Other Awards and Honors
2012 Awards
Heejin Cho Receives Applied Energy Editor's 2011 Best Reviewers Award (announced 7/17/2012)
PNNL Researchers Awarded Best Paper at International Conference (announced 6/21/2012)
Guopeng Liu Receives Building and Environment Best Paper Award (announced 4/24/2012)
Article by Jian Tian, Praveen Thallapally and Pete McGrail Honored by CrystEngComm (announced 4/24/2012)
PNNL Team Garners ISEC Best Poster Award (announced 3/7/2012)
Paula Linnen wins ATHENA Leadership Award (announced 1/30/2012)
PNNL Team wins R&D 100 Award for Dynaforge technology (announced 1/24/2012)
2012 Fellowships
Sotiris Xantheas Named Visiting Fellow at German Research Institute (announced 6/20/2012)
2012 Impact on Scientific Community
Johannes Lercher Selected for Prestigious Lectureship in China (announced 7/11/2012)
Johannes Lercher Invited to Be First Vladimir Haensel Invitational Lecturer in Catalysis (announced 7/11/2012)
PNNL Team Credited with Third Most Downloaded Article (announced 6/1/2012)
Catalysis Team Edits, Contributes to Special Issue on Diesel Emission Control (announced 5/1/2012)
PNNL Researchers Invited to Join International Exascale I/O Interface Working Group (announced 3/12/2012)
Birgit Schwenzer Selected as MRS Volume Organizer (announced 3/12/2012)
Greg Patton Recognized by INTERPOL for international contribution (announced 3/8/2012)
Janetos Featured Speaker at Glen Gerberg Weather and Climate Summit (announced 1/1/2012)
2011 Awards
PNNL Senior Research Scientist Receives 2011 Stewardship Award (announced 12/13/2011)
Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology (HE&IT) magazine honors Elizabeth Stephens, Maria Luna, and Daniel Chavarria (announced 10/26/2011)
PNNL receives 2011 Candidate Experience Award (announced 10/17/2011)
Lab Recognized with InformationWeek 500 Honor (announced 10/12/2011)
Climate and Aircraft Team Receive NASA Group Achievement Award (announced 8/1/2011)
Jae Edmonds Receives Highest Battelle Honor (announced 8/1/2011)
Allison Campbell, EMSL Director, presented Pioneer of Science Award for scientific, mentoring contributions (announced 7/1/2011)
PNNL Announces Laboratory and Battelle Fellows for 2011 (announced 7/1/2011)
Oreste Villa and Antonino Tumeo Win NVIDIA CUDA Research Center (announced 6/1/2011)
Wayne Martin named WSU TC Distinguished Alumni of the Year (announced 6/1/2011)
Whitney Colella invited to participate in NAE Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (announced 6/1/2011)
Jeff Estes Awarded 2011 Golden Gavel by the Washington Association of School Administrators (announced 6/1/2011)
Deb Gracio Selected WSU 2011 Woman of Distinction (announced 3/1/2011)
Elizabeth Stephens named among Top 200 Most Influential Hispanics in Technology (announced 3/1/2011)
PNNL Program Support Lands NNSA Coveted Project Management Award (announced 2/1/2011)
Jay Grate Honored as Battelle Distinguished Inventor (announced 2/1/2011)
PNNL Receives Two Gordon Battelle Prizes (announced 1/1/2011)
EMSL's Don Baer Receives Riviere Prize (announced 1/1/2011)
Elizabeth Stephens, Maria Luna, and Daniel Chavarría Named in Top 40 Under 40 (announced 1/1/2011)
2011 Elected Positions and Offices
Guang Lin Chairs Panel at "Challenges in Geometry, Analysis, and Computation: High Dimensional Synthesis" (announced 11/9/2011)
David Atkinson Co-chairs Gordon Research Conference (announced 6/1/2011)
Bill Morgan Elected to Main Commission of International Commission on Radiological Protection (announced 5/1/2011)
Pak Chung Wong selected member of editorial board for IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (announced 4/1/2011)
Nathan Baker appointed Editor-in-Chief (announced 4/1/2011)
Xuesong Zhang Named JAWRA Associate Editor (announced 4/1/2011)
Robbie Tidwell - Elected to IHMM Board of Directors (announced 1/1/2011)
Jerry Johnson named to advisory board for InformationWeek (announced 1/1/2011)
Bruce Napier elected to NCRP Board of Directors (announced 1/1/2011)
2011 Impact on Scientific Community
Adolfy Hoisie Serves as Guest Editor for Two Special Journal Issues (announced 12/1/2011)
Vanessa Bailey Appointed to Soil Science Journal Editorial Board (announced 12/1/2011)
Josh Adkins to Participate in Keck Futures Initiative Conference (announced 10/1/2011)
Greg Exarhos to Present Brazilian Scientific Congress Plenary Lecture (announced 8/1/2011)
Richard Moss Appointed Chair of NRC Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change (announced 8/1/2011)
Chris Mundy Gives Plenary Lecture at Theoretical Chemistry Conference (announced 8/1/2011)
Heida Diefenderfer, Richard Anderson and Joshua Adkins invited to National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference (announced 6/1/2011)
Elizabeth Malone Appointed to NRC Committee on Himalayan Glaciers, Climate Change, and Implications for Downstream Populations (announced 6/1/2011)
Jim Fredrickson and Moe Khaleel Elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences (announced 6/1/2011)
Changyong Zhang, Mart Oostrom, Nancy Hess and Thomas Wietsma author paper selected one of "10" Best Papers of 2010" by Environmental Science & Technology journal (announced 5/2/2011)
Guang Lin invited to Give Poster Presentation at SciDAC Conference (announced 5/1/2011)
John Holladay named FY10 PNNL Inventor of the Year (announced 5/1/2011)
Mark Murphy: Article and cover photo in Fertility and Sterility Journal (announced 3/1/2011)
2010 Awards
Wally Weimer accepts NWFPA 2010 Cluster Partner of the Year (announced 11/1/2011)
Dick Smith Named R&D's 2010 Scientist of the Year (announced 11/1/2010)
Tarang Khangaonkar, Zhaoqing Yang and Stephen Breithaupt contribute to award-winning fish protection project (announced 10/1/2010)
Jennifer States Earns 2010 Rising Star Award from Women of Wind Energy (announced 10/1/2010)
Jennifer States earns Women of Wind Energy's 2010 Rising Star Award (announced 10/1/2010)
Four PNNL Scientists Elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences (announced 9/1/2010)
Zachara Receives Highest Battelle Honor (announced 9/1/2010)
Nathan Baker Receives National Cancer Institute's Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG ) Connecting Collaborators Award (announced 9/1/2010)
Jewel Adgerson Receives Technology Rising Star Award (announced 8/1/2010)
Terence Critchlow invited to participate in 2010 NAE Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (announced 6/1/2010)
Dave Heldebrant Named Among Best and Brightest Innovators in the Energy Labs (announced 6/1/2010)
Dick Smith Named One of Innovation Magazine's "Best and the Brightest" (announced 6/1/2010)
Guo-Shuh John Lee honored with Parravano Award for Excellence in Catalysis R&D (announced 2/1/2010)
2010 Elected Positions and Offices
Matthew Barnett and John Glissmeyer Part of ANSI N13.1 Committee (announced 12/1/2010)
Jim Fredrickson and Allan Konopka Join Editorial (announced 10/1/2010)
David Koppenaal Appointed to Editorial Board of Metallomics (announced 10/1/2010)
Dick Smith Elected to Second Term on HUPO Board (announced 10/1/2010)
Chuck Henager Joins Advisory Editorial Board of The Journal of Nuclear Materials (announced 10/1/2010)
Charles Long to Serve on The Open Atmospheric Science Journal Editorial Board (announced 10/1/2010)
Cesar Izaurralde Appointed as Editorial Board Member of a New Peer-Reviewed Journal (announced 9/1/2010)
Sriram Somasundaram selected ABET Program Evaluator (announced 9/1/2010)
Darrell Fisher invited member of AREVA Med's High-Level Science Advisory Committee (announced 8/1/2010)
Evangelina Shreeve Named to Governing Board for Pacific Northwest Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (announced 8/1/2010)
Subhash Singhal Elected to WSAS Board (announced 8/1/2010)
Guang Lin Invited to Serve on Editorial Board for International Publication (announced 7/1/2010)
Chuck Long Appointed to International Radiation Commission Committee (announced 6/1/2010)
Cheryl Cejka appointed to two positions in technology transfer world (announced 6/1/2010)
Dehong Hu Selected Senior Editor for International Journal (announced 5/1/2010)
Wayne Martin named Trustee of the Year (announced 5/1/2010)
Mikhail Alnajjar Named to Editorial Board of Safety and Health Journal (announced 4/1/2010)
Bill Morgan Elected to NCRP Board of Directors (announced 4/1/2010)
Ward TeGrotenhuis named co-director of the Microproducts Breakthrough Institute (announced 2/1/2010)
2010 Impact on Scientific Community
L. Ruby Leung and Jae Edmonds to Serve on NRC Study Committee (announced 12/1/2010)
John Wacker Selected for National Academies Committee (announced 12/1/2010)
Bill Morgan and Marianne Sowa Honored by Mutation Research (announced 12/1/2010)
Kleese Van Dam Invited to Talk on Real-Time Analysis at NOBUGS (announced 10/1/2010)
Zelenyuk Invited to Speak at National Academies Workshop (announced 10/1/2010)
Morris Bullock edited a book on replacing precious metal catalysts with iron, nickel and other earth-abundant metals (announced 10/1/2010)
Charles Peden and Janos Szanyi Serve as Guest Editors on Special Issue of Physical Chemistry Journal (announced 10/1/2010)
Koppenaal Co-Editor-in-Chief of New Edition of Spectrometry/Spectroscopy Encyclopedia (announced 9/1/2010)
International Climate Change Assessment Gains Five PNNL Scientists (announced 8/1/2010)
Satish Nune and Praveen Thallapally Research featured on cover of Chemical Communications (announced 7/1/2010)
Carolyn Pearce Writes Chapter on Microbial Production of Metalloid Nanoparticles (announced 6/1/2010)
Research featured on cover of Dalton Transactions (announced 6/1/2010)
Evangelina Shreeve named to National Science Foundation National Girls Collaborative Project (announced 6/1/2010)
XSCI Invited to Give Presentations at IPDPS Conference (announced 5/1/2010)
Steven Smith Served Key Role in National Academies Workshop on Climate Change Mitigation (announced 5/1/2010)
Marianne Sowa Serves as Guest Editor for Special Issue of Mutation Research (announced 4/1/2010)
Jim Dooley Edits Special Issue of the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control (announced 3/1/2010)
Article on Molecular Simulation of Water Named Highly Innovative by Journal (announced 3/1/2010)
Carol Kessler Selected for National Academy Committee (announced 3/1/2010)
Liem Dang Named Adjunct Professor at Australian University (announced 1/1/2010)
Frank Greitzer Authors Book Chapter on Combat Identification (announced 1/1/2010)
Jian Ma Co-authors New Book (announced 1/1/2010)
2009 Awards
Kerri Pratt Awarded NOAA Fellowship (announced 11/1/2009)
Former PNNL Interns Receive Honors for Research (announced 11/1/2009)
Carbon capture shows major potential in China (announced 10/1/2009)
PNNL Researchers Honored by Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (announced 10/1/2009)
Jim Thomas Receives Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation 2009 Homeland Security Award (announced 9/1/2009)
Wei-Jun Qian Receives New Innovator Award from NIH Director to Develop Dramatically Improved Biomarker Research and Clinical Diagnostic Tools (announced 9/1/2009)
Ted Poston earns 2009 Battelle Community Spirit Award (announced 8/1/2009)
Bonnie Williams Recognized with 2009 National Mentor Award (announced 8/1/2009)
Alexandre Tartakovsky Wins Presidential Early Career Award (announced 7/1/2009)
Bill Weber Named Distinguished Alumnus by University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (announced 6/1/2009)
Kim Fowler Receives LASER Science Education Advocate Award (announced 5/18/2009)
Janos Szanyi Wins Fulbright Fellowship to Conduct Catalytic Research in Hungary (announced 4/1/2009)
Sotiris Xantheas Receives Humboldt Award to Collaborate in Germany (announced 4/1/2009)
Xin Sun Receives Alumna Award (announced 3/1/2009)
Jerry Posakony elected Eminent Member of Eta Kappa Nu (announced 1/1/2009)
PNNL Team Selected for 2009 Incite Award - Earns 4 Million Hours on Supercomputers to Study Water's Chemistry (announced 1/1/2009)
2009 Elected Positions and Offices
PNNL principal engineer Steve Widergren has been appointed plenary chair of the newly formed Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) (announced 12/1/2009)
Jerome Fast Appointed NCAR Affiliate Scientist (announced 11/1/2009)
Ted Bowyer Appointed Member on National Academy of Sciences Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Panel (announced 8/1/2009)
Irv Schultz Nominated to NRC Committee on Tetrachloroethylene (announced 6/1/2009)
Dick Smith Named Editor-in Chief of Journal of Proteomics & Bioinformatics (announced 6/1/2009)
Joshua Adkins Named to NIH Study Section (announced 5/1/2009)
Liem Dang Serves as a Guest Editor of Special Issue of Physical Chemistry Journal (announced 5/1/2009)
Todd Halter Appointed to SciDB Advisory Board (announced 2/1/2009)
Steven Wiley Invited to Join National Research Council Review Panel (announced 2/1/2009)
Yanwen Zhang joins Editorial Board of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research (announced 1/1/2009)
Kelly Sullivan Elected to Governing Board of Council for Chemical Research (announced 1/1/2009)
Bruce D. Kay Invited to Join Journal of Chemical Physics Editorial Board (announced 1/1/2009)
Wenning Liu Appointed to the Editorial Board of Advances in OptoElectronics (announced 1/1/2009)
Eric Richman Joins Canadian Task Group on Lighting and Electrical Power (announced 1/1/2009)
2009 Impact on Scientific Community
First Book on FAIMS Published by PNNL Scientist Alexandre A. Shvartsburg
Field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry explored in CRC Press publication
(announced 12/1/2009)
Jay Grate Named Battelle Distinguished Inventor (announced 12/1/2009)
Bill Weber Invited Speaker for National Academy of Sciences Committee (announced 12/1/2009)
Carolyn Pearce Appointed Senior Lecturer at University of Manchester (announced 11/1/2009)
Xiao-Dong Zhou invited to NAE's 2010 Indo-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (announced 11/1/2009)
Xiao-Dong Zhou invited to NAE's 2010 Indo-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (announced 11/1/2009)
Frank Greitzer Invited to Present at National Academies Workshop on Usability, Security, and Privacy of Computer Systems (announced 7/1/2009)
Jason Zhang Invited to write a chapter for the Handbook of Battery Materials (announced 7/1/2009)
Marvin Warner Selected to Attend the 2009 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (announced 6/1/2009)
David Atkinson Vice Chair of Gordon Research Conference Entitled: "Detecting Illicit Substances: Explosives and Drugs" (announced 6/1/2009)
Jim Amonette Writes Chapter in New Biochar Book (announced 6/1/2009)
PNNL's Tony Janetos Co-authors White House Climate Report (announced 6/1/2009)
Xiao-Dong Zhou Leads Organization of Important Symposium at Electrochemical Meeting (announced 5/1/2009)
Yuehe Lin Co-Edits Nanotechnology Book (announced 5/1/2009)
Tim Scheibe Chosen Darcy Distinguished Lecturer (announced 5/1/2009)
Jason McDermott Plays Major Role in Book Publication (announced 4/1/2009)
Julia Laskin Honored in Prestigious Russian Journal (announced 3/1/2009)
Yanwen Zhang to Serve as Guest Professor at Peking University (announced 3/1/2009)
Bill Morgan Named Scientific Director of NASA Summer School (announced 2/1/2009)
Changing Paradigm of Data-Intensive Computing Makes Journal Cover (announced 1/1/2009)
Wayne Martin Recognized as One of America's 2008 Most Accomplished African American Engineers (announced 1/1/2009)
2008 Awards
Wei-Jun Qian Named "Rising Star" by Genome Technology (announced 12/1/2008)
Kevin Rosso named Virginia Tech Collefge of Science's Outstanding Alumnus (announced 12/1/2008)
PNNL Researchers Earned Top Honors at SuperComputing Conference (announced 11/1/2008)
Alan Waltar Receives World Nuclear Association (WNA) Award for "Distinguished Contribution to Peaceful Worldwide use of Nuclear Technology" (announced 9/1/2008)
Gary Spanner Named Outstanding Alumnus of the Year by CBC Foundation (announced 9/1/2008)
Subhash Singhal receives the 2008 Grove Medal (announced 8/1/2008)
EMSL researcher to receive International Immunology's Outstanding Merit Award (announced 7/1/2008)
Aircraft Operations Receive Gold Standard Recognition (announced 7/1/2008)
Yong Wang awarded 2008 Distinguished Alumni Award (announced 6/1/2008)
Zhenrong Zhang Receives M.T. Thomas Award for Postdoctoral Research (announced 5/1/2008)
Dick Weller Earns Honorary Professorship for International Scientific Collaboration (announced 4/1/2008)
Yanwen Zhang Invited to Attend Prestigious Kavli Symposium in Germany (announced 3/1/2008)
Ron Walters receives National Intelligence Medal of Achievement (announced 1/1/2008)
2008 Elected Positions and Offices
Jason Tomlinson to Lead Interagency Coordinating Committee for Airborne Geosciences Research and Application (announced 12/1/2008)
Michael Dupuis Appointed to Journal of Physical Chemistry Advisory Board (announced 11/1/2008)
Dave Koppenaal to Serve on International Advisory Board for New Journal (announced 11/1/2008)
John McCoy elected vice president of regional network consortium (announced 11/1/2008)
Baer Named Reviews Editor for Journal (announced 10/1/2008)
Steven Baker Appointed Chair of ANSI N 13.6 Working Group (announced 10/1/2008)
Jim Dooley Appointed Associate Editor of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Journal (announced 10/1/2008)
Steven C. Baker Appointed Chair of ANSI N 13.6 Working Group (announced 10/1/2008)
Mike Schwenk appointed to board of directors for Washington Technology Center (announced 9/1/2008)
Steven Wiley appointed to Burroughs Wellcome Fund Advisory Committee (announced 7/1/2008)
Katrina Waters Appointed to Editorial Board of Toxicology Journal (announced 7/1/2008)
Yuehe Lin Named to Second Term on Advisory Board for Chemistry Journal Talanta (announced 7/1/2008)
Blaine Metting Appointed to Fourth Term on Oregon Bioscience Association Board (announced 5/1/2008)
Paul Stansbury Elected President of the American Academy of Health Physics (announced 5/1/2008)
Tom Metz Named to Proteomic Insights Editorial Board (announced 5/1/2008)
Moe Khaleel Appointed to Editorial Board of Computers, Materials, & Continua (announced 4/1/2008)
Subhash Singhal appointed to Executive Advisory Board (announced 2/1/2008)
2008 Impact on Scientific Community
Justin Teeguarden on NRC Nanomaterial Report Committee (announced 12/1/2008)
Singhal Named Founding Member of Washington Science Academy (announced 11/1/2008)
Scott Baker appointed by NAS as delegate of U.S. National Committee to the International Union of Microbiological Societies (announced 9/1/2008)
Bruce Garrett Advises National Science Foundation Program (announced 8/1/2008)
Tony Janetos on climate change impacts (announced 7/1/2008)
Institute of Physics recognizes article by Scott Chambers for potential to advance frontiers of materials research (announced 7/1/2008)
Eric Smith Selected for Prestigious NAE Symposium (announced 7/1/2008)
Yanwen Zhang invited to 2008 German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (announced 6/26/2008)
Justin Teeguarden Named to NAS Nanoscience Review Committee (announced 5/1/2008)
Bruce Napier Contributes to NAS Committee Report (announced 5/1/2008)
Ian Gorton Provides Leadership for Special Edition of Computer Magazine (announced 4/1/2008)
James Dooley give Capitol Hill Briefing on Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies (announced 4/1/2008)
Kevin Rosso Writes Crystal Chemistry Article for International Journa (announced 3/1/2008)
Tom Sanquist appointed as human factors expert to National Academy of Engineering Panel (announced 2/20/2008)
Liz Stephens Liz Stephens Honored for Engineering Achievements and Contributions to MESA Program (announced 2/1/2008)
Steven Wiley Pens Monthly Column for The Scientist (announced 2/1/2008)
2007 Awards
Jack Slicks receives Director's Award for Individual Excellence from DOE Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (announced 12/1/2007)
Wayne Martin Named Black Engineer of the Year for Community Service (announced 11/5/2007)
Doug McMakin wins Christopher Columbus Homeland Security Award (announced 10/15/2007)
Dale Anderson wins Frank Wilcoxon Prize for best practical application paper in Technometrics (announced 10/1/2007)
Lee Burger wins Glen T. Seaborg Award for Contributions to Actinide Separations (announced 9/12/2007)
Elizabeth Stephens named most promising Hispanic engineer (announced 8/1/2007)
Moe Khaleel Receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Computational Engineering and Fuel Cell Technologies (announced 8/1/2007)
Subhash Singhal Wins Esteemed Fuel Cell Technology Award (announced 8/1/2007)
Robbie Tidwell receives Academy of Certified Hazardous Materials Managers' Champion of Excellence Award (announced 7/1/2007)
Stephen Tratz wins first-place in 2007 SemEval international competition (Computational Linguistics) (announced 5/1/2007)
Stephen Tratz wins first-place in 2007 SemEval international competition (Computational Linguistics) (announced 4/1/2007)
Awards presented for outstanding education contributions (announced 4/1/2007)
PNNL Staff Honored for Energy Smart Technologies (announced 4/1/2007)
Ram Devanathan Receives Prestigious Invite to International Engineering Symposium (announced 3/1/2007)
Lai-Sheng Wang Receives 2006-2007 Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award (announced 2/18/2007)
Nano-Tech Team Wins Environmental Business Journal Award for Sensor (announced 1/17/2007)
2007 Elected Positions and Offices
Jeff Stevenson Appointed Associate Editor by the American Ceramic Society (announced 12/7/2007)
Charles Long Appointed to The Open Ocean Engineering Journal Editorial Advisory Board (announced 12/1/2007)
Mariah Zabriskie named standing chair to the National GEM Consortium Executive Committee (announced 11/30/2007)
Mark Engelhard Appointed Associate Editor for Surface Science Spectra (announced 11/5/2007)
Kelly Sullivan Elected to Council for Chemical Research (announced 11/5/2007)
Lai-Sheng Wang Appointed to Editorial Board for The Journal of Physical Chemistry (announced 11/5/2007)
Dick Smith Elected to HUPO Council (announced 10/15/2007)
Nik Qafoku to Serve Three-Year Term as Associate Editor on Editorial Board of the Soil Science Society of America Journal (announced 6/1/2007)
James R. Campbell appointed Associate Professor of Global Health at George Washington University School of Global Health and Health Services (announced 4/1/2007)
Wayne Hess to Serve on Editorial Board for Laser Chemistry (announced 4/1/2007)
Darrell Fisher to Advise Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the Use of Medical Isotopes (announced 3/21/2007)
Jim Dooley Appointed to Program Committee on Greenhouse Gas Technologies (announced 3/12/2007)
Vanessa Bailey Joins Editorial Board of Soil Biology and Biochemistry (announced 3/8/2007)
Metting Named Chair of International Scientific Network (announced 2/23/2007)
Michel Dupuis Named Specialist Editor for Computer Physics Journal (announced 2/23/2007)
Governor appoints Gary Spanner to 3-year term on Sirti board of directors (announced 1/22/2007)
Jonathan Young appointed to the National Research Council Standing Committee on Operational Science and Technology Options for Defeating Improvised Explosive Devices. (announced 1/8/2007)
Yanwen Zhang Receives Guest Professor Appointment at Peking University (announced 1/1/2007)
2007 Impact on Scientific Community
Don Stevens identified as one of top innovators and entrepreneurs for 2007 (announced 12/17/2007)
Dick Smith named to Scientific American 50 list of outstanding leaders (announced 12/10/2007)
Chuck Long Co-author on "Hot" Paper about Solar Brightening (announced 11/5/2007)
PNNL Researchers Contribute to Nobel Peace Prize for Climate Change Awareness (announced 10/25/2007)
Leung, Janetos, and Edmonds Invited to National Academies Workshop on Climate (announced 10/19/2007)
Sotiris Xantheas Selected for Prominent Theoretical Chemistry Lecture (announced 10/1/2007)
Dale Anderson was awarded the Frank Wilcoxon Priz (announced 10/1/2007)
Steve Ghan invited to speak at Gordon Research Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry (announced 9/10/2007)
Pak Chung Wong participates in international seminar on information visualization (announced 9/1/2007)
Jerome Fast invited to speak at the Gordon Research Conference (announced 8/1/2007)
Subhash Singhal Appointed to National Academies' Committee (announced 7/1/2007)
Sotiris Xantheas Receives Marie Curie Fellowship - International Award to Share Expertise Abroad (announced 7/1/2007)
PNNL Staff Members Help Shape Global Understanding of Climate Change (announced 6/1/2007)
Bob Scherpelz Receives Award for Article in Russian Publication (announced 6/1/2007)
PNNL Scientist Selected for National Engineering Symposium (announced 6/1/2007)
Thallapally and McGrail Article Places in April's Top Ten accessed on Chemical Communications' website (announced 5/25/2007)
Paul Bredt and Terri Stewart Pave the Way for DOE Roadmap (announced 5/1/2007)
Xiao-Dong Zhou Presented Nanomaterials Knowledge at International Forum (announced 4/1/2007)
Shawn Kathmann invited to contribute to the new perspectives issue of Theoretical Chemistry Accounts (announced 4/1/2007)
PNNL receives award from International Symposium on Spectral Sensing Research (announced 4/1/2007)
Biosensor Article Made Analytical Chemistry's Most Cited List (announced 4/1/2007)
Roy Gephart invited by the National Academies to participate in workshop on radiation contamination and remediation issues (announced 4/1/2007)
Two Journal Articles Make ACS Most-Cited List (announced 3/1/2007)
Tony Janetos Helps National Research Council Outline Future of Space-Based Earth Observations (announced 1/1/2007)
2006 Awards
Peggy Vasquez selected in national competition for America's Next Top Administrative Professionals (announced 12/1/2006)
Battelle Fellow Subhash Singhal Recognized for Outstanding Contributions to Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Technology (announced 10/1/2006)
Lai-Sheng Wang Receives 2006 Humboldt Research Award (announced 10/1/2006)
PNNL Researcher Receives Highest Fuel Cell Honor
Schoenbein Medal honors achievements of Subhash Singhal
(announced 8/1/2006)
Olga Anna Kuchar Selected to Participate in National Academy of Engineering 2006 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (announced 6/1/2006)
PNNL Scientist Lead Organizer for Workshop to Identify Future Steps for Next Generation of Regional Climate Modeling (announced 6/1/2006)
Wayne Martin Named One of Top Minorities in Science of 2006 (announced 5/1/2006)
Abrefah Receives Emerald Honors Award for Outstanding Scientific Accomplishments (announced 5/1/2006)
Ann Miracle Joins Editorial Board of International Publication (announced 1/1/2006)
2006 Elected Positions and Offices
Don Baer Named to Editorial Advisory Board of Surface and Interface Analysis (announced 12/1/2006)
Bruce Napier to Advise Environmental Protection Agency (announced 11/1/2006)
Young Appointed to National Research Committee on Improvised Explosive Devices (announced 11/1/2006)
Steve Ghan Appointed to Journal of Geophysical Research Editorial Board (announced 11/1/2006)
Steven Wiley Joins National Institutes of Health Scientific Review Panel (announced 10/1/2006)
Benoit Mandelbrot Decorated as Officer in National Order of the Legion of Honor (announced 9/1/2006)
Carbaugh Shaping National Policy to Monitor and Decontaminate People after a Nuclear Event (announced 8/1/2006)
PNNL Researcher Seeks to Enhance Human and Technology Interactions (announced 8/1/2006)
Jim Fredrickson Appointed to NRC Committee (announced 7/1/2006)
János Szanyi Appointed to Editorial Advisory Board of Catalysis Letters (announced 7/1/2006)
Jim Dooley Appointed to Editorial Board for International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control (announced 6/1/2006)
Ellis Appointed to Canadian NMR Advisory Board (announced 6/1/2006)
Chartrand Elected Vice President of InfraGard's Evergreen Chapter in Washington State (announced 4/1/2006)
Bruce Napier to Chair Committee for National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (announced 3/1/2006)
Richard Benedick Appointed to National Research Council Committee on Analysis of Global Change Assessments (announced 3/1/2006)
2005 Awards
Yuehe Lin and C0-Authors Receive Award for Highly Cited Electrochemistry Article (announced 12/1/2005)
Wayne Martin Named One of Top Minorities in Research Science (announced 11/28/2005)
Yong Wang Joins Editorial Board of Catalysis Today (announced 11/1/2005)
Jonathan Young Appointed Member of National Research Council Committee (announced 11/1/2005)
Ron Thom Meets with National Research Council to Protect Eroding Shorelines (announced 10/1/2005)
PNNL's Ram Devanathan Selected to Participate in National Academy of Engineering 11th Annual Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (announced 8/17/2005)
Dr. Leonard K. Peters, Director of PNNL, Selected to Receive Oak Ridge Associated Universities Outstanding Leadership Award (announced 3/9/2005)
2005 Elected Positions and Offices
Doug Ray Joins National Academy Chemical Sciences Roundtable (announced 12/1/2005)
Michel Dupuis Elected to International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (announced 7/7/2005)
Fuel Cell Pioneer, Subhash Singha, Elected to National Academy of Engineering (announced 2/16/2005)
2004 Awards
Scott Chambers Selected as 2004 Recipient of E.W. Mueller Award for Outstanding Research in Surface Science (announced 8/1/2004)
2003 Awards
Sotiris S. Xantheas Awarded Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (announced 5/22/2003)
Richard Johanson Earns Two Safety Certifications (announced 3/17/2003)
2003 Elected Positions and Offices
Steve Wiley Chosen to Participate in National Academies' Inaugural Keck Futures Initiative Conference (announced 12/2/2003)
Cynthia Bruckner-Lea Selected to Participate in National Academy of Engineering Ninth Annual Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (announced 9/17/2003)
Jonathan Young Selected as Member of Newly Formed National Research Council Committee (announced 4/3/2003)
Yasuo Onishi Appointed to Committee on Understanding Oil Spill Dispersants: Efficacy and Effects (announced 3/9/2003)
Dr. Novella Bridges Named One of Eight "Young Observers"
2002 Awards
Subhash Singhal Receives Invited Professorship Award (announced 1/1/2002)
2002 Elected Positions and Offices
Joel Pounds Appointed to Canada Research Chairs' College of Reviewers (announced 5/1/2002)
SK Sundaram Appointed "Visiting Scholar" at Harvard University (announced 5/1/2002)
Richard Benedick Elected to American Academy of Diplomacy (announced 1/1/2002)
2001 Awards
Single-molecule Spectroscopy Among 101 Most Important Scientific Discoveries (announced 6/1/2001)
2001 Discover Magazine Awards
Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation Award Winner-Timed Neutron Detector-Richard Craig
Health Category - Combined Optical/Magnetic Resonance Microscope-Robert Wind
1999 Discover Magazine Awards
Winner - Transportation Category - Micro-Plasmatron Fuel Converter
Finalist - Environment Category - Mesoporous Silica for Mercury Removal-Xiangdong Feng
1997 Discover Magazine Awards
1996 Discover Magazine Awards
Finalist - Environmental Category - RubberCycle: Tire-Recycling Microbes-Robert Romine