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2001 New Releases
| December 19, 2001 | Scientists Identify Molecular Structure of Cancer-Related Proteins |
| December 17, 2001 | RHIC Begins Colliding High-Energy Polarized Protons |
| December 14, 2001 | Brookhaven Lab Physicist Elected Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| December 13, 2001 | Brookhaven Physicist Nicholas Samios Awarded Pontecorvo Prize |
| December 13, 2001 | Scientists Discover a Material That Expands Under Pressure |
| December 11, 2001 | Acceleron Electron Beam, LLC, Wins Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to Commercialize New Welding Technique Developed at Brookhaven Lab |
| December 11, 2001 | Scientists Awarded Patent for Coal-Purifying Bacteria |
| December 6, 2001 | Brookhaven Lab Physicist to Speak on “The Future of High Energy Physics” At the American Museum of Natural History, Jan. 4 |
| December 4, 2001 | Enzyme Studies at Brookhaven Lab May Lead to New Antiviral Agents |
| December 1, 2001 | Brain Shows Ability to Recover From Some Methamphetamine Damage |
| December 1, 2001 | Methamphetamine mechanism may knock out brain’s ability to “just say no” |
| November 27, 2001 | Brookhaven Lab Scientist Wins 2002 Pomerance Award For Scientific Contributions to Archaeology |
| November 16, 2001 | Brookhaven Lab Explores Anti-Terrorism Initiatives |
| November 8, 2001 | Therapeutic Drug Blocks Nicotine’s Effects on Brain Chemistry |
| November 6, 2001 | Wild Turkeys Thrive on Brookhaven Site |
| November 5, 2001 | Brookhaven Physicist Doon Gibbs Named as AAAS Fellow |
| October 26, 2001 | Peter Paul Becomes Brookhaven Lab’s Interim Director |
| October 25, 2001 | Brookhaven Scientist Wins 2002 Design & Engineering Award |
| October 23, 2001 | Brookhaven Physicist William Marciano Wins Sakurai Prize |
| October 17, 2001 | Caleb Finch to Speak on “Puzzles and Paradoxes of the Aging Process” At Brookhaven Lab, November 14 |
| October 12, 2001 | Brookhaven Lab and DuPont Develop New Catalysts to Convert Renewable Feedstocks to Useful Industrial Materials |
| October 3, 2001 | Brookhaven National Laboratory Achieves Registration To International Environmental Standard |
| October 2, 2001 | Brian Murfin Named Manager of Brookhaven’s Educational Programs |
| Sept. 25, 2001 | Scientists Discover How Some Viruses Take Strong Hold of Cells |
| Sept. 25, 2001 | Samuel Aronson Named Chair of Brookhaven Lab’s Physics Department |
| Sept. 24, 2001 | Brookhaven Lab Releases 2000 Environmental Report |
| Sept. 24, 2001 | Essayist David Bouchier to Speak on 'A Year Not in Provence' At Brookhaven Lab, October 24 |
| Sept. 5, 2001 | Gene Therapy Reduces Drinking in "Alcoholic" Rats |
| August 28, 2001 | North Massapequa Resident Wins Chasman Scholarship |
| August 20, 2001 | Brookhaven Physicists Produce "Doubly Strange Nuclei" |
| August 16, 2001 | Brookhaven Lab Helps LIPA Keep the Lights On |
| August 14, 2001 | DOE Announces First Awards in Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Program |
| August 2, 2001 | Brookhaven Lab Ranked Among Top Five Institutions In Terms of Impact of Environmental Research |
| July 26, 2001 | Scientists Detect Clue to Material's Unusual Electrical Properties |
| July 26, 2001 | Scientists Discover Formula for Long-Life Rechargeable Batteries |
| July 26, 2001 | Brookhaven Lab and Caithness Operating Company Win R&D 100 Award For a Technology to Recover Silica From Geothermal Brine |
July 24, 2001 | Stephen Shapiro Named Director of Brookhaven Lab's Center for Neutron Science |
July 18, 2001 | RHIC Resumes Operation With First Full-Energy Collisions |
July 17, 2001 | Ralph James Named Brookhaven National Laboratory's Associate Director for Energy, Environment & National Security |
July 12, 2001 | Lab Embarks on Two Major Nanoscience Research Programs |
July 3, 2001 | Brookhaven Lab and Psimei Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Develop Boron Compounds For Potential Cancer Treatments |
July 2, 2001 | Experimental Microbeam Therapy May Offer Improvement Over Traditional Radiation Treatments |
June 29, 2001 |
Brookhaven Science Associates Announces Succession Plans For Brookhaven National Laboratory Director |
June 21, 2001 |
Steven Dierker Named Chair of Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source Department |
June 20, 2001 | Brookhaven Lab Wins Two National Pollution Prevention Awards |
June 20, 2001 | Five Female Students Awarded Battelle-Brookhaven Women in Science Awards |
June 18, 2001 | First Results from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Explain Missing Solar Neutrinos and Reveal New Neutrino Properties |
June 14, 2001 | Brookhaven Lab Issues Historical Emissions Report for years 1947-61 |
June 13, 2001 | Scientists Push Enzyme Evolution Into High Gear, work could lead to mass production of useful plant products |
June 6, 2001 | Free Summer Sunday Tours at Brookhaven Lab, July 8 - August 26 |
June 4, 2001 | Brookhaven Lab Scientist Receives New York State Senate's "Woman of Distinction" Award |
June 1, 2001 | Les Hill Named Director of Environmental Restoration Projects at Brookhaven Lab |
May 31, 2001 | Brookhaven Lab Licenses its Mercury-Waste Treatment Technology To Newmont Mining Corporation |
May 24, 2001 | Brookhaven Lab Named 'Organization of the Year' By International Association for Public Participation |
May 18, 2001 | Brookhaven Lab Physicist Victor Emery Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences |
May 17, 2001 | Independent Group Gives A+ to Brookhaven Lab's Water Quality Consumer Confidence Report |
May 10, 2001 | Author Dava Sobel to be the Featured Speaker at Brookhaven Lab In a Program Sponsored by the ATLAS Experiment, June 7 |
May 3, 2001 | Elementary School Science Fair at Brookhaven Lab, May 12 |
May 1, 2001 | Long Island Students Test Their Model Vehicles At BNL's Maglev Contest |
April 26, 2001 | Three Brookhaven Scientists Named American Physical Society Fellows |
April 20, 2001 | Three Graduate Students Awarded Scharff-Goldhaber Prize in Physics |
April 18, 2001 | Middle School Magnetic Levitation (Maglev) Contest To be Held at Brookhaven Lab, April 25 |
April 12, 2001 | DOE Worker Health Assessment |
April 11, 2001 | Biodiversity Increases Ecosystems' Ability to Absorb CO2 and Nitrogen |
April 4, 2001 | Department of Energy, EPA and NY State Reach Agreement on Addressing Groundwater Contamination near North Street in Manorville |
April 3, 2001 | Brookhaven Scientists Awarded Patent for New Method of Making Metal Oxides |
March 28, 2001 |
William
F. Hempfling Named Director of Brookhaven Lab's |
March 20, 2001 |
Small Business Fair at Brookhaven Lab, April 9 |
March 20, 2001 | Brookhaven Lab Employees Help William Floyd Students Build a Winning Robot In FIRST Robotics Competition |
March 16, 2001 |
Brookhaven Spotlights: News from the March
2001 American Physical Society Meeting |
March 14, 2001 | Brookhaven Women in Science Offers Scholarship for Women Science Students |
March 14, 2001 |
Patchogue-Medford
High School Students Take Top Honors At Brookhaven Lab Model Bridge
Contest |
| Proposed Addiction Treatment Blocks Environment-Triggered Craving | |
March 7, 2001 | Brookhaven Lab Scientist Shares Oliver E. Buckley Prize In Condensed Matter Physics with Scientist From Denmark |
March 1, 2001 |
Researchers Document Brain Damage, Reduction in Motor and Cognitive Function from Methamphetamine Abuse |
March 1, 2001 | Mildred S. Dresselhaus to Speak on "Perspectives on Women in Science" at Brookhaven Lab, March 19 |
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February 28, 2001 |
Brookhaven Scientists Determine Key Lyme Disease Protein Structure |
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February 27, 2001 |
Model Bridge Contest to be Held at Brookhaven Lab, March 10 |
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February 22, 2001 |
Scientists Investigate "Nanowires" With Very Low Resistance |
February 8, 2001 |
Physicists Announce Possible Violation of Standard Model of Particle Physics |
February 6, 2001 |
Anton Zeilinger to Speak on “Quantum Experiments and the Foundations of Physics”At Brookhaven Lab, February 28 |
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February 1, 2001 |
Scientists Find Link Between Dopamine and Obesity |
| January 30, 2001 | U.S. Department of Energy Recognizes Brookhaven Lab With Energy 100 Awards for Scientific Contributions to Society |
| January 25, 2001 | Joseph P. Indusi Named Chair of Brookhaven Lab's Nonproliferation and National Security Department |
| January 22, 2001 | Five Gospel Choirs in Concert at Brookhaven Lab, February 10 |
| January 16, 2001 | New Brookhaven Lab Study Shows How Ritalin Works |
| January 15, 2001 | First Results From Brookhaven Lab's New Collider |
| January 11, 2001 | Guitarist Paul Galbraith in Concert at Brookhaven Lab, January 31 |
| January 8, 2001 | Brookhaven Lab Researcher Wins Hammer Award |
| January 5, 2001 | Long Island Weather of 2000 - Normal Temperature, Wet Summer |
