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Los Alamos NewsLetter to be distributed this week

The biweekly hard-copy Los Alamos NewsLetter for the week of June 21 is scheduled to be in mailboxes and newsstands this week.

On the cover, read about how Laboratory researchers recently unveiled a new theory explaining the strange coexistence of metallic and insulating phases in the crystals of a mineral called perovskite manganite.

An announcement that Nobel Laureate and Stanford University physicist Steven Chu is the new director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is on Page 2.

On Page 3, read about the formation of the Laboratory's new Prime Contract Office (PCO). This office will provide institutional focus and oversight for issues related to the Department of Energy prime contract for Laboratory operations, and a new "ISEC Knows" warning employees on foreign travel to not accept cellular telephones from their host for personal use.

April 22 was the 100th birthday of Los Alamos' first director, J. Robert Oppenheimer. To mark this anniversary and celebrate the work of Oppenheimer and his Manhattan Project colleagues, a symposium is taking place this week in Los Alamos. On Page 4, read about the symposium and a traveling exhibit of photographs of Oppenheimer at the Laboratory's Bradbury Science Museum.

On Page 5, Laboratory Director G. Peter Nanos talks about the importance of diversity at the Laboratory at a talk sponsored by the Asian American Diversity Working Group. Also on Page 5, there is an announcement that the Los Alamos Employees' Scholarship Fund drive has been extended and a story about special badges listing which items must be kept out of the Laboratory's solid waste stream.

Newsmakers, June service anniversaries and this month in history can be found on Pages 6 and 7. The Los Alamos NewsLetter's new feedback feature called "So ... what do you think? also can be found on Page 6.

This week's spotlight on Page 8 features Jim Rocha of the Nuclear Materials Technology (NMT) Division who works with at-risk children in grades 6-8 by encouraging them to learn about science.

Employees can access the Los Alamos NewsLetter at http://www.lanl.gov/worldview/news/lanl_archive.shtml online or obtain additional copies at the bright blue distribution boxes throughout the Lab. Organizations receiving too many or not enough should call the mailroom at 7-4166. If your organization's administrator is not putting the newsletter in your mailboxes, please encourage him or her to do so.

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