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From the Blog
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Learn why Dr. Emily Shemon loves her job at Argonne National Laboratory as a Principal Nuclear Engineer. -
Learn why Romero-Lankao loves her job as a distinguished researcher at DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the Center for Integrated Mobility Sciences. -
Learn why Anelia Milbrandt loves her job as a Senior Research Analyst in the Strategic Energy Analysis Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. -
Learn why Kelley loves her job as an Energy Water Systems Integration mechanical engineer at Sandia National Laboratories. -
This article is the first of two in a Women’s History Month series that showcases a handful of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL's) outstanding women researchers in water power. -
Learn why Amy Halloran loves her job as the Director of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Grid Modernization for Sandia National Laboratories. -
Jordan-Sweet retired after a nearly 40-year career based at Brookhaven Lab -
Over 75 girls from across Northern New Mexico gained a better insight into science, technology and engineering with help from ten women LANL researchers and engineers who volunteered as presenters at this year’s STEM Pathways for Girls conference. -
From designing powerful magnets to engineering a new system to swap electrons at the speed of light, Liu’s fingerprints will be all over the upgraded Advanced Photon Source. -
In graduate school, Argonne postdoctoral researcher Katie Sautter learned to master a machine that builds bits of matter one atomic layer at a time. Now she wields her considerable skills inventing materials for quantum communication devices at Q-NEXT.
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Women in STEM Coloring Book
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