Los Alamos names new deputy for Strategic and Supporting Research

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LOS ALAMOS, N.M., March 26, 2001 -- Los Alamos National Laboratory has selected Laboratory manager Judith Bannon Snow to become the new deputy associate Laboratory director for the Strategic and Supporting Research Directorate. Snow will start in her new position in mid-April.

Associate Laboratory Director for Strategic and Supporting Research Thomas J. Meyer made the appointment.

"I am confident that based on Judith’s outstanding track record as a researcher and manager, she will do an excellent job working with me to continue to build upon the great science and research in SSR," said Meyer.

In her new role, Snow will be responsible for assisting Meyer in the oversight and management of SSR’s research activities that support the Laboratory’s nuclear-weapons and threat-reduction missions. SSR scientists, spanning fields from biology to geology to physics, also contribute to non-defense basic and applied research, and the development of new research opportunities for the Laboratory. Meyer added that Snow will be a key player and a partner in continuing to move the SSR Directorate forward.

Snow said, "I'm very excited about the opportunity to join Strategic and Supporting Research. I'm eager to get started working with the directorate’s top-notch researchers and staff. The outstanding basic and applied research conducted in SSR is critical to the future of the Laboratory, and I look forward to being a part of the team that is planning that future."

Meyer thanked Beverly Hartline who has served as the acting deputy of SSR for the past year.

"Beverly has been a key player in establishing the formal operations of SSR and I thank her for this service," said Meyer.

Snow joined the Laboratory in 1994 and has served as a technical staff member in the former Chemical Science and Technology Division, in various management positions in both CST and Dynamic Experimentation Divisions, and as group leader for the High Explosives Group since 1996. Before joining the Laboratory, Snow held both research and managerial positions at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, Rhode Island. Snow has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Whitman College, a master of arts in teaching chemistry from Reed College, a doctorate in chemistry from Wesleyan University and a master’s in management from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

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