January 2019 – July 2022
The gLobaL ERG is organizing a hybrid event on Monday, May 16, at 4 p.m. in Building 50 Auditorium to celebrate the International Day of Light. The speaker will be Ben Davis, the founder of Illuminate, an arts nonprofit dedicated to public art featuring light such as the lights on the Bay Bridge. https://global.lbl.gov/events/international-day-of-light-illuminate
You’re not alone: recent studies have revealed that mental health struggles are extremely common among researchers. Watch the one-hour seminar “A Scientist’s Primer on Mental Health” for an expert-led discussion. https://diversity.lbl.gov/2020/09/03/townhall-a-scientists-primer-on-mental-health-september-9-2020/
A team in the Lab’s Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division, working at the Advanced Light Source, has devised an imaging method that characterizes processes at the interfaces between electrodes and electrolytes. Learn what this advancement means for next-generation solid-state batteries. https://appliedenergyscience.lbl.gov/news/looking-inside-battery
For Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Joint Genome Institute’s TBK Reddy shares a poem that he wrote in his native Telugu (a South Indian language) to mark the Ugadi New Year’s celebration and the arrival of spring. (5:10) https://berkeleylab-erg.lbl.gov/asian-pacific-islander/api-heritage-stories
The Lab is implementing many of the recommendations from the White House’s “Clean Air in Buildings Challenge,” including changes to Lab building ventilation systems that will better help address COVID-19. Learn more about ventilation and the Lab’s efforts to make a safer workspace. https://ehs.lbl.gov/2022/05/10/ventilation-at-the-lab-and-covid-19/
The American Physical Society and the Lab will recognize the former location of the Bevatron as an APS national historic site today, Wednesday, May 11, at 10 a.m. Watch live the unveiling of a plaque marking the Bevatron’s contributions to physics at streaming.lbl.gov. https://streaming.lbl.gov/
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate confirmed Dr. Asmeret Berhe as Director of the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy. Berhe is a professor at UC Merced whose research is broadly focused on soil science and global change science. She earned her Ph.D. in 2006 at UC Berkeley. https://news.ucmerced.edu/news/2022/senate-confirms-berhe-federal-office-science-director
The Career Pathways Office is hosting a SLAM preparation workshop on Thursday, May 19 at noon with science communicator Rae Pendergrass. This event is open to Lab staff interested in enhancing their science communication skills and developing an elevator pitch. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/slam-prep-workshop-tickets-251498487747
The DOE Technology Commercialization Fund seeks proposals for collaborative projects with industrial partners to develop industrial decarbonization technologies and innovations to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions of iron, steel, chemicals, and cement manufacturing. https://ipo.lbl.gov/advanced-manufacturing-office-call-for-industrial-decarbonization-proposals/
Four Lab scientists have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an organization honoring excellence in science, the humanities and arts, and policy and communication. The new members are Gerbrand Ceder, Alessandra Lanzara, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and Pamela Ronald. https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2022/05/10/four-berkeley-lab-scientists-elected-to-the-american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences-2/