SLAC Faculty Affairs Office The SLAC Faculty Affairs Office is responsible for implementing University policy regarding appointments and promotions, salary setting, leaves, endowed chair appointments, and other matters of an academic nature. Particle Physics & Astrophysics Faculty Photon Science Faculty Faculty Affairs News and Events WHAT'S NEW Latest Faculty News News Welcome John Sarrao to SLAC Photon Science Department! View all news Lastest Science News New research on tungsten unlocks potential for improving fusion materials A newly published protein structure helps explain how some anti-cancer immunotherapy treatments workStriving toward a new era of the LHCA battery’s hopping ions remember where they’ve been Scientists stop the motion of atoms to watch electrons move in liquid water Researchers capture strange behavior of laser-excited gold