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The US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has named Jim Yeck as Project Director for the Electron-Ion Collider, a one-of-a-kind nuclear physics research facility to be built at the Laboratory over the next decade in partnership with scientists from DOE's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab).

An intern at Brookhaven Lab experiments with laser wakefield acceleration -- often called the 'tabletop accelerator.' The goal is to use lasers to accelerate particles to greater energies over shorter distances than can be done with traditional accelerators -- and therefore in a much smaller space.

As an intern for the National Nuclear Data Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Pedro Rodríguez is working to resolve a 70-year-old problem in nuclear physics. He and his mentor are figuring out a way to simplify one of the steps for ensuring nuclear reactors can be modeled correctly.

Juliette Stecenko, an intern at Brookhaven National Laboratory, is using modern supercomputers and quantum computing platforms to perform astronomy simulations that may help us better understand where we came from.

An energy-recovery linear accelerator that scientists explored for accelerating particles in an Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) could form the foundation of an energy-saving design for a future high-energy electron-positron collider.

Jantana Keereetaweep, a biochemistry research associate in the biology department at Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been awarded the Paul K. Stumpf Award for her research on plant lipids (fats and oils). The award, given every two years, recognizes the contributions of a promising early-career scientist in honor of Stumpf, who was a world leader and pioneer in the study of plant lipid biochemistry.