Passed: March 13, 2002

Sponsor: Committee on Academic Programs and Policies (CAPP)

Senate Discussions: March 13, 2002

Request from the Cornell’s Laboratory of Nuclear Studies to:
Rename the program currently called the “Floyd R. Newman Laboratory of Nuclear Studies” to the new name of “Floyd R. Newman Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics”.

EXPLANATION: The current name is seriously out of date: the laboratory stopped doing nuclear physics more than thirty years ago. The current name is misleading and confuses both
the funding agencies and the public. In addition, it has created bureaucratic problems when, for example, trying to obtain visas for visiting particle physicists from Russia and China.