Director of the SLAC Office for Communications
From: SLAC Director
It gives me great pleasure to announce to all of you that Neil Calder from
CERN, Geneva has accepted our offer to become Director of the SLAC Office
for Communications. A number of you met Neil Calder when he came to
interview for the position in May, and I believe we can consider ourselves
extremely fortunate that he has chosen to join us.
Neil Calder has had an illustrious career at CERN, first as instructor,
then in Communications and Management. He is currently Head of Press and
Publications, where he runs both internal and external communications and
all media relations for the world's largest physics institute. There are
8,000 people from 83 countries on site at CERN. Neil, originally from
Scotland, also speaks French and can read German and Italian.
Because Neil is a British subject, it will take a few months for him and
his family to secure the appropriate visas, but I am optimistic that he will
be at SLAC sometime this fall. In the meantime, he will attend part of the
HEP Snowmass Workshop this summer. Although Neil is already very
knowledgeable about the US scene, this will allow him to familiarize himself
further with US science policy, our press, and our funding agencies.
We are enthusiastically looking forward to Neil Calder's arrival. I will
inform you of the exact date as soon as it is determined.
We would not have attracted Neil to SLAC were it not for the exemplary
work of the Search Committee, so ably chaired by Greg Loew. Other members
of the committee were Albe Larson and Lee Lyon from SLAC, Judy Jackson from
Fermilab, and Curt Suplee from the National Science Foundation. Many thanks
to them for a most thorough and successful job.
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