The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released new guidance on improving indoor air quality as a component of pandemic response. The “Clean Air in Buildings Challenge” is a call to action and a set of guiding principles and best practices to assist building owners and operators with...

On March 21, 2022, Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed, an Army Veteran, and Congressman David Cicilline attended the opening of the Captain John H. Harwood Research Center at the VA Providence health care system. The new research center will focus on improving the care of veterans, including ways to...

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is lending its expertise to support big building efficiency and decarbonization improvements in the Big Apple. The pilot study, a partnership between PNNL and the New York City (NYC) Department of Buildings, launched last year and was recently extended...

The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, is collaborating with regional partners to host the Crane Tech Expo, an April 14 event showcasing a Navy-developed technology that will be the focus of a six-week accelerator program for entrepreneurs hoping to commercialize it. The PROPELS (...

Knowing that hens produce more eggs when they are comfortable and content, a research team funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is using computer modeling to analyze how hens perceive changes in cage-free environments and whether that affects egg production. Deana Jones, a research...

The Open Institute for Black Women Entrepreneur Excellence will kick off a new collaboration between FLC partner TEDCO (the Maryland Technology Development Corporation) and Maryland's four Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The Women Entrepreneur Leadership Programs will focus on...

The Department of Defense (DoD) on March 14 announced $3.6 million in Supplemental Support for Research Trainees (SSRT) awards to 34 early career researchers pursuing basic research across multiple scientific disciplines. These one-year funding add-ons to existing DoD grants will help offset the...

A Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating various additional COVID-19 booster shots has begun enrolling adult participants in the United States. The trial aims to understand if different vaccine regimens—prototype and variant vaccines alone and in combinations—can broaden immune responses in adults who...

When the next SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern emerges in the world, the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases (NIAID) will call on SAVE – its version of The Avengers – to quickly react and protect people. SAVE – which stands for SARS-CoV-2 Assessment of Viral Evolution– members assess...

COVID-19 patients commonly report having headaches, confusion and other neurological symptoms, but doctors don’t fully understand how the disease targets the brain during infection. Now, researchers at Tulane University have shown in detail how COVID-19 affects the central nervous system, according...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers and collaborators from Iowa State University and industrial forensics company RJ Lee Group have demonstrated a safe and effective antiviral coating for N95 masks that destroys the COVID-19-causing coronavirus and could enable reuse of masks made from...

Digital Diagnostics company Ellume, which developed an innovative COVID-19 viral antigen test with support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) Initiative, has opened a new facility that has the capacity to produce approximately 15 million COVID-19...

The National Institutes of Health, working in collaboration with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), on October 6 announced a third round of contract awards for scale-up and manufacturing of new COVID-19 testing technologies. The six new Rapid Acceleration of...

American manufacturers remained competitive during fiscal year 2021 despite industry-wide disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to findings recently released by the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), a program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (...

The Department of Veterans Affairs is leveraging lessons learned from its initial COVID-19 response experience to guide the agency's next steps, advancing data interoperability to fuel new dashboards and reach underrepresented populations. Agency representatives described the process in mid-...

A new agreement will help develop a new class of materials for Army engines and hypersonics. Lehigh University, in partnership with The Ohio State University, has entered into a $25 Million Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Army Research Lab to develop novel structural materials for high-strength...

A new superalloy, developed by industry partner Haynes International and tested by a collaborative effort led by NETL, received American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) approval for use in the next generation of power plants that will operate with enhanced efficiency and produce fewer...

The 11th International Space Station Research and Development Conference (ISSRDC) in Washington, D.C., July 25-28. Hosted by the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, NASA, and the American Astronautical Society, ISSRDC 2022 will showcase how the space station continues to provide a...

FLC partner The Water Council has launched the submission period for its Spring 2022 Tech Challenge. Topics of focus are: elimination of high operating expenses in sludge management costs, and non-turbine energy harvesting. The semi-annual program connects water innovators to innovative water users...

The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), in collaboration with other Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) partners, on April 6 announced $200,000 in total awarded for two winners of the Pediatric COVID-19 Data Challenge. The Pediatric COVID-19 Data Challenge is...

On April 1, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the termination on May 23 of its public health order requiring the expulsion of migrants at U.S. borders to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The CDC will work with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on other strategies...

The Cross-Border Threat Screening and Supply Chain Defense (CBTS) Center of Excellence, an academic research organization funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is analyzing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on U.S. food and agriculture supply chains and the extent to which those...

Using technology developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), researchers for the first time have spotted short-term, regional fluctuations in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) across the globe due to emissions from human activities. Using a combination of NASA satellites...

The new U.S. Nuclear Nexus web portal, recently launched by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory, aims to connect U.S. civil nuclear developers with informational resources and expertise of the NNSA and offer a central access point...

The Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory’s ongoing research is developing technology to better understand blue whales by simultaneously collecting environmental DNA (eDNA) samples and recording acoustic calls through deploying drifting buoys with underwater hydrophones. PMEL developed software...