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King named director of ORNL’s Next-Generation Data Centers Institute

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Tom King, a longtime leader in electric grid research at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named director of the Next-Generation Data Centers Institute (NGDCI). The institute aligns ORNL’s capabilities across computing, energy systems and applied engineering to provide the scientific foundation for the next generation of affordable, efficient, reliable AI data centers integrated with the U.S. electric grid.

ORNL debuts JACC for performance-portable Julia for HPC systems

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

ORNL developed JACC, an open-source framework that enables Julia applications to run efficiently on CPUs and GPUs from multiple hardware vendors using a single codebase. The software improves performance portability for high-performance computing systems and reduces the need for architecture-specific code.

Roschli named to ASME Mechanical Engineering Watch List

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Alex Roschli, a researcher at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named to the 2026 Mechanical Engineering Watch List by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Alex Botts receives AEE Regional Young Energy Professional Award

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Alex Botts of the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory received the 2026 Young Energy Professional of the Year Award for the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast U.S. Region by the Association of Energy Engineers.

In the Mountain West, a quantum computing collaboration announces major results

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia National Laboratories, home to the DOE’s longest running quantum computing program, and tech company Quantinuum have published a paper in the scientific journal Nature that reports the performance of the company’s 98-qubit commercial system, Helios, which debuted last year.

Journal: Nature
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

ORNL-developed cybersecurity framework graduates from lab to electric grid

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A grid cybersecurity and verification framework developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been licensed by GridForge Energy Solutions. The startup plans to explore ways the technology could boost real-time visibility of grid behavior for energy projects, grid management companies and utilities.

ORNL partnership helps ACP Technologies scale materials for graphite and carbon fiber

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A long-running partnership between ACP Technologies and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has helped move advanced pitch materials from laboratory development to pilot-scale production — supporting new domestic capabilities in synthetic graphite and carbon fiber manufacturing.

ORNL's Cait Clarkson earns SAMPE leadership award

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Cait Clarkson, an R&D staff scientist in Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Manufacturing Science Division, has received the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) Young Professional Emerging Leadership Award, which recognizes outstanding early-career leadership in materials and process engineering.

Innovation Crossroads celebrates 10 years of entrepreneurship at LEEP Demo Day

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Entrepreneurs, researchers and program participants gathered on Wednesday, May 13, 2026 for the Department of Energy’s Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) Demo Day, hosted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Innovation Crossroads at Covenant Health Park in Knoxville.

Sana Elyas elected SAMPE North America president

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering North America has elected Sana Elyas as president of the 2026-2027 North America Executive Cabinet. Her term will officially begin on July 1, 2026.

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