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Cindy Bruckner-Lea Elected AAAS Fellow

Cindy Bruckner-Lea has been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The AAAS is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association... More


Donna Magruder and Casey O'Leary Receive Department of Energy Secretary's Appreciation Awards

On November 5, 2008, Donna Magruder and Casey O'Leary were formally recognized by Secretary Bodman during the Department of Energy Secretarial Honor Awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. "for their extraordinary achievement in identifying and neutralizing cyber threats to the Department of Energy."... More


Team Earns Top Honors at Supercomputing

Congratulations to Justin Almquist and Scott Dowson, National Security Directorate; and Lee Ann McCue, Jason McDermott, Christopher Oehmen and Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson, all of the Fundamental and Computational Sciences Directorate, for winning this year's Supercomputing HPC Analytics Challenge!... More


Publisher Recognizes Paper from PNNL Staff as Representative Sample of the Best of Content

The paper titled, "A dynamic multiscale magnifying tool for exploring large sparse graphs" submitted by Pak Chung Wong, Harlan Foote, Patrick Mackey, Georgia Chin, Heidi Sofia, and Jim Thomas was selected by Palgrave Macmillian and editorial team as a set of papers from the archive of the journal to provide a representative sample of the best of their content. Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic and business publisher, serving learning and scholarship in the academic and professional worlds. The paper is available to read and download.


Interdisciplinary Team at PNNL Awarded for Excellence in Hazardous Materials Management

In December 2008, Mike Cantaloub and a team of staff from the Operational Systems Directorate and Business Systems Directorate received an award from the Academy of Certified Hazardous Materials Managers (ACHMM)... More


Greg Piepel

Greg Piepel elected as a Fellow of the American Society for Quality

Greg Piepel, PNNL Lab Fellow, and Fellow of the American Statistical Association, was elected as a Fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) in recognition of his significant contributions to quality... More


Frank Greitzer

Frank Greitzer authored chapters in two recently published books

Frank Greitzer authored chapters in two recently published books: Augmented Cognition: A Practitioner's Guide (a Human Factors Society publication) and Intelligent Information Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (one of 8 volumes in the Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition)
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2008 Laboratory Director's Award

Antonio Sanfilippo awarded 2008 Laboratory Director's Award for Exceptional Scientific Achievement. One of only nine researchers whose outstanding contributions in science and technology earned Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's (PNNL's) highest internal honors this year... More


Scientific Partnership Brings National Recognition

PNNL's scientific partnership with the Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity (CIAC) at the University of Washington has secured their spot as one of the first centers in the United States to be designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research (CAE-R) by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security... More


Richard May

Richard May named IEEE VAST symposium co-chair

Richard May has been unanimously approved by the IEEE VAST (Visual Analytics Science and Technology) Steering committee as the IEEE VAST symposium co-chair with Jörn Kohlhammer from Fraunhofer in Germany. IEEE VAST is one of the fastest growing national and international scientific communities... More


Ian Gorton

Ian Gorton guest editor for IEEE Computer

This month, the Data-Intensive Computing Initiative's Chief Architect, Ian Gorton, is Guest Editor of a special issue in IEEE Computer, the flagship publication of the 85,000-member IEEE Computer Society. Ian led the team of editors... More


U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Six students come to PNNL through DHS Scholarship and Fellowship Programs

DHS Scholarship and Fellowship Programs were established for students interested in pursuing the basic science and technology innovations that can be applied to the DHS mission... More



Intel International Science and Engineering Fair

Chris Aardahl, Aaron Diaz and Mark Whiting invited to judge international science and engineering fair

Congratulations to NSD’s Chris Aardahl, Aaron Diaz and Mark Whiting for being selected again this year as judges at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair... More

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