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Uploaded: Monday, March 23, 2009, 9:47 AM
SLAC to get $68.3M in federal recovery funds
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center will purchase equipment
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The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will receive $68.3 million in federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds, SLAC officials announced Monday morning.
The money will enable the center to purchase new research equipment and perform seismic upgrades to the laboratory's infrastructure.
The laboratory, located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, is largely funded through the federal Department of Energy and staffed by Stanford physicists and visiting scientists.
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, a former Stanford and University of California, Berkeley, physicist, announced the funding.
"Leadership in science remains vital to America's economic prosperity, energy security and global competitiveness," Chu said. "These projects not only provide critically needed short-term economic relief but also represent a strategic investment in our nation's future.
"They will create thousands of jobs and breathe new life into many local economies, while helping accelerate new technology development, renew our scientific and engineering workforce and modernize out nation's scientific infrastructure."
"We are very excited that these funds will allow us to make new investments in this lab and in the scientific future of this country," SLAC Director Persis Drell said.-- Don Kazak
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Posted by Bob Harrington, a resident of the Embarcadero Oaks/Leland neighborhood, on Mar 23, 2009 at 12:41 pm Essentially the same successful arguments made on behalf of SLAC funding can equally be made in the City of Palo Alto stimulus funding proposal for a citywide open Fiber to the Premise (FTTP)network.
Silicon Valley is all about discovery and innovation at the highest levels. Let's empower those innovators who double the daytime population of Palo Alto with a robust fiber speed network useful by all, whether it is to provide meaningful competition which will lower prices for everyone, or to provide an unfettered communications network which can meet every challenge long into the future.
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Posted by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Mar 24, 2009 at 2:32 am
Walter_E_Wallis is a member (registered user) of Palo Alto Online A pity they did not just recycle the tube - the nest where Wolfgang and Sidney flaunted their access to funds of the government they were too good to help defend. Better to give half the money to the Fiber loop and the other half to help repair CERN.
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