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Praveen Chaudhari Steps Down as Director of
Brookhaven National Lab to Pursue Work in Science
Upton, NY, Feb. 17: Over the last three years you
and I have faced many challenges stemming primarily from a shortfall in funding.
We [at Brookhaven National
Lab] have overcome nearly all of them.
Collectively, we developed a vision for our science and operations and are
implementing it. This should put us on a firm path for flourishing over the next
decade. The President’s budget has just been announced and we figure prominently
in it. This would not have happened if you had not made the sacrifices you did,
such as dealing with the delay in salary increases last year, so we could
prepare for the future by making investments in the QCD Laboratory, NSLS-II, CFN,
and interdisciplinary science essential for breakthrough in energy and the life
sciences. I am proud of you.
The Laboratory is in very good shape and, I feel, it is time for me to make a
change: to spend more time at home and to take advantage of the wonderful
opportunities to do science at BNL. In order to do so, I shall step down from my
position as the Director of this great Laboratory, on April 30, 2006, and work
part time as a scientist with financial support from BSA.
I want to thank all of you for your support. I also want to thank Jim Simons,
President Shirley Kenny, Evelyn Berezin, Rich Gelfond, Denny McGinn (all from
the BSA Board) and wish to acknowledge the unstinting support for BNL by the
representatives on the Board and the S&T steering committee from the BSA Core
Universities: Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Princeton and Yale. The
Laboratory could not have better friends than these six institutions.
I wish to acknowledge the unwavering support for the Laboratory by Senator
Hillary Clinton, Senator Chuck Schumer, Congressman Tim Bishop, Congressman
Sherwood Boehlert, and Congressman John Sweeney.
Finally, I want to thank my wife, Karin, who accepted a long distance
relationship for the last three years. It has been a difficult period for both
of us.
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