2004 News Releases
Research News | Major Grants & Contracts | Other News | Major Awards & Honors
Research News
- The secret life of acid dust (12-14-04)
- Investigating the Columbia River and Estuary: A primary focus of research (11-10-04)
- New Biological Discoveries through Data Intensive Computing (11-08-04)
- PNNL set to take advantage of new high-speed network connection (10-12-04)
- Smart building controls may help manage peak energy demand in Northwest (10-04-04)
- PNNL'S role in Science discovery on how microbe survives otherwise deadly radiation (09-30-04)
- Pacific Northwest team unveils largest virus proteome to date (09-29-04)
- Spun from bone (9-24-04)
- Peering inside the body, with a new spin-literally (9-14-04)
- Protein fishing in America, the movie (8-26-04)
- Why damaged DNA gets a case of the bends (8-22-04)
- PNNL Testing Reliability of Radiation Detectors (08/10/04)
- PNNL on fast track for hydrogen fuel reformer (04/27/04)
- Methuselah enzymes: SEN and the art of molecule maintenance (04/01/04)
- For the sake of land and climate, coaxing soil to soak up carbon (04/01/04)
- PNNL develops mercury-absorbing pollution solution (03/31/04)
- Special News Tip Sheet for the ACS national meeting 2004 (3/31/04)
- Global warming to squeeze Western mountains dry by 2050 (02/16/04)
- Highway to Hydrogen: A long and winding road (02/14/04)
- Most complete human blood-plasma proteome map to date unveiled (02/14/04)
- PNNL envisions Smart Energy approach projected to save billions (02/13/04)
- Wearable air-conditioners: Hot, new microtechnology keeps GI's cool (02/13/04)
- A shocking surprise: high voltage + rats = ozone, reopens power-line debate (02/09/04)
- Catalytically Converted (PDF 295Kb) (Winter 2004)
Reproduced with permission, Northwest Science & Technology Magazine, a publication of the University of Washington, Winter 2004, pp. 28-29.
Major Grants & Contracts
- PNNL lands $10.3 million NIH biodefense contract to unlock proteomes of salmonella and pox (9-10-04)
- PNNL gets $10 million from NIH to build virtual lung (8-30-04)
- Congress to fund Sequim-based coastal security research effort (8-23-04)
Other News
- PNNL's Body Scanner Garners Federal Commercialization Award (12-15-04)
- National security expert to head PNNL Coastal Security Institute (11-15-04)
- PNNL scientist appointed American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists Fellow (11-11-04)
- PNNL set to take advantage of new high-speed network connection (10-12-04)
- Blackout prevention effort launched as anniversary looms (08/09/04)
- Science and Engineering Education at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (07/08/04)
- Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference planned for Portland (06/25/04)
- Gov. Locke to open new Battelle/PNNL research center at South Lake Union (06/25/04)
- PNNL, SGI to team on storage technology development for data-intensive computing (06/22/04)
- PNNL supercomputer holds onto top-10 spot in new rankings (06/21/04)
- DHS Launches National Center Focusing
on Data Visualization to Enhance Homeland Security (05/13/04)
(ISSUED BY DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY) - PNNL names international expert to head nuclear nonproliferation programs (05/12/04)
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to co-lead Center for Chemical Hydrogen Storage (04/29/04)
- Institute for Systems Biology, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Announce Partnership Agreement to Leverage Strengths In Biology and Computation (04/26/04)
(ISSUED BY INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS BIOLOGY AND PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY) - New industry energy alliance partners with Department of Energy on smart grid of the future (04/07/04) (The GridWiseTM Alliance)
- DOE lab goes digital to sign on the bottom line (03/08/04)
- Community thrives as PNNL continues to grow (Special to Tri-City Herald March 2004)
- Energy system of the future being developed by PNNL (Special to Tri-City Herald March 2004)
- PNNL leads way in systems biology (Special to Tri-City Herald March 2004)
- Information technology is making a difference (Special to Tri-City Herald March 2004)
- PNNL balancing complex environmental issues (Special to Tri-City Herald March 2004)
- PNNL helping develop U.S. military for 21st Century (Special to Tri-City Herald March 2004)
- PNNL propels economic future of the Tri-Cities (Special to Tri-City Herald March 2004)
Major Awards & Honors
- PNNL scientist named AVS Fellow (11-17-04)
- PNNL's Diaz receives national engineering and homeland security honors (09-28-04)
- PNNL selected as large company of the year (9-21-04)
- PNNL scientist selected for National Academy symposium (9-02-04)
- PNNL researchers join 2004 class of HPS Fellows (8-19-04)
- PNNL wins three R&D 100 awards, shares a fourth (07/19/04)
- PNNL research team wins industrial innovation award (06/25/04)
- PNNL's Waltar receives science communication award (06/14/04)
- PNNL scientist leads ASTM International committee, wins Anderson Award (05/10/04)
- PNNL researcher elected Fellow of NACE International (04/08/04)
- Two PNNL researchers receive honors (04/01/04)
- PNNL researcher wins prestigious surface science award (03/09/04)
- PNNL Director Len Peters receives outstanding leadership award (03/08/04)
- PNNL training programs recognized as one of industry's best (03/01/04)
- PNNL recognized for commercializing technologies (03/01/04)
- PNNL's Jean Futrell elected Fellow of American Physical Society (02/05/04)
- Fish, FRAMES and sticky chemicals net technology award for PNNL (01/20/04)