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Cesarotti honored with prestigious lectureship award by Brookhaven National Lab
The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has announced Cari Cesarotti as one of the recipients of the 2024-2025 Leona Woods Distinguished Postdoctoral Lectureship Award.
Brookhaven Scientist Awarded Goldhaber Fellowship For Clean Energy Research
Steve Farrell, a research associate at the Inner-Shell Spectroscopy (ISS) beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), has been selected as one of 2024's Distinguished Goldhaber Fellows. These prestigious three-year fellowships are awarded to exceptional candidates who have demonstrated their expertise and talent as well as their drive to pursue independent research. At the end of their appointment, fellows are encouraged to apply for scientific staff positions at the Laboratory. Farrell aims to focus on projects related to clean, affordable energy leveraging his background in chemistry and materials science.
Brookhaven National Lab Announces Winners of 2024 Joanna Fowler Award
The Chemistry Division at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Brookhaven Women in Science (BWIS) have announced Paris Watson of Johns Hopkins University, Michele Myong of Brookhaven Lab, and Edelmy Marin Bernardez of Stony Brook University as the recipients of the 2024 Joanna Fowler Award in the Chemical and Biochemical Sciences. Each recipient will receive an award of $3,500, funded by BWIS and Brookhaven Lab's Chemistry Division, Energy & Photon Sciences Directorate, and Human Resources.
DOE Announces RENEW Initiative Support for Five Pathway Summer Schools
As part of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (RENEW) initiative, Brookhaven Lab and Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility will collaborate on an immersive summer school designed to provide college freshmen and recent high school graduates with working knowledge and skills for "big data" and artificial intelligence/machine learning. The summer school will utilize a hybrid model, reflecting how modern-day science is performed, while leveraging the unique strengths and capabilities of each lab. Big data applications will include those developed for the future Electron-Ion Collider — a collaborative project between the two laboratories — and additional laboratory-specific topics.
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Investors Throw Millions at Suffolk
The sale of $350 million in Tax Anticipation Notes at 2.94% and $46.4 million in Refunding Serial Bonds at 2.66% was reported by Comptroller John Kennedy. He attributes the impressive number of bidders to the county’s improved credit ratings which resulted in healthy competition, and significant cost savings for the residents of Suffolk County.
History Comes Alive at Military Museum
The museum is the dream of the nearby Rocky Point VFW Post 6249 membership, whose stories are befitting of the many heroes depicted in the gallery’s hallowed halls. There’s museum advisor Joe Cognitore, the post’s commander, whose Army service in Vietnam earned him a Bronze Star with a “V” for Valor.
Fort Sumter Pilgrimage Explores Family’s Civil War Legacy
Following the War of 1812 with Britain, President Andrew Jackson realized the need to strengthen the new nation’s coastal defenses, especially to protect the Atlantic entrance to Charleston, the south’s busiest port. Millions of tons of Massachusetts granite created an island at the confluence of the Ashley and the Cooper rivers where none had been before