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DEPARTMENT OF
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Precision Spectroscopy with Ultrashort Pulses
Speaker: Theodor W. Haensch, Max Planck Institute
for Quantum Optics
1 Le Conte Hall
UC Berkeley campus
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Cafeteria
Extends
Lunch Hours
Berkeley
Lab's dining center will open 30 minutes earlier
for lunch, beginning today. The new service hours
are 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Many other changes are
being introduced, including new deli sandwiches
and entrée features. See details in the
Feb. 7 issue of Currents.
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Soup:
Potato Cheese
Origins:
Garlic Chicken
Adobe
Cafe: Chile Verde
Fresh
Grille: Open-face Beef Tacos
Full
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Blood Drive
This Week
Berkeley
Lab's two-day Winter Blood Drive will be held
Wednesday and Thursday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in
Bldg. 70A, Room 3377. Donors are encouraged to
schedule appointments online at the BeADonor
website (use company/group code "LBL"
on the web form). For more information, contact
Charlotte Bochra at X4268.
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Setting
the Record Straight On Property Management
Recent
media reports about financial management issues at Los
Alamos National Laboratory have included references to
Berkeley Lab's property inventory and control system.
Some have implied that the Laboratory's $2.56 million
in unaccounted-for property in FY02 ($500,000 of which
has been subsequently reacquired) is an indication of
mismanagement or illegal activity. Here are the facts.
The news reports have either ignored or minimized the
context for that number and the very fact that the Lab's
property management system is rated "outstanding"
by unbiased measures. Full
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UC
Scientists See
Little Effect If Lab
Contract Lost
Keay
Davidson,
Chronicle Science Writer
Saturday, February 1
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Despite
the Department of Energy's damning report on lab mismanagement,
many University of California scientists say scientific
research would suffer little if UC lost its six-decade
federal contract to run the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
(Berkeley
Lab's Mark Levine, Division Director for Environmental
Energy Technologies, sees "profound impact"
if UC severs from Berkeley Lab.)
Full story
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The
Right Gene
for the Job
A red
blood cell is tough and flexible because certain
proteins in its membrane link together. But this interferes
with the cell's development - so the gene for the protein
linker makes two forms, one that links and one that doesn't.
Berkeley Lab researchers have found the switch that controls
this alternative splicing. How did they do it? Read this
and other articles in the latest edition of Science
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Internet
Access
Blocking in Effect
Computer
systems that can no longer access the Internet may have been
blocked because of vulnerabilities that have not been fixed
by the announced deadline of last Friday. For information
and solutions, contact [email protected].
Road
Closures
- The
section of Glaser Road that passes by Buildings 79 and 77
will be closed to through traffic (except emergency vehicles)
today from 7 a.m. until 4 p.m. for excavation needed to
replace water valves.
- Road
N between Buildings 6 and 37 will be closed to traffic today
due to construction activities for the ALS Southside Expansion
Project. Traffic to the Building 80 parking lot will be
rerouted to Road N1. Parking spaces along Road N1 will be
barricaded to allow two-way traffic.
- Road
S will be closed to through traffic tomorrow from 7 a.m.
until 4 p.m. to complete work on the Sitewide Water Project.
Road S connects McMillan and Glaser Roads between Building
76 and the Grizzly Substation.
Life
Sciences Postdoc Day Tomorrow
The annual
Life Sciences Postdoc Day will be held tomorrow beginning at
10 a.m. with a poster session in Perseverance Hall. This will
be followed at noon in the 50 auditorium by Douglas Koshland
of LSD, who will speak on "Chromosomes: Better Packaged
and More Integrity than Your Average Politician. How Do They
Do It?" Everyone is invited to attend.
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