Colleagues, Responsible stewardship of our laboratory requires that we have a plan in place to achieve the greatest scientific impact with the people, assets, and funding entrusted to us. To achieve this impact, it is important that everyone at the Lab understands how their own work supports the Lab’s strategy. At this new website, you will find the planning documents that outline this … [Read more...]
Pivot New Tool To Discover Funding Opportunities
Dear Lab researchers, Today, Berkeley Lab is one of the most diverse multi-program research labs in the world, largely due to the creativity of our leadership and our researchers. It is important that we continue this exploration while ensuring that we build capabilities and funding sources in those areas we have identified as critical for the Lab’s future. Recently, the Research … [Read more...]
Power Shutdown Welcome Back and Thanks
Dear colleagues, Welcome back! Last week, all of us working at Berkeley Lab endured an extremely difficult disruption when PG&E executed a public safety power shutoff (PSPS), the first widespread power shutoff for the Bay Area. This outage caused a major emergency for us and the entire region. It presented us with an unscheduled stress test of our emergency response capabilities and our … [Read more...]
2019 Director’s Achievement Award Winners
Dear colleagues, Please join me on Monday, Oct. 14 at 3 p.m. in the Building 50 Auditorium for the presentation of the annual Director’s Awards. A reception open to the Lab community will follow on the cafeteria patio. The ceremony will also be live-streamed, and there are viewing parties at Potter Street in the Gray Auditorium, at JGI in room 149 A, and at Emery Station East. This year we honor … [Read more...]
How we can help build better teams
Colleagues, At Berkeley Lab, people with a variety of skills come together to tackle large-scale, impactful scientific challenges. We call this Team Science. Today, as we think more critically about how we do Team Science, we want to make sure everyone has the opportunity to contribute so we never miss the chance to consider potentially valuable feedback or ideas. It’s important to recognize … [Read more...]