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SSRL’s New Robotic System Helps Stanford
Researchers Reveal Cells’ Inner Workings By Mitzi
Baker and Heather Rock Woods
In the world of molecules, DNA tends to get top billing at the expense
of RNA, which is critical for turning DNA’s genetic blueprint into working
proteins. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have
published significant insights into how the RNA molecule completes this
task in two back-to-back papers in the February 13 issue of Science
Magazine.
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PEP-II Sets New Luminosity Record By Kate Metropolis
On January 26, PEP-II delivered and BABAR
recorded the highest number of electron-positron collisions in a 24-hour
period to date. Both the accelerator and the detector exceeded 500 inverse
picobarns that day, approximately 500,000 events in which a B meson and an
anti-B meson were produced. This number is more than three times higher
than PEP-II was designed to deliver.
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Helen Quinn is New APS President By Davide Castelvecchi
This year Helen Quinn (THP) may end up earning plenty of frequent flyer
miles to Washington, D.C.—she is the new president of the American
Physical Society (APS), one of the world’s most prestigious academic
societies. "Quinn’s distinction is a cause of pride for the whole Stanford
community," Director Jonathan Dorfan said.
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SPEAR3 Movie to be Shown Again By Davide Castelvecchi
At the hugely successful dedication of the new SPEAR3 light source on
January 29, the 850-strong audience had a chance to hear about the history
of SLAC’s synchrotron from the voices of its protagonists, thanks to the
screening of an in-house documentary production.
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Dmitry Teytelman Honored for Outstanding
Thesis in Beam Physics By Kate Metropolis
For the development of new techniques to control particle beams, Dmitry
Teytelman (ARDA) will receive the 2004 APS Outstanding Doctoral Thesis
Research in Beam Physics Award.
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The Katherine E. Pope Fellowship
By Lee Lyon
SLAC is pleased to announce the availability of the third Katherine E.
Pope Summer Fellowship.
The Fellowship was established to remember the life of Katherine E.
Pope, an undergraduate student at Smith College in Massachusetts, who was
working at SLAC under the direction of her physics advisor. Pope was
tragically killed in July 2001, riding a bicycle on her way to SLAC.
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