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Today
12:15 p.m.
SPECIAL PROGRAM
Employee meeting with Dr. Ray Orbach, Director, Office of
Science
Cafeteria lawn
Monday
4:30 p.m.
COLLOQUIUM
UC Berkeley Department of Physics
Studying Dark Energy with Supernovae: Now, Soon, and
the Not-Too-Distant Future
Saul Perlmutter, Berkeley Lab
1 Le Conte Hall, Campus
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Soup: Boston Clam Chowder
Origins: Chicken Sausage
Adobe Cafe: Burritos
Fresh Grille: Swordfish
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6:30
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11
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Full
Menu Dinner
service survey |
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DOE
Roundtable Looks
At Lab in 20 Years
When
Office of Science Director Ray Orbach sits down in Perseverance
Hall today, he will be hearing from Berkeley Lab’s executive
and scientific leadership about the Laboratory’s vision for
the next 20 years. This meeting with Orbach, scaled down from previous
versions and limited to program representatives, will be a roundtable
discussion of initiatives and priorities. Orbach will break during
the noon hour to talk to Laboratory employees on the cafeteria lawn,
beginning at around 12:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served.
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| Physics
Department OK, Says Campus Response
By
Robert Sanders, Public Affairs
UC Berkeley
A
front-page story in the San Francisco Chronicle last Friday
may have left some readers with the impression that Berkeley’s
physics department has fallen from the top ranks. Not so,
wrote Chancellor Robert Berdahl and Dean of the Physical Sciences
Mark Richards in a letter to the editor. The department "remains
among the top five in the nation and is the premier department
at any public university in the country. UC Berkeley can match
its physics faculty against any physics department in the
world, as our highly talented graduate and undergraduate physics
students can attest." Full
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| Earth
Scientists Enter
Debate About Volcanoes
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| Lava
from Hawaii volcano |
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In
a "Perspective" story in this week’s issue
of Science, Berkeley Lab geochemist Don DePaolo
and geodynamicist Michael Manga defend a fundamental
assumption of Earth science, the mantle plume model of hotspots,
against an outbreak of seismic skepticism. A mantle plume
is a source of extra-hot rock rising from deep in the planet
-- probably from the base of the mantle itself, where it meets
the iron-rich liquid core. Mantle plumes are thought to underlie
"hotspots" far from plate boundaries, like those
under the Hawaiian Islands or Yellowstone National Park. But
some do not believe they exist. Full
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UC
President Receives
NSF Service Award
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ARLINGTON,
Va.—Richard C. Atkinson, the highly respected president
of the University of California system since 1995, will
receive the 2003 Vannevar Bush Award for lifetime contributions
to the nation in science and technology. The National
Science Board (NSB) will present Atkinson with the Bush
award for his groundbreaking research and long-standing
public service at an annual awards dinner May 21 at the
Department of State. Atkinson is the 25th recipient of
the award since its inception in 1980. Full
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More
Web Sites Unfriendly
To Netscape 4.7 Users
Those
who regularly use Netscape 4.75 as their Web browser may notice
that many Web sites have a tagline reading: "This site
is best viewed using Netscape 6 or 7 or even Internet Explorer."
Of particular interest to Lab employees is the fact that UC’s
Human Resources and Benefits Web sites will soon require Netscape
6.2 (or greater) or Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 (or greater).
For information about reconciling web and email browsers, go
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| Film
Service Halted,
At Least for Time Being
The
cafeteria's film processing service has hit a contractual
snag and has been discontinued. The Facilities Department
is looking for another company to resume the service. All
orders received prior to the termination of service have been
processed and can be picked up on the counter near the coffee
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