At
the request of the University of California, Office of the President
(UCOP), Dr. William Barletta, Division Director of the Accelerator
and Fusion Research Division, has accepted a temporary assignment
at UCOP in the Office of the Vice President, Laboratory Management,
for the duration of the management contract competition. In
the interim, I am pleased to announce the appointment of Dr.
Richard A. Gough as Acting Division Director of AFRD. He will
also oversee the Laboratory’s Office of Homeland Security.
Dr. Gough brings extensive experience to this critical Laboratory
role, including service as Acting Division Director from October
1991 through March 1993. He began at LBNL in 1970 as a postdoctoral
fellow after receiving his Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from McMaster
University in Canada. Over the years he has led or participated
in a broad range of AFRD programs, and he currently serves
as the Head of two of its major programs, the Center for Beam
Physics and the Ion Beam Technology Program. He has provided
oversight for many technical projects at the Laboratory, including
the Front End Systems for the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS).
His management experience includes two tours of duty as AFRD’s
Deputy, Technical Director for Operations at the 88-Inch Cyclotron,
and Group Leader for the Bevalac R&D program. Past research
activities have included development of ion sources and RFQs
and other accelerator systems, production and detection of
accelerator-produced rare isotopes using both gas and solid
targets and helium gas-jet techniques for transport and low-background
counting and radioactive decay characterization.
Once again I thank Dr. Gough for agreeing to serve the Laboratory
by taking on this important assignment.
Charles V. Shank
