Dr. Frazier Benya, Senior Program Officer at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and study director of the 2018 study “Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine”, spoke at the Berkeley Lab on August 26, 2019. She presented information from the study and shared recommendations the study had for institutions that would improve the climate for women in the sciences.

Lab Director Mike Witherell hosted a State of the Lab town hall on August 19, 2019. He discussed the Lab's future directions and challenges and answered questions from the audience.

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University of California President Janet Napolitano joined Lab Director Mike Witherell in a town hall on June 20, 2019 in the Lab auditorium. The event was live-streamed so all Lab employees could participate.

In the discussion, Witherell asked President Napolitano for her views on national security, and how science can protect the nation’s infrastructure, our cyber systems, and the voting process. Napolitano then took audience questions.

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On June 19, 2019, over 250 employees and guests gathered at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab to witness the dedication of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB).

The IGB will house the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a national user facility that has pioneered genomic investigations since the landmark Human Genome Project, and the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase), the nation’s first large-scale bioinformatics software and data platform supporting the world genomics research community.

The IGB unites leading experts and world-class technologies to transform plant and microbial genomics data into solutions for today’s most pressing environmental and energy challenges.