February 02, 2009

Scientists who study topics ranging from new strategies for addressing our nation’s energy needs to subatomic interactions in physics to mysteries of the art world will present their work in three separate symposia at the world’s largest scientific gathering, the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

January 16, 2009

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has awarded five Brookhaven scientists with the distinction of Fellow. Howard Gordon, Fritz Henn, Serban Protopopescu, Thomas Roser, and Betsy Sutherland will be among 486 AAAS members to receive this honor for their efforts toward advancing distinguished science applications.

November 14, 2007

Four scientists from Brookhaven Lab have been awarded the distinction of Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Ilan Ben-Zvi, Peter D. Johnson, John Shanklin and F. William Studier will be among 471 AAAS members to receive this honor for their efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.

December 11, 2006

Four Brookhaven physicists have been awarded the distinction of Fellow by the American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Sally Dawson, Derek Lowenstein, John Tranquada and Gordon Danby will be among 449 AAAS members to receive this honor for their scientifically distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.

February 13, 2006

Samuel Aronson, Associate Laboratory Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics at Brookhaven, will give a talk on conducting science at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the world's premiere facility for nuclear physics research, as part of a AAAS symposium titled "User Facilities and the U.S. Science and Technology Enterprise: A Great Opportunity."

October 27, 2005

Samuel Aronson, Associate Laboratory Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been awarded the distinction of Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

September 30, 2004

A new study by scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory suggests that vigabatrin may block the addictive effects of toluene, a substance found in household products commonly used as inhalants. These results broaden the promise of GVG as a potential treatment for a variety of addictions.