FSU VP to serve on board for national laboratory

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<p>*Florida State University President T.K. Wetherell has re-appointed Vice President for Research Kirby Kemper to serve as FSU’s representative on the board that oversees Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

FSU was asked to join the team because of the university's more than 50-year relationship with Oak Ridge, said Kemper, who as a physics professor conducted his own first experiments in nuclear reactions there in 1969. In addition, many FSU alumni are among the lab's 4,000-member staff and 3,000 guest researchers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Besides FSU, other core institutions that make up the research team are Duke University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, North Carolina State University, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Vanderbilt University, the University of Virginia, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Scientists and engineers at ORNL are working on projects that will strengthen the nation's leadership in key areas of science; increase the availability of clean, abundant energy; restore and protect the environment; and contribute to national security.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Oak Ridge also is the world's foremost center for neutron science research with the upgraded High Flux Isotope Reactor and a new $1.4 billion Spallation Neutron Source, for which National High Magnetic Field Laboratory researchers at FSU are currently designing a magnet to conduct neutron scattering experiments.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Kemper, a Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor and former chairman of FSU's physics department, has served as vice president for Research at FSU since 2003.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;ORNL was established in 1943 as part of the secret Manhattan Project to pioneer a method for producing and separating plutonium. During the 1950s and '60s, ORNL's mission broadened to include a variety of energy technologies and strategies, and this mission was greatly expanded with the creation of the Department of Energy in the 1970s.*&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another nice article.
Source: [FSU&lt;/a&gt; News](&lt;a href="http://fsu.edu/news/2008/08/21/kemper.ornl/%5DFSU"&gt;http://fsu.edu/news/2008/08/21/kemper.ornl/)&lt;/p&gt;