August 10, 2009

Many animals, both the furred and feathered kind, call Brookhaven Lab’s 5,000+ acres of space “home.”

July 07, 2009

Brookhaven Lab retiree Mike Reynolds is serving as a scientist on a yearlong expedition aboard a 65-foot, single mast, steel-hulled yacht that is sailing around the Americas.

June 22, 2009

BNL’s Berkner Hall was abuzz last Tuesday night as over 600 students, parents, friends and teachers besieged the Lab for the 3rd annual Open Space Stewardship Program Celebration.

May 18, 2009

The U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the N.Y. State Department of Environmental Conservation have agreed on a final cleanup action for the inactive High Flux Beam Reactor at Brookhaven Lab.

May 04, 2009

Members of the Environmental Protection Division held an Environmental Vendor Fair at Berkner Hall on April 22 as part of their Earth Week celebrations. At the event, New Age Energy displayed a Tri-Generation solar power system that emits electricity, heat, and light simultaneously.

April 23, 2009

On April 16, three scientists from the Biology Department — Daniel (Niels) van der Lelie, Safiyh Taghavi, and Lee Newman — met at BNL with Guy Lanza of the University of Massachusetts, Charles (Mike) Reynolds of the Army Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory, and Jason White of the Connecticut Agricultural Research Station to start the Northeast Phytotechnology Research Consortium.

April 21, 2009

The radiotracer chemistry group at Brookhaven National Laboratory has developed a method to directly label carbamate-containing compounds with [¹¹C]-carbon dioxide.

April 21, 2009

It was Ivan So's conscience that led to him to a Toyota Camry hybrid-electric car in 2007, when gas prices averaged more than $3 per gallon in New York state. "I felt guilty about driving my SUV, so I bought a hybrid," said So, who works at NSLS.

March 31, 2009

Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced $6 billion in new funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to accelerate environmental cleanup work and create thousands of jobs across 12 states - including a major investment in New York. Projects identified for funding will focus on accelerating cleanup of soil and groundwater, transportation and disposal of waste, and cleaning and demolishing former weapons complex facilities.

March 26, 2009

In honor of Earth Day, Plant Physiologist Alistair Rogers will give a talk, titled “Global Change and the Terrestrial Biosphere,” on Wednesday, April 22, at 4 p.m. in Brookhaven Lab’s Berkner Hall.

January 07, 2009

Brookhaven National Laboratory was named a winner in the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive’s third annual Electronics Reuse and Recycling Campaign at a White House ceremony on December 16. The Laboratory reused or recycled 143,600 pounds of electronics during fiscal year 2008, a period from October 1, 2007 to September 30, 2008.

September 04, 2008

Two buildings on the 5,300-acre site of Brookhaven National Laboratory have each been awarded a LEED silver rating by the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. The two buildings — the 94,500 square-foot Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) and the 65,000 square-foot Research Support Building (RSB) — are the newest on the Brookhaven Lab site.