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Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) associate director Dr. Lee Riedinger will discuss science, technology and workforce challenges, Thursday, March 3, 3:30 p.m. at the University of Memphis FedEx Institute of Technology as part of the 2004-05 Innovation Series.

Riedinger who is the associate laboratory director for university partnerships at ORNL develops university partnerships that extend the lab's capabilities. His talk will explore ways ORNL/university partnerships can provide solutions to science, technology and workforce challenges by working together to develop new technologies and recruit and train students in science.

Before joining ORNL as part of the UT-Battelle management team, Riedinger was head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Tennessee. He received a Ph.D. in experimental nuclear physics from Vanderbilt University. The author of 190 refereed publications, Riedinger has given 60 invited talks at conferences and workshops and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His research has been funded by the Department of Energy since 1976.

The event is open to the public. For more information, call 901-678-5105.

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