We’re emerging from a global pandemic. Americans’ perspectives on how and where people work are fundamentally changing. Policymakers in Washington are deliberating about clean energy and climate initiatives that may refocus the research priorities at the DOE national laboratories. Lab Director Mike Witherell offered his thoughts recently on the Lab’s directions and most urgent challenges. … [Read more...]
Staff Share Stories of Inspiring Women in Their Lives
To help celebrate Women's History Month 2020, Lab employees discuss women who have had an impact on their life. Want to add your story? Go here. Diego Novoa Graduate Student Physical Sciences Area Honoring His Mother Sheila Dyer My mom is the strongest woman, and indeed probably the strongest person, that I know. She has always been my supporter and advocate. She constantly encourages me to … [Read more...]
Pioneering Lab Women
Lina Galtieri Lina Galtieri, with the Lab's Physics Division, was there alongside Luis Alvarez when several new particles were discovered during bubble chamber experiments. She and other members of the Alvarez group accompanied him to Stockholm for the Nobel ceremony in 1968. In addition to finding particles, she has also contributed to their demise, debunking the "split A2" experiment … [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...]
Save the Date: Women in Science Speaker Nicola Spaldin at Lab Dec. 19
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 on Thursday, Dec. 19 at 10 a.m. Her talk will be in the third-floor conference room of Building 91, the new Integrative Genomics Building (IGB). The IGB is a badged building; you will need your Lab badge to … [Read more...]