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Newsline Archive – 2001

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December

• NNSA’s Brooks lauds partnership in nonproliferation (Dec. 21, 2001)
• DNA diagnostic technique provides sharper tool for cancer detection (Dec. 21, 2001)
• Lab physicists named APS fellows (Dec. 21, 2001)
• HOME Campaign closes at $1.3 million (Dec. 21, 2001)
• NIF construction site sets new record for safety (Dec. 21, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (Dec. 21, 2001)
• Laser experiment links Lab to Mt. Diablo (Dec. 14, 2001)
• New possibilities unveiled in ocean storage of excess power plant emissions (Dec. 14, 2001)
• Construction begun for new Isotope Sciences Facility (Dec. 14, 2001)
• Committee starts the search for new CMS AD (Dec. 14, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (Dec. 14, 2001)
• Director Bruce Tarter to step down in 2002 (Dec. 7, 2001)
• Hal Graboske announces he’ll step down as AD for Chemistry, Materials Science (Dec. 7, 2001)
• Laboratory kicks off 50th anniversary plans (Dec. 7, 2001)
• Complete Newsline issue (Dec. 7, 2001)

November

• Truck device gives CHP a brake (Nov. 30, 2001)
• Supercomputing conference pushes the boundaries of global (Nov. 30, 2001) connectivity (Nov. 30, 2001)
• Teller memoirs recall century’s defining moments (Nov. 30, 2001)
• Latest review finds NIF continuing to make ‘excellent technical progress’ (Nov. 30, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (Nov. 30, 2001)
• Overall Lab cancer rates lower than Bay Area norms, (Nov. 16, 2001)
  surveillance report finds (Nov. 16, 2001)
• McTague lauds ‘superb’ year for labs (Nov. 16, 2001)
• IBM, Lab to work on new design for Blue Gene (Nov. 16, 2001)
• SAFE to offer advice on protecting intellectual property (Nov. 16, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (Nov. 16, 2001)
• Terrorism sparks need to be SAFE (Nov. 12, 2001)
• Space science ready for takeoff at special Visitors Center event (Nov. 12, 2001)
• Action teams devising survey recommendations (Nov. 12, 2001)
• Health Services to present latest findings of Lab’s Cancer Surveillance Project (Nov. 12, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (Nov. 12, 2001)
• Media keeps its spotlight on Lab (Nov. 2, 2001)
• Sequencing of pufferfish will help JGI efforts to solve mysteries of human genome (Nov. 2, 2001)
• Lab researchers develop rapid-detection method for identifying salmonella (Nov. 2, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (Nov. 2, 2001)

October

• NIF conventional facility complete (October 26, 2001)
• Employees eager to return to HOME following terrorist attacks, aftermath (October 26, 2001)
• Smart Probe to begin testing at UC Davis (October 26, 2001)
• SAFE Program manager will discuss his insights on how to catch terrorists (October 26, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (October 26, 2001)
• The mission and priorities of the Department (October 26, 2001)
• Employee awareness key to Lab security (October 19, 2001)
• Wadsworth offers personal perspective on Lab’s paradoxes (October 19, 2001)
• NIF transport amplifies success (October 19, 2001)
• Lab’s Facilities Management building for future (October 19, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (October 19, 2001)
• Warning: Microsoft’s "error reporting" can send your data across the internet (October 24, 2001)
• PSOs step up efforts to stay on guard (Oct. 12, 2001)
• Scramjet technology may be a propellant for hypersonic flight (Oct. 12, 2001)
• Court orders release of Lab’s pay equity study (Oct. 12, 2001)
• Partnership targets proteins to design new drugs (Oct. 12, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (Oct. 12, 2001)
• Lab technologies take top honors (Oct. 5, 2001)
• Gordon praises NNSA security efforts (Oct. 5, 2001)
• Jens Mahler named acting Engineering AD (Oct. 5, 2001)
• Team co-chairs seek members to tackle survey focus areas (Oct. 5, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (Oct. 5, 2001)

September

• Laser casts new light on defense (Sept. 28, 2001)
• Airport security looks to Laboratory for expertise on X-ray imaging methods (Sept. 28, 2001)
• Boeing hails Lab team’s work on missile defense (Sept. 28, 2001)
• Employees, organizations rally to raise funds to help Sept. 11 victims (Sept. 28, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (Sept. 28, 2001)
• Committee to select survey thrust areas ( Sept. 21, 2001)
• The annual October Salary Review for Laboratory employees is now under way ( Sept. 21, 2001)
• Salary chart ( Sept. 21, 2001)
• Engineering AD to leave the Lab for Georgetown University post ( Sept. 21, 2001)
• Russia to partner on dialysis equipment ( Sept. 21, 2001)
• U.S. facing tough choices on terrorism ( Sept. 21, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF ( Sept. 21, 2001)
• Questions and Answers for LLNL Employees in Relation to Terrorist Emergency (September 11, 2001)
• Majority of employees ‘proud to be associated’ with Lab (September 7, 2001)
• Lab will decipher data to decide course of action (September 7, 2001)
• Lab presents new line of thought on solar corona (September 7, 2001)
• Brown bag discussion on diversity workshop (September 7, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (September 7, 2001)

August

• Business incubator begins life at Lab (August 31, 2001)
• Results of employee survey will be unveiled next week at special all-hands meeting (August 31, 2001)
• Tauscher vows continued support for labs (August 31, 2001)
• Labs pledge collaboration to resolve diversity issues (August 31, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (August 31, 2001)
• Amplifiers are NIF’s crown joules (August 24, 2001)
• Lab collaborations get $23 million to advance science research on supercomputers (August 24, 2001)
• Lab expertise helps blow open bomber case (August 24, 2001)
• Lab garners 8 of 11 UC campus-lab collaborative projects and exchanges (August 24, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (August 24, 2001)
• ASCI White partnership celebrated
• Teller receives rare historic medal for arts and science
• Gordon calls for rebuilding trust, cooperation
• Gordon calls for rebuilding trust, cooperation
• Door opens to new explosives test era at Site 300
• Complete Newsline in PDF (August 17, 2001)
• Lab honors Lawrence and his legacy (August 10, 2001)
• Astronomer’s effort to find first atoms sheds light on cosmic ‘Dark Age’ (August 10, 2001
• Distant future bears bad news for runaway universe (August 10, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (August 10, 2001)
• ‘Atom Smasher’ taught science world to think big (August 6, 2001)
• Lawrence’s faith, foresight gave Laboratory confidence to find success after faltering (August 6, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (August 3, 2001)

July

• Security research building gets first OK (July 27, 2001)
• Workshop set for NNSA labs to develop new framework for resolving diversity issues (July 27, 2001)
• Krauss to discuss Lawrence, ‘galactic travelers inside us’ (July 27, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (July 27, 2001)
• Goodwin to manage stockpile stewardship (July 20, 2001)
• Hurd will join Lab’s Strategic Operations (July 20, 2001)
• DDLS talk to kick offcelebration of Lawrence (July 20, 2001)
• Lab’s ASCI White rated the world’s fastest (July 20, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (July 20, 2001)
• DNA link between man and mouse (July 13, 2001)
• MMED a one-stop shop for materials that matter (July 13, 2001)
• Love labors to put end to current cancer treatments (July 13, 2001)
• Groups focus on growing Lab’s intellectual assets (July 13, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (July 13, 2001)
• Science, operations rated excellent (July 6, 2001)
• Breast cancer specialist Susan Love to share latest research at DDLS (July 6, 2001)
• Employees asked to provide input on improving security (July 6, 2001)
• Tarter, Wadsworth thank employees for survey turnout (July 6, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (July 6, 2001)

June

• Laser/plasma physicist Mordy Rosen named winner of Edward Teller Medal (June 29, 2001)
• Lab helps SLAC get to the heart of the matter (June 29, 2001)
• Today is your last chance for completing your copy of the employee survey (June 29, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (June 29, 2001)
• Scientists bone up on calcite research (June 22, 2001)
• DDLS spotlights ways to explore the universe using laser interferometer (June 22, 2001)
• Today is your last chance to submit survey booklets (June 22, 2001)
• LLNL Survey Responses and Related Information (June 22, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (June 22, 2001)
• Cooper wins DOE’s highest honor (June 15, 2001)
• Deadlines are extended; take your survey — please! (June 15, 2001)
• Lab to assist in secure communication links through DARPA initiative
  (June 15, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF format (June 15, 2001)
• Lab's 2000 Annual Report to be mailed to employees (June 8, 2001)
• Stepping out for cancer awareness (June 8, 2001)
• Senate confirms key managers for DOE (June 8, 2001)
• Collaborative effort moves Lab step closer to shipping surplus plutonium off site (June 8, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF format (June 8, 2001)
• Lab work speeds plague detection (June 1, 2001)
• Tauscher comes to Lab to field employee questions on budget, energy crisis (June 1, 2001)
• Remedy for access problems to employee survey Website (June 1, 2001)
• NIF gets a lift through high-tech transporters (June 1, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (June 1, 2001)

May

• State of the Lab unveils new ADs, FY02 budget outlook (May 25, 2001)
• Employees will get chance to assess their workplace when survey kicks off (May 25, 2001)
• Survey Questions & Answers (May 25, 2001)
• Job fair works well for Engineering, Comp (May 25, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (May 25, 2001)
• Choosing the Lab’s new leaders (May 18, 2001)
• Tarter names new ADs, deputy director (May 18, 2001)
• Survey will help shape Lab policies (May 18, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (May 18, 2001)
  Kuckuck takes job as NNSA’s principal deputy administrator (May 11, 2001)
• Lab engages its workforce in upcoming survey (May 11, 2001)
• Lab names Laura Gilliom University Relations director (May 11, 2001)
• Time to examine effects of Lee case, racial profiling, Underwood says (May 11, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (May 11, 2001)
• Amber waves bring cooler temps (May 4, 2001)
• Stanford-Lab team concludes North Korea’s framework compliance can be verified (May 4, 2001)
• Powell earns posthumous distinction of optical fellow (May 4, 2001)
• Congressman spotlights Asian contributions to government (May 4, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (May 4, 2001)

April

• Lab gives Keck a protective coat (April 27, 2001)
• Tarter says FY2002 budget could hinder threat reduction work (April 27, 2001)
• Lab caveman’s tunnel vision leads to regional rescue efforts (April 27, 2001)
• Survey will be released to employees on May 29 (April 27, 2001)
• Energy secretary speaks out against racial profiling (April 27, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (April 27, 2001)
• Fusion of lab efforts on W80 work (April 20, 2001)
• Lab names 2001 Teller Fellowship recipients (April 20, 2001)
• Introducing Integrated Safeguards and Security (April 20, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (April 20, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (April 13, 2001)
• Lab celebrates certification of W87 (April 13, 2001)
• EUVL partnership makes its stand (April 13, 2001)
• Ombuds office expanding its mission (April 13, 2001)
• DOE submits $19.2 billion budget (April 13, 2001)
• Employee survey enters the final stages of review; distribution expected in May (April 13, 2001)
• Science fair shows students' flair (April 6, 2001)
• EUVL to mark milestone of prototype completion with televised celebration (April 6, 2001)
• Ombudsman Jeremy Wu returning to Laboratory to meet with employees (April 6, 2001)
• Workers return after gas leak in Bldg. 511 (April 6, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (April 6, 2001)

March

• NNSA looks at key stewardship issues (March 30, 2001)
• EPD's Brendan Dooher goes to Washington (March 30, 2001)
• UC collaboration founds Edward Teller Education Center (March 30, 2001)
• Science Day focuses on Lab's reason for being (March 30, 2001)
• 'Work-Life' Web guide launched (March 30, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (March 30, 2001)
• Krebs tells scientists to learn 'language of leadership' (March 23, 2001)
• A day of show and tell for supercomputing (March 23, 2001)
• NNSA will blend science, security to 'push barriers' (March 23, 2001)
• Lab scientists contribute to physics dictionary (March 23, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (March 23, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (March 16, 2001)
• Lab expertise tapped to reduce chemical weapons threat (March 9, 2001)
• Small-scale modeling yields big dividends(March 9, 2001)
• Computing pioneer to speak (March 9, 2001)
• Jay Davis to return as Lab's first fellow for national security (March 9, 2001)
• DDLS presentation dives into carbon sequestration in ocean depths (March 9, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (March 9, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (March 2, 2001)
• Seismic solutions to complex problems (March 2, 2001)
• Martha Krebs to discuss the trials and tribulations of managing today's science (March 2, 2001)
• 'Shelter-in-place' newest protective direction (March 2, 2001)

February

• Complete Newsline in PDF (February 23, 2001)
• Lab physicist writes the book on how to put your science to work (February 23, 2001)
• Model research for climate change (February 23, 2001)
• Steering group appointed to oversee development of upcoming employee survey (February 23, 2001)
• Lab closer to understanding nebula (February 16, 2001)
• Fruits of Human Genome Project's efforts highlighted in issues of Nature, Science (February 16, 2001)
• Biomaterials research leading to implants that will promote body's 'normal healing' (February 16, 2001)
• Energy crunch refuels nuclear debate (February 16, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (February 16, 2001)
• Integrated Desktop Model will streamline support (February 9, 2001)
• Kuckuck finally ready 'to play' (February 9, 2001)
• MA and PA buses almost ready to roll into NIF (February 9, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (February 9, 2001)
• Organizational changes reflect increased emphasis on Lab operations issues (February 2, 2001)
• Lab responds to employee class action (February 2, 2001)
• A blast from the past at NTS (February 2, 2001)
• Lab to celebrate its science (February 2, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (February 2, 2001)

January

• Institutes open doors to collaborative research (January 26, 2001)
• Hoya steps up NIF glass production (January 26, 2001)
• FSC analysis may seal 'angel's' fate (January 26, 2001)
• Groundwork for extensive employee survey under way (January 26, 2001)
• Kuckuck farewell Feb. 9; all employees invited (January 26,
• Complete Newsline in PDF (January 26, 2001)
• UC President's Council rates labs 'outstanding' (January 19, 2001)
• UC OKs contract modification (January 19, 2001)
• Environmental security series looks at potential rising tide of water conflicts (January 19, 2001)
• Finding meaning behind King's dreams (January 19, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (January 19, 2001)
• 'Smart' way to detect cancer (January 12, 2001)
• A new look at microlensing (January 12, 2001)
• Scientists zero in on rapid stars (January 12, 2001)
• Bright Light work offers ray of hope for diabetes patients (January 12, 2001)
• Focus turns to challenges to the Lab's workforce (January 12, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (January 12, 2001)
• Lab focuses on science and safety (January 5, 2001)
• A monthly recap of the milestones of 2000 (January 5, 2001)
• Council fosters growth in energy, environment (January 5, 2001)
• Complete Newsline in PDF (January 5, 2001)