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Jefferson Lab Silences Critics, Earns New Backing for Laser By David Lerman, Washington BureauSunday, June 13, 1999 Two years after pulling out of the project, the Navy is ready to pump new money into a powerful laser developed in Newport News that officials say could play a valuable role in missile defense.

Children Enjoy a Day of Science, Fun By Fred Tannenbaum, Daily PressJune 1999 Her eyes safely behind goggles and hands cloaked in thick work gloves, Madeline LeCuyer began shoving the 2-foot-long balloon into the flask of vaporous, surging, ultracold liquid. Madeline and another spectator helped Drew Weisenberger, a Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility scientist, show just what liquid nitrogen, a chemical that boils at -320 degrees Fahrenheit, can do.

Technology Driven Economic Growth By Robert G. Templin, Jr., Virginia Review: Facilities & Operations Management June 1999

Powered Up: Could satellites plug into energy from the ground? By Charles Snife, Weekly ScienceApril 24, 1999 Lasers sited in cloud-free areas might one day power orbiting satellites, if researchers in California have their way. They predict a time when energy suppliers will set up such lasers to feed energy to power-hungry communications satellites.

Interactive: Physics professor's high-energy show turns kids on Alison Freehling, Daily PressApril 23, 1999 With music by Madonna blasting in the background, Lynda Williams jumped up and down in her slinky black outfit, ponytail tossing from side to side. But Williams isn't a Material Girl, like the song's title. No way. She's a High Tech Girl.

Taste-Testing a Recipe for the Cosmos Physicist Blends One Part Relativity, One Part Quantum Mechanics April 20, 1999 SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Dr. Abhay Ashtekar, the leader of a worldwide effort to unify the two most profound, abstract and mathematically baroque theories of physics discovered in this century, is sprinkling frozen mango cubes on scoops of vanilla ice cream.

ODU Technology Fair Relates High-Tech to Regional Business By Akweli Parker, The Virginia-PilotApril 1, 1999 Norfolk — Old Dominion University's economic development machine offered a peek under the hood Wednesday during the school's Technology Solutions Fair.

Hampton University physics professor Cynthia Keppel and Jefferson Lab scientist Stan Majewski display an instrument they developed that can detect small cancerous growths. Below, they demonstrate how it works. Photos by Kenneth D. Lyons/Daily Press

Energy Czar Comes Calling By Akweli Parker, The Virginian-Pilot Jan. 13, 1999 NEWPORT NEWS -- For the first time in 2 1/2 years, a U.S. Energy Secretary visited the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility here.

Kids Slow Down to Learn about Speed By Stephanie Barrett, Daily PressWednesday, Jan. 13, 1999 NEWPORT NEWS - As sixth-grader Kenyona Bailey began the bike race, her teammates cheered for her with shouts rarely heard in such a competition. "Slow," they yelled. "Slower," they insisted. "Brake it," they screamed.

Official to Support Scientific Research Secretary of energy visits Jefferson Lab By Alison Freehling, Daily PressWednesday, Jan. 13, 1999 NEWPORT NEWS - Federal funding for pure scientific research should continue even if concrete results are years away, U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said Tuesday.

Physicist Says Goodbye to Homeland By Kimberly Lenz, Daily PressSaturday, Jan. 2, 1999

A Few Good Beams: A Light-Speed Defense Against Mach-Speed Missiles In 1991, during the Persian Gulf War, then-US Defense Secretary Richard Cheney observed at a news briefing that, "As Iraq has shown, modern technology can make a third-rate power a first-class military threat."

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Cancer-Detection Device Undergoes Testing By Garland Pollard, Virginia Business ObserverJanuary 1, 1999 HAMPTON - A Hampton University nuclear physicist is testing a machine that will allow doctors to find smaller cancerous lesions, earlier.

Let There Be (Electron) Light TECHNOLOGY Virginia, Premiere Issue The world's most powerful free-electron laser, located in Newport News, was born of a scientific mission. Private industry, however, may derive secondary benefits from this complex technology: better manufacturing techniques and the prospect of creating superior consumer products.

News and Views of Interest to the Hampton Roads Technology Community by Garland Pollard, Virginia Business ObserverJanuary 1, 1999 Dilon Technologies Inc. has submitted its Dilon 2000 gamma camera to the Food and Drug Administration for 510(k) approval.

The lecture on timekeeping will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Jefferson Lab's CEBAF auditorium, 12000 Jefferson Ave., Newport News. The event is free and open to the public. For more information about time, see the U.S. Naval Observatory's Web site at www.usno.navy.mil

Norfolk State: Research Results Editorial, Virginian-Pilot, Burrelle'sNovember 23, 1998 The National Science Foundation's award of $4.5 million to Norfolk State University to study materials that react to light is good news for the historically black school. And it prompts the observation that Hampton Roads has quietly become a not-insignificant link in a national network of scientific and technical research.

FIU to Host Physicists' Convention Miami Herald, Burrelle'sNovember 10, 1998 The Miami area will play host to its first major convention of physicists in a generation when the American Physical Society's South East Section meets this week.