's Grid Research Integration and Deployment Center. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy A new technical collaboration program at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will help businesses develo  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: A study led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory details how artificial intelligence researchers created an AI model to help identify new alloys used as shielding for housing fusion applications components in a nuclear fusion reactor. The findings mark a major step towards improving nuclear fusion facilities. This project began several years   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: ORNL staff removed and recycled more than 32,000 hard drives belonging to the Alpine high-performance storage system in preparation for building the lab's next world leading supercomputer. Credit: Angela Gosnell/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Ever wonder what happens to massive supercomputing systems when they're retired? Surprisingly, when it comes to the data, it's   more

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Sept. 19 (TNSres) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news: This year marks the 75th anniversary of NOAA's Air Resources Laboratory, located in College Park, Maryland with field stations in Tennessee, Idaho and Nevada. Here are six facts about the lab. ARL is one of NOAA's oldest labs, was a product of the Cold War. ARL's research focus is on the boundary layer, the part of the atmosphere from a few feet below the soil up to 2-3  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: While a robot vacuum is supposed to gather dirt, it may also gather pictures and blueprints of the house it cleans. A smart doorbell may be turned off right at the time when a homeowner wants a recording. Summer interns at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory recently dove into various smart devices to better understand cybersecurity vulnerabilit  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2024: Henry C. Leventis, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, announced today that he has submitted his resignation to President Biden effective October 4, 2024. "I am eternally grateful to President Biden, Attorney General Garland, and Senators Blackburn and Hagerty for the opportunity to lead the United States Attorney'  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Sept. 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee issued the following news release on Sept. 18, 2024: United States Attorney Kevin Ritz released the following statement today: "I have communicated to President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland that I am resigning as United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee effective September 18, 2024. It has been such a tremendous honor to serve our country in the U.S. At  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Sept. 21 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee issued the following news release: Effective September 19, 2024, First Assistant United States Attorney Reagan Taylor Fondren will succeed former United States Attorney Kevin G. Ritz as the Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee pursuant to the Vacancies Reform Act. Ms. Fondren has served as First Assistant since October 2022. Fondren, a native Memphian and graduat  more

JACKSON, Tennessee, Sept. 21 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee issued the following news release: Five men from South Texas were indicted in Jackson, Tennessee for their role in trafficking multiple kilograms of methamphetamine. On September 13, 2024, the Honorable S. Thomas Anderson sentenced the final defendant in the Western District of Tennessee. According to information presented in court, in August 2019, FBI-Jackson, Tennessee, working with FBI-McAl  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 18 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee issued the following news release: Wesley Olan Landers, 55, of Cumming, Georgia, and Jeffrey Scott Wells, 54, of Canton, Georgia, have been charged by felony information with conspiracy to obstruct justice and to commit perjury in connection with a $123 million contract to provide behavioral health services to Tennessee Department of Corrections ("TDOC") inmates, announced Thomas J. Jaworski,   more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee issued the following news release: On September 18, 2024, Melody Sasser, 48, of Knoxville, TN, was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 100 months by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, United States District Judge, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville. Following her imprisonment, Sasser will be on supervised release for three years. Sasser was   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: U2opia Technology has licensed Situ and Heartbeat, a package of technologies from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory that offers a new method for advanced cybersecurity monitoring in real time. Situ, which discovers and understands otherwise-undetectable events by analyzing security data, will go to the market through a commercial license. The   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: "It's always a real pleasure for us to get this one-on-one time live with the users," Cunningham said. "So many side conversations and problem-solving and troubleshooting conversations happen here. It's incredibly valuable to hold this year after year and have these personal connections with the user base." Users received facility updates on Orion, the input/outpu  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Three transportation researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been elevated to senior member grade of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE. Group leader Ross Wang and R&D staff member Adian Cook, both in Applied Research for Mobility Systems, received the honor along with Majbah Uddin, R&D staff member in  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Y-12 National Security Complex issued the following news release: * * * Y-12 employees have designated $1.4 million for organizations since fund's inception * * * Twenty-five East Tennessee nonprofits received a total of $180,000 from the Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS) Community Investment Fund at a ceremony on Sept. 17. In 2015, CNS worked with the East Tennessee Foundation (ETF) to create an innovative and effective me  more