Lawrence Livermore National Security (LLNS) is now accepting applications for its annual Community Gift Program for 2021.
Established in 2008, the LLNS Community Gift Program helps fund nonprofit organizations addressing science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics education, along with community service and philanthropic needs of the surrounding communities.
LLNS will provide up to $150,000 to qualified nonprofit organizations and government agencies serving Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Joaquin counties. Grants will be awarded in amounts ranging from $500 to $10,000.
Organizations interested in the program must apply by Aug. 13. To be eligible, organizations must be sustainable, financially viable, and accountable for spending and program results.
Budil is the first woman to lead the Laboratory in its 60-year history
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Kim Budil, a respected and trusted scientist with more than 30 years of experience in management and leadership, was recently named the new director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, officials announced last week.
Kim Budil is the new director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. (Courtesy image)
Budil, who begins her new job on March 2, is the Laboratory s 13th director and the first woman to serve in the role. She will also replace Bill Goldstein as president of Lawrence Livermore National Security (LLNS), after announcing his resignation last summer.
She received a doctorate in engineering/applied science in 1994, continued at lab as postdoc
UC founded the lab in 1952, now runs it in collaboration with Bechtel and nuclear facilities contractors
Kim Budil, whose career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory spans 34 years, starting as a graduate student and progressing to postdoc after she received her Ph.D. in engineering/applied science from UC Davis in 1994, has been named the lab’s 13th director.
She is the first woman to hold the post since the lab’s founding in 1952 by UC scientists Ernest O. Lawrence and Edward Teller, the latter of whom also founded UC Davis’ Department of Applied Science. The lab came into existence at the height of the Cold War to meet urgent national security needs by advancing nuclear weapons science and technology.