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Argonne and the University of Chicago will receive more than $90 million to help fund research initiatives if the Illinois legislature approves Governor George Ryan's proposed 2002 budget.
Argonne projects that would receive a total of about $45 million through the state's VentureTECH program include I-Wire and the proposed Argonne Nanotech-nology Institute and Rare Isotope Accelerator.
"Gov. Ryan has once again shown his support for Argonne through this investment in these important programs," said Argonne Director Hermann Grunder. "This support also helps show the U.S. Department of Energy that the State of Illinois has a strong commitment to science and technology and is an excellent site for these projects."
VentureTECH is the state's five-year, $1.9 billion comprehensive strategy for investing state resources in education and advanced research and development, health sciences and biotechnology, and cutting-edge information technology programs.
I-Wire will be an advanced optical network that will connect Argonne, the University of Chicago, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and other Illinois colleges and universities.
The proposed Rare Isotope Accelerator will be a next-generation ion accelerator. It will provide unparalleled research capabilities for physicists exploring the role of atomic nuclei in the fundamental processes of the universe.
The Nanotech Institute will advance the basic science behind nanotechnology, which focuses on the properties and behaviors of materials on a scale of nanometers (billionths of a meter). Nanotechnology may result in new materials with revolutionary structural, physical and chemical properties.
New university building
Gov. Ryan's budget also includes up to $40 million for the Advanced Research Building at the University of Chicago. The facility will be one of the few in the nation that will bring together scientists from the physical and biological sciences under one roof to foster collaborations.
The five-story building will include faculty and student offices, meeting rooms and state-of-the-art, modular laboratories designed for a flexible layout. Completion of the building is planned for the summer of 2004.
Deborah Clayton (OTT) has been named an outstanding woman leader by the DuPage County YWCA. The awards recognize women who ensure and advance the quality of life in DuPage County.
She will be honored in the business and professional category.
Clayton is manager of operations for Argonne's Office of Technology Transfer. The office helps industrial firms and other organizations (including federal, state, and local governments and academic institutions) benefit from Argonne's facilities and expertise through joint research, licensing and other types of technology transfer.
For the past eight years, she has managed a DOE program aimed specifically at transferring technology to industry. Under her leadership, Argonne's Office of Science Laboratory Technology Research Program has brought the laboratory $72 million in industrial partnerships and a lead role for Argonne in a $100 million initiative with the textile industry.
Clayton has also brought focus to the laboratory's interactions with economic development groups. One of the ways Argonne contributes to the regional economic growth is through its role as a technology provider. Clayton instituted a technical services program with the North Business and Industrial Council (NORBIC) and co-chairs its Technical Services Industrial Committee. Interactions with similar groups have followed the NORBIC model.
Prior to joining Argonne in 1992 as associate manager of cooperative research, she held a technical advisory position with R.R. Donnelly and Sons, Lisle. For several years before that, Clayton was co-founder, vice-president and chief operating officer of Orchid One Corp., Palos Hills, a high-tech company developing precision electron-optic components.
Clayton founded the Alabama Electron Microscopy Society and the Microscopy Society of America's (MSA's) Technologist's Forum. For her efforts she received the MSA's first Distinguished Service Award. Her performance also has brought her several awards from Argonne and from local economic development groups.
She is active in several community-based professional and civic organizations, and served as a volunteer aide in the emergency room at Palos Community Hospital.
Clayton will receive the award at the YWCA's 18th annual luncheon, May 4, at the Drury Lane in Oak Brook.
Robert Duffield, Argonne director from 1967-1972, died Dec. 26, 2000, at his home in Norwood, Colo. He was 83. He had been briefly ill with acute leukemia.
Duffield was among the first group of scientists to join the Manhattan Project, the secret project to construct the first nuclear bomb.
After World War II, Duffield joined the physics and chemistry departments at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He then joined General Atomic Corp. in La Jolla, Calif., where he worked on advanced nuclear reactor designs, including the pioneering high-temperature gas-cooled reactor.
As director of Argonne, Duffield is remembered for strongly supporting basic research and establishing Argonne's Center of Environmental Studies. He also had a personal commitment to affirmative action.
While Argonne director, he oversaw the first experiments at the 12-foot bubble chamber at the Zero-Gradient Synchrotron. The world's largest bubble chamber produced the world's first observation of a neutrino particle track in a hydrogen bubble chamber.
Also during his directorship, the main cell at Argonne-West's Hot Fuel Examination Facility/North began operations in support of the laboratory's reactor program, and the Zero Power Plutonium Reactor (later renamed the Zero Power Physics Reactor) went into operation at Argonne-West.
After his tenure as Argonne director, Duffield went to Los Alamos National Laboratory to lead projects in geothermal and solar energy, electric power transmission and other civilian energy research.
Shortly after his retirement in 1978, Duffield became acting general manager of Salk Institute Biotechnology/Industrial Associates. There he assisted in recruiting staff and setting up programs and laboratories in biogenetics and biotechnology.
Duffield is survived by his wife, Priscilla, his daughter Deborah and grandson Miles of Norwood, Colo., and daughter Libby Dietrich of Sausalito, Calif.
The contract for Argonne-East's Protective Force has been transferred from the U.S. Department of Energy to the laboratory.
DOE has had responsibility for the contract for the last 12 years.
Security Consultants Group Inc. (SCG) has been selected as the new protective force contractor in a competitive bid.
The new contract will be overseen by the Argonne-East Office of Safeguards and Security (OSS).
SCG has considerable experience in DOE safeguards and security, said Dave Metta, OSS security programs manager. Metta has been appointed the protective force contract technical representative for the laboratory.
In addition to Argonne-East Protective Force services, SCG provides multi-disciplinary consulting services and technical assistance to a number of government and corporate clients internationally.
SCG was founded in 1989 and is based in Oak Ridge, Tenn., with 500 employees and contracts in 13 states.
For more information about protective force activities or responsibilities, call Metta at ext. 2-5737.
Representatives from Microsoft Premier Support will visit Argonne-East Tuesday, April 10, and Wednesday, April 11, to discuss Microsoft server and desktop applications.
Topics of discussion will include Microsoft Premier Support, Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000.
Presentations will be held in Building 221. Tuesday's and Wednesday's presentations will begin at 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in room A216. For more information, call ext. 2-5404.
Sign-up has begun for the "three on three" basketball tournament season at Argonne-East.
The tournament is open to Argonne and DOE employees of any skill level. Games are played at lunch time at the outdoor basketball court in the 600 area.
Partial teams and individuals are welcome. Registration deadline is Friday, May 25.
The tournament begins Monday, June 4.
This year there will be an All-Star game, a lunchtime picnic, trophies and a Most Valuable Player Award.
For more information, rules, and scheduling, contact Johnny Reed (PFS) at ext. 2-7987 or pager 4-1963.
A workshop on "Fundamentals and Applications of Mesoscopic Self-Assembly" will be held Friday, April 20, at the University of Chicago.
This one-day event is sponsored by the university's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) and is part of an industrial relations series that regularly surveys recent advances in important areas of materials research. The workshop will take place at the MRSEC, 5640 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago.
Registration is free; the deadline is Monday, April 16. To register, call (773) 702-7156, send e-mail to d-grier@ uchicago.edu or see the meeting Web page.
Electronics and Computing Technologies will offer a range of computer software classes at Argonne-East in April, May and June.
Full class descriptions are available online. To enroll, contact a division Training Management System representative. For more information about enrollment procedures, contact Diane Cavazos (ECT) at ext. 2-7153 or dkcavazos@ anl.gov.
Unless otherwise noted, classes will be held in Building 221, Room A142, cost $215 and are limited to 10 participants.
"Introduction to Word 2000" (ECT369) --
Monday, April 9, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Prerequisite: Introduction
to Windows 95.
"Introduction to Excel 2000" (ECT370) --
Tuesday, April 10, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Prerequisite: an
understanding of Windows.
Introduction to Access Version 2000 (ECT371)
-- Wednesday April 11, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Class
size limited to eight. Prerequisite: an understanding
of Windows.
"Introduction to PowerPoint 2000" (ECT372)
-- Thursday, April 12, 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Prerequisite: an understanding of Windows. Cost: $140.
"Intermediate PowerPoint 2000" (ECT373)
-- Thursday, April 12, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday,
May 10, 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Prerequisite: Introduction
PowerPoint 2000. Cost: $140.
"Advanced PowerPoint 2000" (ECT382) --
Thursday, May 10, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Prerequisite:
Introduction PowerPoint 2000. Cost: $140.
