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The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics recently announced that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory computational mathematician Ulrike Meier Yang has been selected among the 2024 Class of SIAM Fellows, the highest honor the organization bestows on its members.
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LLNL’s Yang honored among 2024 SIAM Class of Fellows

LLNL computational mathematician Ulrike Meier Yang announced as one of the 2024 Class of SIAM Fellows.

Kate Elder honored with Fulbright Scholarship.
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LLNL’s Kate Elder honored with Fulbright foreign scholarship

LLNL materials scientist Kate Elder has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar and will conduct research on high-entropy alloys in Finland.

LLNL’s Raspberry Simpson, selected as a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Kavli Fellow, presented a poster on her postdoctoral fellowship at the academy’s annual Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium on March 7-9.
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LLNL’s Raspberry Simpson named Kavli Fellow

Raspberry Simpson, a Lawrence Fellow in LLNL's National Ignition Facility and Photon Science (NIF&PS) Directorate, has been named a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Kavli Fellow.

LLNL biologist Nicholas Fischer is analyzing the size of the nanolipoprotein particles (NLPs) by dynamic light scattering in preparation for their use in vaccine applications. Fischer and two former LLNL researchers are key developers of the NLP technology, which has won a Federal Laboratory Consortium award for technology transfer.
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LLNL researcher, business development executive capture technology transfer awa…

A LLNL researcher and a colleague earned a national technology transfer award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for their commercialized biomedical technology.

During exploration drilling at the Halleck Creek Rare Earth project, geologists conduct field surface research.
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Concentrating on rare-earth elements

Using a bioengineered protein-based technology, LLNL scientists and collaborators develop a new separation technique for rare-earth elements (REE).

LLNL researchers have have found that soils, a huge carbon pool, tend to lose carbon as global temperatures rise. The research appears in Nature Geoscience.
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Understanding soil carbon's sensitivity to increasing global temperatures

LLNL scientists and collaborators quantify and model the emergent temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon.

Simon Pang (left) and Buddhinie Jayathilake assemble and prepare a prototype bubble column electrobioreactor to test additively manufactured three-dimensional electrodes. Under their project, excess renewable electricity from wind and solar sources would be stored in chemical bonds as renewable natural gas.
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New technique converts excess renewable energy to natural gas

LLNL researchers and partners develop a new storage method for excess renewable electricity from wind and solar sources.

A photo taken by a scanning electron microscope shows a pit at the surface of an additively manufactured (3D-printed) stainless steel part.
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LLNL researchers uncover culprits behind pitting corrosion in 3D-printed stainl…

LLNL scientists publish a paper on the the mysterious world of pitting corrosion in additively manufactured (3D-printed) stainless steel 316L in seawater.

Supercomputer simulations predicting the synthesis pathways for the elusive BC8 "super-diamond", involving shock compressions of diamond precursor, inspire ongoing Discovery Science experiments at NIF.
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Supercomputer simulations of super-diamond suggest a path to its creation

A team of LLNL scientists conducts multi-million atomic molecular-dynamics simulations to uncover required temperature and pressure conditions for super-diamond creation.

LLNL scientist Maria Gabriela Davila Ordonez manipulates the high-pressure hydrogen system for the Subsurface Hydrogen Assessment, Storage and Technology Acceleration (SHASTA) project
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Hard as a rock, LLNL to study geologic hydrogen production

LLNL has received $1 million to explore technologies that stimulate hydrogen production from mineral deposits found in the subsurface.