August 18, 2009

146 BNLers receive BNL Spotlight Awards awards for extraordinary efforts during FY08.

August 13, 2009

This year, another 18 BNL supervisors completed the supervisor certificate program and were honored at a ceremony on July 28.

August 12, 2009

At BNL’s 2009 Employee Recognition Ceremony, Elliott Levitt of BNL’s Internal Audit & Oversight Office was honored with the first BERA Service Award for his service as the volunteer treasurer of BERA.

August 10, 2009

At the annual Employee Recognition Ceremony, Deputy Lab Director for Operations Michael Bebon presented the Engineering & Computing Award to (from left) Jesse Schmalzle, Emerson Vernon, Wu Zhang, Alexander Zaltsman, and Gregory Flett.

July 27, 2009

At the annual Employee Recognition Ceremony held on June 22 in Berkner Hall, Lab Director Sam Aronson presented the Brookhaven Awards, given to recognize key contributors in support functions whose performance and achievements represent outstanding service to the Laboratory. Nominees are evaluated for the contributions’ exceptional nature, difficulty level, and benefit to BNL, as well as the length of time over which the contributions were made.

July 23, 2009

Brookhaven Lab and Hybridyne Imaging Technologies, Inc., of Toronto, Canada, have won a 2009 R&D 100 Award for developing a compact gamma camera for high-resolution imaging of prostate cancer.

July 20, 2009

At the annual Employee Recognition Ceremony held June 22 in Berkner Hall, 13 BNLers were honored with the Lab’s highest awards: five received the Brookhaven Award, five, the Engineering & Computing Award, and two, the Science & Technology Award.

July 14, 2009

Brookhaven scientists Jason Graetz and Paul Sorensen are among 100 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on young research professionals.

July 14, 2009

J.C. Seamus Davis and John Tranquada, physicists at Brookhaven Lab, along with Aharon Kapitulnik of Stanford University, have been named the recipients of the 2009 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize for outstanding superconductivity experiments.

July 07, 2009

Na Li, a graduate student at Huazhong Normal University who expects to receive her Ph.D. in physics in the spring of 2010, has been awarded the 2009 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize, consisting of a framed certificate and $1,000.

June 24, 2009

Yimei Zhu, a scientist at the Brookhaven Lab, has been elected the inaugural Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America, an affiliate of the American Institute of Physics and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

June 11, 2009

Michael Creutz has received a Humboldt Research Award, which will allow him to spend up to one year working on long-term research at an institution in Germany. The Humboldt Foundation grants up to 100 of the awards annually to researchers whose insights have had a significant impact on their discipline.

June 04, 2009

Samios, former Laboratory Director and Director of the RIKEN BNL Research Center at Brookhaven National Lab, will receive the 2009 Gian Carlo Wick Award for his outstanding contributions to particle physics.

May 26, 2009

James Glimm, a staff member of Brookhaven Lab’s Computational Science Center and chair of the Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics at Stony Brook University, has been named a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

May 20, 2009

Chuan-Hsiang Huang, a post-doctoral fellow at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, is the winner of this year's National Synchrotron Light Source Julian Baumert Ph.D. Thesis Award for his work on solving the structure of a protein frequently mutated in human cancers.

May 19, 2009

The National Synchrotron Light Source User Executive Committee will give this year's Community Service Award to Safety Engineer Keith Klaus for outstanding service, innovation, and dedication to users of the NSLS.

May 13, 2009

Jonathan Rameau, a doctoral student at Stony Brook University (SBU) has won the 2009 Dr. Nathaniel and Fanie Soroff Prize for outstanding contributions to physics. His research on superconductivity was done at Brookhaven Lab's National Synchrotron Light Source.

May 07, 2009

Physicist Satoshi Ozaki will be honored as a distinguished Asian American professional for his leadership in building major science facilities at Brookhaven Lab, including the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.

April 30, 2009

Physicist Satoshi Ozaki will be honored as a distinguished Asian American professional for his leadership in building major science facilities at Brookhaven Lab, including the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.

April 30, 2009

The IEEE's Long Island Section has honored Veljko Radeka, head of Brookhaven Lab's Instrumentation Division, with the Harold Wheeler Award for outstanding leadership and accomplishments in detector development that led to discoveries in many areas of science and technology.

April 28, 2009

The IEEE’s Long Island Section has honored Veljko Radeka, head of Brookhaven Lab’s Instrumentation Division, with the Harold Wheeler Award for outstanding leadership and accomplishments in detector development that led to discoveries in many areas of science and technology.

April 27, 2009

Patterson has been named a recipient of Stony Brook University's Presidential Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students. The award for excellence in research is given to five students each year.

April 24, 2009

Chemist Jacob Hooker led research devising a method for adding a radioactive "tag" to formaldehyde. Using this labeled formaldehyde, scientists can now synthesize a whole new class of radiotracers, compounds that can be tracked by positron emission tomography (PET) scanners to monitor the movement and interactions of a wide range of chemicals in the human body.

April 24, 2009

Jacob Hooker, a chemist at Brookhaven Lab, will be honored as Brookhaven's "Inventor of the Year" by Battelle, the global science and technology company that, together with Stony Brook University, manages Brookhaven Lab.

April 16, 2009

Brookhaven Lab has been selected to receive the Small Business Administration’s Dwight D. Eisenhower Award of Excellence — Research and Development Category. The award recognizes large prime contractors that have excelled in using small businesses as suppliers and subcontractors.

April 15, 2009

Joanna Fowler, Director of the Radiotracer Chemistry, Instrumentation and Biological Imaging Program at Brookhaven Lab, will be honored with the National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences on April 26, at the Academy’s 146th annual meeting in Washington, DC.

April 06, 2009

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu (pictured) presented The Secretary of Energy's Achievement Award to U.S. CMS and U.S. ATLAS at the 2009 Annual DOE Project Management Workshop on March 31 in Alexandria, Virginia.

March 30, 2009

Two large construction projects at the Brookhaven Lab — the U.S. ATLAS Detector Project and the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) — have been named winners of the DOE Secretary’s Award for Achievement.

March 19, 2009

Etsuko Fujita, a chemist at Brookhaven Lab, will be honored for her accomplishments in science at Brookhaven Town’s 23rd Annual Women’s Recognition Night on March 26 at Town Hall in Farmingville.

March 19, 2009

Brookhaven chemist Etsuko Fujita will be honored for her accomplishments in science at Brookhaven Town's 23rd Annual Women's Recognition Night on March 26 at Town Hall in Farmingville. She will be among 11 women honored for their contributions to various fields in a ceremony to celebrate the significant achievements of local women during Women's History Month.

February 24, 2009

Joanna Fowler, Director of Radiotracer Chemistry, Instrumentation and Biological Imaging Program at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, will be inducted into the Long Island Technology Hall of Fame at a ceremony and reception to be held at the Garden City Hotel on March 4.

January 09, 2009

Four Brookhaven scientists have been named Fellows of the American Physical Society, a professional organization with about 46,000 members. Election to APS Fellowship is limited to no more than one half of one percent of its membership in a given year, and election for this honor indicates recognition by scientific peers for outstanding contributions to physics.

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 17, 2008

Samuel Krinsky, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, has won thee 2008 Free Electron Laser (FEL) Prize. Sponsored by the FEL Conference, which was held this year in Gyeungju, Korea, the prize consists of an award citation, a plaque, and approximately $3,000.

September 15, 2008

Masaki Suenaga, a retired metallurgist who remains an active researcher at Brookhaven Lab, has received the IEEE Council on Superconductivity Award for significant and sustained contributions to applied superconductivity.

April 25, 2008

Brookhaven scientist Weiqiang Han will be honored as the Laboratory's "Inventor of the Year" on April 25, in Columbus, Ohio, by Battelle, a global science and technology company that develops and commercializes technology. Battelle and Stony Brook University comprise Brookhaven Science Associates, the company that manages Brookhaven Lab.

August 15, 2007

José Rodriguez, a senior chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, will receive an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award from HENAAC, a nonprofit organization that honors the outstanding contributions of Hispanic American professionals in science, engineering, technology and mathematics.

April 25, 2005

Thomas Roser, Associate Chair for Accelerators and Accelerator Division Head at Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been selected as one of two recipients of the 2005 Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award from the Nuclear and Plasma Science Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.