Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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It will be interesting to see the composition of the Board of Governors/Directors for Triad - it there is one. I really hope that there isn't a BOG like clone. Looking at both ORNL and PNNL, it appears that Battelle does not use a "corporate" Board model for oversight of lab leadership and management. Considerable costs - money and time - will be saved by Lab staff not having to prepare watered down "everything is fine - we're doing great" powerpoint presentations for BOG meetings.
Still hard to determine what A&M has to do with Triad, other than pulling out the share of annual fee?
On a more serious note, the ALD for simulation and computation is still awaiting announcement.
Curious how the proposal was RFP compliant with a TBA in the key personnel, since contracts were to be included in that. Anyone want to venture that something smells very bad here??
July 18, 2018 at 3:07 PM
That does seem way out of bounds from the RFP.
It is not the cowboys from Texas I am worried about, it is the UC cowboys who no doubt made sure to marginalize Texas AM, because they think they are the best and brightest.