January 2019 – July 2022
Every Friday, meet one of the Lab’s 12 SLAM Finalists. This week, meet Emmanuel Shaan from Physics, who plays astrophysical hide and seek by combining microwave telescopes and supercomputers to find the hidden mysteries locked in the shadows of galaxies. https://slam.lbl.gov/2021-slam/2021-slam-finalists/emmanuel-schaan
Three Lifetime Achievement awards and 70 employees in nine award categories will be celebrated Thursday, Nov. 18, at noon at the 10th annual Director’s Awards, the top honor bestowed on Lab employees for excellence. Tune in to celebrate this year’s honorees. https://streaming.lbl.gov/
The Physical Sciences Area holds an annual Safety Week, promoting cleanliness, organization, and up-to-date training across the area’s labs, shops, and offices. This week, both individual and team honors were awarded for exceptional dedication and the quality of their contributions. https://atap.lbl.gov/2021-safety-week-awards/
Lab researcher Brooke Russell is one of five recipients of the 2021 For Women in Science (FWIS) Fellowship, an annual L’Oréal USA program that awards five female postdoctoral scientists $60,000 grants to advance their research. Watch Brooke and other 2021 Fellows speak about their work. https://youtu.be/YTQyVANjISI
Three Lifetime Achievement awards and 70 employees in nine award categories will be celebrated Thursday, Nov. 18, at noon at the 10th annual Director’s Awards, the top honor bestowed on Lab employees for excellence. Download a ceremony Zoom background and save the date. https://recognition.lbl.gov/2021-laureates/
What has six syllables and may hold the key to unlocking eco-friendly fertilizers? Spatial transcriptomics, of course! Margot Bezrutczyk from JGI explores the world of beneficial fungi as living fertilizers! https://slam.lbl.gov/2021-slam/2021-slam-finalists/margot-bezrutczyk
Horst Simon is being honored with a Lifetime Achievement award at the Director’s Awards on Nov. 18 at noon. He will be recognized for a lifetime of computational and organizational advancements that benefit science of great scale and skillful leadership of new Lab programs and research. https://recognition.lbl.gov/lifetime-achievement-awardee-horst-simon/
The National Laboratory Directors’ Council (NLDC) has issued a call for nominations to the prestigious Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program (OSELP). Oppenheimer Fellows may be nominated by lab leadership or their peers. The nomination deadline is Nov. 19. https://oselp.org/2022-nominations
Three technologies from the Energy Technologies Area, the Physical Sciences Area, and the Energy Sciences Area have won a 2021 R&D 100 award, representing innovations for next-generation batteries, memory and logic chips, and radiation detection and mapping. https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2021/11/08/berkeley-lab-honored-with-three-rd-100-awards/
Every Friday, we feature one of the amazing 2021 Lab Research SLAM Finalists. Get your popcorn ready for the love story of a lifetime…if the lifetime is one-trillionth of a second! Yi Lin from Materials Sciences is the person behind the camera capturing the instantaneous attraction of excitons. https://slam.lbl.gov/2021-slam/2021-slam-finalists/yi-lin