Colin Ophus, a staff scientist at the Molecular Foundry and WD&E mentor, has won the 2022 Burton Award.
Archives for May 2022
WD&E Mentor receives award
Ravi Prasher, associate laboratory director of the Energy Technologies Area and senior scientist in the Thermal Energy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), will receive the 2022 Heat Transfer Memorial Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Sharing Knowledge: Recapping WD&E’s Spring 2022 Poster Session
Interns and WD&E staff gathered virtually for the Spring 2022 Intern Poster Session. On April 26, 2022, 16 interns from Workforce Development & Education (WD&E) programs gathered together over ZOOM. Over the course of 16 weeks, they collaborated with mentors from across Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) on projects that ranged from creating computer […]
WD&E mentor profiled
Deepika Awasthi, a LBNL research scientist and WD&E mentor, was profiled for her work on Berkeley Lab’s Carbon Negative Initiative
WD&E mentor talks about the hydrogen
Ahmet Kusoglu, staff scientist in the Energy Conversion Group at the Berkeley Lab and WD&E mentor, is working to demystify the conversation surrounding hydrogen colors in an upcoming webinar hosted by the Electrochemical Society. The free one-hour presentation was held March 23 at 11 a.m. PST.
BLUR mentor elected to AAAS
Alessandra Lanzara, a senior faculty scientist in the Materials Sciences Division and a BLUR mentor, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
SULI mentor publishes study on DNA
Gary Karpen, who is a SULI mentor and a senior scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Biosciences Area, is an author of a study describing the centromere sequence map generated by the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium’s T2T-CHM13 project.
K-12 Director speaks to EX-Ls
K-12 Director Faith Dukes will be speaking, via ZOOM to the LBNL Retirees Association (EX-Ls). She will talk about K-12’s exciting programs. The lecture will be on May 19. Attendees can join at 12:30; the talk will start at 1:00 PM.
WD&E mentor elected into NAS
Joseph W. Orenstein, a senior faculty scientist in the Materials Sciences Division and WD&E mentor, has been elected into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
SCGSR Selects 80 Outstanding U.S. Graduate Students
The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science has selected 80 graduate students representing 27 states for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program’s 2021 Solicitation 2 cycle.
Awareness, Interest, and Access Technical Assistance Webinar with Berkeley Lab
On April 26, 2022, administrators from the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity (ED) partnered with staff from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), to run a webinar for the general public about LBNL’s many collaborative business opportunities and partnerships. The well-attended Awareness, Interest, and Access Technical Assistance Webinar brought together a wide variety of […]
