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February 8, 2000
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UPTON, NY - In a first for Suffolk County, the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Abilities, Inc., are offering a training program for individuals with disabilities who wish to become laboratory assistants. The program is designed to prepare participants to qualify for entry-level positions in clinical, pharmaceutical, environmental and research laboratories in the community.
Abilities, Inc., located in Albertson, Long Island, is supported by and works in partnership with the National Center for Disability Services. The laboratory assistant training program is being offered for 12 students, three times per year, for 15 weeks per semester. The training will be conducted in Brookhaven's Medical Department, an environment well-suited for the program.
Celebrating the new training program at Brookhaven Lab are
(from left) Edmund L. Cortez, President and CEO, National Center
for Disability Services; Francine Tishman, Executive Director,
Abilities, Inc.; John Marburger, Director, Brookhaven National
Laboratory; and George J. Malosh, U.S. Department of Energy's
Brookhaven Group Manager.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory
creates and operates major facilities available to university,
industrial and government personnel for basic and applied research
in the physical, biomedical and environmental sciences, and in
selected energy technologies. The Laboratory is operated by Brookhaven
Science Associates, a not-for-profit research management company,
under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy.