- Top of Tech - Cynthia Keppel, Jefferson Lab and Hampton University, recently received the High Tech Leadership Award by the Hampton Roads Technology Council.
- JLab wins Remi Award - Jefferson Lab's introductory video, Exploring the Nature of Matter, won a Gold Remi at the 43rd annual Worldfest Competition in Houston earlier this month. WorldFest is the third-oldest independent film and video competition in the U.S., with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Ang Lee among these honored with awards in past years. Copies of the Jefferson Lab video are available by contacting Public Affairs. You can also view the video online at the Jefferson Lab website Visitor's Page: http://www.jlab.org/visitors/. The "Remi" is named in honor of Frederic Remington, the artist celebrated for his paintings and sculptures of the American West.
- JSA Graduate Fellows - Seven JSA/Jefferson Lab graduate fellowships have been awarded by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, for research related to the Jefferson Lab science program for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- LHC Success! - The most powerful proton collider on the planet, the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has powered up. Two 3.5 Trillion electron-Volt proton beams collided in the LHC at 13:06 CEST on March 30, marking the start of the LHC research program at an energy three and a half times higher than previously achieved at a particle accelerator.
- SRF Experience - Andrew Hutton, associate director of accelerators, shares his thoughts about Jefferson Lab's experience with its Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) and the lessons that have been learned about superconducting radiofrequency technology in an opinion piece published in the CERN Courier.
- New AD - Jefferson Lab has announced the appointment of Dr. Robert D. McKeown, a leading nuclear physicist and professor at the California Institute of Technology, to the position of deputy director for science. McKeown will begin his new duties on May 1.
- Higgs List - Results from the Light Pseudoscalar and Scalar Search conducted with Jefferson Lab's Free-Electron Laser have been incorporated in the 2010 update of the Particle Data Group's Searches for Axions and Very Light Bosons world data table. The goal of the experiment was to test whether one predicted dark matter particle, the axion, could be produced and detected using the "light shining through a wall" technique. The null result has placed an important limitation on possible dark matter candidates.
- Theory Center - Dr. Michael R. Pennington has been named as the Associate Director for Theoretical and Computational Physics at Jefferson Lab. Pennington is currently a professor of Mathematical Sciences & Physics and dean for Educational Outreach at the Durham University in England. He will begin his duties at Jefferson Lab on July 1.
- Winning Protons - Simona Malace has been named the winner of the 2010 JSA Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by the Jefferson Lab Users Group Board of Directors.
- Dressed for Success - Two ILC-type cavities processed at JLab and "dressed" in a helium vessel at Fermilab have been sent to KEK in Japan to be installed in a test ILC-style cryomodule. They'll join cavities from Germany's DESY to make a four-cavity test module. This module will in turn join another four-cavity module produced by KEK. The completed module will serve as a prototype of the ILC main linac system. Other labs that contributed to this endeavor include Argonne National Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Cornell University and INFN. Read the full article on symmetrybreaking.
- FY09 Report Card - The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science has issued its annual report card for Jefferson Lab. The annual report card evaluates the lab's scientific, technological, management and operational performance. You can see the FY09 report card here.
- Nanotube Yarn - Lasers were used to create the first practical macroscopic yarns from boron-nitride fibers, opening the door for an array of applications, from radiation-shielded spacecraft to stronger body armor, according to a just-published study.
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