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 Building the quantum toolboxSLAC and Stanford researchers find an inexpensive way to make batteries last longerFermilab completes its part in upgrading world’s most powerful X-ray laserResearchers pioneer method to rapidly design proteinsGroundbreaking instrument back online, marking a key milestone in high-energy upgrade to SLAC’s X-ray laser How NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory maps the universe every night