Posted January 23, 2012
SLAC All Access: Main Control Center
Operator Matt Gibbs takes us on a quick tour inside SLAC's Main Control Center, which is the nerve center of the laboratory in the first installment of a new series from SLAC Multimedia Communications.
Posted January 24, 2012
From the Facilities Director: Ensuring SLAC is Able to Perform World-Class Science
As Facilities Director since October 2009, I have seen firsthand the positive impact of a “One Lab” approach taking hold at SLAC. By fully embracing the value of One Lab in everything we do, the Facilities Division continuously supports SLAC’s scientific mission and helps each directorate achieve its goals.
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Posted January 17, 2012
In the Spotlight: December Spot Award Winners
As multimedia-services supervisor, Rod Reape manages the Panofsky building and oversees audiovisual production for all live events at SLAC. In anticipation of SLAC’s 50th anniversary celebration this year, he took it upon himself to carry out an upgrade of Panofsky Auditorium.
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Posted January 12, 2012
Abi Soffer: One Tough BaBarian
Abner "Abi" Soffer, physics coordinator for the BaBar collaboration, has been working with quarks in one form or another since his grad-student days at Cornell University. He joined SLAC’s BaBar experiment in 1998 as a post-doctoral researcher with Colorado State University, and he's been with BaBar ever since – most recently in a role that requires him to commute back and forth to Israel, 27 hours door to door each way, every two weeks.
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Posted January 9, 2012
Lab Begins New Year with Some New Faces
SLAC welcomed eight recently hired employees who attended the New Employee Orientation session on Thursday, Jan. 5. From left to right: Chris Cummings, Brice Arnold, Nathan Goldschmidt, Andy Freeberg, Viet Tran, Feng Tao and Robert Wells. (Not pictured: Felix De La Torre)
Posted January 6, 2012
Richter Airs Views from his Recently Awarded Book on Climate Change
Nobel laureate Burton Richter, emeritus director of SLAC, explains his recently awarded book on climate change, Beyond Smoke and Mirrors, and goes on to discuss such current events as the international climate negotiations in South Africa and seizable moments after next year's presidential election.
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Posted January 5, 2012
New Nurse Practitioner's Career Path to SLAC an Odyssey
Matt DeAngelis didn’t start out to become a nurse practitioner. In fact, medicine isn’t even his second career. It’s his third – after zoology researcher and sea captain.
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Posted January 3, 2012
SLAC Public Lecture - Panofsky Auditorium
Posted January 3, 2012
SLAC Public Lecture: "Printing Solar Cells for Greener Energy," by Prof. Michael McGehee
Posted December 12, 2011
First North American Website Launched at SLAC 20 Years Ago Today
Its creators saw it as a great way to share information among the world’s widespread particle physics community. But World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee calls it the Web’s first “killer app.”
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