HR Generalist sets sights on building career with focus on DEI initiatives
Gina Lawson could easily say that she has been a part of the Jefferson Lab community since she was in the eighth grade. While visiting her middle school, scientists from the lab recorded an educational video that features a young Lawson.
But it was not until years later when she switched universities from Virginia Tech to Old Dominion University that Lawson turned to the lab as a place to forge her career.
Creativity and engineering make possible new art and cutting-edge nanotube technology
If you attended the famous Burning Man festival in 2018, you may have seen a giant, kinetic art installation co-built by Kevin Jordan, a Jefferson Lab electrical engineer. Jordan and George Neil, his former supervisor at the lab, have been traveling North America showcasing their namesake Double Helix Art installations, which feature a double helix light apparatus held high in the air.
Sebastian Kuhn is a past chair of the Jefferson Lab Users Organization (JLUO) and current professor and eminent scholar at Old Dominion University. When he is not running an experiment in Hall B, Kuhn splits his time between his office, the university’s lecture hall, and his lab.
May built a career in physics focused on health and safety
When Bob May was a student at Virginia Tech in the 1970’s, the school was in the early stages of developing a curriculum that would include environment, safety and health aspects of ionizing radiation for science majors. Now, as the ES&H deputy director at Jefferson Lab, May can look to a decades-long history of involvement and leadership in the field of health physics that began when he was a student at Tech helping to pilot the first courses in his field.
