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Today
No events scheduled.
Tomorrow
8
a.m.
New Employee Orientation
50 Auditorium
9
a.m.
EHS 123: Adult Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation
48-109
9:10 a.m.
EHS 10: Introduction to EH&S
50 Auditorium
Noon
Computer Protection Brown Bag
“Solar Sunrise: Dawn of a New Threat”
Video documentary
70A-3377
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Market Carvery: TBA
Fresh Grille: TBA
Menutainment:
TBA
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6:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. |
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11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
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Lab’s
Nano Solar Cell Technology Licensed
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| Janke
Dittmer, Wendy Huynh, Paul Alivisatos and the tiny solar
cell (on tweezer at top) |
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Berkeley
Lab’s Materials Sciences Division developed a solar cell
technology that combines self-assembled inorganic semiconductor
nanocrystals into a plastic composite to produce lightweight,
flexible solar cells of almost any size and shape. Nanosys was
so impressed with the work, by a team headed by Paul Alivisatos,
that the Palo Alto company licensed it. And now Nanosys has
received an $850,000 grant from the National Science Foundation
to further develop and commercialize the product. Full
story. The Lab’s original 2002 news release on hybrid
solar cells can be read here.
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PLoS
Gets Lift With
Introduction of Sabo Bill
By
Marian Moser Jones
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In
a new TV spot, a man walks out his front door with his
briefcase, and stops at the sidewalk to tie his shoe,
as a voiceover says "in the year 2003, the Public
Library of Science made it possible for people all over
the world to have access to the latest scientific discoveries.
Shortly thereafter, things began to change." The
man stands up. And flies away. The Public Library of
Science, or Plos, is airing this 30-second spot as part
of an awareness campaign this coming fall, in hopes
that its own initiative to make all scientific research
publicly available online will take off as well. The
initiative got some lift recently, in the form of a
bill introduced by Representative Martin Sabo (D-MN)
that would require research funded by the US government
to be freely available without copyright restrictions.
Berkeley Lab life scientist Michael Eisen, the
co-founder of PloS, has been outspoken in his support
for this initiative. Full
story, and link to TV ad.
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Services
Set Friday
For Physicist Ron Ross
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Ron
Ross, a long-time faculty senior scientist in the
Physics Division at Berkeley Lab and Professor Emeritus
at UC Berkeley, died on June 25 at age 71. He received
his A.B. and Ph.D at Berkeley and joined the faculty
in 1963, where he worked on a variety of projects in
experimental particle physics. Following his retirement
from the Physics Department in August 1994, he continued
to actively participate in the Cold Dark Matter Search
experiment here. A celebration of his life will be held
on Friday, July 11 – his 72nd birthday -- at 2
p.m. in the Tilden Park Botanical Gardens.
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WageWorks
Offers
Savings for Commuters
The
Site Access office announces the introduction
of a new commuter benefit program. “WageWorks”
will enable employees to order and pay for pretax
transit passes on-line with automated payroll
deductions. Transit tickets will be mailed to
a home address or other location. WageWorks offers
a wide range of transit options, including AC
Transit, Amtrak, BART, CalTrain, Muni, SamTrans,
Translink, and Vallejo Transit. Get more information
here, or
call 7572 with questions.
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All
Summer Students
Welcome at Barbecue
The
Center for Science and Engineering Education (CSEE)
is hosting a summer student barbecue, sponsored
by Berkeley Lab's Employee Activities Association,
on Friday at noon on the Advanced Light Source
patio. The students’ mentors are also welcome
to attend the event. All students at the lab this
summer are invited, but those who are not part
of any CSEE program must contact Joe Crippen
at 5816 or
[email protected] if they wish to attend.
(NOTE: Parking lot N2 will be closed from 9 a.m.
to 2 p.m. on Friday).
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Reminder:
New
Stores Hours Today
Effective
today, the Central Storeroom will be open from
7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. This change in hours will
be evaluated during a 60-day trial period. Stores
customers should contact Don Prestella
at [email protected],
or call 4224 for any questions or comments. Stores
orders may be placed by direct purchase at Building
78 (behind the Facilities craft shops), via the
on-line
Stores site, by telephone at 5087, or by FAX
at 4211. Inventory tours can be arranged at 7881.
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Computing
Brown Bag
To Feature Hacker Video
At
tomorrow’s Computer Protection Brown Bag
event, the video "Solar Sunrise: Dawn of
a New Threat" will be shown. This video,
produced in cooperation with the Federal Bureau
of Investigation and the National Infrastructure
Protection Center, portrays an FBI/NIPC computer
hacker investigation involving attacks on U.S.
computer systems. It begins at noon in the Seaborg
Conference Room, 70A-3377.
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