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Rensselaer in Brief
Staff honored
A memorial service will be held Friday, January 26 at 11 am in the Chapel and Cultural Center to honor the members of the Rensselaer staff who have died in the past year.
Father Ed Kascergius, Coordinator of Religious Affairs and resident Catholic chaplain, and the Pillars of Rensselaer will direct the service. After its conclusion, a reception will be held, with light refreshments served.
Those who will be remembered in this year’s service include Frances Anderson, Helen Caola, Mildred Clapper, Alice Cooley, Gloria Daniels, Charlotte Dickinson, Clark Falkenstein, Mary Haughney, Ada Houlton, Edward Maitiskella, Catherine McBride, Edith Oken, Eleanor Powers, Ida Prince, Arthur Raufman, Patrick Rowland, William Scott, Chester Stepankoski, Amelia Stewart, Mildred Taylor, and Mary Volks. LINAC renovated
Institute personnel recently finished work on a three-year, $1.4 million refurbishment project at the Gaerttner Linear Accelerator (LINAC) Laboratory.
According to Robert Brock, RPI professor emeritus and LINAC director, the 39-year-old accelerator is "better than new."
In order to help fund the LINAC project, Rensselaer received a $1.1 million contract from the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, which is operated for the Department of Energy by Lockheed Martin Corporate.
With additional monies from internal and external funding, the project totaled approximately $1.4 million.
Institute personnel designed, installed, and tested the various system upgrades and changes, including the restoration of the LINAC’s accelerator from eight to its original nine straight drift tube sections, in which electrons are taken to high energies (approximately 75 million electron volts).
Other upgrades to the LINAC include new instrumentation, new klystron amplifiers, and an improved radio frequency delivery mechanism.
According to Brock, the renovated equipment will increase the LINAC’s output by about 30 percent, improve its beam tuning, yield more data per hour of operation, and extend the service life by ten years.
The American Nuclear Society awarded the LINAC the distinction of being a Nuclear Historic Landmark in 1998. It is named in honor of Professor Erwin R. Gaerttner, first chair of the department of nuclear engineering and first director of the LINAC. ILL system upgraded
The RPI libraries on campus are now using the ILLiad system for submitting and processing interlibrary loan requests.
The system allows its users to submit, track, and review requests filed for publications not available in the Rensselaer libraries’ catalog.
A major benefit of ILLiad is that it makes the entire interlibrary loan process paperless for both library staff and researchers.
To use the system, users visit the library’s service web page, located at http://www.lib.rpi.edu/dept/ library/html/services/, and click on the word "ILLiad."
First-time users of the system will be required to register before connecting to the service.
After registration, members may use ILLiad to submit requests for interlibrary loan and for library photocopy requests.
They will be able to request loan renewals and review completed requests, edit and resubmit canceled requests, and download some documents in the PDF format, instead of on printed photocopies.
Developed at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the ILLiad system has been implemented recently at libraries of other major universities including Duke, Cornell, Cal Tech, Carnegie Mellon, and Brigham Young.
Details about its various functions can be found at http://illiad.lib.rpi.edu/illiad/ ILLiadHelp.htm/. |
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