SEPTEMBER 22, 2025 Director's Column Looking Back, Moving Forward: Reflections from a Decade as PNNL Director As Laboratory Director Steve Ashby pens his last monthly column, he highlights PNNL’s accomplishments with pride and gratitude. ( Read More )
JULY 14, 2025 Director's Column PNNL Researchers Work to Make Industrial Catalytic Converters More Efficient Experiments focus on catalysts for off-road vehicles that optimize the use of critical minerals while lasting longer and costing less. ( Read More )
JANUARY 24, 2022 Director's Column PNNL Leads Coastal Study to Help Prep for Wildfires, Floods and Climate Change COMPASS points to understanding nature’s transition zones—areas that can be dry land at times and under water at others. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 22, 2021 Director's Column 1st-of-a-Kind Project May Lead to Global Greenhouse Solutions PNNL is rock solid on carbon storage, building on successful demonstration in eastern Washington. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021 Director's Column Looking Forward From 9/11: PNNL Contributes to Homeland Security Science and engineering solutions helping keep America safe from explosive, radiological, biological and cyber threats. ( Read More )
APRIL 19, 2021 Director's Column Every Day is Earth Day for Some PNNL Researchers Understanding the Earth as a complex, dynamic system includes investigating what happens on, above and below its surface. ( Read More )
JANUARY 18, 2016 Director's Column PNNL Making Cleaner and More Efficient Vehicles As Tri-Citians, we're fortunate that we don't have the frustrating traffic and long commutes that our friends in Seattle and Portland endure. And with lower prices at the pump, we don't think much about fuel efficiency. ( Read More )