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Farragut High School graduate Langalibalele “Langa” Lunga is the recipient of the 2025 UT-Battelle scholarship. The scholarship encourages careers in the STEM fields. Lunga excelled in STEM courses in high school, including college-level math and programming courses, as well as advanced placement physics and calculus classes.
ORNL's Thomas Proffen, a neutron scattering scientist, has been awarded the 2025 STEM Advocate Award by the Tennessee STEM Innovation Network for his outstanding contributions to inspiring students in technology. Proffen’s efforts focus on promoting coding, robotics and STEM education among youth.
Research teams at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory received computing resource awards to train and test AI foundation models for science. A total of six ORNL projects were awarded allocations from the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource, or NAIRR, pilot and the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment, or INCITE, program to train their AI models.
Mariam Kiran, a quantum research scientist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was recently honored as a finalist at the British Council’s Study U.K. Alumni Awards 2025, which celebrate the achievements of U.K. alumni worldwide.
Vilmos Kertesz, senior staff in the Biosciences Division at ORNL, has received a 2025 Al Yergey Mass Spectrometry Scientist Award from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. The award recognizes his contributions to the fields of analytical chemistry and mass spectrometry.
Daniel Jacobson, distinguished research scientist in the Biosciences Division at ORNL, has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, or AIMBE, for his achievements in computational biology.
Five scientists from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory — Ho Nyung Lee, David Graham, Andrew Sutton, Roger Rousseau and Troy Carter — have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS.
ORNL’s Miaofang Chi and Rigoberto 'Gobet' Advincula have been elected as Class of 2025 Fellows of the Materials Research Society. Chi was recognized for advancing novel electron microscopy methods for studying energy materials, while Advincula was honored for his contributions to research on advanced polymers and nanostructured materials.
Pablo Moriano, a research scientist at ORNL, was given a prestigious distinction from one of the world’s leading educational and scientific computing societies, the .
David Dunning, a master technician at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, received a Significant Achievement Award for the Robotics and Remote System Division at the 2024 American Nuclear Society Winter Conference and Expo in Orlando, Florida.