January 2019 – July 2022
DOE’s STEM Rising program seeks to inspire, educate, and spark an interest in STEM careers. To help educate students during the shelter-in-place, national lab researchers were asked to share their science. Here is the Lab’s Danielle Goudeau demonstrating single cell genomics. https://youtu.be/Wom5B-VSjPI
Meet Andrew Haddad, a postdoc in the Energy Technologies Area. Passionate about water-related issues, Haddad wants to use electrochemistry to create technologies that will not only reduce the amount of energy needed to produce freshwater but also make use of all our available water resources. https://postdoc.lbl.gov/2020/03/03/andrew-haddad-energy-technologies/
In this Q&A, Berkeley Lab’s Kristin Persson shares her thoughts on what inspired her to launch the Materials Project online database, the future of materials research and machine learning, and how she found her own way into a STEM career. https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2020/05/08/materials-project-qa-persson/
Leticia Ericson of the Lab’s Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Office discusses the increase in domestic violence that has surfaced as a result of the COVID-19 quarantine, and ways to reduce the risk of harm, in this “Three Questions For” feature. https://stratcomm-elements.lbl.gov/2020/05/06/three-questions-for-leticia-ericson-on-covid-and-increased-family-stress/
DOE’s STEM Rising program is an initiative to inspire, educate, and spark an interest in STEM careers. As part of the effort to educate students during the shelter-in-place, scientists from the national labs were asked to share their science. Here is the Lab’s Maria Zurek on her love for physics. https://youtu.be/XDVaT0U5E0A
Juan Aranda has been a helper from the beginning. He has been a nurse at the Lab for the past two years after ten years as a bedside nurse in San Francisco hospitals. His first career was public health, which provides him with insights into the current pandemic. Read Juan’s advice for staying well. https://stratcomm-elements.lbl.gov/2020/05/04/on-site-superstar-juan-aranda/
The Nuclear Science Division’s Bethany Goldblum has received the Krell Institute’s James Corones Award in Leadership, Community Building, and Communication. She was honored for her work with non-proliferation organizations and mentorship of young scholars. She is also a UC Berkeley faculty member. https://www.krellinst.org/about-krell/news-events/goldblum-corones-award
Berkeley Lab scientists James Hurley (left) and F. Dean Toste have been elected into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Two researchers with close ties to Berkeley Lab were also elected. https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2020/05/01/lbnl-scientists-nas-2020/
Researchers can now collect more building data than ever, and that is transforming approaches to energy efficiency. Mary Ann Piette of the Energy Technologies Area discusses this shift and other trends in building energy efficiency in a recent episode of the podcast Global Minima. https://buildings.lbl.gov/news/article/mary-ann-piette-featured-global
Ramamoorthy Ramesh, a scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Materials Sciences Division and professor of physics and materials science & engineering at UC Berkeley, has been elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society, the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence based in London, England. https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2020/04/29/royal-society-elects-berkeley-lab-physicist-ramamoorthy-ramesh/