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Camille Catolos shows off her certificate after winning 3rd place in the Computer Science and Information Management, and Data Science Poster Presentation, at the 2024 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM. Her poster described her CCI project in Summer 2023 with Mentor Dani Ushizima. (Photo credit: Princess Johanna Eusantos). Camille Catolos was raised in […]

Applications are currently being accepted for the Fall 2024 term of two undergraduate internship programs offered by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science: the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program and the Community College Internships (CCI) program. The application deadline is May 22, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. ET. Through SULI and CCI, undergraduate students and […]

Applications are currently being accepted for the Summer 2024 term of two undergraduate internship programs offered by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science: the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program and the Community College Internships (CCI) program. The application deadline is January 9, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. EST. Through SULI and CCI, undergraduate […]

Join us to learn more about the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Summer 2024 Community College Internships (CCI) and Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) programs! These stipend-based 10-week programs provide technical training and research opportunities at DOE national laboratories and other facilities. Register now to engage with lab recruiters and scientists and find your place for the Summer […]

The Workforce Development & Education Spring 2024 Offer Period is now open for SULI and CCI Programs. Mentors, please complete intern requests no later than 9 November 2023, when the first round offer period ends. For more information on these programs or how to request a ‘Mentor Account,’ please click here. 

In partnership with the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), WD&E co-hosted STEM Core intern Charlie Hoang in Summer 2023. In a recent article NERSC highlighted the experiences of several summer interns, including Charlie, who worked with mentor Elizabeth Bautista. Read more here!

Sinéad Griffin, a staff scientist in the Materials Sciences Division at the Molecular Foundry who is also a WD&E Mentor, has won a big award – it’s the Early Career Scientist Prize in Computational Physics from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. Sinéad has been a guest speaker many times since she was […]

On October 6, some of Berkeley Lab’s Workforce Development & Education staff traveled to Palm Springs to attend the annual American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) conference. Founded in 1977, AISES is a national nonprofit organization that focuses on increasing the representation of Indigenous peoples of North America and the Pacific Islands in science, […]

The DOE invites you to join this highly interactive event to learn more about the U.S. Department of Energy’s Summer 2023 Community College Internships (CCI) and Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) programs.

Two Lab employees, Daniela Leitner and Ehud Altman, have been elected as 2022 American Physical Society (APS) Fellows. Leitner is a former WD&E mentor.

Join Berkeley Lab colleagues and celebrate the achievements WD&E mentors, including David Brown, Sinead Griffin, Talita Perciano, Silvia Crivelli, Rebecca Abergel on Nov. 10, 2022. The ceremony will start at 3 p.m., either in the Building 50 auditorium, or at streaming.lbl.gov.

NERSC is proud to host the Quantum for Science day. This full day virtual event will offer a broad spectrum of speakers from industry and academia that will cover a wide range of topics in Quantum Information Science (QIS). The program includes a hands-on tutorial on running GPU-accelerated quantum simulations on Perlmutter, covers novel developments in […]

Are you interested in applying to be a part of the  Community College Internship program at one of the DOE National Labs? Do you have questions or need help with your application? Attend one of WDTS’ Workshops.

Are you interested in applying to be a part of the  Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship program at one of the DOE National Labs? Do you have questions or need help with your application? Attend one of our Workshops!

Are you interested in applying to be a part of the Visiting Faculty Program at one of the DOE National Labs? Do you have questions or need help with your application? Attend one of our Workshops! Register Here: https://lnkd.in/eJNAjerV

Applications for our Workforce Development & Education’s Summer 2023 #internships are now open! These are on-site for 10 weeks, running from June 5 to Aug 11. The application deadline is Jan 10. Learn more at https://education.lbl.gov/internships

See the Berkeley Lab SLAM finalists go head-to-head on Thursday, September 22! A panel of esteemed judges will determine the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prize winners, and the live audience will select the winner of the People’s Choice Award.

The Dept. of Energy Office of Science invites you to attend their virtual Summer Internship Fair on October 25. This highly interactive event will help participants learn more about the U.S. Department of Energy’s Summer 2023 Community College Internships (CCI) and Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) programs. These stipend-based 10-week programs provide technical training and […]

Interns and WD&E staff gathered virtually for the Summer 2022 Intern Poster Session.   On August 3, Workforce Development & Education hosted their largest virtual poster session yet! Over 270 attendees – including mentors, interns, friends, and family – tuned into the 2022 Summer Poster Session. WDTS Director Colette Flood started the session by acknowledging […]

  Workforce Development & Education hosted a GEM Leadership Virtual Summer Site Visit with (Clockwise from top left) Manager of Workforce Development & Education, Colette Flood; Communications Coordinator, Dr. Ingrid Ockert; GEM’s Client Relations Manager, Dr. Carrine Todman-Lewis; GEM’s CEO, Brennon Marcano;  GEM Fellow, Alexandra Grayson; GEM’s Executive Director of Client Relations, Dr. Marcus A. […]

A team of scientists from Denmark and the U.S, led by LBNL’s Jay Keasling, a WD&E mentor, have engineered yeast to produce the precursor molecules for a plant-derived anti-cancer drug.

Ben Cole, a WD&E mentor and biologist at the Joint Genome Insider, is featured on a recent episode of Genome Insider.

WD&E mentors, including Edward Barnard, Daniel Dwyer, Chen Fang, Carl Grace, Frances Houle, Gao Liu, Cynthia McMurray, and Aris Polyzos, are being honored with a 2022 R&D 100 Award. The award, presented by R&D Magazine and selected by an independent panel of judges, recognizes the year’s 100 most innovative and disruptive technology products from industry, […]

Berkeley Lab chemist Hugo Destaillats, the principal investigator of a recent study about third-hand smoke, is a WD&E mentor.

WD&E mentor Andrew Jones is featured in this Q&A about how scientists can help grid planners create a climate-resilient power system for the state of California.

WD&E STEM Education Specialist Laleh Coté stands with her poster at the Innovative Genomics Institute. On July 8, 2022, WD&E STEM Education Specialist Laleh Coté presented a selection of her dissertation research during the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI)’s poster session. Coté has 11 years of professional experience working in science education at Lawrence Berkeley National […]

Berkeley Lab spotlighted the work of Brett Helms and Kristin Persson, WD&E mentors and Molecular Foundry scientists, to explore the development of a new type of plastic.

Daniele Filippetto, a WD&E mentor and a staff scientist in the Advanced Light Source Accelerator Physics Division, has worked with his colleagues to develop a machine-learning platform that makes the algorithms that control particle beams and lasers smarter than ever before.

Bert de Jong, acting head of Berkeley Lab’s Computer Science Department and WD&E mentor, has been promoted to principal editor of Computer Physics Communications (CPC), an international journal and program library for computational physics and physical chemistry.

On June 24, Berkeley Lab’s K-12 Department hosted three speakers in the first session of their STEM Career Talks. Each themed session helps participants learn about the wide diversity of STEM professions. In the first session, K-12 STEM Education Program Director Faith Dukes talked with Laleh Coté, STEM Education Specialist, Workforce Development & Education, Berkeley […]

LBNL writer Ruby Barcklay talks to WD&E staff and interns about their experiences during the summer term.

Cameron Geddes, Director of the Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics (ATAP) Division and WD&E mentor, was recently profiled in We are Berkeley Lab.

Dr. Javier A. Ceja-Navarro, bioengineer at Berkeley Lab and WD&E mentor is just one of the speakers in Science at Cal’s Un vistazo al Laboratorio. 

Bhavna Arora is a research scientist and WD&E mentor in EESA’s Energy Geosciences Division who leads the Carbon Removal and Mineralization Program. She talked to EESA’s Lauren Core about her ongoing research on the use of MAR on agricultural lands and a recent publication she co-authored.

DOE Basic Energy Sciences – Early Career Network (BES ECN) is hosting a webinar about how to jump-start your career after school. Hear experts talk about journeys in industry, national lab, consulting, and entrepreneurship. Happening on Jul 12, 2022 01:00 PM.

K-12 has announced their 2022 STEM Career Talks series. These themed career talks allow anyone to learn about the wide diversity of STEM professions by hearing from experts in those fields. In each session, K-12 staffare joined by Berkeley Lab staff, Bay Area professionals, and other guest experts to talk about their careers and how […]

DOE Office of Science is hosting a 2022 Summer Virtual Graduate Student Recruitment Event and Fair. To be considered for participation, you need to complete a survey. The deadline to apply is June 29 at 5 p.m. ET.  

Join the After School Science Hour team on June 15 at 3pm. You’ll learn about the exciting world of super-absorbent polymers (found in both concrete and diapers!)

Arun Persaud is a staff scientist in Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics. He was a 2019 WD&E Outstanding Mentor.

Three scientists at Berkeley Lab have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science to receive funding through the Early Career Research Program (ECRP). In addition, three faculty scientists with joint appointments at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley will receive ECRP funding through their UC Berkeley affiliations. Matt Pyle, Benjamin Nachman, and Antoine […]

WD&E Outstanding Mentor Tracy Mattox, a scientific engineering associate at the Molecular Foundry, was recently profiled in 3Q4.

Sinéad Griffin is a Staff Scientist at the Molecular Foundry and a WD&E mentor. In this recent Irish Times article, Griffin talks about the importance of mentoring.

Janique C. Ernest has been hired to serve as Workforce Development & Education’s Internship Program Assistant. In her previous role as an executive business office assistant, she successfully coordinated a vast array of national conferences, training sessions, group events, and executive meetings. At WD&E, Janique supports Nakeiah Harrell, Internship Program Manager. She facilitates WD&E operations, […]

Colin Ophus, a staff scientist at the Molecular Foundry and WD&E mentor, has won the 2022 Burton 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).

 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 […]

Deepika Awasthi, a LBNL research scientist and WD&E mentor, was profiled for her work on Berkeley Lab’s Carbon Negative Initiative

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.

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.

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.  

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.

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.

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 […]

April 28, 2022– It is with great sadness that Workforce Development & Education (WD&E) announces the passing of Zach Anderson, a former SULI intern who worked at Berkeley Lab during the Fall 2013 and Fall 2015 terms. He worked under the mentorship of Peter Ercius and Colin Ophus, who are both Staff Scientists at the […]

Former WD&E mentor Mike Gerhardt was featured in the latest episode of Berkeley Lab’s podcast, “A Day in the Half-Life.” He talks about the exciting potential of energy storage.

A recent study led by Berkeley Lab scientist and SULI mentor Nick Bouskill focuses on how Arctic biological systems respond to wildfire.

Celebrate Earth Day across all the national labs, including Berkeley Lab, with this special livestream.

On April 26th, at 10 AM, WD&E staff will present at a DOE webinar about opportunities at Berkeley Lab.

K-12 Director Faith Dukes was recently profiled on BioCom California’s webpage.

Eoin Brodie and Arun Persaud, two Berkeley Lab scientists and WD&E mentors, have teamed up to create a method for measuring carbon in soil without disturbing the ground around it.

Haruko Wainwright, a WD&E mentor and EESA scientist, is the lead author on a new paper about watershed function.

Patrick Dobson, a WD&E mentor and EESA scientist, was recently interviewed about his work on lithium extraction for CapRadio.

Dr. Bhavna Arora, a WD&E mentor and EESA scientist, was recently featured on Cal’s Midday Science Cafe. She focuses on agricultural managed aquifer recharge, a strategy where farmers intentionally flood croplands to refill underlying pools of water. To listen to a recording of her talk, follow this link.

In this recap of a recent journal article, Kathy Kincade explains the origins of hydrogen cells and how supercomputers can help researchers calculate their durability. WD&E mentor and fuel cell technologies lab program manager Adam Weber is featured.

Multiple WD&E mentors, including Jay Keasling and Edward Baidoo, are mentioned in this article about the origins of the Agile BioFoundry

(from left to right:) Ping Ge, Allison Truhlar, Jan Tyler, and Yolanda White The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science (SC) is the largest federal sponsor of basic research in the physical sciences. Every year, in collaboration with DOE national laboratories, staff from the Office of Science’s Office of Workforce Development for Teachers […]

Argonne National Laboratory will host a discussion on Achieving Equitable Representation for Women of Color at Our National Labs on March 29 at 11 PT. The panel discussion includes Berkeley Lab’s Daniela Ushizima, Staff Scientist in the Computing Sciences Area and a WD&E mentor.

Researchers at the BELLA Center are researching a new form of radiation therapy. A new paper from the team shows that a new technique called FLASH radiotherapy leads to higher survival of normal cells compared with cancerous cells. Team members Kei Nakamura and Eleanor Blakely are WD&E mentors. WD&E mentor Cameron Geddes, director of ATAPD […]

Visible Spectrum is a series to spotlight talented and dedicated women employees across the Lab. Xiaoye (Sherry) Li is a senior scientist, WD&E mentor, and the group leader of scalable solvers in the Applied Math and Computational Research Division.

The Berkeley Lab K-12 STEM Education and Outreach Programs Team, is seeking volunteers for Science en Acción (SeA) – a new three-day camp for English-learning and Spanish-English bilingual high school students.

Did you miss Brieanna Wright’s presentation for the African American Employee’s Resource Group? You can catch up with this recording.

Join WD&E mentor Sinead Griffin on Monday, March 7, 2022 for her lecture, “The Unbearable Lightness of Dark Matter.”

Susan Hubbard, the founding Associate Laboratory Director (ALD) for the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) and WD&E mentor, left Berkeley Lab to begin a new role as the Deputy Laboratory Director for Science and Technology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) on March 1.

On March 8 and 9, Berkeley Lab will host the National Energy Storage Summit, which will convene and connect national and regional thought leaders across industry, government, communities, and the research enterprise to catalyze solutions and partnerships around specific challenges to America’s energy storage future.

In the latest Basics2Breakthroughs episode, scientist and WD&E mentor Michael Whittaker develops tools and methods to view mineral resources in new ways, zooming in to the level of atoms to inspire ideas that will help transition towards sustainable extraction of critical elements like lithium.

Julie Chao writes about how Berkeley Lab is working to better understand California’s Salton Sea’s geothermal lithium resources. Pat Dobson, a WD&E mentor, leads the project.

A new fungal strain has been discovered in a spacecraft assembly facility and named after a long-time Berkeley Lab microbiologist and WD&E mentor, Tamas Torok.

On February 17, 2022, at 1:00 PM, Carol Burns, Deputy Lab Director, will share recent Lab highlights with the LBNL Retiree Association (EX-Ls), as well as her observations from her initial months at Berkeley Lab. She will discuss some of the Lab’s goals for 2022.

An international research team that includes Berkeley Lab scientists and WD&E mentors Alan Poon and Bjoern Lehnert, has established a new upper limit of 0.8 electron volts (eV) for the mass of the neutrino, a milestone that will bear on future discoveries in nuclear and particle physics, and cosmology. Poon and Lehnert are interviewed.

The Office of Science has designed an assortment of fun #ScienceValentines to send to your friends.

In a recent profile for We are Berkeley Lab, Yin Yin, a facilities structural engineer at Berkeley Lab, encouraged scientists to support WD&E’s programming.

The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) is hosting a research-based challenge for undergraduate students. Students will create a video for a hypothetical museum exhibit to teach the public the basics and applications of QIST. Winners will receive a $5,000 scholarship. The deadline for this competition is Thursday, March 31, 2022, and winners […]

On Wednesday, February 23 at noon, WD&E’s Brieanna Wright will deliver a lecture for the African American Employees Resource Group. She will speak about her own journey to Berkeley Lab.