January 2019 – July 2022
UCOP recommends that employees review their January paychecks to confirm their benefits enrollments, coverages, and rates, as well as voluntary pre-tax contributions, such as flexible spending accounts, retirement savings, or commuter costs. https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/2019/01/changes-to-look-for-in-your-january-paycheck.html
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other federal departments and agencies have issued final revisions to the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (usually referred to as the “Common Rule”).
The man behind the Lab’s Calvin Road? He was a Nobel laureate, dubbed “Mr. Photosynthesis” by Time Magazine, and aided President Kennedy on science policy.
To ensure you stay healthy during your next trip abroad, make sure your vaccines are up to date, consider getting a medical consultation at least 4-6 weeks before traveling, pack a travel health kit, and learn about any health risks associated with your destination.
Studies at the Advanced Light Source provide atomic-level blueprints from which to design drugs that can overcome growing drug resistance.
Walk safely. https://commons.lbl.gov/display/sc/Home
Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics (ATAP) Division Director Wim Leemans is leaving Berkeley Lab to become the next director of the Accelerator Division at Germany’s DESY laboratory. He begins his new role on Feb. 1, 2019. Thomas Schenkel will lead ATAP on an interim basis.
A new innovation developed by a team that includes the Lab’s researchers Ashok Gadgil and Arkadeep Kumar enables the efficient and affordable removal of arsenic from drinking water for low-income communities in India and elsewhere.
A discovery by researchers at Berkeley Lab and the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis shows that recycling carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals and fuels can be economical and efficient – all through a single copper catalyst.