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. Faculty 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 A day in the life of an X-ray ‘magic’ makerHow to train your catalyst, one atom at a time NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory launches real-time discovery machine for monitoring the night sky SLAC researchers image plasma instability relevant to fusion energy and astrophysicsNew method measures energy dissipation in the smallest devicesTwo SLAC researchers receive DOE Early Career Awards to develop novel AI tools