OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Thom Mason spoke with confidence and satisfaction when he looked back at the 2014 performance at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which he has directed for the past seven-and-a-half years.
The lab received an admirable performance rating of 94 (out of 100) from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, and Mason allowed himself to brag a bit about some of the research accomplishments.
“I think it has been a good year — a lot of good stuff done in terms of the research we’re doing,” he said. “Everything from important contributions to understanding climate change to discoveries of the microscopic origins of behavior in new materials to 3-D printing a car for the first time in partnership with industry. So a lot of good work got done.”
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