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News Release

William Madia Appointed Vice President for SLAC

William Madia, a former director of two national laboratories and senior executive overseeing research laboratories for Battelle, has been appointed to the position of...

January 22, 2008
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Persis S. Drell Named Fourth Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Persis S. Drell has been named director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), effective immediately, Stanford University President John Hennessy announced Thursday.

December 6, 2007
Persis Drell
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Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology Announces New Deputy Director

Stanford astrophysicist Sarah Church is the new deputy director of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), a joint institute based at...

November 20, 2007
Sarah Church
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Wolfgang Panofsky, Renowned Stanford Physicist and Arms Control Advocate, Dead at 88

Wolfgang K. H. “Pief” Panofsky, professor of physics at Stanford University and director emeritus of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), died of a...

September 25, 2007
Pief Panofsky
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Drell Appointed Acting Director as Dorfan Accepts New University Position

ersis Drell, deputy director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), has been appointed acting director by university President John Hennessy while the search...

September 10, 2007
 Jonathan Dorfan
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SLAC Announces New Director and Deputy Director of Particle and Particle Astrophysics

Steven Kahn, the current Deputy Director of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), has been named the next Director of Particle...

July 5, 2007
David MacFarlane and Steve Kahn
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Carbon Joins the Magnetic Club

The exclusive club of magnetic elements officially has a new member—carbon. Using a proton beam and advanced x-ray techniques, researchers at the Department of...

May 11, 2007
A carbon film is hit by a high-energy proton beam
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Carpenter Michael Hughes Receives Presidential Award Honoring Thousands of Hours Devoted to Volunteer Community Service

Somebody who's racked up thousands of hours of community service has been either very bad or very good. Michael Hughes, a carpenter at the...

April 18, 2007
Michael Hughes with his wife Marlene.
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Stanford–Caltech Collaboration Creates New X-ray "Molecular Observatory"

Just as astronomers use specialized observatories to study distant galaxies, chemists and molecular biologists need advanced tools for studying nano-scale structures—in some ways as...

March 27, 2007
Gordon Moore
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New Form of Matter-antimatter Transformation Observed for the First Time

For the first time, scientists of the BaBar experiment at the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) have observed the transition of...

March 13, 2007
BaBar collaborators William Lockman, Ray Cowan, and Brian Aagaard Petersen
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New Accelerator Technique Doubles Particle Energy in Just One Meter

Imagine a car that accelerates from zero to 60 in 250 feet and then rockets to 120 miles per hour in just one more...

February 14, 2007
blue streak in this photograph shows the dramatic gain in energy made by some of the electrons
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Scientists Elucidate the Origin of the Darkest Galaxies in the Universe

Ghostly galaxies composed almost entirely of dark matter speckle the universe. Unlike normal galaxies, these extreme systems contain very few stars and are almost...

February 14, 2007
image from a supercomputer simulation shows as bright clumps the dark matter satellites
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