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10
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EHS 155
Building Emergency Teams
Building 937, Room 302
10:30
a.m.
EHS 60
Ergonomics for Computer Users
Building 51, Room 201
Noon
BROWN BAG
Computing Sciences, Computer Protection:
Securing Wireless Networks
Ted Sopher, LBLNet Services
Building 50 Auditorium
SEMINAR
Environmental Energy Technologies:
Deregulating UK Gas and Electricity Markets: How
is Competition Working for Residential Consumers?
Catherine Waddams, Director, Centre for Competition
and Regulation, University of East Anglia, UK
Building 90, Room 3148
2
p.m.
EHS 530
Fire Extinguishers
Building 48, Room 109
4
p.m.
SEMINAR
Life Sciences Division:
Stem Cells in Normal Breast Development and Breast
Cancer, Max S. Wicha, Director, University of Michigan
Comprehensive Cancer Center
Building 84, Room 318
Tomorrow
8:30
– 11 a.m.
EHS 275
Confined Space Hazards
Building
51,
Room 201
11
a.m.
LECTURE
Nuclear Science Division Pugh Lecture: How Relativistic
Heavy Ions Help Us Understand the Universe, Berndt
Mueller, Duke University
Main Auditorium
11
a.m. – noon
EHS 274
Confined Space-Retraining
Building
51,
Room 201
1:30
– 3 p.m.
EHS 135
Earthquake/Wildland Fire Safety
Building
48,
Room 109
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Soup: Vegetarian Minestrone
Origins: Tuna Casserole
Adobe Cafe: Taco Salad
Fresh Grille: Reuben Sndwich
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SECON level 2
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Decoding
DNA
A Scientific Revolution
By
Ian Hoffman, Staff Writer
Scientists
hoisted a long and exasperating book -- the unpunctuated
and barely intelligible manual for life itself -- as
a supreme human achievement Monday, saying its translation
outshone the splitting of the atom and putting a man
on the moon.
"Make
no mistake," said Mark Walport, director of The
Wellcome Trust. "In terms of the significance to
science and, more importantly, to society, this is a
leap forward that will reap greater benefits for mankind."
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Elkins
Heads Lab's
Employee Relations
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William
“Bill” Elkins has joined the Lab's Human
Resources staff as Manager of Labor and Employee Relations.
A seasoned HR professional, Elkins was most recently senior
manager for the Boeing Company's labor relations staff.
He has also served with Weyerhauser, Graphic Communications
International Union, Monsanto, and Inland Steel. Lab HR
manager Randy Scott also announced
the appointment of Shada Kuba as a consultant in
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Latest
Issue of UC's
'LabUPDATE' Available
The
fourth issue of University of California's periodic newsletter
on activities at the three UC-managed Department of Energy
laboratories, including Berkeley, has been published. The
April 11 LabUPDATE includes several articles on Los
Alamos management issues, plus a brief on Berkeley Lab's recent
primate-linked DNA research. Download a PDF of the newsletter
here.
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Old Equipment?
Send to Excess Facility
Employees
who are faced with the question of what to do
with old pieces of equipment can get help from
the Property Management Office. Procedures allow
for such assets to be retired and transported
to the Lab's Excess Facility in Building 903.
Information on why to retire property and how
to do it can be found here.
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Giants
Game Added
To Baseball Outings
Tickets
to the Giants-N.Y. Mets game on May 15 in San Francisco will
be on sale today during the noon hour in the cafeteria lobby.
Also available are tickets to the baseball game in Oakland on
June 21 between the A's and the Giants. Both games begin at
7 p.m. Checks and money orders will be accepted. Call Lisa
Cordova of the Employee Activities Association, X5521, for
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Retirement
Barbecue Will Honor Wesley Steele
The retirement of Facilities Division veteran Wesley Steele,
who has worked at Berkeley Lab for 27 years, will be celebrated
this Friday with a noontime barbecue in the HighBay of Building
31. The cost is $10, and all laboratory employees are invited.
The deadline to purchase tickets is tomorrow. Attendees can
contact Tracy Osmer at 5737 or Angel Williams
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