JEFFERSON LAB SEARCH
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NEWPORT NEWS, VA. – Preliminary tests have demonstrated that a new device may enable existing breast cancer imagers to provide up to six times better contrast of tumors in the breast, while maintaining the same or better image quality and halving the radiation dose to patients. The advance is made possible by a new device developed for 3D imaging of the breast by researchers at the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Dilon Technologies and the University of Florida Department of Biomedical Engineering.
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NEWPORT NEWS, VA. -- Science Education staff at Jefferson Lab will conduct a Science Camp for deaf and hard-of-hearing youth Aug. 15-19. The program is for rising fourth- through rising eighth-grade students.
In addition to deaf and hard-of-hearing youth, the siblings of deaf children and children of deaf adults (CODA) may also participate. Youth may attend for as little as one day or for the entire week.
The program will run daily, Aug. 15-19, from 9 a.m.–2 p.m. at Jefferson Lab.
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Jefferson Lab Chief Operating Officer, Michael Maier, presented the 2015 Outstanding Small Business Subcontractor Award to Carr Electrical Technology, Inc., of Newport News, during a ceremony on June 1. Picture are: Carr Electrical Technology Manager, Pamela Atkins (center right) and Maier (right of Atkins), accompanied by Carr employees (left to right) David Nicholas, Nicholas Campbell, William “Mike” Smith, Glen “Joe” Proctor, Jeffrey Hunt and Charles Hughes.
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NEWPORT NEWS, VA. – Researchers use accelerators to coax the electron into performing a wide range of tricks to enable medical tests and treatments, improve product manufacturing, and power breakthrough scientific research. Now, they’re learning how to coax the same tricks out of the electron’s antimatter twin – the positron – to open up a whole new vista of research and applications.
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility will conduct the monthly test of its tornado warning siren at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, June 3. Depending on weather conditions at the time of the test, the siren could be heard by anyone within a 1.5-mile radius of the lab.
The test will be carried out over a period that could last up to three minutes. The test will be of the wavering tone (also called high-low-high or 10-4-10).
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Date: Friday, Aug. 1, 2014
Time: 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Place: The CEBAF Center lobby at Jefferson Lab, 12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, VA 23606
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Pictured from left: Thomas Jefferson Site Office Federal Project Director Rick Korynta holds the 2013 DOE Secretarial Achievement Award presented to the Jefferson Lab Technology and Engineering Development Facility project management team on March 26 at the DOE Project Management Workshop held in Pentagon City. Also on hand to accept the award was Rebecca Yasky, TEDF project manager; and Rusty Sprouse (second from right), TEDF project director.
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Prestige Maintenance staff (left to right) Sandra Coltrain, Operations Managers John Harmon and Tom Harmon and Project Manager Evelyn Moragne EL accept the JSA 2013 Outstanding Small Business Subcontractor Award trophy from Jefferson Lab Chief Operating Officer, Mike Dallas.
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NEWPORT NEWS, VA. – On the afternoon of June 11, staff at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility will participate in an active threat in the workplace response exercise. The objective of the exercise is to gauge the Jefferson Lab community’s response to an active threat incident.
The exercise is intended to provide a training opportunity for members of the lab community and for emergency responders. Local law enforcement and tactical response personnel also will participate in the exercise.
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Zhihong Ye
NEWPORT NEWS, VA. – Not many people have designed an entirely new detector system for use in high-precision physics experiments, but Zhihong Ye, a research associate at Duke University, can add his name to that list.
In recognition of his work and to support further development of his prototype detector system, Ye was named recipient of the 2014 Jefferson Science Associates Postdoctoral Research Grant during an award presentation at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility on June 3.