2000 New Releases

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 ReleaseSecretary 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

Tuesday, March 14 Under Sail to Antarctica

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