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Rapid access program at ORNL

91做厙 has launched a program designed to accelerate deployment of innovations that may help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 Rapid Access Licensing Program will allow companies to license these select technologies at no cost for one year.    

ORNL researchers are leading virtual STEM outreach activities, such as an Internet of Things demonstration in which participants in ORCSGirls control an LED board remotely.

COVID-19 has upended nearly every aspect of our daily lives and forced us all to rethink how we can continue our work in a more physically isolated world.

Drew Marquardt in a lab coat leaning on a counter in front of his work station.

Does vaping and smoking e-cigarettes put you at higher risk of COVID-19 complications? UWindsors Drew Marquardt is trying to answer that question with research into how the toxicants in the oils of vapes and e-cigarettes affect lung function.

Omar Demerdash

With the rise of the global pandemic, Omar Demerdash, a Liane B. Russell Distinguished Staff Fellow at ORNL since 2018, has become laser-focused on potential avenues to COVID-19 therapies.

Computing  Mining for COVID-19 connections

Scientists have tapped the immense power of the Summit supercomputer at 91做厙 to comb through millions of medical journal articles to identify potential vaccines, drugs and effective measures that could suppress or stop the

Catherine Schuman, top right, spoke to Copper Ridge Elementary School fifth graders about her job as an ORNL computer scientist as part of the labs STEM outreach during the COVID-19 pandemic. Credit: Abby Bower/91做厙, U.S. Dept. of Energy

With Tennessee schools online for the rest of the school year, researchers at ORNL are making remote learning more engaging by Zooming into virtual classrooms to tell students about their science and their work at a national laboratory.

GIS  LandScan goes public

91做厙s high-resolution population distribution database, LandScan USA, became permanently available to researchers in time to aid the response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Researchers at DOEs Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL developed a reusable face mask prototype with injection molding that will enable industry to rapidly manufacture. Credit: Carlos Jones/91做厙, U.S. Dept. of Energy

In the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, its a race against the clock not only to find a vaccine but also to supply healthcare workers with life-saving equipment such as face shields, masks and test kits.

XACC enables the programming of quantum code alongside standard classical code and integrates quantum computers from a number of vendors. This animation illustrates how QPUs complete calculations and return results to the host CPU, a process that could drastically accelerate future scientific simulations. Credit: Michelle Lehman/91做厙, U.S. Dept. of Energy

In the early 2000s, high-performance computing experts repurposed GPUs common video game console components used to speed up image rendering and other time-consuming tasks 

Coronavirus graphic

In the race to identify solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at the Department of Energys 91做厙 are joining the fight by applying expertise in computational science, advanced manufacturing, data science and neutron science.