Brookhaven National Lab Appoints First Female Director.
JoAnne Hewett has been named as the first female director of Brookhaven National Laboratory, a federal laboratory in Upton, New York. Hewett, a theoretical physicist, is known for her work studying extra spatial dimensions. She will oversee a $700 million annual budget and a staff of 2,800 scientists, engineers, technicians, and professionals whose research ranges from studies of the universe's origins to practical applications for cutting-edge batteries. Hewett will also be a professor at Stony Brook University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy and in the university's C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics.