Oak Ridge Utility District’s Sasha Benjamin, and Joe Storch, co-owner of Patriot Talent Solutions, were awarded the Herman and Pat Postma Young Professional Medal given by the East Tennessee Economic Council at its virtual annual awards celebration today.
Three leaders with long resumes of service in East Tennessee were awarded the Muddy Boot by the East Tennessee Economic Council at its virtual annual awards event today. Dr. Thomas Zacharia, ORNL Director and father of the lab’s worldwide leadership in supercomputing; Dr. Eric Abelquist, chairman of the ETEC Board of Directors and long-time senior vice president of ORAU; and Roane County Executive Ron Woody were named 2020 Muddy Boot Award winners.
Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette joined U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, and other state and community leaders in Oak Ridge on Oct. 13 to celebrate the historic first-ever removal of a former uranium enrichment complex. Read more about this EM achievement here.