The student-run organization, Beyond Academia, organized an event on April 27 for graduate students and post-docs to learn more about careers at national labs. The event was organized in collaboration with UC Berkeley’s Visiting Scholar and Postdoc Affairs (VSPA) and with LBNL’s sponsorship.
Staff members from across the Department of Energy’s national lab network helped convey the contributions of the national laboratories to Congressional members and staff during National Lab Science Day. The event was held Wednesday, April 20, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
On April 21 and 22, 2016, the Department of Energy (DOE) hosted the National Laboratory Big Ideas near Washington, D.C. The Summit was the third annual gathering to elicit large-scale, potentially game-changing ideas from DOE’s 17 national laboratories working collaboratively to tackle the nation’s energy and science challenges. A theme of this year’s Summit was the Presidential Mission Innovation initiative to dramatically accelerate global clean energy innovation to address climate change.
The Advanced Biofuels Process Demonstration Unit (ABPDU) has entered into Federal Strategic Partnership Program agreements with three new companies to develop and scale up processes in renewable chemical production (Ardra Bio), sustainable food product development (Hampton Creek), and biobased chemical production (Ginkgo Bioworks).
Emery Station Operations Center (ESOC) welcomed a French Synthetic Biology Delegation on April 13. The delegation was led by the IAR Cluster (Pôle de Compétitivité IAR), which brings together more than 320 stakeholders from research, higher education, industry (SMEs and large companies) and agriculture with a common goal: the optimal valorization of renewable resources. IAR’s four R&I fields include biofuels, biomaterials (biopolymers and bio-composites), biochemicals and bio-ingredients.
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