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Pierre Schwob Donates $1 Million to
KIPAC
By Davide Castelvecchi
 In December 2003, Pierre Schwob of Palo Alto endowed the Kavli Institute
for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) and the Fred Kavli
Building project with a $1 million donation for the foundation of the P.
R. Schwob Computing and Information Center. The center will be housed on
the second floor of the Fred Kavli Building and will include an
interaction and collaboration area, a reading room, a video-conference
room and two visualization studios.
“I have always been fascinated by the
mysteries of our cosmos,” says Schwob.
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Director’s Corner
By Jonathan Dorfan
The Laboratory is abuzz with activity. Like the blossoming of spring
these past few weeks, SLAC’s science program is in a period of
tremendous evolution and productivity. The range of activities is broad,
including: construction projects like the Gamma Ray Large Area Telescope
(GLAST) and the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the development of
exciting new theoretical ideas in particle physics, major R&D programs
like the Next Linear Collider (NLC) and the Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO),
the development of new directions and instruments for particle
astrophysics, and new approaches to meet the enormous challenges we face
in computing, to name but a few.
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Safety Goals—No One Gets Hurt
By Irene Boczek
 No one gets hurt. That’s what we would all like to have happen at
SLAC. But people are getting hurt, at a higher rate than any other DOE
Science Laboratory. Because injuries don’t happen every day, we tend to
ignore their presence until they affect us personally. And even though
many injuries we see in the workplace can be fixed or cured, some have
the potential for long-lasting detriment to your health and lifestyle.
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Networking: The Next Generation
By Kate Metropolis
Rapid, reliable data transport is essential for global scientific
collaborations to gain new knowledge. SLAC was recently honored for its
contributions to highspeed networked computing.
Data are nature’s gift to scientists, but the gift can at
times feel like a curse.
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40, 30 and 20 Year Awardees Honored at
the Annual Service Award Dinner
By Erin Smith
On Tuesday evening, March 23, SLAC honored employees who have worked for
Stanford and SLAC for 40, 30 and 20 years at the Annual Service Award
dinner held at the Stanford Faculty Club.
This year, a total of 49 employees
earned service awards, with six 40 year awardees, ten 30 year awardees
and thirty-three 20 year awardees.
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Winter Shutdown Permanently Extended
The University has decided to permanently extend the annual Winter
Shutdown from one week to two. A full two week shutdown will now become
the norm for the entire University for the foreseeable future.
The original objective in closing the University was budget savings.
There has been a surprising amount of positive feedback from people
throughout campus.
In addition to institutionalizing the shutdown, there will be two
additional paid days off in 2004 to assist employees in maintaining full
pay during the shutdown; in all future years, there will be one paid day
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