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December
Wednesday,
December 20 DOE Names New Manager
at Brookhaven DOE Office
Thursday,
December 14 Brookhaven Lab
Spent Over $31 Million on Long Island in 2000
Friday,
December 8 Brookhaven Science
Associates Donates $2,500 to Brookhaven Town's INTERFACE Holiday
Toys for Kids Drive
Thursday,
December 7 Brookhaven Lab Expands
the Brookhaven Center for imaging and Neurosciences
Monday, December 4 Scientists Decode
Genes of Microbe That Thrives in Toxic Metals

November
Thursday,
November 23 Scientists Reveal
How Germs Disrupt Cells' Distress Signals
Tuesday,
November 21 Brookhaven Lab
Researchers Develop a Technique to Measure Defects in Materials
with Unprecedented Accuracy
Thursday,
November 9 Brookhaven Lab's
Quiet Jackhammer Wins Popular Science Magazine Award
Thursday,
November 9 DOE Press Release Secretary Richardson Announces 530 Acres of
Brookhaven National Lab As Protected Habitat For Educational,
Research Activities

October
Wednesday,
October 25 Brookhaven Lab Scientist
Elected to the Institute of Medicine
Tuesday,
October 24 Brookhaven Lab Physicist
Wins Presidential Award
Thursday,
October 19 Siberian Snakes
Put a New Spin on Physics at Brookhaven Lab
Tuesday,
October 17 William Horak Named
Chair of Brookhaven Lab's Energy Sciences & Technology Department
Monday,
October 16 Brookhaven Lab's
Oil Heat Research Results in Consumer Savings
Tuesday,
October 10 Window of Access
to World's Newest "Atom Smasher"
Thursday,
October 5 Brookhaven Lab Organizations
Achieve Registration To International Environmental Standard
Thursday,
October 5 Creighton Wirick
Named Chair of Brookhaven Lab's Environmental Sciences Department

September
Friday,
September 29 Linda Chang Named
Head of Brookhaven Lab's Medical Department
Thursday,
September 28 Brookhaven Scientists
Initiate MRI Study of Multiple Sclerosis
Tuesday,
September 26 Five New York
City Research Institutions Collaborate to Study 3-D Structures
of Proteins
Monday,
September 18 Brookhaven Lab
Releases 1999 Environmental Report
Friday,
September 8
Scientists Pinpoint Mechanism for UV Damage to Rice Plants

August
Thursday,
August 31 Statement by John
Marburger, Brookhaven Lab Director, On Continued Use of Lab Facility
for Proton Radiography
Thursday,
August 24 Major Air Pollution
Study Launched - Six aircraft,
60 ground stations, three DOE labs among 40 institutions participating
Thursday,
August 24 Scientists Combine
Chemistry and Bioremediation to Clean Cadmium From Soil
Friday,
August 11 Free Electron Laser
Demonstrated at Brookhaven Lab
Thursday,
August 3 Commack Woman Wins
Chasman Scholarship
Wednesday,
August 2 Brookhaven Lab, Halliburton
Company and Unocal Corporation Win R&D 100 Award for High-Performance
Cement

July
Monday,
July 31 Scientists Decipher
Structure of Toxin Responsible for Botulism
Tuesday,
July 18 Uranium Encapsulation
Process Receives Patent
Wednesday,
July 12 Richard Osgood, Jr.
Named Head of Brookhaven Lab1s Basic Energy Sciences
Tuesday,
July 11 New Test for Radiation
Damage to DNA Developed at Brookhaven Lab
Thursday,
July 6 Patent Gives Battery
Research a Charge

June
Friday,
June 30 Edward Tufte to Speak
on Information Design at Brookhaven Lab, July 27
Monday,
June 26 Department of Energy,
EPA and NY State Reach Agreement on Addressing Groundwater Contamination
at Brookhaven Lab
Tuesday,
June 13 Relativistic Heavy
Ion Collider (RHIC) Begins Smashing Atoms
Experiments
will yield insights into the structure of matter and how the
universe evolved
Thursday,
June 8 Conference on Computer Security in an Open
Research Environment
Monday,
June 5 Brookhaven Lab's Quiet Jackhammer Wins DISCOVER
Magazine Award

May
Thursday,
May 18 Brookhaven Lab's Occupational Medicine Clinic
Gets High Marks, Named a Model Program and Accredited

April
Wednesday,
April 26 Brookhaven Lab Research
Associate Spins Thesis Into Prize
Wednesday,
April 26 Brookhaven Lab Physicist
Wins the American Physical Society's Aneesur Rahman Prize for
Computational Physics
Tuesday,
April 18 Carl Djerassi, Inventor
of the Birth Control Pill, to Speak at Brookhaven Lab
Tuesday,
April 18 Brookhaven Lab Retirees
Win Benjamin Franklin Medal For Their Invention of Magnetically
Levitated Trains
Thursday,
April 13 Brookhaven Lab Celebrates
Earth Day With Week of Activities, April 15-22
Monday,
April 10 Diana Vaman Awarded
Scharf-Goldhaber Prize at Brookhaven Lab Ceremony
Thursday,
April 6 Women in Science High
School Career Days Held at Brookhaven Lab

March
Friday,
March 31 Clean Energy Partnership
Delivers New Power Technology To Long Island
Tuesday,
March 28 Brookhaven Lab Scientist
Wins American Chemical Society Award
Thursday,
March 23 Brookhaven Scientists
Reveal How Catalysts Adsorb Pollutants
Wednesday,
March 22 Scientists Demonstrate
Potential of a Quick,
Sensitive Test for Durability of Paints
Wednesday,
March22 Brookhaven Lab to Offer
a Summer Program
for Community College Students
Tuesday,
March 21 Scientists Gain Molecular
Understanding
of How Clays Behave When Wet
Friday,
March 17 Brookhaven Lab Employees
Help Boy Scouts
Earn Atomic Energy Merit Badges
Wednesday,
March 15 Brookhaven Lab and
Gould Electronics
Develop New Materials for Building Better Batteries
Saturday,
March 11 Update on Fire in
Debris-Sorting Area at Brookhaven Lab
Saturday,
March 11 Fire in Debris-Sorting
Area at Brookhaven Lab
Thursday,
March 9 Brookhaven Lab Joins
an Alliance to Perform Research
That May Lead to Improved Oilseed Crops
Friday,
March 3 Talk at Brookhaven
Lab on Recent
Archeological Discoveries in China, March 29
Thursday,
March 2 Brookhaven Lab Collaboration
Determines the Atomic Structure Of a Key Enzyme Called a "Biological
Blowtorch"

February
Saturday,
February 25 Formula for Environment-Friendly
Grout Revives Heat Pump Industry in New Jersy and Wins Award
for Brookhaven Scientists
Friday,
February 18 Model Bridge Contest
to be Held at Brookhaven Lab, Feb. 26
Tuesday,
February 15 Scientists Capture
First Images of How X-Rays Damage Proteins
Tuesday,
February 15 Department of Energy
Invites Public Comment on Peconic River Cleanup
Friday,
February 11 Howard Hughes Medical
Institute Researcher Will Present a Lecture on Potassium Channels
at Brookhaven Lab, March 8
Wednesday,
February 9 Brookhaven Lab and
CTI, Inc., Sign CRADA to Develop A Noninvasive Blood Monitor
for PET Imaging
Wednesday,
February 9 Statement on Tantalizing
Hints of Quark-Gluon Plasma Found at CERN
Tuesday,
February 8 Starting a New Training
Program for People with Disabilities at Brookhaven Lab
Thursday,
February 4 Brookhaven Lab Chemist
Shares the 2000 Wolf Prize in Physics With University of Tokyo
Scientist For Research on Neutrinos

January
Monday,
January 10 Brookhaven Scientists
Create New Ways to Tag and Track Molecules
Friday,
January 7 Long Island Weather
of 1999 -A Tie for the Third Hottest Year on Record
Wednesday,
January 5 Brookhaven's "Big
Bang" Images Featured in Millennium Art Exhibit
Saturday,
January 1 Brookhaven Lab Collaboration
Determines How Aging Affects Brain Chemistry
