Colleagues, We have been closely following the evolution of the COVID-19 coronavirus since January. I know it’s on your mind, and it’s very much on my mind as well. We’ve set up a Critical Incident Management Group (CIMG) of Lab experts to collect the best information available from evidence-based sources so that we can actively respond as the situation evolves. As part of our response, … [Read more...]
International Women & Girls in Science Day
The World Needs Science...And Science Needs Women The United Nations has declared today, Feb. 11, International Women & Girls in Science Day. The day marks the contributions of women in STEM and seeks to motivate the next generation of young women and girls to enter the field of science. To help recognize this event, we asked some women researchers and students for their take on this … [Read more...]
Three Questions For Lab Director Mike Witherell
We're all familiar with the Lab's leadership and its oversight relationships, including the University of California and the U.S. Department of Energy. You might not know that Berkeley Lab's director also has a high-level team of advisors. The Lab Advisory Board is made up of 15 distinguished scientific leaders from outside the Lab, appointed to renewable three-year terms by the UC President. … [Read more...]
Three Questions For: Nicola Spaldin on Materials Sciences Shaping the Future
Dr. Nicola Spaldin, instrumental in developing the field of magnetic ferroelectrics, will be the featured speaker at the next event in the Director’s Women in Science Speaker Series. You can hear her lecture in person at the Lab on Thursday, Dec. 19 at 10 a.m. in the third-floor conference room of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB). Please bring your badge. The IGB is a badged building and … [Read more...]
The Important Role of Mentorship In Team Science
Colleagues, At Berkeley Lab, our open science environment is designed to support and encourage the development of innovative ideas from our researchers, students, and collaborators. Ideas can come from anywhere; their development and realization arise from teams of people working together in an environment of support. Recently we have received some questions internally, based on social media … [Read more...]