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Laboratory Director John Browne has completed a set of answers to questions submitted to future@lanl.gov (see the Director's home page under "Ask the Director"). In this latest set, the director answers questions on records maintenance requirements, commuting, Lab management support of diversity, report pay, student roles, waste reduction and more. The director always is open to employee questions and will answer those sent to him at future@lanl.gov. Questions sent to future@lanl.gov are received by the Ombuds Office and any information that might identify the questioner is removed before they are sent to the director. |
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Los Alamos Medal awards ceremony is Thursday The Los Alamos Medal award ceremony will be held from 1:15 to 3 p.m. on Thursday. All Laboratory workers and the general public are invited to attend the ceremony, which will be held in the Administration Building Auditorium at Technical Area 3. Deemed "the highest honor the Laboratory can bestow on an individual or small group," Laboratory Director John Browne will make the first-ever presentation of the medal to former Laboratory Director Harold Agnew and Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe. For more information, see the Nov. 28 Daily Newsbulletin. To read a all employee memo from John Browne, click here. |
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Director's Colloquium Dec. 11 focuses
on global health
"Global Health: Opportunity, Under Investment and Political Risk," is the subject of a Director's Colloquium Dec. 11 by Dr. Richard Feachem, director of the Institute for Global Health and professor of international health at the University of California, San Francisco and UC, Berkeley.
The talk begins at 1:10 p.m., in the Physics Building Auditorium at Technical Area 3 and is open to all Laboratory workers. The talk also will be broadcast on Labnet Channel 9 and can be viewed through Real Media.
Last year, Dr. Feachem was appointed to the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, which will complete its work this month. The commission, formed by the World Health Organization, is studying linkages between health and the economic growth and development of countries.
In this Director's Colloquium, Dr. Feachem will present data on the enormous disparities in health between rich and poor, the low levels of national and international investment in health, the opportunities for targeted new investment, and the fragile politics of health and health aid.
From 1995-99, Dr. Feachem was director and senior advisor for health, nutrition and population at the World Bank. He was responsible for the leadership of the World Bank's activities in the health, nutrition and population sectors, including an active portfolio of 150 projects in 80 countries with financial commitments of more than $10 billion.
From 1989-95, Dr. Feachem was dean of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is the British national school of public health and a premier institution worldwide for the study and teaching of public health and tropical medicine.
Dr. Feachem also has worked at the Universities of New South Wales and Birmingham and the World Health Organization.
In addition to the University of California, Dr. Feachem holds professorships at London, Johns Hopkins, and George Washington universities.
Dr. Feachem, a British national, received his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Birmingham in England in 1969; his doctoral degree in environmental health in 1974 from the University of New South Wales; and his medical degree from the University of London in 1991. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1994; a year later he was named a Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth for services to international health.
Dr. Feachem is an honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the Institution of Water and Environmental Management.
He also has been a member or chair of numerous working groups and panels of the World Health Organization and was a member of the Board on International Health of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
He is currently on the Council of Voluntary Service Overseas, the Health Advisory Committee of the British Council and the Board of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. Since 1999, Dr. Feachem has been editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization.
He has published extensively on health policy, epidemiology, environmental health, social anthropology, public health engineering and microbiology.
--Steve Sandoval
Energy 100 award recipients recognized at Laboratory
Tom Meyer, left, associate director for strategic research, congratulates Sabine Lauer of Biosciences (B) Divison, James Jett, center, and John Martin both of B Division, for their work on flow cytometry during the Energy 100 recognition ceremony last week in the Otowi Building main dining area at Technical Area 3. Behind Meyer in background is Scott Cram of the Strategic Research Directorate. Four Laboratory technologies received Energy 100 awards, which represent the Department of Energy's finest scientific accomplishments from 1977 to 2000. The four Los Alamos projects receiving an award were: flow cytometry for biomedicine; fuel cells for transportation; KIVA computer codes for cars; and magnetoencephalography (MEG) for functional brain imaging. Two of the technologies, fuel cells and flow cytometry, also received Energy@23 awards, as selected from among the 100 top technologies. More information on the awards can be found at http://www.ma.doe.gov/energy100/winners.html or HTTP://www.ma.doe.gov/energy100/list.html online. Photo by LeRoy N. Sanchez, Public Affairs
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