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PRESIDENT YUDOF NAMES SEARCH COMMITTEE FOR NEW LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY DIRECTOR

[7/1/09]

University of California President Mark G. Yudof has named an 11-member committee of university regents, faculty and researchers to advise him in the search for the next director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

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BELLA: Accelerating Science by Accelerating Electrons

[6/25/09]

BELLA has the potential to drastically cut the costs of performing accelerator-based scientific experiments. Systems like BELLA hold the promise of making possible a table-top accelerator with particle energies in the tens of GeV range.

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Microsoft Licenses Berkeley Lab’s Home Energy Saver Code for Its Energy Management Software

[6/24/09]

Home Energy Saver, a Berkeley Lab program designed to help consumers identify the best ways to save energy in their homes, is being used by the Microsoft Corporation in its new Web-based home energy management service Hohm. The Hohm service provides homeowners with a Web-based tool to help them manage their home energy use more effectively.

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Berkeley Lab Scientists Contribute to Major New Report Describing Climate Change Impacts on the U.S.

[6/16/09]

Two researchers at Berkeley Lab, Evan Mills and Michael Wehner, contributed to an analysis of the effects of climate change on all regions of the United States, described in a major report released June 16 by the multi-agency U.S. Global Change Research Program.

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Feature Stories

Extreme Makeover Chemistry Style: Reaction Remake Could Replace Petrochemicals with Biomass Renewables

[6/11/09]

In revisiting a chemical reaction that’s been in the literature for several decades and adding a new wrinkle of their own, researchers with Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have discovered a mild and relatively inexpensive procedure for removing oxygen from biomass. This procedure, if it can be effectively industrialized, could allow many of today’s petrochemical products, including plastics, to instead be made from biomass.

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A New Accelerator for Rare Isotope Beams

[6/11/09]

Generations of Berkeley Lab nuclear scientists have contributed to FRIB, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, a $550 million heavy-ion accelerator to study rare nuclear processes that will be built at Michigan State University. Crucial components of FRIB are its ion source, based on the 88-Inch Cyclotron’s record-breaking VENUS, and GRETA, the gamma-ray detector designed and now under construction here. Nuclear Science Division Director James Symons participates in the launch of the new accelerator.

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Green Chemistry with Lasers

[6/4/09]

New technology uses laser ablation — the use of laser pulses to vaporize small amounts of material — to test for hazardous wastes and explosives while generating almost no chemical waste. The technology can save the lives of soldiers, keep children safe from toys illegally coated with lead paints, and protect workers from chemical poisoning.

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A Billion Year Ultra-Dense Memory Chip

[6/3/09]

Berkeley Lab researchers have created a unique new memory storage medium that can pack thousands of times more data into one square inch of space than conventional chips and preserve this data for more than a billion years!

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