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| Policy Makers Laud New Initiative at URA Meeting | ||
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Washington, D.C.--At the Annual Meeting and Policy Forum of the URA Council of Presidents on Wednesday, the mood was upbeat--if cautious. "The good news is the competitiveness agenda is the President's agenda, but it needs to work through the House and Senate," said Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, who chairs the Senate Subcommittee on Energy. Sen. Alexander is a principle co-sponsor of an important legislative package introduced in the Senate on Jan. 25, entitled "Protecting America's Competitive Edge" (PACE) Acts, consistent with the American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) mentioned in President Bush's State of the Union speech last week. The PACE Acts respond to 20 recommendations from the National Academy of Sciences' October report, Rising Above the Gathering Storm. "So much of our wealth comes from the post WWII explosion in science and technology," said Alexander, who has also served as US Education Secretary, and as president of the University of Tennessee. "It's a pro-growth policy."
John Marburger, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, provided a summary of the impact of the ACI on the budget requests for FY07. "I came because I wanted to personally show you the numbers going up for the Office of Science," said Marburger, a former director of Brookhaven Lab. "The curves are rising because a lot of you came together to produce a series of reports." Marburger acknowledged the leadership of Norman Augustine, retired chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin and chair of the NAS panel that issued the gathering storm report, which influenced the ACI.
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| TRIUMF Kicker Group Experiments with 6 Nanosecond Pulses | ||
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The rise and fall times of the pulses in the injection kickers influence the minimum circumference of the damping rings
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URA and University of Chicago Press Release,
February 9, 2006:
URA and The University of Chicago Announce Partnership for the Management of Fermilab Universities Research Association, Inc. (URA) and the University of Chicago have jointly announced today the formation of their partnership to bid for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) contract to manage the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), home of the Tevatron, the world’s highest energy particle accelerator. “The partnership of URA and the University of Chicago will create a robust new organization to be proposed to DOE for the management and operation of Fermilab beginning in January 2007,” observed URA President Fred Bernthal. “This partnership will not only enhance the management of Fermilab, it will facilitate synergies between Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab in frontier research in particle physics, astrophysics and high-performance computing, as well as in launching major new programs such as the proposed International Linear Collider and the Rare Isotope Accelerator.”
"URA has successfully managed the creation and operation of Fermilab for the
Department of Energy and has compiled an impressive record of accomplishments at the Laboratory,” said Don Randel, President of The University of Chicago. “Our partnership will combine URA’s strength in broad national and international institutional representation with the University’s depth of expertise and infrastructure for the management of large academic, medical, and research enterprises, including Argonne. The University also brings to the partnership its strong ties to the Chicago region and the State of Illinois.”
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URA Scholarship Application Every year, the University Research Association awards scholarships to children of regular, full-time Fermilab employees with high SAT scores. Applications are available online now through March 1. Questions about the program may be directed to Jeanelle Smith at x4367.
Brian Greene to Speak at Elmhurst College
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