The Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities and Economic Revitalization (Energy Communities IWG), which is supported by NETL, has been awarded a second-place 2024 Blue Pencil & Gold Screen Award from the National Association of Government Communicators for the “Catalyzing Economic Development in Pennsylvania’s Energy Communities” event held Oct. 20, 2023, at Westmoreland County Community College in Youngwood, Pennsylvania.

The brightest minds in the Oregon federal workforce gathered Tuesday, May 7, at the Historic Hangar, located adjacent to Pearson Air Museum, in Vancouver, Washington, for the Oregon Federal Executive Board (FEB) Excellence in Government Awards, where an NETL researcher took home a prestigious honor.

Staff and researchers at NETL-Morgantown and NETL-Pittsburgh received two team awards and 10 individual awards from the Pittsburgh Federal Executive Board (FEB) during its 2024 Excellence in Government Awards program at the Heinz History Center during Public Service Recognition Week (PSRW), which was held May 5-11.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected NETL Director Marianne Walck as a 2023 AAAS Fellow for distinguished contributions and technical excellence in geophysics, earth sciences and energy and climate science; strategic leadership at two national laboratories; and unwavering diversity, equity and inclusion leadership and advocacy.

Suncrest Middle School’s Team 1 captured first place at the 33rd West Virginia Science Bowl (WVSB) middle school competition, which was held Friday, Feb. 2. Sixteen teams from 10 middle schools throughout the Mountain State participated in the event, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and NETL.

NETL’s Christina Wildfire, Ph.D., and Don Ferguson, Ph.D., researchers who are driving technological breakthroughs to advance the nation’s decarbonization efforts, have been selected to serve as Fellows in the 2024 Cohort of the Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program (OSELP).

A recent analysis published by Stanford University included 26 current and former NETL researchers in the top 2% of global scientists, underscoring the deep pool of talent at the U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory focused on creating a clean energy future.

Pranjali Muley, Ph.D., an NETL researcher whose work on the Lab’s Reaction Engineering Team is advancing the next breakthroughs in microwave reaction engineering, was recognized as a Technology Rising Star at the 2023 Women of Color STEM Digital Twin Experience Conference.

Erin Russell-Story, an NETL project manager who has dedicated much of her career to advancing the use of alternative fuel vehicles, received the Stephen R. Connors Visionary Award at the 20th annual AltWheels Fleet Day, the largest meeting of corporate and municipal fleet managers on the East Coast. The award was presented by AltWheels, a nonprofit organization that focuses on building sustainable transportation alternatives, to an individual who exhibits leadership in helping to make changes in the environmental sector that positively impact the world.

An innovative sensor technology, developed by NETL and its partners at the University of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh-based company Sensible Photonics Inc. that can protect the Nation’s energy infrastructure, help save lives, and save the economy billions of dollars by preventing electric service downtime has scored a 2023 R&D 100 award in the topic area of IT/Electrical.