The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science will send $124 million to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for capital investments and upgrades as part of President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) released a report describing a strategy to promote preservation and access to digital scientific data.
In the current issue of Lab Manager Magazine, Gloria Metrick provides an overview of the blogs, discussion boards, Wikis, and online social networking and data sharing sites available to laboratory professionals. (http://www.labmanager.com/articles.a
The Department of Energy announced Monday that $71.2 million in stimulus funding is coming to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and most of that money will be used for construction of a new Chemical and Materials Science Lab.
Battelle, the managing contractor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory since 2000, needs to prepare for the "likelihood" that the U.S. Department of Energy will put the contract up for bids before it expires next year.
According to a study for the U.S. Conference of Mayors released last October, the U.S. economy could generate 4.2 million new green jobs in the next 30 years.
Rush Holt, a plasma physicist by training, represents New Jerseys 12th Congressional District in the U.S. Congress. Recently, Laura Sanders talked with him about the state of science and science funding in the United States.
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced that it will host a meeting at Pittcon 2009 to measure interest in launching an industry-wide initiative to develop an open standard for chromatography instrument control software.