News Briefs: February 13, 2009
Machinist apprentices' graduation celebrated
Engineering celebrated the most recent graduates of the LLNL machinist apprenticeship program at a dinner at Cattleman’s restaurant in Livermore.
"It was a privilege for me to attend and speak at this celebration and to honor the two latest graduates, Garrett Law and Conor Robertson," said Monya Lane, acting associate director for Engineering. "The dinner provided the opportunity to reminisce with current and retired apprentice graduates about the important contributions this program has made over the years to fulfilling Laboratory national security missions."
Initiated in 1957, the four-year apprenticeship program develops new machinists to achieve the journeyman level. The current program is operated in partnership with the Laboratory’s Unilateral Apprenticeship Committee, the California Department of Apprenticeship Standards and Las Positas Community College. With more than 140 graduates to date, the program has produced a wealth of technical and leadership talent that has contributed to the success of Engineering and LLNL programs.
"The apprenticeship program is a key development tool for maintaining a highly skilled machinist/manufacturing population at LLNL," Lane said. "The combination of highly talented mentors, shops with broad general manufacturing capabilities, demanding and unique weapons-related fabrication challenges and world-class precision machining facilities provides apprentices with an on-the-job training environment that is unparalleled."
Transportation open house on Feb. 19
Fleet Management will host a transportation event Thursday, Feb. 19 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the West Café and Central Café. The goal of the event is to increase public transportation awareness among Lab employees.
Participating agencies will include: Tri Delta Express, San Joaquin Rapid Transit, WHEELS, 511 Contra Costa County, 511 Alameda County and BART.
Teller Centennial Symposium videos now online
Videos of the presentations delivered at the Edward Teller Centennial Symposium are now available online . Held last May at the Bankhead Theater, the symposium recognized the centennial of Teller’s birth and his far-reaching impact on modern physics. The featured speakers were eminent physicists in the fields of Teller’s contributions and many of them worked directly with Teller.
The symposium was organized by Steve Libby and Karl Van Bibber of the Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Director Emeritus Bruce Tarter and Hertz Foundation President John Holzrichter and sponsored by LLNL, the University of California, Hertz Foundation and the Hoover Institution.
