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Lab Among DOE Sites
In Efficiency Initiatives

The DOE recently announced funding for 13 projects selected under the innovative State Technologies Advancement Collaborative (STAC) to support research, development and demonstration of energy efficiency technologies. Total value of the projects is nearly $17 million. Berkeley Lab participants include Philip Haves and Peng Xu, Building Commissioning, $155,000; Max Sherman, Residential Central Air Conditioning, $25,000; and Aimee McKane and Ernst Worrell, Food Processing, $76,000. Full story.

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Lawrence Berkeley Lab
Opens Genome Center
by Daniel S. Levine

Berkeley Lab has launched a center designed to help researchers wring greater scientific value out of the flood of data generated in the age of the human genome. Victor Markowitz, who returned to the lab after six years in the private sector, is heading the Lab's new Biological Data Management and Technology Center. The center aims to provide academic researchers with the type of industrial-strength computing and data management private sector biology researchers enjoy. Full story.


Greetings From the
Island of Stability
by Oliver Sacks

Seaborg

Last week the discovery of two new elements — 113 and 115 — was announced by a team of Russian and American scientists. There is something about such announcements that raises the spirits, thrills one, evokes thoughts of new lands being sighted, of new areas of nature revealed. When Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues at Berkeley Lab were able to make a new element in 1940 with 94 protons in its huge nucleus, they could not at first imagine that anything more massive would ever be obtained, and so they called their new element "ultimium" (later it would be renamed plutonium). Full story.

12kV electrical switching — to isolate the Big C Switching Station in preparation for decommissioning and demolition — is scheduled for approximately 9 a.m. tomorrow. No power interruption is expected, however, the possibility of an electrical outage always exists in any switching. A hill-wide public address announcement will be made prior to the switching. Employees should take all necessary steps to protect their data and equipment. For information, contact Jim Murphy at x4175 or M. Gupta at x5220.

Stephen Johnson, left, and Scott Wentworth, right

This photograph was mislabeled in yesterday's edition of "Today at Berkeley Lab." Lab scientist Stephen Johnson is on the left, and the City of Oakland's Scott Wentworth is on the right.