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Lee, a construction superintendent, running for Oak Ridge City Council

Posted at 2:15 pm July 13, 2016
By Oak Ridge Today Staff 35 Comments

Joe Lee

Joe Lee (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

Joseph “Joe” Lee, a commercial construction worker who is now a field superintendent for a project at the University of Tennessee, is running for Oak Ridge City Council in the November 8 election.

Lee, an Oak Ridge native, announced his candidacy this month, and he said he has qualified to be on the ballot in November.

Lee is a 1970 graduate of Oak Ridge High School, and he attended Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. He returned to his hometown in 1987 and was employed by Downtown Management Company as construction manager during the time known as “The Mall Wars,” a press release said. He met Julie Easterday there, and they were married in 1989. They now have two daughters, Lindsay and Loren.

The press release said​ Lee has worked his entire career in the commercial construction industry as either carpenter, superintendent, or construction manager. He has worked throughout the Southeast on industrial, institutional, and commercial projects, the release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2016 Election, Front Page News, Government, Oak Ridge Tagged With: 2016 election, Board of Building and Housing Code Appeals, Howard Baker Center for Public Policy, Joe Lee, Joseph "Joe" Lee, Neyland Stadium, November 8 election, Oak Ridge City Council, Rentenbach, University Center, University of Tennessee

Scottish professor visits Children’s Museum for Weinberg research

Posted at 10:18 am June 24, 2016
By Kay Brookshire Leave a Comment

Sean Johnston and Alvin Weinberg Papers at Children's Museum

Professor Sean Johnston, a professor of science, technology, and social studies from the Dumfries Campus of the University of Glasgow in Scotland, searched through the papers of Alvin Weinberg, former director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as part of a two-year project funded by the British Academy titled “Trusting the Technological Fix.” (Submitted photo)

 

The Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge is well known as a center of play and learning for the young and young at heart. The museum’s lesser-known collections of historic papers recently brought a senior academic historian from Scotland to Oak Ridge for several days of research.

Professor Sean Johnston, a professor of science, technology, and social studies from the Dumfries Campus of the University of Glasgow, searched through the papers of Alvin Weinberg, former director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as part of a two-year project funded by the British Academy titled “Trusting the Technological Fix.”

His visit highlights the value of the collections the museum began gathering in the 1970s to tell the cultural and social history of the area for its Regional Appalachian Center.

“Not only was Weinberg the prominent head of the national laboratory (1955-73), and very much a member of the establishment, but he was somebody who was curious and worried about the wider social implications of nuclear technology,” Johnston said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Community, Education, Front Page News, Nonprofits, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Alvin Weinberg, American Museum of Science and Energy, big science, children's museum, Children's Museum of Oak Ridge, Clinton Laboratories, Eugene Wigner, Howard Baker Center for Public Policy, Margaret Allard, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORAU, ORNL, ORNL archives, Regional Appalachian Center, Rhonda Bogard, Sean Johnston, selma shapiro, technological fix, Tim Gawne, University of Glasgow, World War II

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