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Fidler named LANL Director’s Fellow
The awards for research excellence just keep stacking up for Andrew Fidler,
former Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program intern at
Ames Laboratory.
Fidler’s latest award comes from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL),
the Department of Energy national laboratory where he’s currently serving as a
postdoctoral fellow. Fidler was named one of LANL’s Director’s Fellows. Director’s
Fellows collaborate with LANL scientists and engineers on staff-initiated research.
Award selections are based on academic and research accomplishments and the
strength and potential impact of the proposed research.
Outstanding Technical Paper
Ames Laboratory graduate student
Stephanie Choquette and scientist Iver
Anderson received the 2015 Howard I.
Sanderow Outstanding Technical Paper
Award from the Metal Powder Industries
Federation and its Technical Board.
T h i r t y - t w o p a p e r s f r om t h e
POWDERMET2015 conference, held
in May in San Diego, were evaluated
for final selection. Choquette and
Anderson’s paper, “Liquid-Phase Diffusion
Bonding: Temperature Effects and Solute
Redistribution in High Temperature Lead-
Free Composite Solders,” was selected as
the top paper from that group.
Andrew Fidler
Laboratory receives GreenBuy Silver Award
Ames Laboratory recently met one of the 2014 Environmental Management
System Steering Committee (EMSSC) goals by winning the DOE GreenBuy
Program Silver Award for Sustainable Acquisitions. The Laboratory was one of
four laboratories to earn an award from the GreenBuy Program.
To achieve the Silver Award, sites must meet the recycled content or energy
savings requirements for a minimum of six products in at least three product
categories. In the construction category, Ames Laboratory met 100 percent of
the requirements for carpet and flooring materials. Toilet tissue purchases met
the requirements within the custodial category. Three of the four office category
products purchased (binders, copy paper and servers) met 100 percent of the
requirements, while 97 percent of office furniture met the goals of the program.
Cassie Dewey, Sallie Spencer
and Sarah Morris-Benevides with
some of the products that helped
Ames Lab earn the DOE Green-
buy Silver Award (center).
Ames Lab named FLC Outstanding Laboratory
Ames Laboratory was named Outstanding Laboratory by the Federal
Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer Midwest Region. The award
is presented to the management of a Mid-Continent member laboratory
or facility that has provided exceptional support and encouragement to
the transfer of federal technologies to the private sector. Such support and
encouragement must have provided tangible benefit to the private sector and
to the general public.
Ames Laboratory’s Associate Director for Sponsored Research Debra
Covey nominated the Lab for the award, based in large part on the work of
the Critical Materials Institute.
Iver Anderson and Stephanie Choquette
Todd Zdorkowski (left) and Deb Covey present Ames Laboratory Director Adam
Schwartz with the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Techology Transfer Mid-
Continent Region Outstanding Laboratory Award. Zdorkowski received the
award on behalf of the Laboratory at the FLC’s Mid-Continent Region annual
meeting on Aug. 26.
After more than a year of construction, Ames
Laboratory’s new Sensitive Instrument Facility is close to
being operational. The wet and dry preparation labs have
been completed and state-of-the-art microscopy equipment
has been installed. The focused-ion beam microscope is
currently operational and other pieces are being calibrated
and tested. A grand opening of the facility is being planned
for May 2016.
Nearly Operational
Microscopy equipment began arriving in October. Here, the
focused-ion beam microscope is carefully unloaded.
The building has sample preparation areas for both wet and
dry samples, along with a separate instrument repair area.
The SIF lobby features seating outside the two offices for
operational staff, shown in the background.
This transmission electron microscope was the lone piece of
existing equipment that was transferred to the SIF.
The lobby is decorated with artwork showing microscopy im-
ages submitted as part of a competition.
The Sensitive Instrument Facility (SIF) is Ames Laboratory’s
first new research building in 60 years.