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K.C. Taylor,
In a story on Los Alamos Natiional Lab in New Mexico, the Journal noted that the staff there has declined to 6,900 from 7,200 two years ago, and another 400 to 500 workers could lose their jobs later this year under Reagan Administration plans. Every national lab presently has a "technology transfer" division responsible for finding other institutions to take over some of its research projects. The Administration's proposed dismantling of the Department of Energy, which funds the labs, further endangers their future, the Journal reports. "Administrators of the Los Alamos Laboratory worry that it and the national labs on New York's Long Island; in Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Livermore and Berkeley, Calif.; Richland, Wash.; Argonne, 111.; and Albuquerque, N.M., may have seen their best days," the Journal's frontpage report concludes.
MARTIN C. STEELE, formerly in charge of the semiconductor electronics group at GM's research laboratory, has been appointed acting director of the Institute for Amorphous Studies at Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Steele, a fellow of both the American Physical Society and the Institute for Electrical Engineers, will direct the planning of the institute's programs and the recruitment of faculty. The institute, founded by Energy Conversion Devices Inc., will begin operations this fall.
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T.G. MIDDLETON Editor, MRS Bulletin Box 1334 Summit, NJ 07901
NATIONAL LABS may decline in coming years, a victim of federal spending cutbacks, the Wall Street Journal reported Sept. 30. MRS BULLETIN, SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1982, PAGE 7
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