Announcements

The 2009 Science and Energy Research Challenge (SERCh) Poster Competition showcases the research projects of DOE-funded undergraduate students and interns at the national laboratories. One-hundred student researchers will convene in Oak Ridge, Tennessee to present their research in poster form.

Cameron Tracy won the poster competition at SEARCh.  The poster title was: Phase Composition-Microstructure-Thermal Conductivity Relationships in MgO-Nd2Zr2O7Inert Matrix Composites based on his summer 2009 work at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  A pdf of the poster is available here.

October 30, 2009
Time: 9:30-11:30 AM
Location: Suite 101, National Security Education Center (LARP 1st Floor-IMMS)

Speaker: Robert B. Randall, School of Mechanical and Manufactuing Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Flyer available here.

The Office of Science has announced a new $12.5M Graduate Fellowship Program funded by the ARRA. Each of approximately 80 planned fellowships will be for $50,500 annually for three years.  Applications are through the DOE website at http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/SCGF.html.  The DOE press release is available here.