Professor Chi-Chang Kao has been named as the fifth director of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA, which is one of the world's largest facilities for experimental particle physics. This reflects its change of mission from a dedicated particle physics lab to a multipurpose laboratory with an emphasis on X-ray studies. Similar policy can be a world trend - at DESY, Germany, Prof. Helmut Dosch, who is a world leader in X-ray surface physics and condensed matter physics, has already been a director since 2009. For more information, visit the Web page,
http://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2012-10-24-DirectAnnounce-CCK.aspx
