Instrumentation Lecture Series Starts Tomorrow

Moses

Front-line science builds on new ideas, but also relies on breakthrough instrumentation. Many activities at the Lab are directed towards developing advanced measurement techniques and instrumentation. Despite very disparate goals, some of these efforts share common problems and could benefit from sharing experience and expertise. As a first step in establishing a forum for information exchange and interdisciplinary collaboration, a bi-weekly lectures series is being launched. The first talk will be on "Nuclear Medical Imaging: Techniques and Challenges," given by Life Sciences Division researcher Bill Moses at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Building 50 Auditorium. Suggestions for future speakers and topics can be sent to Moishe Pripsten.

Demo of New Job
Website Thursday

A brown-bag lunch will be held at noon on Thursday to demonstrate the newly revamped Current Job Opportunities website. New features include the option to upload résumés or CVs to automatically search for jobs that include similar qualifications and an "e-mail your friend" function, which enables users to send actual job postings to those who might be interested. The event will be held in the Building 50 Auditorium. The new site will be officially launched on Monday.

Neumark

Daniel Neumark, director of the Lab's Chemical Sciences Division, has been elected as the vice chair of the American Physical Society's Division of Chemical Physics. His term will begin in March. Neumark has served as director of Chemical Sciences since 2000. His research interests include the investigation of spectroscopy and dynamics of transition states, radicals, and clusters using frequency and time-domain techniques. He is also a professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley.

Former Lab Scientist
A Pioneering Woman
By Betsy Mason

Long

Jane Long was among the first women to graduate from Brown University and the only one in her class with an engineering degree. She was also the first female dean of a mining school. Now, she's the first female chief of energy and environment at Livermore Lab. "She was always good at managing multiple things," said former colleague and Berkeley Lab earth scientist Sally Benson. Long became head of the energy resources division at Berkeley Lab and engineered a research alliance with oil companies in the state. Later she led the Lab's environmental remediation department. Full story (registration required).

NIH-Funded Research
To be Available Free
By Alex Barnum

The National Institutes of Health recently adopted a new policy designed to make the results of federally funded medical research available quickly and free to the public. Berkeley Lab scientist Michael Eisen, co-founder of Public Library of Science, or PLoS, praised the announcement. "The federal government is the world's biggest sponsor of scientific research," he said. "It has the singular potential to change the way scientific information is made accessible." The NIH articles would be made publicly available through PubMed Central, a database maintained by the NIH's National Library of Medicine. Full story.