Grid Modernization Initiative (GMI) News

Can innovations in materials science help make our world a cleaner place? Argonne National Lab’s Vilas Pol was recently featured on the PBS NOVA series Making Stuff, where he shared his innovative approach of converting plastic bags into rechargeable...
A nuclear physicist hailing from Los Alamos National Lab, Christine Aidala is currently stationed at Brookhaven National Laboratory to be near her latest experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. We recently caught up with Christine and got th...
See what Secretary Chu, Governor Schwarzenegger and ARPA-E Director Arun Majumdar had to say to the gathering of talented graduate students during their surprise visit.
At Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), Elise Fox works on a wide breadth of projects from fuel cells and batteries to concentrating solar power. She recently took some time to give us the download on advances in energy storage technologies, her ...
Meet Melinda Hamilton – she’s a bioenergy expert and the Director of Education Programs at Idaho National Laboratory. She recently took some time to share what she’s doing to help ramp-up U.S. competitiveness in science and technology, why Jane G...