August 18, 2009

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

August 17, 2009

John Gosman, an engineer at the National Synchrotron Light Source II, swam 15 1/2 miles across Long Island Sound to raise funds for cancer patients.

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 31, 2009

Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D., former Vice Chancellor for Research and professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology at Washington University, was appointed President of Stony Brook University effective July 1.

July 29, 2009

A quick Q&A with Astrid Morreale, a RHIC postdoc at Brookhaven Lab who looks at small electrically charged particles called pions, which emerge from smashing two polarized proton beams together.

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 08, 2009

Almost 27 years after the dedication of the National Synchrotron Light Source, the man who helped bring the facility to fruition received his own ceremony.

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 30, 2009

Kristine Ferrone, former Collider-Accelerator Department employee at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and NASA Space Radiation Lab, heads to the Arctic Circle this week for “FMARS 2009,” a simulated Mars mission.

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 22, 2009

Edward Nowak, former director of Johnson & Johnson’s Global Pharma R&D Environmental Health and Safety, has been named manager of the Safety & Health Services Division at Brookhaven Lab, effective June 8.

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 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

Wayne A. Hendrickson, a longtime NSLS structural biology user, University Professor at Columbia University, and Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has been appointed Associate Project Director for Life Sciences at NSLS-II.

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 16, 2009

For 30 years Keith Lewin has researched climate change by day, then gone home to answer ambulance calls on nights and weekends. As a volunteer, he has responded to more than 4,000 emergencies, including hundreds of car accidents and heart attacks, and has even helped deliver a few babies.

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 08, 2009

Paul Vaska, a scientist in the Medical Department, has been awarded tenure for his outstanding contributions to the field of medical imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) and for his strong support of Laboratory facilities.

April 02, 2009

Tonica Valla of the Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department was granted tenure for his world-class research in the application of photoelectron spectroscopy, an investigative technique that is one of the core strengths of BNL's program studying strongly correlated materials.

April 01, 2009

When Pavel Oblozinsky returns to his native Bratislava, Slovakia, next year, he will mark 10 years of modernizing the United States' libraries of publicly available nuclear data and bringing the National Nuclear Data Center (NNDC), headquartered at Brookhaven National Laboratory, into the 21st century.

March 24, 2009

Some people enjoy driving to work; others prefer not to. Brookhaven's Larry Hoff is of the latter group.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

January 07, 2008

Jim Misewich has been named Associate Laboratory Director for Basic Energy Sciences (BES) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, effective December 14. The BES Directorate is responsible for overseeing research in chemistry, condensed matter physics, materials science and nanoscience.

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.

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.

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.

October 18, 2006

Emilio Mendez, a physics professor at Stony Brook University, has been named Director of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, effective November 1. Currently under construction, the CFN at Brookhaven is one of five nanocenters supported by the Department of Energy and located at a national laboratory.

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).

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.