I am pleased to inform you that the White House has nominated Arthur Bienenstock, Associate Director of SLAC, to the position of Associate Director for Science of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The OSTP advises the White House on policy and funding decisions regarding science and technology. Artie's nomination will be subject to approval by the Senate.
Artie is a scientist with an exceptionally broad view of science, its importance to the nation, and of how it is translated by industry to benefit society. We recognize that while Artie's nomination is a loss to our lab, it is also a gain for the nation. We hope for a speedy confirmation and wish Artie all the best in his new position.
Keith Hodgson, who has been Deputy Associate Director of the Synchrotron Division, will take over immediately as Acting Associate Director for the Division. A search process for a person to replace Artie will begin in consultation with senior members of the SSRL faculty, the Dean of Research and others.
Artie Bienenstock has been the Director of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) since January, 1978. The activities conducted at SSRL are well known to many in the accelerator health physics community since SSRL was one of the very first light sources to be actively involved in materials sciences research. Indeed, much of Artie's professional physics life has been in the materials sciences area. Those who are interested in details regarding SSRL may find the contents at the following Web URL useful:
http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/welcome.html
Artie will take a tremendous amount of insight regarding the difficulties faced by the US national accelerator users' facilities into the White House. His input to the OSTP process, and the feedback/input he receives during his tenure (Senate confirmation is expected) should prove of great value to at least the US accelerator community, and perhaps to the world-wide accelerator community as well as the process of internationalizing accelerator projects continues. Those of us at SLAC wish Artie great success in his new endeavor. He has been a solid resource as the Director of SSRL for the last several years and leaves an extra big set of "shoes" for the next SSRL Director to fill.
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