June 10, 2003

NSLS Chairman, Steve Dierker, Appointed Associate Lab Director for the Light Sources Directorate

On June 5, 2003, BNL Laboratory Director, Praveen Chaudhari, announced the appointment of NSLS Chairman, Steven Dierker, as the Associate Laboratory Director for the Light Sources Directorate. Steve will retain his present role as Chairman of the current NSLS.

During the last two years, Steve has led the NSLS through a restructuring and subsequent growth phase, while at the same time helping to develop and lead the efforts to propose a new light source, NSLS-II.

The NSLS-II Project represents the next major step in BNL's long history of building and operating world-class scientific facilities. Its outstanding capabilities are expected to have enormous impact in the life sciences, materials and chemical sciences, nanoscience, geoscience, environmental science, and other areas. "The success of the NSLS-II Project is vital to the continuing prosperity of synchrotron science at the Lab and in the Northeast," Chaudhari said. "I am, therefore, pleased to announce the creation of a new science directorate at the laboratory, the Light Sources Directorate, devoted to operation of the current NSLS and the development and construction of NSLS-II."

PHOTO BY: Roger Stoutenburgh