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Clinical Tests Reveal Potential Breakthrough in Breast Cancer Detection Clinical Trials to Begin at GW Hospital in January 2001 The George Washington University HospitalFebruary 21, 2001

Next Big Look at Matter's Makeup Will Have UI Input By Greg Kline, News-GazetteFebruary 18, 2001 One of the next big experiments designed to illuminate the fundamental building blocks of matter should involve a 14-footwide magnet designed and road tested at the University of Illinois.

Accord Could Bring Better Golf Clubs: Tech Breakthroughs Passed to Industry By Andew Petkofsky, Times DispatchJanuary 24, 2001 NEWPORT NEWS - An agreement signed yesterday between a federal nuclear physics laboratory and a space and aeronautics research center could lead to better golf clubs and bicycle frames.

Jefferson Lab, NASA Langley Join Forces By Vandana Sinha, Virginian-PilotJanuary 24, 2001 The region's two federal research labs, on plots less than 10 miles apart, officially tied the knot Tuesday morning.

Economy: Send Northern Virginia's High-Tech Overflow Here Daily PressJanuary 4, 2001 Some state legislators want to spread Northern Virginia's high-tech economy to parts of the state that haven't caught the wave of sustainable new- economy jobs. Great. Spread it to Hampton Roads, which is ready and able.

Catherine Westfall Comments on Name Change Lawrence Cranberg's comments on traditions of naming publicly funded enterprises, with emphasis on the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility ("Letters," February, page 13), got me thinking - perhaps because I wrote my dissertation on the founding of Fermilab, because I now serve as the Jefferson Lab historian and because I have an on going history project at Berkeley Lab, which just went through its own name change.

DOE's Jefferson Lab: What's in a Name? Why rename the Department of Energy's Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) as the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility? Here in Virginia, at Jefferson Lab (of which I am the director), we see the new name as a fitting statement not only about science and the past, but about science and the future.

High-Tech a Major Part of City's Framework People charting the future of Newport News want companies such as Dilon Technologies to be a part of it. Lon Slane, a founder of Dilon, was looking to create a small, high-tech company. He wanted it based in Hampton Roads, having grown attached to the area since moving here in 1991.

Overview of Accelerator Applications Burrell'sJanuary 1, 2001

Inventors Win Patent: W&M Group Still Working on Lamp By Brian Whitson, Daily PressDecember 30, 2000 Imagine window drapes that destroy germs, eliminating mold and the allergies that come with it. Or food-wrapping film that kills bacteria before it has a chance to contaminate meats, and germ-killing air filters that can be placed in air conditioners.

Huge Magnet Arrives at UI, Only To Wait in the Snow Postponement wasn't option for long-awaited day By Julie Wurth, News-GazetteDecember 14, 2000 CHAMPAIGN - Blowing snow and 18-degree temperatures aren't ideal weather conditions for unloading a 40-ton superconducting magnet. Life was complicated enough for workers delivering the $2.75 million magnet to the University of Illinois without Wednesday's snowstorm.

Far From Florida, a Cliffhanger Recount in Physics By James Glanz, New York TimesNovember 14, 2000

Jefferson Lab: Cancer-seeking Camera Demystifies Research Lab Daily PressOctober 12, 2000

Breast Cancer Biopsies Could Be Things of Past By Alison Freehling, Daily PressOctober 8, 2000 After having four to five biopsies on each of her breasts, Marilyn Fentress has become somewhat of an expert on the surgeries. She also knows how much it would mean to women not to have to go through one.

Newport News Firm Nets First Order for Camera By Alison Freehling, Daily PressOctober 8, 2000 A Newport News company that will sell another cancer-detecting camera has reached an important milestone: its first purchase order.

Windsurfing Title comes to Yorktown Grand Master By Ed Richards, Daily PressOctober 4, 2000 It wasn't the Olympics but it seemed like the next best thing to Dave Kashy of Yorktown. He brought home the Junior Grand Masters title from the U.S. Windsurfing National Championships off Solomon's Island, Md.

An Endangered, Decaying Chink of History: Fate of NASA Langley Wind Tunnel Up in the Air Daily PressJuly 11, 2000 Ivy now snakes up the crumbling concrete walls of the wind tunnel where engineers once grappled with aviation's most complicated problems. Once at the cutting edge of American technology, now it has the look of an abandoned B-movie set.

Coping with Change By Stephen G. Anderson, Laser Focus World,July 11, 2000

Defense Panels Add $4.5 Billion to Proposed Pentagon Budget By David Lerman, Washington Bureau/Daily PressThursday, May 11, 2000 House and Senate defense panels Wednesday agreed to add $4.5 billion to President Clinton's proposed defense budget, mostly to pay for military hardware and to restore a prescription drug benefit to military retirees.

Coping with the Love Bug Locally Daily PressFriday, May 5, 2000 Government, schools and sheriff's offices in Gloucester, Middlesex, Mathews and New Kent counties and the town of West Point reported no problems.