January 2019 – July 2022
A KPIX reporter stopped by a recent event at the Chabot Space and Science Center celebrating the 50th anniversary of the moon landing and spoke to the Molecular Foundry’s Branden Brough. We should go “everywhere our imagination takes us,” he said of future space exploration. https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/07/23/apollo-11-splashdown-day-reflecting-on-lessons-learned-50-years-later/
Renowned heavy-element chemist Polly Arnold has been appointed Chemical Sciences Division Director. Arnold will join Berkeley Lab in late September this year. Concurrent with her role at Berkeley Lab, she will also join the Chemistry Department faculty at UC Berkeley in January 2020. https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2019/07/23/berkeley-lab-appoints-polly-arnold-as-chemical-sciences-division-director/
Every year, Nobelists convene in Lindau, Germany to meet the next generation of scientists from around the world. Among those early career attendees was Roberto Lo Conte, a Foundry user and postdoc working at the Foundry’s NCEM facility. He shares the highlights of his experience. https://foundry.lbl.gov/2019/07/19/foundry-user-came-away-inspired-by-annual-lindau-nobel-laureate-meeting/
Misha Gonzalez, an architect in Facilities, was recently presented with the Kevin McCauley Memorial Outstanding Staff Award from UC President Janet Napolitano. In our Three Questions For series, we asked Gonzalez, a specialist in access, about what she is doing to improve accessibility at the Lab. https://stratcomm-elements.lbl.gov/?p=196&preview=true
Jim Ciston and Jacklyn Gates are among researchers to receive the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on early-career researchers. Faculty scientists Lin Lin and Wenjun Zhang also received the honor. https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2019/07/08/four-early-career-award/
The 15 employees featured in this year’s Retiree Honor Roll represents nearly 400 years of UC service. Click to see who’s leaving and what their post-work plans are. The Lab thanks our retirees for their hard work and dedication. https://stratcomm-elements.lbl.gov/2019/06/24/2019-berkeley-lab-retiree-honor-roll/
John Chernowski has been named the Transportation Manager for the Lab after serving six months as interim. In our Three Questions For (3Q4) series, we really only had one driving question for John — knowing what you know about the challenges, you still applied for the job. What were you thinking? https://stratcomm-elements.lbl.gov/?p=198&preview=true
John Shalf – who leads the Computer Science Department in the Lab’s Computational Research Division – shared his thoughts on what the future holds for computing technologies and architectures in the era beyond exascale at the recent ISC conference. He delivered his keynote on June 18. https://cs.lbl.gov/news-media/news/2019/berkeley-labs-john-shalf-ponders-the-future-of-hpc-architectures-in-isc19-keynote/
Arkadeep Kumar, left, and Akanksha Menon are working at the forefront of water-energy technologies as 2018 Rosenfeld Postdoctoral Fellows. The prestigious fellowship is awarded to outstanding recent Ph.D. recipients. https://eta.lbl.gov/news/article/meet-berkeley-labs-current-rosenfeld
JGI, which will move into the Integrative Genomics Building in September, was the first to publish the sequence analysis of the target human chromosomes 5, 16, and 19, its original scientific mission. JGI Director Nigel Mouncey looks at the JGI’s accomplishments and trajectory for the future. https://stratcomm-elements.lbl.gov/2019/06/17/3-questions-4-jgi-director-nigel-mouncey/