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Today

8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Benefits Office
FITSCo One-on-One Counseling
(800-642-7131 for appointment)
Bldg. 939-202

8:30 a.m.
EHS 400
Radiation Protection-Fundamentals
Bldg. 70A-3377

Noon
EETD
Mission to Darfur
Ashok Gadgil
Bldg. 50 Auditorium

1:30 p.m.
Materials Sciences
Bridging Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis: Single and Multiple Site Polymerization Catalysts
Tobin Marks, Northwestern U.
Bldg. 66 Auditorium

Tomorrow

8 a.m.
EHS 423
Radiation Protection-Lab Safety
Bldg. 70A-3377

Noon
Employee Activities Association
Yoga with Naomi Hartwig
Bldg. 70-191

2 p.m.
Berkeley Nanosciences & Nanoengineering Institute
Rewiring the T-cell Signaling Network Using Solid-state Nanostructures
Jay T. Groves
390 Hearst Memorial Mining Building (campus)

3 p.m.
EETD
Multiphoton Laser Processing: A Unique and Simple Way to Enter the Nano-Platform
Andreas Ostendorf, Laser Zentrum Hannover, Germany
Bldg. 90-3148

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Morning Editions:
Sausage with Toast and Eggs
Tomorrow's Breakfast: Biscuits and Gravy with 2 Eggs
Market Carvery: Chicken Dijon with Rice

The Fresh Grille: Reuben Sandwich with Onion
Menutainment: Baked Ziti with Corn Bread

B'fast: 6:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Lunch: 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

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Eleanor Lee and Stephen Selkowitz

Lab Researchers Inspect Times Building Progress

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The new headquarters building of the New York Times is under construction, and it will include a façade system for the effective integration of daylight as part of the work environment. The system was designed with the help of Berkeley Lab Environmental Energy Technologies Division researchers Stephen Selkowitz and Eleanor Lee, who recently visited New York and inspected progress of the building. Lee is shown above with Times construction director Glenn Hughes on the 17th floor. Read about the project here.
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Jean and William Siri
Jean and William Siri

Biologist Jean Siri, Wife
Of William, Dies at 85


Jean Brandenburg Siri, who worked at Berkeley Lab between 1946 and 1952 and was the wife of the late Lab nuclear physicist William Siri, died last Friday at 85. She was a biologist in Medical Physics and overseer of the animal colony here. A pioneering environmental activist, Jean Siri was a persistent advocate for public access to East Bay parks and the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay. She was also mayor of El Cerrito twice during the 1980s and a member of the East Bay Regional Park District's board of directors from 1992 until her death. Read about her life here.
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Barricading Continues
At Building 2/58 Dock


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Barricading of the Bldg 2/58 loading dock area will continue. The area is blocked due to underground water line repairs. Use caution when passing /parking in this area. This repair should take about two weeks or more depending on the extent of damage.



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Lab Scientist Featured
In Quake Forecast Story

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Valeri Korneev, an earth scientist at Berkeley Lab, is among the experts featured in a USA Today feature story by John Ritter about the difficulty of predicting earthquakes 100 years after the famous 1906 San Francisco quake. Korneev’s research, studying rings of tiny, barely perceptible earthquakes clustered around quiet zones that months later became the epicenters of big earthquakes, is among the potential prediction tools mentioned. Full story. Go here to read a news release about Korneev’s work.

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Homestake mine

Scientists Will Pitch
Experiments for Old Mine
By Dirk Lammers

Scientists from around the country will gather in Lead, S.D., next month to pitch experiments to be performed thousands of feet below ground in an abandoned gold mine. South Dakota is preparing to take ownership of the Homestake Mine from Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp. within a month, and that will allow officials to begin preliminary work aimed at turning a burrowed-out area 4,850 feet below the Black Hills into an underground laboratory. A program advisory committee led by Kevin Lesko, a Berkeley Lab physicist, will listen to the presentations and advise the state Science and Technology Authority. Full story.

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McCurdy’s Role Mapping ‘Electron Dance’ Reported
By Lynn La

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McCurdy
Imagine you could blow something up and capture every bit and piece that exploded out, then calculate where every piece was before the explosion. Although this may sound like an impossible Greek riddle, scientists did just that to a hydrogen molecule. To better understand how molecules are constructed and how they interacted with electrons, UC Davis chemistry professor (and Berkeley Lab scientist) William McCurdy and his international team of scientists blasted a photon ray at a hydrogen molecule. Full story.
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