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2008

8/26/2008 GLAST Observatory Renamed for Fermi, Reveals Entire Gamma-Ray Sky
7/09/2008 Physicists Discover New Particle: The Bottom-most "Bottomonium"
7/02/2008 GLAST Spacecraft Powered Up and Sending Data
06/30/2008 More Evidence for a Revolutionary Theory of Water
05/20/2008 New "Particle Detector" Space Telescope to Launch
02/13/2008 SLAC Director Emeritus Awarded the 2007 AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize
01/22/2008 William Madia Appointed Vice President for SLAC

2007

12/06/2007 Persis S. Drell Named Fourth Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
11/20/2007 Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology Announces New Deputy Director
09/25/2007 Wolfgang Panofsky, Renowned Stanford Physicist and Arms Control Advocate, Dead at 88
09/10/2007 Drell Appointed Acting Director as Dorfan Accepts New University Position
07/05/2007 SLAC Announces New Director and Deputy Director of Particle and Particle Astrophysics
05/11/2007 Carbon Joins the Magnetic Club
04/18/2007 Carpenter Michael Hughes Receives Presidential Award Honoring Thousands of Hours Devoted to Volunteer Community Service
03/27/2007 Stanford–Caltech Collaboration Creates New X-ray "Molecular Observatory"
03/13/2007 New Form of Matter-antimatter Transformation Observed for the First Time
03/12/2007 Dorfan to Step Down as SLAC Director After Nearly 8 Years
02/14/2007 New Accelerator Technique Doubles Particle Energy in Just One Meter
02/14/2007 Scientists Elucidate the Origin of the Darkest Galaxies in the Universe
02/02/2007 To the Edge of Melting: X-Rays Catch Ultrafast Changes in a Solid

2006

12/05/2006 SSRL Research Helps Uncover the Secrets of an Age-Old Killer
11/13/2006 SLAC Researchers Help Demonstrate Potential of FEL Imaging
10/20/2006 Ground Breaking New Science at SLAC
10/04/2006 Stanford University's Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory at SLAC Contributes to 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
09/28/2006 New Form of CP Violation Discovered
08/21/2006 Dark Matter Observed
08/2/2006 Modern Technology Reveals Ancient Science
07/21/2006 SLAC Joins ATLAS Collaboration
06/22/2006 Physicists Size Up the 'Unitarity Triangle'
05/17/2006 Space Telescope Leaves SLAC for Washington D.C.
04/24/2006 Researchers Find Black Holes to be Green
03/13/2006 Fred Kavli Building dedicated at SLAC

2005

12/06/2005 High Energy Physics Team Captures Network Prize at SC|05
10/18/2005 New Deputy Directors Appointed at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
10/17/2005 First Director Appointed for New Stanford Ultrafast Science Center
09/27/2005 Stöhr to Direct Synchrotron Radiation Lab
09/27/2005 Terror of the Tudor Seas Suffers from Sulfur
07/01/2005 BABAR finds new massive particle
06/28/2005 SLAC experiment makes first observations of key traits in weak force
05/25/2005 Stanford Linear Accelerator Center reorganizes to position itself for major discoveries
05/18/2005 Archimedes manuscript yields secrets under X-ray gaze
05/03/2005 Nuclear arms adviser Sidney Drell to receive Heinz public policy award
05/02/2005 Five scholars elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
04/19/2005 SLAC B-Factory Resumes Operations
04/19/2005 Ultra-fast x-ray pulses reveal how a solid melts into a liquid
02/10/2005 'Quantum Diaries' reveal the secret lives of modern physicists
02/09/2005 New Stanford Faculty
01/18/2005 First x-ray laser gets funding
01/11/2005 New lensless imaging technique opens door to nanoscale world

2004

09/02/2004 SLAC will continue to play a major role in designing the International Linear Collider, lab director says
08/13/2004 The cosmic revolution: Task force outlines role of particle physics in a new universe
08/02/2004 Physicists discover dramatic difference in behavior of matter versus antimatter
07/21/2004 SLAC experiment triples its data production for study of matter and antimatter
04/22/2004 Scientists Post a Lower Speed Limit for Magnetic Switching
04/02/2004 Favorite Liquid Revisited
01/30/2004 Dazzling new light source opens at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
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2003

08/12/2003 World's Particle Physics Laboratories Join To Create New Communication Resource
04/28/2003 SLAC experiment identifies new subatomic particle
02/07/2003 SLAC Scientists Help Set Data Transfer Speed Record
01/15/2003 Stanford to receive $7.5 million gift for particle astrophysics and cosmology institute

2002

11/04/2002 German and U.S. laboratories to collaborate on the development of X-ray free electron lasers
10/07/2002 World Physics Community Gathers for 40th Anniversary of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
09/26/2002 Synchrotron Lab Director Hodgson Wins E. O. Lawrence Award
08/14/2002 Scientists Use Alfalfa Plants to Harvest Nanoparticles of Gold
07/23/2002 From Theory to Certainty: BaBar Announces New Result on Charge Parity Violation
04/12/2002 World's Largest Database Reaches 500,000 Gigabytes
03/01/2002 A New Step Towards Worldwide Collaboration on Linear Colliders
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2001

07/26/2001 Physicists find a new, striking difference between matter and antimatter
07/05/2001 Professor Gregory Loew appointed deputy director of SLAC
05/02/2001 National Academy of Sciences Elects Dr. Prescott as Member (PDF)
04/10/2001 American Library Association honors Louise Addis as first library Webmaster in U.S.
03/06/2001 BroadVision CEO and his wife to donate $15 million to fund particle astrophysics and cosmology institute
02/12/2001 Physicists publish first results from the B Factory at Stanford
01/24/2001 Menlo Park Honors Stanford Linear Accelerator Center for Near-Zero Emissions

2000

11/09/2000 SLAC's B Factory Achieves Design Goal
11/09/2000 President Clinton Names Enrico Fermi Award Winners: Stanford's Sidney Drell Honored
10/17/2000 SLAC wins Department of Energy award for project management
06/06/2000 Violent Acceleration and the Event Horizon
02/28/2000 NASA Award to Stanford University for Major Astrophysics Project
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1999

07/02/1999 NIH AND DOE to Upgrade Synchrotron X-Ray Research Facilities in California and New York
06/22/1999 SLAC Physicist Named 1999 MacArthur Fellow (PDF)
05/28/1999 Physicists observe first events at Asymmetric B Factory (PDF)
03/02/1999 ARGOS Mission Seeks New Information about Black Holes and Neutron Stars

1998

02/22/1998 B Factory leader Dorfan named third director of SLAC (PDF)
12/22/1998 U.S. Department of Energy Signs New Contract with Stanford University
11/23/1998 Burton Richter to Step Down as SLAC Director (PDF)
10/26/1998 Energy Secretary Bill Richardson Dedicates New Research Facility at Stanford
07/30/1998 B Factory Achieves First Collisions
07/24/1998 The x-ray laser may soon become a reality

1997

12/09/1997 Dr. Lev Okun honored by the Open Society Institute
09/25/1997 Arthur Bienenstock has been named Associate Director of the Office of Science and Technology

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