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SLAC theorist Lance Dixon receives Galileo Galilei Medal

Together with two long-time collaborators, he is recognized for work that helps us understand the strong nuclear force.

February 16, 2023  ·  4 min read
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Lab Director Chi-Chang Kao reflects on the past decade as SLAC celebrates 60th anniversary

Chi-Chang Kao, a noted X-ray scientist and director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, recently announced that he will step...
December 15, 2022  ·  10 min read
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GEM Fellowship aims to increase representation in STEM

Two GEM Fellows reflect on their summer internships at SLAC and share their thoughts on representation and mentorship.

November 4, 2022  ·  3 min read
Nate Keyes and Zariq George
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Yijing Huang wins 2022 LCLS Young Investigator Award for work on controlling unique structures of semiconductors

For decades, materials scientists have focused on materials that are relatively balanced and unchanging – but not Yijing Huang, a postdoctoral scholar at the...
October 31, 2022  ·  2 min read
Yijing Huang at Stanford University
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Energy science directorate (ESD) team 

Energy science directorate (ESD) team 

October 16, 2022
Energy Sciences Directorate team at the Battery500 Quarterly Review Meeting on May 25-26 at SLAC's Main Quad.
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Cryo-EM poster session

Annual workshop for cryo-EM developments and a poster session.
September 23, 2022
Annual workshop for cryo-EM developments and a poster session.
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LSST raft installation

Hannah Pollek (right) and Travis Lange at the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) raft installation.
September 23, 2022
Hannah Pollek (right), and Travis Lange at the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) raft installation.
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Cryo-EM image processing workshop at SSRL

September 22, 2022
Cryo-EM image processing workshop at SSRL
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SLAC’s Main Quad

View of SLAC’s Quad with 600+ employees gathering for a group photo with the Science and User Support Building (left) and Arillaga Science Center...
September 22, 2022
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Social lunch event

A social lunch event on the Main Quad for Director’s Award recipients and members of the SLAC community with notable years of service in...
September 21, 2022
Social lunch event for honorees
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A day in the life of an electricity and cool cow engineer

Gustavo Cezar wears two colorful hats as an engineer with SLAC’s GISMo lab.

June 27, 2022  ·  4 min read
SLAC engineer Gustavo Cezar stands at a dairy farm in Central California.
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Who we are

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is a Department of Energy national lab run by Stanford in the heart of Silicon Valley. We invent scientific tools...
June 2, 2022  ·  00:01:30  runtime
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