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STANFORD (Map, News) - Physicist Persis Drell, the acting director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center since September, has been named to the position permanently. The center is owned by the U.S. Department of Energy and operated by Stanford. Drell, 51, becomes the fourth director in the center’s history and the first woman to hold the top job.
“Persis Drell is a distinguished and accomplished scientist who has graciously agreed to serve as director of DOE’s Stanford Linear Accelerator Center at this promising juncture in its history,” Under Secretary of Energy for Science Raymond Orbach said in a statement. “During Dr. Drell’s tenure as acting director, we have been impressed by both her vision of ‘one lab’ and her committed efforts to lead SLAC to achieve that vision. Now we look forward to working with Persis Drell and Stanford University as SLAC evolves to continue as a world leader in new areas of science and accelerator technology.”
Drell has been a professor at SLAC since 2002. She received her doctorate in atomic physics from the University of California, Berkeley.
The accelerator is a high-speed atom smasher that began operating in 1966. Several subatomic particles, including the quark, were discovered at SLAC. Three SLAC physicists, Burton Richter in 1976, Richard Taylor in 1990 and Martin Perl in 1995, have won Nobel Prizes for discoveries they made using the accelerator. SLAC also created the first World Wide Web site in North America in 1991.
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Examiner Reader said:
It won't matter to Stanfurd what they do in football and basketball [men's] as long as they continue to pile up the points in the suburban sports and continue to win the Sear's Cup. The 2 sports don't add enough points to be meaningful for them to want to change their approach.
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Puzzled, The point is whether or not Stanford does indeed have such high admissions standards they we cannot compete in sports. I made the point that some people with rather questionable 'smarts' have been admitted...Condi being a case in point. Based upon her political acumen, I'd rather have Brooke Lopez representing us in foreign affairs.
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Puzzled said:
Perhaps I'm not informed but what does Condi Rice have anything to do with athletics?
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Examiner Reader said:
I am a Stanford Graduate, class of 1999, and am the one who posted the Condi Rice comment. In fact, I'm also a graduate of the Standord Business School Class of 2006.
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Examiner Reader said:
Your comment on Condi Rice shows you wouldn't have a chance at getting admitted to Stanford.
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John, Lafayette said:
I once heard Mike Montgomery say on that he was chagrined when he once lost a player because of Stanford's admission standards. So where did that player go? Yale. Could it be that Stanford is so noble because they have more than enough money to fund the other sports so they don't need winners or sell outs of football and basketball.
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Examiner Reader said:
I guess Stanford tightened its academic standards after Condi Rice was admitted.
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