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Assistant Professor Siddharth Misra Receives Department of Energy Award to Study Fractures in Subsurface Rocks

Siddharth Misra, assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy, is a 2018 winner of the Early Career Research Program award from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Shining the Light: FSU Researchers Use Photons to Separate Metal Ions

A Florida State University research team is using a simple, readily available energy source to separate metal ions, a process that could help purify water or even recycle nuclear waste.

Neuroscientist Leads Unprecedented Research to Map Billions of Brain Cells

Reverse engineering the human brain is one of the great scientific challenges of our time, and scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory are combining new techniques in microscopy, neurobiology and computing to reveal the brain’s inner mechanisms in unprecedented detail.

Chemist Receives Department of Energy Award

Ming Lee Tang, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of California, Riverside, has received a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to continue her work on developing hybrid organic-inorganic materials that have applications in health care and the solar industry.

DOE Early Career Award for Elizabeth Biddinger’s CCNY Biomass Research

Elizabeth J. Biddinger, assistant professor of chemical engineering in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is one of 84 recipients nationwide of U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Awards announced today. She’ll receive $750,000 over five years for her research in the emerging field of biomass electroreduction.

Purdue Receives $2.6 Million DOE Grant for High-Energy Physics Research

Ongoing research in elementary particle physics will be expanded, thanks to a $2.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to fund Purdue University’s High Energy Physics Group.

New Photodetector Could Improve Night Vision, Thermal Sensing and Medical Imaging

Using graphene, one of science’s most versatile materials, engineers from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have invented a new type of photodetector that can work with more types of light than its current state-of-the-art counterparts. The device also has superior sensing and imaging capabilities.

Daniel Amador-Noguez Wins Department of Energy Early Career Award

The five-year, $750,000 grant will help the University of Wisconsin–Madison researcher and his team create new modeling tools that will help optimize the microbial production of biofuels and bioproducts.

Faulkner Receives DOE Early Career Award

Assistant Professor of Physics Thomas Faulkner has been selected by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science to receive an Early Career Award. The DOE Early Career Research Program, now in its ninth year, provides award recipients with significant funding over a five year period.

UMD Engineers, Colleagues Work to Triple the Energy Storage of Lithium-ion Batteries

A collaboration led by scientists at the University of Maryland (UMD)’s A. James Clark School of Engineering, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the U.S. Army Research Lab have developed and studied a new cathode material that could triple the energy density of lithium-ion battery electrodes.

Astronomer Alexie Leauthaud Wins DOE Early Career Award

Alexie Leauthaud, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, is among 84 scientists selected by the Department of Energy (DOE) to receive funding through DOE's Early Career Research Program. The award provides $750,000 over five years to support Leauthaud's research on dark energy.

WTAMU Professor Receives DOE Early Career Award

Dr. Naruki Hiranuma, assistant professor of environmental sciences at West Texas A&M University, is one of 84 scientists selected from across the nation to receive significant funding for research as a 2018 Early Career Award recipient through the DOE Office of Science.