1999 New Releases

December

Wednesday, December 22 William Floyd High School Student Wins $500 Prize From Brookhaven Science Associates for Outstanding Artwork

Wednesday, December 22 Classical Indian Dance Performance to be Held at Brookhaven Lab, January 22

Wednesday, December 22 Brookhaven Lab Prepared for Y2K Rollover

Thursday, December 16 Essayist David Bouchier to Speak on "A Short History of the 21st Century" at Brookhaven Lab

Thursday, December 16 Brookhaven Lab Spent Almost $33 Million on Long Island in 1999

Wednesday, December 1 New Site Established for Major Scientific Archive

November

Monday, November 29 Brookhaven Lab and Long Island Manufacturing Facility Collaborate on New Technique to Make Microscopic "Machines"

Thursday, November 18 Brookhaven Scientists Discover How Cells "Catch" a Cold

Wednesday, November 17 Teresa Fryberger Named Head of Applied Science and Technology at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Wednesday, November 17 Brookhaven Researchers Awarded for Nuclear Safety and Nonproliferation

Tuesday, November 16 DOE Press Release Richardson to Close Brookhaven Research Reactor

Friday, November 12 NASA Sponsors Space Research at Brookhaven Lab on Cosmic Rays

Friday, November 12 Brookhaven and Schering AG Collaborate on Improved Medical Imaging Method

Wednesday, November 10 India's Diwali Festival to be Celebrated at Brookhaven Lab With Arts & Crafts Exhibit, Music, Dance and Dinner

Wednesday, November 10 Brookhaven Lab Displays Stereo Visualization of "Big-Bang" Matter and Other Computing Capabilities at SC99

Thursday, November 4 Brookhaven Women in Science Offers Scholarship for Women Science Students

October

Monday, October 18 Students Invited to Compete in "Power Art" Contest

Tuesday, October 12 Brookhaven Lab Reports Peconic River Sampling Results

Monday, October 11 Workshops on "Internet Marketing" and "Business on the Internet" Offered at Brookhaven Lab, Oct. 19, and SUNY Farmingdale, Oct. 20

Friday, October 8 Brookhaven Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Achieves Registration To International Environmental Standard

Thursday, October 7 Brookhaven Lab and SUNY Stony Brook Researchers Link a "High" from Drugs to Brain Biochemistry

Wednesday, October 6 Statement on Committee Review of Speculative "Disaster Scenarios" at Brookhaven Lab's RHIC

Tuesday, October 5 DOE Press Release Department of Energy, EPA and NY State Agree to Remove Contaminated Soils at Brookhaven Lab

Monday, October 4 Energy Secretary Richardson Celebrates Commissioning of New Particle Accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory

September

Friday, September 24 "Festival of Science and the Environment" at Brookhaven Lab, October 16

Thursday, September 23 Brookhaven Lab Starts Up First Off-Site Groundwater Cleanup System

Wednesday, September 22 Brookhaven Lab Expert Helps Date Flute Thought to be Oldest Playable Musical Instrument

Tuesday, September 21 Brookhaven Lab and W.R. Grace Win R&D 100 Award for Asbestos-Digesting Foam

Friday, September 17 Statement on ABCNEWS Website Article on Brookhaven Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)

Thursday, September 9 Brookhaven Lab Awards License to David Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for Potential Addiction Treatment

Wednesday, September 8 Brookhaven Lab to Hold "Open Source/Open Science" Conference, Oct. 2

Friday, September 3 Brookhaven Lab and SUNY Stony Brook Establish Center for Data-Intensive Computing

Thursday, September 2 Brookhaven Lab Releases 1998 Environmental Report

Wednesday, September 1 Brookhaven Lab and SUNY Stony Brook Researchers Find Chemical Clues to Drug Abuse Vulnerability

August

Monday, August 30 Brookhaven Lab to Host Conference on "Bringing Global Opportunities to Long Island"

Tuesday, August 24 Landmark Progress in Understanding Ribosome Structure - Research Done at Brookhaven Lab's Light Source

Tuesday, August 24 Talk on "The Art and Science of the Motorcycle"
at Brookhaven Lab, Sept. 24

Monday, August 23 Brookhaven Lab's New 'Surf & Turf' Coating Is Green! Protects Metal From Corrosion and Environment From Harm

Wednesday, August 18 Laser International Wins Award From Small Business Administration

Wednesday, August 18 Brookhaven Lab Wins Small Business Award from U.S. Department of Energy

July

Wednesday, July 21 DOE Press Release NIH and DOE to Upgrade Synchrotron X-Ray Research Facilities in California and New York

Tuesday, July 20 Brookhaven Lab and Gas Research Institute Sign a CRADA to Develop a Quiet Jackhammer

Monday, July 19 Statement from BNL Director on Consequences of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) Operations

Wednesday, July 7 Baldwin Woman Wins Scholarship From Brookhaven Women in Science

June

Tuesday, June 29 DOE Press Release Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Cited as "First-Rate Facility"

Wednesday, June 23 Brookhaven Lab's Head of Life Sciences Wins Award From the Society of Nuclear Medicine

Wednesday, June 16 Trio Voronezh to Perform at Brookhaven Lab, July 14

Friday, June 11 Free Summer Sunday Tours at Brookhaven Lab, July 11 - August 29

Wednesday, June 9 Classical Indian Dance Performance to be Held at Brookhaven Lab, June 27

Tuesday, June 8 Time Changed for Brookhaven Lab Lecture, June 23

Thursday, June 3 Brookhaven Features 'Summer Colorscape' - a Celebration of the Summer Solstice with Fine Arts and Poetry, June 25-27

Thursday, June 3 Carl Anderson Named Chair of Brookhaven Biology Department

Tuesday, June 1 Long Island Students Test Their Handmade Vehicles At Brookhaven Lab's Maglev Contest

Tuesday, June 1 Winners of 1999 Long Island Elementary Science Fair Announced
Full Science Fair Results

May

Thursday, May 27 Brookhaven Lab Opens New Museum
Honoring Laboratory Site's Early History as Army's Camp Upton

Wednesday, May 26 Lecture at Brookhaven on Searching for Extraterrestrial Life, June 23

Friday, May 14 William Floyd Students Create a Robot with Help from a BNL Retiree

Friday, May 14 Local Teens Compete in BNL-Friends of Brookhaven Essay Contest

Thursday, May 13 Striking Results from Brookhaven Ecology Facility: Trees Grow Faster In Simulated Future CO2-Rich Atmosphere

Tuesday, May 11 Donald Fleming Named Brookhaven Lab's Chief Information Officer and Director of its Information Technology Division

Tuesday, May 11 Two Brookhaven Lab Physicists Win Awards
From the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

Thursday, May 6 Elementary School Science Fair at BNL May 15

April

Thursday, April 29 DOE Press ReleaseFour Energy Department Technologies are Discover Magazine's Award Finalists
BNL-Grace Asbestos Technology is Environmental Finalist

Thursday, April 22 Biochemical Technology Ready to Retrieve, Purify Heaviest Crude Oil
BNL Patents Licensed Exclusively to Long Island Company

Wednesday, April 21 Battelle and Brookhaven Women in Science Establish an Award For Five Female High School Students in Local Schools

Wednesday, April 21 Brookhaven Lab Awards the Gertrude S. Goldhaber Prize

Tuesday, April 20 Nora Volkow Named Associate Director for Life Sciences at Brookhaven Lab

Monday, April 19 DOE Press Release Brookhaven Science Associates Cited for Failure to Follow Safety Rules
Penalty Reduced by Half in Recognition of Safety Progress

Wednesday, April 14 Two BNL Scientists Honored for Their Contributions to Physics

Tuesday, April 13 Lecture at BNL on Space-Time Warps
And the Quantum in the 21st Century, April 30

Tuesday, April 13 Women in Science High School Career Day Held at Brookhaven Lab

Thursday, April 1 U.S. Department of Energy News Release
DOE Seeks Public Comment On Brookhaven Lab Contaminated Soils Reports
Cleanup Options Presented

Thursday, April 1 BNL Honors Five Employees with Awards for Outstanding Performance

March

Tuesday, March 30 Brookhaven Lab Scientist Wins Robert R. Wilson Prize

Friday, March 26 Brookhaven Lab to Host World's Biggest Particle Accelerator Conference, March 29 to April 2

Thursday, March 25 Brookhaven Lab Chemist Honored By Long Island Engineers

Wednesday, March 24 Brookhaven Town Honors Two Brookhaven Lab Scientists

Tuesday, March 23 Islip Town Honors Brookhaven Lab Researcher

Friday, March 19 New Book Explores Brookhaven National Laboratory's History,Traces Roots of Current Issues Surrounding Lab

Thursday, March 18 BNL Honors Four Scientists for Distinguished Research & Development Efforts

Friday, March 12 Northwestern University Press Release When is a Liquid Not a Liquid?
Research Performed at BNL's National Synchrotron Light Source

Friday, March 12 East Islip, Huntington Students Place First and Second at BNL Model Bridge Contest

Wednesday, March 10 Pianist to Perform at BNL, March 25

Tuesday, March 9 Brian P. Sack Named BNL's Assistant Director for Finance & Administration

Monday, March 8 BNL Unveils New Graphic Identity at Celebration of First Anniversary Under New Management

Friday, March 5 BNL Releases 1997 Environmental Summary
(link to report )

Monday, March 1 DOE Press Release Department of Energy Seeks Public Comment on Brookhaven Lab Groundwater Cleanup Documents

February

Friday, February 25 Brookhaven Lab Education Advocates Honored By Smithtown High School

Tuesday, February 23 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Press Release NRC Safety Assessment of BNL High Flux Beam Reactor Finds No Safety Significant Issues

Monday, February 22 EPA-BNL Press ReleaseNew Sediment Decontamination Technology Shows Promise

Monday, February 22 DOE Press ReleaseSecretary Richardson Names Robert San Martin as Manager of Chicago Operations Office
note: the Chicago Operations Office oversees some BNL functions

Friday, February 19 DOE Press ReleaseDepartment of Energy Seeks Public Comment on Brookhaven Lab Contaminated Soils Report
Cleanup Options to be Presented This Spring

Thursday, February 18 Brookhaven Scientist Wins Fermi Award

Thursday, February 18 Promising Bone Cancer Therapy Advances To Next Level

Tuesday, February 16 Stephen Layendecker Named Manager of Radiological Control Division

Tuesday, February 16 Media Advisory: Model Bridge Contest at BNL

Friday, February 12 BNL Features Lecture Series on 'Biosphere & Society' March 12,15 & 17

Tuesday, February 9 BNL Offers Scholarship for Women Science Students

Monday, February 8 BNL Scientists Win Materials Science Award

Thursday, February 4 Lecture at BNL on Environmental Technologies Used for the Lab's Cleanup, February 24

Monday, February 1 BNL Offers Tours of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider February 20

January

Wednesday, January 27 Lecture at Brookhaven Lab on Scientific Fraud, Feb. 19

Thursday, January 21 Leak Detectives: Brookhaven, Con Ed, EPRI Report New Method for Finding Underground Pipe Leaks

Tuesday, January 19 Suffolk County Residents Learn Computer Skills at BNL

Monday, January 4 UC San Diego-Led Physics Team Pinpoints Novel Energy Scale Associated With Superconducting Materials
joint research with BNL scientists

Friday, January 1 Mapping the Root of Cocaine Addiction: Suprising Findings on Drug's Effect in Brain Regions