Laboratory Director to
address National Press Club
Laboratory Director John Browne is scheduled to speak Thursday about the importance of using science to meet global and national challenges that have arisen in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on America.
Following a 12:30 luncheon, Browne will speak at 1 p.m. EST at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., 529 14th Street NW, 13th Floor. Reservations to attend the luncheon and talk can be obtained from the NPC at (202) 662-7501. Browne's talk will be carried on National Public Radio and C-SPAN.
"Sept. 11 helped underscore some of the issues we must consider as a nation and as members of the global community," Browne said. "My talk will illustrate why future public investment in the physical sciences is critically important to effectively combating terrorism here and abroad, as well as addressing other evolving national security issues -- from maintaining the nation's nuclear deterrent, to reducing the global threat of weapons of mass destruction, to solving national security problems in energy, environment, infrastructure and health."
-- James E. Rickman
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Richard A. Marquez is the Laboratory's new Associate Director for Administration. The Administration Directorate includes the Laboratory's Business Operations (BUS), Communications and External Relations (CER), Human Resources (HR), and Information Management (IM) divisions, as well as the Audits and Assessments (AA), Diversity (DVO), Equal Opportunity (OEO), Ombuds, Quality Improvement (QI) and Laboratory Counsel (LC) offices. Marquez is scheduled to begin his new position Feb. 4, pending final approval by the University of California Board of Regents. For more information, see the Jan. 25 Daily Newsbulletin. |
LA County wants employee input
Los Alamos County officials want to hear from Laboratory workers about the future of the county. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Feb. 6, Lab workers can give input that will be considered as part of the county's "visioning" process.
The meeting is in the Physics Building Auditorium at Technical Area 3 and is open to all Lab workers.
The Lab's Community Relations (CRO) Office is coordinating the Lab meeting with county community development officials.
The public meeting at the Lab is one of eight county officials have scheduled at locations around Los Alamos and White Rock.
"Los Alamos County government wants Lab employees, even those workers who live off the hill, to tell [county officials] what they think about the future direction of the county," said Albert Jiron of CRO. "We want to accommodate the county's request and believe this is an ideal opportunity for Lab personnel to provide input."
Jiron stressed that Lab workers who attend the meeting wouldn't represent an official position of the Laboratory.
Additional meetings are scheduled as follows:
Jiron said county officials will take input from the public meetings and develop several proposals for review. Additional meetings are scheduled Feb. 9 at White Rock Methodist Church and Feb. 11 in the Topper Café at Los Alamos High School to review the input from the public meetings and begin to develop the vision statement.
And from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Feb. 23 also at Los Alamos High School, the county will hold another public meeting in which a draft vision statement will be discussed. The Los Alamos County Council would have to act on the vision statement later this spring, said Kelly Carpenter, Los Alamos County's community development director.
For more information, contact Jiron at 5-4400. For information about the county's vision statement, contact Carpenter at 662-8199.
--Steve Sandoval
Catching solar wind ... and more
The latest issue of DOE Pulse is available online. Pulse is an online newsletter about accomplishments at the Department of Energy's national laboratories.
In addition to the highlights, each issue features two longer articles -- one about a researcher and one about a multilabcollaborative effort.
Some of the headlines in this issue are "Catching solar
wind" from Los Alamos, "Kinky high-temp superconductors"
from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, "Waste incineration
options" from Idaho National Engineering and "Virtual
guide star shines" from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
There also is a feature on amazing facts from the six-lab Spallation
Neutron Source project's construction and a profile of Los Alamos
cryptographer Richard Hughes.
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Future Lab workers? Jim Porter of the Laboratory's University of California Coordination Team (STB-DSTBP) browses through paperwork at a recent student programs meeting last Thursday in the Otowi Building at Technical Area 3. Porter was among many Lab officials who gathered at the Lab to place high-performing students in jobs for 2002. High-performing students have a grade point average of 3.5 or higher. Photo by Michael Carlson, Public Affairs |
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