Anna Marie Kukec Tomczyk

The Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing ​“is as hands-on as it gets,” said one attendee. The annual two-week program offers training on key skills, approaches and tools to carry out research on current and next-generation…

The annual Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing welcomed 75 participants for a crash course in supercomputing. Gladys Chen, who provides advanced high performance computing (HPC) user support for the Texas Advanced Computing Center…

Conner Schroeder, a senior at Guilford High School in Rockford was prepared for minor fog. But he and his teammates were unprepared for a ​“torrential rain” on the obstacle course. Knowing there wasn’t much they could do, they made a last-minute…

Sixty boys and girls from around Illinois competed while learning about teamwork, competition, engineering and problem-solving. Students from John B. Murphy Elementary School in Chicago appeared nervous. They were just about to meet the judges for…

About 200 miles of utilities — water, sewer, electrical, steam, gas, telecom and more — line the Argonne campus, or roughly the distance between Washington, D.C., and New York. It’s a lot to tackle when seeking full decarbonization. About 200 miles…

In 2017, Jessica Durham Macholz joined the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher and four years later decided to start a family. Then she wondered how such a personal decision to have a baby would…

A group of eighth graders from Gompers Junior High School in Joliet recently swarmed the Zero Gradient Synchrotron-Intense Pulsed Neutron Source control room, rapidly flicking metal switches and urgently pushing buttons, as if on a mission to feel…

A research team led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory used powerful X-ray beams to unlock a new understanding of materials important to the production and use of hydrogen. The goal is to make hydrogen production and…

Are drones really energy efficient? That depends on the average wind speed. An Argonne study compares drone energy usage to diesel trucks and electric vehicles and aims to help industry determine if they could save money with drone delivery. What’s…

The students each chose just one strawberry and placed it delicately into their plastic bags. They then smooshed those bags until the strawberries were reduced to a red puree. But it wasn’t for a smoothie. It was for their first experiment in a…

As Argonne’s cyber defense infrastructure support specialist, Giana Ciuffetelli helps to maintain and manage the cyber tools that keep Argonne safe and running well. “Everyone has taught me so much,” said Ciuffetelli. ​“So, I believe working with my…

When Bev Hartline was the deputy lab director at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory in the early 2000s, she also became a pioneering and powerful symbol for women throughout the Lab, especially Millie Firestone. “I just…

ATPESC has hosted more than 600 participants to date, providing training on the key skills needed to use supercomputers for science. Many early career scientists, eager to learn to use the world’s most powerful supercomputers, anticipate acquiring…

A team of researchers has observed an unusual transformation in material under incredibly high pressure. Scientists captured the material, which includes manganese coupled with sulfide, changing from a soft nonconducting form to a metal and back…

A groundbreaking collaboration with a unique workforce development component will help to bring new technologies to the forefront of the bioenergy industry. The Integrated Biochemical and Electrochemical Technologies (IBET) to Convert Organic Waste…

A love for high performance computing (HPC) and the eagerness to learn the latest about supercomputers attracted nearly 80 attendees this year at the ninth annual Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC). “I view training the next…

Recording from 2021 Virtual Author Fair. Author panel on writing nonfiction history.Authors:William Hazelgrove, One Hundred and Sixty Minutes: The Race to Save the RMS TitanicAnna Marie Kukec Tomczyk, We Are Eagles: Inspiring Stories of Immigrant…

In its on-going campaign to reveal the inner workings of the Sar-CoV-2 virus, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is leading efforts to couple artificial intelligence (AI) and cutting-edge simulation workflows to better…

Our brains are responsible for coordinating and interpreting many of the actions we take for granted every day, from walking and running to seeing and hearing. To coordinate the sensory and motor signals firing across the brain requires a relay…

Charles M. ​“Chick” Macal, the Social, Behavioral, and Decision Science group leader in the Decision and Infrastructure Sciences division at the U.S Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, can now add Fellow of the Society for…