MSU`s Steven Lund chosen as new head of U.S. Particle Accelerator School
(World News Science)

Professor Steven Lund of Michigan State University has been named the new director of the U.S. Particle Accelerator School. His four-year renewable term begins on Dec. 1. He will succeed Professor William Barletta of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has been director since 2006. The USPAS is recognized as the nation`s premier training program in accelerator science and engineering. USPAS started in 1981 and convenes twice a year to offer a broad range of graduate-level accelerator science and engineering courses in an intensive-school format. Training and documentation produced by the sessions has been recognized for excellence and has had a profound positive impact on the...