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Director's Corner
 By
Jonathan Dorfan
Twenty-two months from now, the
GLAST satellite, a complicated and
sturdy set of particle physics detectors,
will be encapsulated into the cone of
a Delta 2 Heavy rocket at Kennedy
Space Center, and blasted into space.
A
crew of SLAC engineers and physicists
will crane their necks and shield their
eyes, looking on in pride as their
painstaking work takes flight. They will
be accompanied by an equally excited
and exhilarated group of collaborators
from the rest of the U.S., and around the
world.
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Kavli Building Update
By Linda DuShane White
The stylish building planned to house the joint Stanford University and SLAC Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) is scheduled for completion by the end of January 2006, and construction is currently on schedule.
“It’s all taking shape,” says Stuart Marshall (RD/KIPAC).
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Biological Tubes to Serve as Miniature Drug Capsules
By Heather Rock Woods
By mixing two common
cell ingredients, scientists have assembled tiny hollow tubes whose ends can be
open or closed, giving them great potential to serve as drug capsules thousands
of times thinner than a human hair, but still 10 times wider than a gene.
With an open-close switch, these ‘lipid-protein nanotubes’ may prove to be an
excellent way to encapsulate a therapeutic drug or gene and then release it in
the appropriate location.
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Bienenstock in the News
Arthur Bienenstock (Stanford/SSRL)
has been elected vice president of
the American Physical Society (APS)
for 2006. Per the organization’s
succession system, he will become
president elect in 2007, president in
2008 and immediate past president
in 2009.
At the SSRL Users’ Meeting on October 17, Pat Dehmer, Associate
Director of the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences presented Bienenstock
with a DOE Distinguished Associate Award.
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