New Energy Bill Could
Support SC Funding

On Monday, President Bush, flanked by New Mexico Senator and Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Pete Domenici, and Secretary of Energy Sam Bodman, signed into law the first comprehensive energy legislation since 1992. Of particular interest to Berkeley Lab is the authorization of increased funding for DOE's Office of Science. For more detail on the research and development provisions of the bill go to a briefing prepared by American Association of the Advancement of Science.

Runaround T-Shirt
Design Contest is On

The Employee Activities Association is accepting submissions for this year's Runaround T-shirt design contest. The submission deadline is Friday, Sept. 9. Send artwork, as a JPEG or PDF file, to Arabella Schmidt. The winning design will be announced by Sept. 16. Go here to view pictures of previous t-shirt winners.

Give Blood, Save Lives
At Lab Donation Drive

The American Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at Berkeley Lab on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 6 and 7, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. outside the cafeteria. Go here to make an appointment (sponsor code is LBL). For questions (or encouragement!), contact Clark Wood (x6489), or Heather Pinto (x4181).

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority will fund additional work on a project to develop and test energy-efficient technologies and operational practices for the new headquarters building of the New York Times Company. Environmental Energy Technologies Division scientists are producing results from previous testing of automated shading and daylighting controls for the building. In the next phase, the researchers will develop commissioning procedures and test protocols to ensure that the installed automated shading and daylighting controls for the building meet the owner's specifications. A description of the research is here, and the project website is here.

CRD's Wang to be Featured
As 'Physicist at Work'

Wang

Lin-Wang Wang is the second member of the computational Research Division's Scientific Computing Group that will be featured in an upcoming installment of the "Physicist at Work" series, part of the DOE's World Year of Physics 2005 website. Lin-Wang is well known for his computational work in nanotechnology. The other CRD scientist to be featured is Peter Nugent. Go here to view the "Physicists at Work" website.