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Friday, February 10 Beef Pepper Pot soup Buffalo Chicken Wings $4.75 Cajun Breaded Catfish $3.75 Spaghetti with Meat Sauce $3.75 Honey Mustard Ham & Swiss Panini $4.75 Double Stuffed Pizza $3.25 Carved Turkey $4.75 The Wilson Hall Cafe now accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover and American Express at Cash Register #1.
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URA Council of Presidents Gets Close-Up of '06 Budget | ||
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WASHINGTON , D.C.--Congressman David Hobson of Ohio, Chairman of the House Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee, had welcome words for the annual URA Council of Presidents meeting on Wednesday at the National Academy of Sciences. "Science and technology are the future of this country," he said.
Yet Hobson admitted he couldn't offer much encouragement following the Secretary of Energy's budgetary request for FY'06, which was announced on Monday. "We don't have all the money in the world," said Hobson, whose subcommittee has budgetary oversight for the DOE and its laboratories. "We'll look at things, and we're trying to learn. We'll make some mistakes. We're willing to talk with anybody. We're willing to be educated. And that's the reason I came here today." James Decker, Principal Deputy Director of DOE's Office of Science, offered the details for FY'06: DOE as a whole is down 2% ($475 million) from FY'05 appropriations; the Office of Science is down 3.8% ($136.8 million) from FY'05; and High Energy Physics is down 3.1% ($22 million) from FY'05. As new Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said on Monday, the Office of Science Budget has no FY'06 funding for Fermilab's BTeV (B-Physics at the Tevatron) experiment. Decker explained the decisions for the Tevatron and the B-factory (BABAR at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) to run hard had left the difficult choice of not going ahead with BTeV. To have BTeV operating before CERN's Large Hadron Collider began producing B-physics results, Decker said, would require $40-$50 million in FY'06, and "that was not conceivable in this budget."
Fermilab Director Michael Witherell said it was "wrenching to see that experiment canceled. BTeV would make use of the world's second-highest-energy accelerator to explore B-physics in a new way. The experiment just went through a very rigorous DOE review."
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FYI: AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News, February 9, 2005 Administration Seeks 2.4% Increase in NSF Budget National Science Foundation Director Arden Bement described the FY 2006 budget request as follows: "For FY 2006, the National Science Foundation is requesting $5.605 billion. That's $132 million, or 2.4 percent, more than in FY 2005. This modest increase allows us to assume new responsibilities, meet our ongoing commitments, and employ more staff – with little room for growth in research and education programs. This means we'll all have to keep working to leverage resources and work more productively." read more |
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Wanted: Thesis Nominations, Reward: $3,000 | ||
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March 1 is the deadline to nominate a PhD thesis for the eighth annual
URA Thesis Award, which carries a prize of $3,000 to the winner.
While in previous years students had to attend a URA institution,
a rule change for this year's award allows students from any university
who have written their theses on Fermilab research to be nominated.
"The award recognizes the large number of theses based on work carried out at Fermilab," said Fred Bernthal, President of the URA, who presents the award each year at the Users' Meeting in June. "We want to call attention to the outstanding work being done at the lab, and this award recognizes everybody here, not only the winner." The theses are judged on clarity of presentation, originality and physics content. "Students spend years and years of time and dedication on their theses," said Steve Wolbers of the Computing Division, who helps judge the theses. "This award recognizes the students who put in extra work and had incredible results."
Florencia Canelli won the award in 2004 for her thesis entitled "Helicity
of the W in single-lepton ttbar events" while attending the University
of Rochester, which was based on her research at DZero. "I got 'the
call' the same day as my birthday," she said. "I've saved the money
- at least part of it." The new method described in her thesis for
measuring properties of the top quark has also been applied to the
measurement of the top mass. Canelli is now a post-doc at UCLA
and works on CDF.
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Fermilab Arts Series The Fermilab Arts Series presents the Festival of Four: A World of Music on a Single Stage on February 19 at 8:00 p.m. in Ramsey Auditorium. more information
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Brian Greene Book Signing in Naperville
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