The Department of Energy’s Transportation Technologies Office has issued two 2026 Annual Merit Review Awards to researchers from PNNL. Both awards recognize PNNL researchers whose work is reducing the need for critical materials.

Graduate student researcher wins best poster awards from the American Ceramic Society.

PNNL recently led a team effort that secured external accreditation for the Office of Radiological Security Radiological Security Awareness and Response Communications Workshop.

PNNL chemist Sarah Saslow received the ACS Rising Star Award for her research supporting environmental cleanup, including work on legacy waste and subsurface contamination.

PNNL’s Center for the Remediation of Complex Sites inducted leaders Director David Peeler, Deputy Director Carolyn Pearce, Operations Director Christian Johnson, and advisors with multidisciplinary subsurface research expertise.

David Donnelly, an international compliance analyst at PNNL, recently served on a team of experts that completed the International Atomic Energy Agency’s first International Physical Protection Advisory Service mission in Kenya.

A PNNL team collaborated with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Arms Control and Nonproliferation Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction to deliver a National Counterproliferation Finance Legal Frameworks Implementation Workshop.

Kyle DeSomber, hydropower advisor in PNNL’s Energy and Environment Directorate, has been elected to the Northwest Hydroelectric Association Board.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists envision new research frontiers at the intersection of biology and AI

PNNL was invited to participate on an expert panel with scientists, law enforcement officials, addiction experts, public health officials, and families.

Emilie Purvine, a chief data scientist at PNNL, was elected as a council member at large of the American Mathematical Society.

Rebecca O’Neil, a research principal in the Energy and Environment Directorate at PNNL, was invited to testify before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Energy.

Maria Glenski has been recognized with the 2025 Gold Stevie Award for Mentor/Coach of the Year in the government or nonprofit category.

Van Cleve guides conversations on national grid modernization strategies, reinforcing PNNL’s role in connecting science, policy, and industry.

Delivering excellence in power systems and electric grid advancement earns two PNNLers the association’s top distinction.

McDermott is co-chairing one of only five organized sessions at the annual Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing.

Yong Wang will lead the Institute for Integrated Catalysis, advancing the science and technology of catalysis to address global challenges in energy resilience.

Researcher and graduate student Renyu Zheng selected for premier research recognition from the University of Washington Chemical Engineering Department.

Early career researchers recognized with Team Science Award by the Department of Energy for presentation highlighting the collaborative science performed by IDREAM.

The Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences and Advanced Scientific Computing Research programs will support the partnership’s work on nuclear quantum behavior.