On September 29, 2017, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry will travel to Piketon, OH to visit DOE’s Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant.

The second annual Learning on the Lawn event hosted at Argonne National Lab in August 2017.
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry will provide remarks at the National Petroleum Council meeting and reception in Washington, D.C.
Projects will continue the development of carbon capture technologies to either the engineering scale or to a commercial design.

A robotics team started by Sandia National Laboratories computer scientist Mohamed Ebeida won the Inspiration Core Value award in August, 2017.
Projects will work to solve critical research and developmental challenges encountered for the successful scale-up of integrated biorefineries.

Three women at Sandia National Labs received "Women Worth Watching" awards in 2017.
Initiative will initially focus on challenges facing industry as they work to develop new or improved materials that can sustain extreme conditions.
New projects will develop the tools to enable the United States to become a leading producer of seaweed, helping to improve U.S. energy security.

Brookhaven National Lab sponsored their second annual science fair in August, 2017.