• Burn designed to restore native prairie grasses

    Gray smoke briefly rose over Huffman Prairie here today from a planned burn designed to spur growth of native grasses.The prescribed burn of about 24 acres of prairie was done in coordination with and under the watchful eyes of Forestry Division officials from Ohio's Department of Natural

  • Base to continue exercise, Wounded Eagle

    Base officials here will continue base-wide exercises on Wednesday, Oct.22. Named Wounded Eagle 08-03 , the exercise will test Wright-Patterson AFB personnel on their ability to handle emergencies such as terrorist activity, force protection changes, and disease containment.  The disease containment

  • University of Colorado professors conduct new laser research

    A University of Colorado at Boulder husband and wife research team, Professor Margaret Murnane and Dr. Henry Kapteyn, have developed new, practical, laser-like sources in the ultraviolet and soft x-ray regions based on the most extreme form of nonlinear optics. In this work, an intense femtosecond

  • Air Force partners with University Hospital to ready nurses for deployment

    University Hospital Cincinnati and the U.S. Air Force inaugurated a new program Oct. 7 to provide newly graduated registered nurses the advanced clinical training and experience needed to become Air Force Nurse Corps officers and to prepare them for deployment. University Hospital is the first

  • Retiree honored as Volunteer of the Year

    Col. Byron Lee Schatzley was honored here Oct. 16 as the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Retiree Activities Office Volunteer of the Year. Col. Bradley Spacy, 88th Air Base Wing commander, presented the award to Schatzley. "There is so much that we could not do without the selfless support of our

  • Air Force invests $12M for Young Investigators Research Program

    The Air Force Office of Scientific Research today announced it will award approximately $12.1 million in grants to 39 scientists and engineers who submitted winning research proposals through the Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program (YIP). The YIP is open to scientists and engineers at

  • Amplitude Spectroscopy Contributes to Advances in Quantum Computing

    Air Force-sponsored research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is accelerating the development of quantum or high-speed computers, which helps the Air Force with cryptoanalysis or 'code-breaking,' microwave electronics and materials science. Chief researcher, Dr. William Oliver of MIT's

  • AF Funding Enables Artificial Photosynthesis

    The news media has paid a great deal of attention to Daniel Nocera's breakthrough research in artificial photosynthesis, and with good reason. This technology has the potential to power an entire building for one day using only a few gallons of water and light energy from the sun. Solar energy could

  • Researcher receives Air Force Meritorious Civilian Service Award

    Dr. Roland E. Dutton received the Air Force Meritorious Civilian Service award in recognition of his distinguished performance as the chief of the Metals Branch of the Metals, Ceramics and Nondestructive Evaluation Division, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory. The

  • Vaccines offer insurance against flu

    With flu season is rapidly approaching, Wright-Patterson Medical Center's immunization clinic is making influenza vaccine available for active duty Airmen and certain military beneficiary family members. Influenza virus, better known as the "flu," is a highly contagious respiratory viral illness.