The 2002 SLAC Institutional Planning On-Site Review, presided over by Dr. Raymond Orbach, Director of the DOE Office of Science, and staff, was held at SLAC on Tuesday, October 15.

The Institutional Review provides an opportunity for the SLAC leadership to present high-level overviews of the major scientific projects being conducted here to the DOE...

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"Create a legacy and leave this world better than you got it." These words, which her mother used to say, have guided SueVon Gee’s (AAO) community activism and involvement in her hometown of Oakland. Last week the New Oakland Committee recognized her efforts and contributions by making her the 2002 Oakland Citizen of the Year.

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Discover Magazine, in their November 2002 issue, has named Persis Drell, SLAC Director of Research one of the 50 most important women in science.

Kathy Svitil, an Associate Editor for Discover Magazine, began her search for innovative and influential women over three years ago. "We wanted women who were groundbreakers," she said, "whose work was making a difference, who were, or had, crashed through barriers."

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Just as the Hubble telescope vastly increased our ability to see ‘out,’ the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) project at SLAC will vastly increase our ability to see ‘in.’

The project recently passed the DOE Critical Decision 1 (CD-1) process, which is the decision to "Approve Preliminary Baseline Range." With CD-1 approval, LCLS is now authorized to start Project Engineering Design activities, for which $6M is allocated in the President’s Budget for FY03.

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