Greetings from CAMD

News from the Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD) at Louisiana State University  continues to be anything but rosy.  We have secured funds for a multipole super-conducting wiggler and an undulator, which of course is a good thing.  On the other hand, the state will cut higher education anywhere from 50 to 125 million in addition to the devastating cuts we received this past year.  These budget deficits will play havoc for all of our states and hence our ability to secure sufficient funds to carry out health physics to the best of our abilities.  The health of the state has already made it impossible to host our normal radiological engineering short course, due to lack of participation.  Many of our students derive from the State’s Department of Environmental Quality, where we train new employees on the fundamentals of health physics.  This means the economy continues to take its toll in unforeseen ways.  Baton Rouge, however, still ranks #10 as the best place to live during this recession. Wishing each a better year than 2009.

Sincerely,

Lorraine