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Clean
Water Technology
To Help Tsunami Victims
Using
technology that was developed by Berkeley Lab's Ashok
Gadgil of Environmental Energy Technologies,
WaterHealth International is leading an effort to provide
safe drinking water to the tsunami-affected regions
of the Asia-Pacific. The group hopes to raise $250,000
through the GlobalGiving organization's Acumen Fund
to install ultraviolet water purification systems for
emergency relief in temporary shelters throughout striken
regions of Sri Lanka and India. Donations are deductible
for the 2004 tax period. Go here
to view a summary of the project, and here
to learn more about UV Waterworks.
Don
Your Dancing Shoes
For Lab's Onsite Lessons
After a brief hiatus, Berkeley Lab's Dance Club has resumed its onsite dance lessons, starting today from noon to 1 p.m. in building 71-146J. Instructors Joy Kono and Jeff Philliber will demonstrate the finer points of East Coast Swing. Lessons will be held each Tuesday, with practice sessions scheduled for Wednesdays, at the same time and location as today's event. The drop-in lessons are free. Beginners as well as more experienced dancers are encouraged to attend.
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Calendar Down This Weekend for Upgrades
The
Information Technologies and Services Division will
be conducting a major calendar server hardware and software
upgrade, which means the calendar will be unavailable
from 7 p.m. Friday to 3 p.m., Sunday. The upgrade
will improve system performance, providing a new web
interface with Mozilla support and designate access.
If you currently use Calendar, your service will continue
to function normally after the upgrade. If you use the
old Netscape or Steltor Calendar client, go to the Lab's
download
page to upgrade to Oracle Calendar. For questions,
call the Help Desk (x4357).
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Table-Top Accelerators
In Nature's Top 10
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The work of Berkeley Lab scientists in the Accelerator and Fusion Research Division, under the leadership of Wim Leemans, has been honored by Nature magazine as one of the top 10 research highlights for 2004. The journal cites table-top accelerators, with the laser focusing advances announced in September by Leemans' team, as having the potential to whittle down a particle accelerator "from the size of a football stadium to the size of a lab." Go here for a full list of the '04 highlights from Nature's Dec. 23 issue.
Lab Scientist, Chu Mentor Lauded for Teaching
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Two
UC Berkeley physicists will be honored with teaching awards
next week from the American Association of Physics Teachers.
Physics professor and Berkeley Lab scientist Carlos
Bustamante won the Richtmyer Award for conveying
physics to public audiences. Emeritus physics professor
Eugene Commins, known for his hunt for the elusive "electric
dipole moment of the electron," won the prestigious
Oersted Medal for teaching. Commins was the graduate advisor
for Berkeley Lab Director Steve Chu,
who credits Commins with being an excellent mentor and
for often working side-by-side in the lab with his students
late into the night. Full
story.
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Regents to Consider Lab Competition Bid Jan. 20
University of California President Robert Dynes will recommend to the UC Board of Regents at its meeting in San Francisco on Jan. 20 that they should prepare a competitive bid to the Department of Energy to maintain the management contract for Berkeley Lab. The DOE released its Request for Proposals in the unprecedented competition on Dec. 15. Final proposals are due into the DOE by Feb. 9. The Regents' Committee on Oversight of the Department of Energy Laboratories is scheduled to begin its session at 10:10 a.m. Read the Regents' item on the bidding proposal here. The proceedings can be heard via an audio web stream here.
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