The IEPA grants the award for leadership in protecting the environment, in reaching out to inform the surrounding community about environmental issues and activities, and in carrying out new research that helps protect the environment.
"This award recognizes the continuing cooperation among the IEPA, Argonne, and DOE's Chicago Operations Office and Argonne Group to protect the environment on and around the Argonne site," said Dean E. Eastman, Argonne director and chief executive officer. "It also recognizes our continuing efforts to develop new, environmentally friendly technologies and to convey them to industry and the public."
The award recognizes numerous Argonne and DOE environmental outreach activities, including
* Work with industry to develop new environmentally friendly technologies, such as recycling metal and non-metal parts of old cars and reducing the amount of copper in waste streams from circuit-board manufacturing;
* Research to develop improved methods for studying the environment and remediating environmental problems;
* Sponsorship of and participation in professional conferences that help spread new environmental science and technology to private industry and government agencies;
* Educational contributions, such as workshops to help high school teachers improve their environmental science curricula;
* Special Earth Day events for public schools and Argonne and DOE employees;
* Sponsorship of and participation in public meetings; and
* Periodic open houses and public tours.
Blix, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, will speak at 3 p.m. in Argonne-East's Building 402 (Advanced Photon Source Conference Center).
Blix was a member of the Swedish delegation to the Geneva Disarmament Conference from 1962 to 1978. He led the Liberal Campaign Committee in supporting the retention of the Swedish nuclear energy program in the national referendum of 1980.
He previously served as Swedish minister for foreign affairs, undersecretary of state in charge of international development cooperation and legal advisor.
He has written several books on international and constitutional law.
The Web address for the AIM System, which is administered by the Information and Publishing Division, is http://www.ipd. anl.gov/aim. At the AIM System web page, select "EJournals."
Connecting to Physical Review Letters Online requires a web browser such as Netscape and a portable document format (PDF) file viewer like Acrobat Reader. A link to download the Acrobat PDF viewer is available from the Ejournals web page.
Argonne's subscription to Physical Review Letters Online is limited to three concurrent users and is available only to Argonne employees. Physical Review Letters Online can be searched by author, title, or volume and issue. Journal issues beginning in 1995 are available through the online connection.
This will be the first in a series of electronic journals that IPD will be making available through the AIM System. Contact the nearest IPD librarian for more information or to make suggestions.
Open enrollment packages will be sent to all employees at Argonne-East and Argonne-West the week of Oct. 28. Argonne-East employees who do not receive a package by Nov. 4 should contact Human Resources at ext. 2-2991. Argonne-West employees should contact Laurie Taylor (RPS-HR) at ext. 3-7227.
The dive aimed at separating a day's worth of waste into categories such as plastics, aluminum, paper, cardboard and other metals to gain a better understanding of what is thrown away and to provide a starting point for evaluating the effectiveness of the MOPP program.
With MOPP, employees now separate all paper products into a special blue bin in each office that is picked up twice weekly. A decal on the bin lists all acceptable paper products. MOPP keeps about 12 tons of mixed paper out of landfills each week.
Sweatshirts are $15 and come in adult sizes small, extra-large and XXL.
T-shirts for adults are $8 and come in medium, large, x-large and xx-large sizes. Youth T-shirts are $6 and come in sizes 6-8, 10-12, and 14-16.
Microwaveable ceramic coffee mugs are $6, thermal mugs are $5.
Referral services with updated area codes are:
UNITED WAY COMMUNITY REFERRAL SERVICE
* DuPage Department of Human Services/Information & Referral (630) 682-7542
-- Crisis Line (630) 627-1700
-- Age 60 and Over (630) 682-7990
* Kane County Information (630) 897-5661
* Connection of Lake County (847) 367-1080
* Family Service of McHenry County (815) 385-6400
-- Crisis Line 1-800-892-8900
* Lake Area United Way Information & Referral (Indiana) (219) 923-0050
* Will County Crisis Line (815) 722-3344
* Catholic Charities of Chicago (312) 655-7000
* EZRA Jewish Helpline 1-800-248-1818
* Lutheran Child & Family Services (708) 771-7180
* Salvation Army (312) 725-1100
* Contact Chicago (312) 644-4357
UNITED WAY VOLUNTEER CENTER
* The Volunteer Center (708) 386-3393
* Volunteer Center of New Trier Township (847) 441-7665
* The Volunteer Center of Northwest Suburban Chicago (847) 398-1320
* The Volunteer Center of United Way Lake County (847) 816-0063
* The Volunteer Center of DuPage, DuPage County Human
Resources (630) 682-7507
* Volunteer Bureau of Lake Forest/Lake Bluff (847) 234-8876
* The Volunteer Pool of Highland Park (847) 433-2190
* Volunteer Referral Service of United Way of Will County (815) 723-8510
* Volunteer Services Program of McHenry County (815) 363-1349
Team members include captain Terry Scott (IPNS), George Vasilopulos (IPNS), Joe Pratl (ECT), Tom Saddler (ECT), Gary Gunderson (ASD) and Joe Parisi.
* Access 2.0 Intermediate (HR163) -- Oct. 29, 8:30 a.m. -- 4:30 p.m.
* Introduction to Windows 95 (HR176), Oct. 23, 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. or 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
* Excel 5.0 Pivot Tables (HR177), Oct. 30, 8:30 a.m. -- 11:30 a.m.
* Excel 5.0, Introduction to Macros (HR 154), Oct. 30, 1:30 p.m. -- 4:30 p.m.
All classes are in Argonne-East's Building 362, Room E188. Register with a Training Management System representative. For more information, call Betty Iwan (HR) at ext. 2-3410.
* English as a Second Language -- This course is designed to improve the English speaking skills of employees for whom English is not their native language. The course will meet for one and a half hours, twice a week, during lunch.
* Certified Professional Secretary (CPS) courses -- This is a series of courses designed to prepare secretaries for certification as a Certified Professional Secretary. Courses include Office Procedures; Accounting Review; Economics Review, Business Law, Behavioral Sciences and Business; and Office Technology. Each course will meet once a week for one and half hours at lunch time.
Employees interested in these potential programs should call Betty Iwan (HR) at ext. 2-3410.
The city of Chicago will be divided into two area codes, 312 and 773. The Loop area will retain the 312 area code, and the "non-Loop" area, which includes Hyde Park, will change to the new 773 area code.
Most wireless services, such as cellular phones and pagers, will not be required to change area codes. One exception to this will be the (312) 753-1880 telephone number used by faculty and staff members to access the university's paging system. The area code will change to 773 on Oct. 12.
35 Years
Raymond M. Kijowski (PFS BM) and Ralph J. Kuechler.
30 Years
Robert A. Ercoli (PFS DR), Robert F. Gronemeyer (ESH HP), Michael M. Thommes (ECT CTT), Darlene H. Wills (DIS), and Robert A. Zolecki (PNS).
25 Years
Acie McCullough, Jr. (ESH HP), John R. Miller (CHM), and Judith S. Popik (CMT).
20 Years
James V. Beitz (CHM), Richard W. Blogg (OCF BUD), Jean E. Bogner (ES), James R. Deen (TD), Allen J. Eisenbeis (OD PS), Loren L. Funk (MSD), Colin B. Groves (RPS CCS), Mary R. Hale (IPD TIS), Beverly A. Quinn (OCF BSS), Lynn E. Rehn (MSD), and Susan M. Walker (HR).
15 Years
Guadalupe Franchini (MSD) and Jau-Hei Tang (CHM).
10 Years
Jacqueline C. Burton (ER), David B. Chamberlain (CMT), Sharon M. Clark (IPD TIS), Richard H. Cooke (ESH HP), Deborah K. Hanson (CMB), Debra A. Morgan (RPS FS), Paul T. Phillips (ECT CTT), Robert E. Piorkowski (EMO), S. Diane Sandberg (XFD), Bryan J. Schmidt (IPD), John M. Simonin (DIS), Frans R. Trouw (PNS), and Randall J. Walker (OD PS).
5 Years
Randy Alkire (CMB), Michael Anthony (ECT ELT), Larry Bersano (PFS LF), Thomas Buffington (ASD), Charles Dietz (ECT CS), Deborah Elcock (EA), Kathleen Ferry (PFS CU), Eric E. Fullerton (MSD), Kris Hayden (OCF TVL), Li Lei (XFD), Christine McGhee (ES), Phillip E. McNamara (ASD), Timothy A. Miller (RPS ESH), Thomas J. Morgan (MCS), Ellen O'Brien (PFS MAT), Yolantha Siegfried (CMT), Bruce Stockmeier (XFD), Karen Sullivan (PFS FPE), Susan J. Thom (TD), David R. Tomchak (RPS SEC), and Marion M. White (ASD).
Special Certificates
Craig A. Patterson, 5 years, July 1992. Carol J. Reeves, 10 years, August 1992.
Monday, Oct. 28
Energy Technology Division Seminar: "Shell Model of Soap Froth" by K.Y. Szeto, Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. 9:45 a.m., Bldg. 212, Conference Room A157.
Chemistry Division Monday Morning Seminar Series: "Chemistry in the Personal Care Industry" by Kathleen A. Martin, Helene Curtis, Inc., Rolling Meadows, Ill. 11 a.m., Bldg. 200 Auditorium.
High Energy Physics Division Theoretical Physics Seminar: "An Effective Action for High Energy Scattering in QCD" by Lev Lipatov, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia. 2 p.m., Bldg. 362, Conference Room E188.
Physics Division Seminar: "Dynamics of Target Single and Multiple Ionization Induced by Virtual Photon Field of Fast Heavy Ions" by Joachim Ullrich, G.S.I., Darmstadt, Germany. 3:30 p.m., Bldg. 203, Conference Room R150.
Tuesday, Oct. 29
Fall 1996 ACCA Biology Seminar Series: "Diversity of Life Through Time" by Peter Crane, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. 7 p.m., Bldg. 203 Auditorium.
Fall 1996 ACCA Chemistry Seminar Series: "Introduction to Nuclear Medicine" by D.W. McPherson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 7 p.m., Bldg. 223 Auditorium.
Fall 1996 ACCA Computer Science Seminar Series: "Property Rights in Computer Software" by Keith Miller, University of Illinois, Springfield. 7 p.m., Bldg. 221, Conference Room A216.
Wednesday, Oct. 30
Materials Science Division Seminar: "Synchrotron Techniques in Interface Materials Electrochemistry and Corrosion" by Carlos Melendres, (CMT & MSD). 11 a.m., Bldg. 212, Conference Room A157.
High Energy Physics Division Seminar: "Nonlinear Compton Scattering" by Eric Prebys, Princeton University, N.J. 11 a.m., Bldg. 362, Conference Room F108.
Friday, Nov. 1
Physics Division Colloquium: "The Search for Life Elsewhere" by Edward C. Stone, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 11 a.m., Bldg. 203 Auditorium.
Retiree Seminar: "A Perspective on High-Level Wastes" by Gene Voiland and Fred Olds, Committee for Future Reactor Information, and "The Status of Nuclear Power in Japan" by John Lambert, (ED). 12:15 p.m., Bldg. 213, Dining Room B.
Joint Materials Science Division & Experimental Facilities Division Seminar: "The Unpredictability of Alkali Metal Overlayers" by Renee Diehl, Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University. l:30 p.m., Bldg. 223, Conference Room L119.
Monday, Nov. 4
Chemistry Division Monday Morning Seminar Series: "Langmuir-Blodgett Analogs of Layered Transition Metal Phosphonates: Magnetic Monolayers and 'Dual-Network' Assemblies" by Daniel R. Talham, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville. 11 a.m., Bldg. 200 Auditorium.
High Energy Physics Division Theoretical Physics Seminar: "NLO QCD Corrections to Four-Jet Production in Electron-Positron Annihilation" by Adrian Signer, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, Calif. 2 p.m., Bldg. 362, Conference Room E188.
Special Physics Division Colloquium: "Chaos and Classical Limits" by Michael Berry, Bristol University, United Kingdom. 3:30 p.m., Bldg. 203 Auditorium.
Thursday, Nov. 7
Office of General Manager, Environmental Sciences Seminar: "The Presidential/Congressional Risk Commission's Comprehensive New Risk Management Framework for Environmental Regulatory Agencies" by Gilbert S. Omenn, Chairman, Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management. 9 a.m., Bldg. 900, Conference Room J01.
Friday, Nov. 8
Argonne-West Technical Seminar: "Non-destructive Assay of FCF Waste Stream" by Steve Aumeier, (TD). 9 a.m., L&O Conference Room.
Monday, Nov. 11
Energy Technology Division Seminar: "Flywheel Safety and Containment" by John Kramer (RE). 9:45 a.m., Bldg. 212, Conference Room A157.
Tuesday, Nov. 12
Chemistry Division Seminar: "Zeolite Encapsulated Transition Metal Oxd Species as Selective Catalysts" by Langqiu Xu, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. 11 a.m., Bldg. 200, Conference Room J183.
Wednesday, Nov. 13
Materials Science Division Seminar: "Science and Technology of Ferroelectric Thin Films" by Orlando Auciello, (MSD). 11 a.m., Bldg. 212, Conference Room A157.
Joint Energy Systems Division and Arms Control and Nonproliferation Program Seminar: "Analytical Chemistry of Chemical Warfare Agents" by John Schneider, (ES). Noon, Bldg. 362, Conference Room E356.
Friday, Nov. 15
Argonne-West Technical Seminar: "Advanced Methods for the Determination of Greater than Class C Metal Waste" by Steve Frank, (ED). 9 a.m., L&O Conference Room.
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