January 2019 – July 2022
Bello, along with custodian Rey Viray, teach Lab employees martial arts via the Filipino Martial Arts Employee Activities club, and self defense tactics at San Francisco’s Eskado Daan Filipino Martial Arts School. She was featured in a photo in a San Francisco Chronicle article on personal safety. https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/With-workers-on-edge-SF-tech-companies-are-13563235.php#photo-16826600
As Women’s History Month comes to a close, a special shout-out to Lab physicist and bubble chamber researcher Margaret Alston-Garnjost, who collaborated with Lab Nobel Prize winners Luis Alvarez and Donald Glaser. She passed away Feb. 7. Stay tuned for a more in-depth profile next month. https://m.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=margaret-alston-garnjost&pid=191709331&referrer=0&preview=false
Louise Glass received the Robert L. Metzenberg Award during the Fungal Genetics Conference held March 12–17. Established by the Neurospora research community, the award is given to researchers whose innovative achievements have significantly advanced the understanding of biology. https://biosciences.lbl.gov/2019/03/25/louise-glass-receives-metzenberg-award/
Faith Dukes is combining her Ph.D. in chemistry with her passion for education as the new manager of the K-12 Education programs, part of the Lab’s Government and Community Relations department. Read more about Faith and explore the new K-12 website. https://k12education.lbl.gov/news
Lab retiree Alan “Al” Smith blazed a trail in the development of ultrasensitive detectors that can see ever-fainter signatures of particle interactions. Click to read a retrospective of his research career. https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2019/03/19/a-pioneer-in-ultrasensitive-particle-detectors/
Lee Bernstein, nuclear physicist and Nuclear Data Group Leader at Berkeley Lab, shares his favorite element: actinium. He is working with other researchers on a new process to produce a form of actinium that, when coupled with other compounds, can fight cancer in a highly targeted way.
Ilan Gur, executive director of Cyclotron Road, has been named to the 2019 #Grist50 list, an annual list of inspiring innovators working on the planet’s biggest problems. Cyclotron Road is a tech fellowship partnership between Berkeley Lab and independent nonprofit Activation Energy. https://grist.org/grist-50/2019/#ilan-gur
Nuclear Science Division postdoc Maria Żurek has been chosen for the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. At the annual event, dedicated to physics this year, Nobel winners and 600 top young scientists and students from around the world discuss research frontiers and the future of science. https://www.lindau-nobel.org/category/news
Huebner has served as interim CFO since last October. She has been with the Lab since 2004.