Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has made two senior management appointments. Jane C. S. Long began her assignment in November as associate director for energy and environment. She had been a professor in the geological sciences department at the University of Nevada, Reno. Cherry A. Murray became deputy director for science and technology at the beginning of this month. She recently retired from Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs as physical sciences research senior vice president.
On 1 October, Wolfgang M. Heckl took the reins of one of the largest museums of science and technology worldwide, the Deutsches Museum in Munich. The new general director most recently headed an interdisciplinary team in the field of nanoscience at the University of Munich and will continue to do research, at a reduced level, with that team.
Julia King became principal of the faculty of engineering at Imperial College London in September. Formerly chief executive of...
