Industry, academic, and community relationships are critically important to Berkeley Lab and to the Department of Energy. These partners can collaborate with Lab researchers, provide additional funding for research and development projects, and offer input on Lab programs. Part of the Department of Energy’s mission (executed through its Office of Technology Transitions) is to expand […]

Proposal Submission Rush Requests The Strategic Partnerships Office (SPO) Contracts Officers (COs) are the authorized officials of the Lab with delegated authority to submit proposals to non-DOE sponsors. It is the SPO submission policy that all proposals must be entered into eSRA and submitted to SPO for review and action no later than five (5) […]

Our Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program serves as a proving ground for innovative concepts, providing seed funding for selected high-risk, high-reward research ideas. It attracts promising young scientists and engineers and encourages them to pursue new approaches to problems. For the FY24 cycle, the LDRD Call for Proposals cycle received a total response […]

Berkeley Lab has been fortunate enough over the years to have received many awards that fund new and interesting work that ties into national priorities, from clean energy to biopreparedness. This year in particular has been a banner year, with the late summer and fall in particular bringing in news of many funding awards. Awards […]

Left to right: Debbie Bard, Superfacility Project lead, and Dula Parkinson, ALS staff scientist and an early proponent of the superfacility concept Revolutionizing how we do science can mean different things, from entirely new approaches to developing new science instruments. It can also mean finding innovative ways to serve the scientific community. The concept of […]

Hydrogen has significant potential as an energy carrier and means of storing energy. Research on clean hydrogen has been a priority of the Department of Energy; two recent DOE awards will further support that work at the Lab. The DOE’s Energy Earthshot Research Center (EERC) program is funding the Lab’s Center for Ionomer-based Water Electrolysis […]

  Are you engaged or interested in research related to the circular economy?  Are you interested in developing science-based solutions to recycle and reuse materials across scales? Berkeley Lab has recently become a member of the REMADE Institute, which enables the early-stage applied research and development of technologies related to the reuse, remanufacture, and recycling […]

One of the important ways Berkeley Lab has revolutionized science is its development of first-of-its-kind scientific tools. These tools have often accelerated, and sometimes even changed the trajectory of science. The Lab of course got its start with E.O. Lawrence’s invention of the cyclotron, which accelerated scientific discovery at the sub-atomic level. Today, scientists around […]

Like Berkeley Lab’s other cutting edge user facilities, the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is helping to transform science. When it was established 26 years ago, it focused on sequencing for the Human Genome Project. Since then, it has evolved to advance genomics in support of the DOE missions related to clean energy and the environment. […]