Monday, July 14, 2008

WBIR Reports: Oak Ridge's Jennifer Azzi to be inducted into WBHOF

WBIR Reports: Oak Ridge's Jennifer Azzi to be inducted into WBHOF

Former Oak Ridge basketball player Jennifer Azzi will be inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame next year. Azzi played college basketball at Stanford where she won the Wade Trophy and the Naismith player of the year award.

Azzi led Stanford to a national championship in 1990. It was played at Thompson-Boiling Arena that year. She also led USA to a gold medal in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

A total of six women make up the Class of 2009. They also include: Louisiana Tech and Baylor coach Sonja Hogg, former Southern California Trojan Cynthia Cooper-Dyke, former Mississippi star Jennifer Gillom, former Illinois State coach Jill Hutchison and black basketball legend Ora Washington.

The Class of 2009 will be inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville on June 13.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

ORNL wins again in national R&D contest; 2nd only to GE

By Frank Munger / Knoxville News Sentinel
Originally published 11:02 a.m., July 1, 2008
Updated 11:02 a.m., July 1, 2008

Oak Ridge National Laboratory was associated with six of the year's top 100 technological innovations, according to awards announced by R&D Magazine.

ORNL won six R&D 100 Awards, bringing the lab's total to 140 since the magazine began the awards program 45 years ago. That's more than any of the other national labs and second overall to General Electric.

(read the entire article here)