January 2019 – July 2022
Cheer on Berkeley Lab’s 2021 SLAM winners as they advance to the Bay Area Research SLAM on Oct. 28 at 3 p.m. Lydia Rachbauer, Ryan Kingsbury, and Rajiv Ramanujam Prabhakar will go up against the SLAM winners from Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, and SLAC and will compete for the regional title. https://bayarearesearchslam.org/
There will be a Department of Energy Laboratories of the Future workshop on Oct. 13 at 10 a.m. PT focused on effective teaming across the DOE laboratories and how we can best integrate new tools and mechanisms for virtual collaboration. Learn more and register. https://sites.google.com/lbl.gov/future-of-work/updates#h.xzur0pzdxpno
IMPEL+ — a DOE buildings-to-market technologies program — will kick off a new year of entrepreneurs getting their products to market with a webinar on Oct. 6. Three new tracks and expert mentor panels for building technologies and programs have been added: Decarbonize, Digitalize, and Democratize. https://impel.lbl.gov/media/sept-2021-kickoff-webinar
Senior faculty scientist and Joint BioEnergy Institute CEO Jay Keasling has been named a 2021 Distinguished Scientist Fellow. Keasling was recognized for his “national scientific leadership in synthetic biology that has advanced DOE’s strategy in renewable energy.” https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2021/09/23/jay-keasling-doe-fellow-award/
DOE is now accepting proposals for the FY 2022 Office of Science Early Career Research Program (ECRP). This highly prestigious program supports early career researchers at DOE national labs with up to $2.5 million over five years to pursue their research. View requirements and attend the roundtable. http://ecrp.lbl.gov/
Congratulations to Lukas Hackl (ETA), Bishoy Kamel (JGI), Nick Buraglio (ESnet), and Peter Grant (ETA) for their wins in the Sept. 9 pitch competition hosted by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO). These scientists made strong business cases for their inventions in front of a panel of judges. https://ipo.lbl.gov/winners-of-2021-berkeley-lab-pitch-competition-announced/
Berkeley Lab’s ISO 50001 implementation team has received a 2021 U.S. Department of Energy Sustainability Award in the “Innovative Approach to Sustainability” category. The Lab is currently the only ISO 50001 certified DOE lab. https://cs.lbl.gov/news-media/news/2021/berkeley-lab-team-wins-doe-sustainability-award/
Two microelectronics projects led by Lab scientists received DOE awards to accelerate advances in semiconductor microelectronics research. Maurice Garcia-Sciveres’ award is for co-design and integration of nano-sensors on CMOS; Ramamoorthy Ramesh’s is for co-design of ultra-low-voltage beyond CMOS. https://research.lbl.gov/2021/09/02/ramamoorthy-ramesh-and-maurice-garcia-sciveres-to-receive-doe-advanced-microelectronics-co-design-research-funding/
As the American West faces increasing water shortages, the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI), a research alliance headquartered at Berkeley Lab, has published roadmaps outlining what it will take to achieve water sustainability through innovative water treatment technologies. https://eesa.lbl.gov/nawi-publishes-roadmap-series-for-sustainable-water-future/
Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley will be home to a cutting-edge quantum network testbed, thanks to a new five-year, $12.5 million funding award from the Department of Energy. The goal is to build a distributed quantum network that will help establish a nationwide quantum internet. https://www.es.net/news-and-publications/esnet-news/2021/berkeley-lab-uc-berkeley-caltech-to-build-quantum-network-testbed/