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Husband, Wife Receive Ph.Ds in Physics From ODU By Philip Walzer, The Virginian-PilotDecember 18, 2001 Plenty of couples have college degrees. Some received them at the same time, from the same school. But Dorin and Luminita Todor on Sunday became the first husband and wife to simultaneously receive doctorates in physics from Old Dominion University. They were among more than 3,000 people who graduated from ODU during a ceremony at Scope.

Jefferson Lab Gets New Chief: Leemann takes top post; he was interim director By Andrew Petkofsky, Times-DispatchNov. 17, 2001 Physicist Christoph W. Leemann was named yesterday as director of the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News.

Leemann Officially Takes Over Peninsula's Jefferson Lab By Vandana Sinha, The Virginian-PilotNov. 17, 2001 NEWPORT NEWS — One year after being named interim director, Christoph W. Leemann officially takes the director's reins of the region's federal nuclear physics lab, a move announced at an employee meeting Friday morning.

Lab is Working to Build a Better Mouse Camera By Michael Hines, Daily PressNovember 5, 2001 A new research project could give scientists better understanding of human biology by giving mice a little wiggle room. The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is working with several other research institutions to create a system that would let laboratory mice move around while undergoing biomedical imaging.

NN Germ-Killing Research May Soon Target Anthrax: Process now kills bacteria on contact By Michael Hines, Daily PressOctober 30, 2001 The national anthrax scare could boost interest in a Peninsula researcher's process that creates germ-killing surfaces that can kill bacteria once it makes contact with surfaces.

HU Hosts Workshop on Physics Education Teachers sharpening classroom techniques By Miriam Stawowy, Daily PressAugust 3, 2001 For as different and apart as their worlds are — Fairfax, Va., and Bindura, Zimbabwe — Deborah Roudebush and Francis Mavhunga have a common goal in their roles as educators.

Professor Wins 'Genius Award' U.Va Chemist Gets MacArthur Grant By A.J. Hostetler, Times-DispatchOct 24, 2001 A 36-year-old University of Virginia chemistry professor who uses light to make molecules dance has won a MacArthur Fellowship, the so-called genius award.

Scientists Have Quirky Fun Naming the Various Quarks Burrelle'sOctober 14, 2001

Beaming with Power Jefferson Lab Administrators Want to Upgrade Electron Beam Accelerator By Michael Hines, Daily PressOctober 4, 2001 Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility wants a $150 million upgrade to double the power of its electron beam accelerator, a project many experts consider among the top four nuclear science endeavors in the country.

Small is not the same for one and all Jefferson Lab in Newport News is studying the role of "strange" quarks, one variety of the tiny particles that make up the protons and the neutrons of the nuclei of atoms. By Tony Gabriele, Daily PressOctober 4, 2001

A Quarky Undertaking Jefferson Lab to Get Equipment to Study Role of Subatomic Bit By Michael Hines, Daily PressSeptember 30, 2001 Researchers at Jefferson Lab hope to better understand the tiniest known bits of matter by playing a subatomic pool game.

Light Approach Lands Cutesy Particle Names Details of Each Quark Influenced Choices By Michael Hines, Daily PressSeptember 30, 2001 Just because they deal with understanding the fundamental nature of how the universe formed doesn't mean that scientists can't have a little fun with their work.

Technology Research Center in Virginia Receives Government Grant Burrelle'sSeptember 29, 2001 A $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy will bring AMAC International, a research and development company based at Jefferson Lab's Applied Research Center, another step closer to completing technology that could eventually help lower cellular phone and wireless services costs for all consumers, according to the company's founder.

Fighting For Higher Funding While Combating A Sense of 'Entitlement' By Scott Nance, New Technology WeekSeptember 4, 2001 The absence of a Cold War threat has re-opened the debate on where and to what extent the United States should be a leader in science. Without competition form the Soviet Union, the justifications for science have become much more hard-nosed. At the same time, some scientists have a sense of entitlement to funding that is not healthy, either.

Learning to Teach Physics NN Teacher Takes Summer Physics at Jefferson Lab By Jill Keech, Daily PressAugust 30, 2001 To Kim Rosswaag, staying in school's as important for her as it is for her students. To bone up on physics, which she'll teach this year to the Gildersleeve Middle School kids she had in seventh-grade last year, she invested four weeks in a Jefferson Lab program called Physics Enrichment for Science Teachers, or PEST.

Navy-Funded Lab Develops Powerful Laser for Missile Defense By Scott Nance, Navy NewsAugust 20, 2001 NEWPORT NEWS, Va - The Navy has played a large part in Jefferson Lab building the world's highest power free-electron laser (FEL). Researchers at the lab are now planning a series of upgrades that could allow their FEL in coming years to meet a variety of promising defense applications, including missile defense.

With Much Promise For Missile Defense And Industry, Lab Develops Powerful Laser By Scott Nance, New Technology NewsAugust 20, 2001 NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Having cobbled together funding from disparate sources, researchers here at Jefferson Lab have built the world's highest power free-electron laser (FEL). They are now planning a series of upgrades that could allow their FEL in coming years to meet a variety of promising defense, industrial, and other applications.

DOE Grants Encourage Computers with Muscle Accelerator Lab, ODU share funds for complex research By Carolyn Shapiro, Daily PressAugust 16, 2001 Armed with a $3.3 million grant for its faculty to conduct complex experiments using supercomputers, Old Dominion University's College of Sciences wants to establish a new center to help launch similar projects in the future.

U.S. Department of Energy Approves Funds for Supercomputer Updates Burrelle'sAugust 16, 2001 A federal agency signed off Tuesday on a $57 million effort to recharge its current crop of supercomputers, sprinkling more than $7 million toward projects involving a local university and science lab.

Interim Chief: Despite Tight Budget, Jefferson Lab Looks To Grow Facility Should Be 'Provider Of Choice' For Accelerator Technologies By Scott Nance, New Technology WeekAugust 13, 2001