Two PNNL teams have been recognized for their work on safe, secure radioactive material shipping.

PNNL Materials Scientist Leo Fifield recognized for contributions to the field of nuclear instrumentation and control.

PNNL nuclear engineer Casey Spitz has qualified as a Criticality Safety Engineer-Analyst, making him one of nine staff members who are responsible for the safe condition of fissionable materials.

Business Interns Maryam Masood and Eden Yonas presented a framework for building a better discourse around climate change and environmental justice at the Battelle Conference on Innovations in Climate Resilience.

PNNL bioenergy expert Karthikeyan Ramasamy was a co-guest editor in an American Chemical Society Energy & Fuels virtual special issue on advances in biomass and wastes thermochemical processing.

PNNL scientist Brian O’Neill led the compilation of an IPCC chapter about climate-related risks.

Materials scientist joins the editorial board of inaugural journal, Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering.

PNNL chemical engineer Mariefel Olarte has been elected second vice chair to the ASTM D32 Committee on Catalysis.

PNNL catalysis expert Yong Wang has assumed an associate editor role for the Chemical Engineering Journal.

Chief Chemical Engineer Xiao-Ying Yu joins the editorial board of inaugural journal, Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering.

Steven Spurgeon, a materials scientist and microscopy researcher at PNNL, has accepted an affiliate associate professorship at the University of Washington Department of Physics.

PNNL’s Jie Xiao and Yuyan Shao are serving two-year terms on the executive committee of the Pacific Northwest section of The Electrochemical Society, which was chartered in October 2020.

PNNL materials scientist Olga Marina has been appointed to the board of the Gen IV International Forum’s Very-High-Temperature Reactor organization.

PNNL chief scientist Jonathan Male has been named co-director of the joint Washington State University-PNNL Bioproducts Institute.

Arun Devaraj elected vice president of an international society representing the atom probe tomography researcher community.

PNNL has published a workshop report that outlines recommended actions to bring sustainable aviation fuel to the airline industry, using a PNNL-developed technology.

Lab Fellow Morris Bullock co-chaired a roundtable that discussed the scientific and technical barriers to carbon-neutral hydrogen production.

Six PNNL chemists and chemical engineers make up the 2021 executive board of the American Chemical Society Richland Section.

PNNL recognizes some of the outstanding postdoctoral researchers that move science forward during National Postdoc Appreciation Week.

PNNL bioenergy expert Dan Gaspar was awarded the R.A. Glenn Award for Best Paper at the American Chemical Society Fall Meeting on August 24.