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From Mentee to Mentor, Berkeley Lab’s Education Programs Inspire Scientists

By Guest PostSeptember 9, 2013Education, Scienceadvanced light source, austin, bacteriaphage virology, bay area, berkeley lab, bioprospecting project, csee program, cxro, earth sciences division, education programs, environmental sample, fusion research division, georgia, mary singer, mentee, mentor, microbiology, seno rekawa, sri lanka, tamas torok, university of texas, university of wisconsin

Question: “What did you do this summer?” Answer: “I built the Advanced Light Source.”

It’s the rare undergraduate who can say they spent their vacation building a third-generation synchrotron, but that’s exactly what Seno Rekawa did in the summer of 1991 as an intern at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. It was an auspicious start to his career. Less than five years later, he was working as a full-time engineer at Berkeley Lab and now is a regular mentor to budding high school and college engineers.

Berkeley Lab’s Center for Science and Engineering Education (CSEE), with its range of internship offerings, helps to fulfill one of the Lab’s mandates, which is to inspire and prepare this country’s next generation of scientists, engineers and technicians. This year more than 70 current and recent college students and almost 20 high school and college instructors participated in a CSEE program, working with Berkeley Lab researchers on science projects spanning from cancer research to cosmology to biofuels. (more…)

Cosmic Ray Mystery

By Guest PostApril 19, 2012Scienceactive galaxies, Antarctica, array of detector, australia, bakhtiyar ruzybayev, barbados, belgium, black hole, canada, charged particle, chris elliott, cosmic ray, cosmic ray protons, data, density of radiation, detector, earth, energy, fermi satellites, fireballs, francis halzen, gamma ray bursts, Germany, ghostly nature, glacial ice, grbs, greg sullivan, icecube, icetop, james roth, Japan, katie shirey, NASA, national science foundation, neutrinos, new zealand, nsf, production, proton, pyramid of giza, south pole, Sweden, swift, switzerland, telescope, thomas gaisser, universe, university of delaware, university of wisconsin, US

Massive detector homes in on cosmic ray production

IceCube, an international collaboration involving University of Delaware scientists, is shedding new light on cosmic ray production.

Although cosmic rays were discovered 100 years ago, their origin remains one of the most enduring mysteries in physics. Now, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a massive detector in Antarctica, is homing in on how the highest energy cosmic rays are produced. (more…)

The Nature Conservancy and IBM Launch Program for Sustaining Watersheds

By Guest PostSeptember 7, 20101 commentTechnologycarbon production, ecosystems, freshwater conservation, ibm, john tolva, michael reuter, parana river, rivers for tomorrow, spending issues, the federal university of mato grosso, the nature conservancy, the university of são paulo, university of brasilia, university of southern mississippi, university of wisconsin, watershed managers

ARMONK, NY & ARLINGTON, VA – – 07 Sep 2010: The Nature Conservancy and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced plans to launch a free Web site this fall called Rivers for Tomorrow, where watershed managers can map, analyze and share detailed information about the health of local freshwater river basins to inform clean up programs.

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From Mentee to Mentor, Berkeley Lab’s Education Programs Inspire Scientists

Cosmic Ray Mystery

The Nature Conservancy and IBM Launch Program for Sustaining Watersheds