ROCHESTER, New York, Oct. 27 (TNSPer) -- The University of Rochester issued the following news release: Michael Campbell, a scientific leader in laser science and plasma physics, who served as director of the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics for the past four years, has announced he will retire on December 31, 2021. Campbell will continue to carry out his duties as LLE director until the end of the calendar year and will remain as a consultant to LLE until a new direct  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Oct. 28 (TNSOps) -- Emory University's School of Law issued the following news release: National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has always relied on academic partnerships for scientific research and to find future members of the Nuclear Security Enterprise. The latest partnership, with the Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (TI:GER) Program at Emory University School of Law, is a brand new way of working with students. Despite NNSA's visibility as t  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release on Oct. 27, 2021: New results from the MicroBooNE experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory deal a blow to a theoretical particle known as the sterile neutrino. For more than two decades, this proposed fourth neutrino has remained a promising explanation for anomalies seen in earlier physics experiments. Finding a new particle w  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- The House Science, Space and Technology Committee issued the following testimony by Erik Salna, associate director for education and outreach for the International Hurricane Research Center at the Florida International University, as part of a video conference hearing on Oct. 14, 2021, entitled "The Future of Forecasting: Building a Weather-Ready Nation on All Fronts": * * * Florida International University (FIU) thanks Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, Ranking Member Fr  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: MEMORANDUM FOR: Christopher J. Roscetti, Technical Director FROM: D. Gutowski, Resident Inspector SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending October 8, 2021 Plutonium Facility-Criticality Safety: Over the past month, facility personnel have discovered and reported several instances where extraneous materials such as constructio  more