On July 23, 2025, as he announced his plans to retire, Mike Witherell, Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab), offered his thoughts about the Lab's recent progress and the year ahead in this video message to employees. Witherell will stay on as Lab Director until approximately June 2026 while the University of California searches for a successor.

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U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright spent the day at Berkeley Lab, engaging with scientists, touring key facilities, and walking a robotic dog fitted with a radiation sensor. The Secretary highlighted his lifelong passion for science, met with researchers across fields from biomanufacturing to geothermal, and toured world-class user facilities including NERSC, ESnet, JGI, ALS, and the Molecular Foundry. 

Research at Berkeley Lab starts with basic science which leads to innovative breakthroughs that have changed the world. The Basics2Breakthroughs video series focuses on early career scientists discussing their research and what they hope for the future in that research.

This podcast series chronicles the incredible and often unexpected ways that science evolves over time, as told by the researchers who led it into its current state and those who are going to bring it into the future.

Foundry staff and postdocs talk about their recent and/or ongoing research. In a casual Zoom setting, they break down the basics of what they’re studying and share with us why they think it’s cool, what they think is exciting, and what they hope for in the future.

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