Dear Colleagues,
A number of the National Labs have made announcements
about the impact of the $62.5M supplemental funding for
science at DOE.
>From Fermilab: "At an all-hands meeting on July 2, Fermilab
Director Pier Oddone announced to all employees the official
suspension of involuntary layoffs at Fermilab. U.S. Senator
Richard Durbin, Congresswoman Judy Biggert and Congressman
Bill Foster, who led the bipartisan effort of the Illinois
delegation to provide supplemental funding for science, spoke
at the event. Acting Deputy Secretary of Energy Jeffrey Kupfer
announced that Fermilab will receive about $29.5 million in
supplemental funds." Of which, $9.5M will go towards NOvA.
Streaming video of this event can be viewed at:
http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/AllHands/080702AllHands/index.htm
In the press:
http://www.kcchronicle.com/articles/2008/07/03/news/local/doc486ca22c928bf335726327.txt
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/science/03fermi.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=fermilab&st=cse&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Argonne National Lab will receive $7.5M, primarily for
the Advanced Photon Source. More information can be found at:
http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/News/2008/news080703.html
SLAC will be receiving $3.5M to help the Stanford Synchrotron
Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) and Particle Physics and Astrophysics.
Details at:
http://today.slac.stanford.edu/a/2008/07-03.htm
Enjoy the Fourth,
Norman Graf
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