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Janelia’s Betzig Wins Nobel Prize
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For Betzig, who lives in Brambleton with his wife, Janelia-based neuroscientist Na Ji, and their two young children, the last week has been a whirlwind. “The best word to describe it is exhausting,” he said in an interview with Leesburg Today. “At first, the best word to describe it is just stunned…It certainly wasn’t something I was waiting for with bated breath. The best analogy is getting hit by a bus—you’re going about your normal day, you like your
life, you’re doing your normal thing, and then there’s this event you know is just going to change your life.” While Betzig downplays the award’s significance on a personal level, he’s celebrating it as a platform for putting a spotlight on world-class research being conducted at the Janelia Research Campus, which opened in Ashburn in 2003 and officially opened in the fall of 2006. With a focus on neuroscience, Janelia’s model involves scientists
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Charlotte Schneider, right, works with Marissa at Loudoun Therapeutic Riding as part of a weeklong internship. She is one of 18 students in town from Loudoun County’s German sister county, Main-TaunusKreis, as part of a George C. Marshall International Center program. See story on Page 40.
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relatives or friends while their immigration status is evaluated. The school system reported that the refugee students are spread out in schools around the county and have not impacted class sizes or caused overcrowding. “We are accustomed to receive new students throughout the school year, and we are not experiencing an increase of students that is unusual or creating a hardship in our schools,” according to the registration summary provided to the county by school administrators. Although minimal in that description, the school cost was the only measurable fiscal impact identified in the staff study. The Health Department, which is prohibited from requesting the legal status of residents seeking services, reported no increase in activities attributable to the refugees. The county’s Family Services Department is not permitted to pro-
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hat is the local cost of serving refugee Central American children brought to Loudoun through the federal resettlement program? Not more than a quarter million dollars, according to research conducted by the county staff. Loudoun supervisors requested the information during their Oct. 1 meeting and were set to review the resulting report Wednesday. According to the findings compiled by the Department of Family Services and the Health Department, of the 34,456 unaccompanied minors crossing the nation’s southern border since Aug. 31, 227 children have been assigned for care in Loudoun. As of Sept. 30, 87 students identified as refugees have been enrolled in Loudoun’s public schools; however, only 28 of those are considered unaccompanied youth—meaning they are living with non-custodial
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oudoun’s new Nobel laureate Eric Betzig is keeping a low profile, and is modest about his own accomplishments. But he’s enthusiastic about the award’s potential to raise the profile of Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Campus in Ashburn and its model for scientific research. Betzig, 54, of Ashburn, was
awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry last week, for his revolutionary work in developing a molecular-level microscope. Betzig shared the award with German scientist Stefan Hell and William Moerner of Stanford University. While the technology is still in its infancy according to Betzig, it may have implications for research into major diseases—like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s—down the road by allowing scientists to study individual proteins.
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