Good news for Lawrence Livermore!
Ed Pollock, November 30th, 2009 Just saw this over the weekend, and it builds on my recent post on hiring trends: it was recently reported in the Wall Street Journal, that the government’s multibillion-dollar push into energy (green jobs) research is reinvigorating 17 giant University funded research facilities, which included Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This is great news for people looking to shift careers into the “Green” area. The Office of Science estimates that 1,400 jobs were created in 2009, that’s an increase of 11% over 2008. Another 1,400 jobs were created at Universities doing research in to clean energy.
This makes the future at Lawrence Lab look bright for 2010, and an interesting place for job seekers who are interested in making the switch to “Green” jobs. The push on the government funding now appears to be for applied science rather than pure research as it has done in the past. Lawrence Labs says it will receive about $240 million for research in alternative energy sources, computing, energy efficiency and other areas.
-Good hunting!
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