BNL names Hewett first female lab director

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

For the first time in its over 75-year history, Brookhaven National Laboratory named its first female lab director.

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Stony Brook University Distinguished Professor and Director of the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics George Sterman described her hire as a “wonderful turn of events.” the Science and User Support Group, which is the first building planned for Discovery Park.

Maurie McInnis, president of SBU and cochair of the BSA Board of Directors, which is a partnership between SBU and Battelle, welcomed Hewett, who will start this summer, to BNL.