8 a.m.
New Employee Orientation and EH&S Training
Building 50 Auditorium
9 a.m.
Experimental Systems Group Monthly Meeting Upgrading the ALS
David Robin, ALS
Building 2, Room 100B
5:30 - 7 p.m.
California Colloquium on Water Droughts and Deluges of California's Past Millennium
Scott Stine, Cal State Hayward
105 North Gate Hall
Tomorrow
Noon
Computer Protection Brown Bag
Building 50 Auditorium
Change In Venue
for Sessler Symposium
The afternoon symposium in honor of Andy Sessler's
75th birthday on March 15 will take place in the Building
66 Auditorium, not in the Building 50 Auditorium as
previously announced. Cocktails and dinner will still
take place in the Cafeteria.
For
those attending the dinner, checks payable to Martha
Condon at mailstop 71R0259 must be received by February
18. For other inquiries, including special dietary requests,
please contact Tom Gallant at [email protected].
Computer
Protection Brown Bag Event on Wednesday
Jay Krous of the Information Technologies and
Services Division will be speaking on Computer Protection
Program efforts to eradicate vulnerabilities in Lab
systems at the next Computer Protection Brown Bag event,
at noon on Wednesday in the Bldg. 50 auditorium.
A comprehensive analysis by the University of California Auditor
has favorably resolved 96% of procurement card transactions at the
Los Alamos National Laboratory that were previously questioned during
an external review. The new UC audit, released yesterday, identified
$195,246 in transactions that are being questioned for their allowability
under the Department of Energy contract, due to incomplete documentation,
technical deficiencies (e.g. missing approvals) or other reasons.
Full story.
Lab
Wins Award
For EUV Lithography
The
Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUVL) project, which is made up
of scientists and researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Sandia National
Laboratories, has won an "Excellency in Technology Transfer"
award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer.Full
story
Lab Workers' Anxiety Rises as UC Draws Fire
By Andrea Widener
February 9, 2003
Workers at two of the nation's premier nuclear weapons labs are
nervous…So nervous that hushed conversations over coffee breaks
and in grocery aisles often return to the same topic: fear that
their longtime manager, the University of California, will lose
its contract to run the labs.Full
story.
King Photos Honor
Black History Month
King
The
Free Speech Movement Café (basement level of Moffitt
Library) unveils a new exhibit devoted to Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. and the civil rights movement. The show’s centerpiece
is Helen Nestor’s 1967 photograph of King speaking on the
steps of Sproul Hall in protest of the Vietnam War. Twenty additional
photographs round out the show that runs through March 30. For
more information, contact curator Harold Adler at [email protected]
or 482-3336.
Tickets Available for Tour
of da Vinci Exhibit
The Employees’ Arts Council (EAC) is sponsoring a
docent-led tour of the Leonardo da Vinci and the Splendor
of Poland exhibit on Saturday, April 5 at the Palace of the Legion
of Honor in San Francisco’s Lincoln Park. Leonardo’s famed
Portrait of a Lady with the Ermine, one of Europe’s most celebrated
paintings, will be accompanied by works from the European masters
of the 15th and 16th centuries. Space is limited. Email [email protected]
to reserve your tickets.
Road
Closures
Chamberlain
Road will be closed to through-traffic on Thursday and Friday,
from 8 a.m. until 5:30 p.m., to allow removal of trees. Chamberlain
Road connects to McMillan Road at Building 71. Access and parking
around Building 71 will still be available. Some parking will
also be available along Chamberlain Road toward Building 90. For
questions please call Bob Berninzoni at Ext. 5576.
Road
N next to Buildings 6 and 37 will be closed to traffic today due
to construction on the Building 6 Southside Expansion project.
Traffic to Building 10 and the Building 80 parking lot will be
rerouted to Road N1. Parking spaces along Road N1 will be barricaded
to allow two-way traffic.
The
road to Buildings 79 and 77 will be closed to through-traffic
(except emergency vehicles) today for work on the Sitewide Water
Project.
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by the Berkeley Lab Communications Dept. and TEID
