Lab fellowship enriches intern's bucket list

Michigan native Jane Herriman is one of 19 interns completing fellowships at Lawrence Livermore’s Computational Chemistry and Materials Science (CCMS) Summer Institute. The 10-week program matches graduate students to scientists who mentor them and offers courses and twice-weekly lectures to round out the experience. For more than 15 years, the CCMS Summer Institute has given interns the...

Media advisory: LLNL's 'Science On Saturday' explores nature by computer simulation

WHO: Lawrence Livermore scientist Vic Castillo and Monte Vista High School teacher Rodger Johnson will present "Computer Simulation: Exploring Nature With a Computer."WHAT: Computers are becoming an increasingly cheaper, more powerful tool that cannot be ignored by professionals. Computer simulation reproduces the behavior of natural- and man-made systems to help us understand, predict and...