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Director's colloquia slated for today and next week
New Mexico senator to present colloquium today
Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) will present a Director's Colloquium today titled "Washington Perspectives on Laboratory Issues" at 9:45 a.m. in the Administration Building Auditorium. The colloquium is open to badgeholders only and will be shown live on LABNET Channel 9.
Mental health chief will discuss visual attention studies
How the human brain processes competing visual images will be the subject of a talk by the head of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Md.
Leslie Ungerleider will deliver a Director's Colloquium at 1:10 p.m. Tuesday in the Physics Building Auditorium. The talk is open to the public and will be broadcast on LABNET.
Ungerleider, who has worked at NIMH since 1975, collaborated with Mortimer Mishkin in the Laboratory of Neuropsychology on a theory of two cortical visual systems, one specialized for object recognition and another for visuospatial perception. Ungerleider has established much of the anatomical and physiological details of the two systems, discovering new cortical areas in the process. Her current brain-imaging work has revealed the location of the two visual systems in the human cortex and has suggested how these two systems contribute to short- and long-term visual memory.
Ungerleider received her doctorate in experimental psychology from New York University. In postdoctoral work at Stanford University, she began her work in higher-order perceptual mechanisms in the cortex of primates
A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society and the Association for the Advancement of Science, Ungerleider has been elected to the Society for Experimental Psychology and the International Neuropsychological Symposium. She is a council member of both the Society for Neuroscience and the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, and she serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Neuroscience, NeuroImage, Human Brain Mapping, Neuropsychologia and Biological Psychiatry.
--Kay Roybal
Formal call for LDRD directed research pre-proposals
This week, a master management memo was issued concerning a Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) call for pre-proposals. This constitutes the first phase of the LDRD Directed Research component process for this year. The document includes a description of how the Lab intends to handle the Directed Research component of LDRD. The LDRD program is a vital tool to help create a strong future for the Laboratory. More information can be found in the memo at http://int.lanl.gov/memos/MasterManagement/MM1182_ADS1303.PDF.
Don't respond to letters that seek personal information
Over the past few years, some Laboratory employees have received letters from Nigeria, initially as hard copy letters and more recently as faxes and e-mails.
Although the details may be slightly different, the general theme of the correspondence has been similar -- the recipient could obtain a significant sum of money by sending information to the source of the letters in Nigeria. The requested information typically includes bank account numbers, copies of personal correspondence letterheads and other personal information.
These letters come irregularly, and often when Laboratory security staff believe they have heard the last, employees notify the Security (S) Division that they have received another version of the requests. Lately, the Nigerian letters have been coming in the form of faxes and e-mail.
This activity is simply a scam in an attempt to obtain personal information that might be useful for illegal activities, such as fraud, theft or misrepresentation. Debbie Maez of the Special Projects Office (S-SPO) asks that employees not respond to any of these letters or other similar requests, regardless of format.
Employees should forward correspondence of this nature to the Special Projects Office at Mail Stop G723, fax to 7-7579 or e-mail dmaez@lanl.gov.
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