A new sputtering ion source worth 200000€ has been commissioned at the RBI accelerator facility. This ion source will serve as injector to the 6 MV Tandem Van de Graaff accelerator and will contribute to the better transmission of ion beams through the system as well as enhance the number of ion species that will be possible to accelerate in the facility.

The RBI Center for Informatics and Computer Science has put forth an initiative to create a national virtual organization ADRIA-METEO with the aim to foster cooperation in the development of systems for atmospheric forecasts in the Adriatic region using state of the art eScience platforms. Potential members of the consortium include the Centre for Informatics and Computer Science (RBI), the Department for Marine and Environmental Research (RBI), the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science (Zagreb), the National Hydrometeorological Department and the Croatian Hydrographic Institute.

The National Foundation for Science, Higher Education and Technology (NZZ) in the Republic of Croatia through its institutional support program will finance two projects headed by RBI scientists with over 2 million kuna in funding.

Snježana Jurić has received yet another award for her research. At the yearly meeting of the Croatian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology held recently in Opatija as part of the conference entitled The Secret Life of Molecules, Snježana Jurić was awarded a prize for the best scientific article in the field of biochemistry and molecular biology published in 2009.

Dr. Danica Ramljak, Director General of the RBI will be in Helsinki from October 4-6 together with Croatian business leaders as a member of the official delegation to Finland led by Croatia's Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, Mr. Gordan Jandroković.

RBI scientists, Irena Dokli, and dr. Zdenko Hameršak in the Laboratory for Stereoselective Catalysis and Biocatalysis, in collaboration with dr. Ivana Matanović in the Theoretical Chemistry Group, have published an article entitled Sulfur Ylide Promoted Synthesis of N-Protected Aziridines: A Combined Experimental and Computational Approach in Chemistry-A European Journal (IF=5.382).

Dr. Maja Buljan (Semiconductor laboratory, Department of Material Physics) has been recognized for her research in spatially ordered Ge nanocrystals in amorphous mattrices deposited on periodically corrugated-rippled silicon substrates.

The Ruđer Bošković Institute organized the international scientific conference "5th Central European Conference - Chemistry Towards Biology" held Sept. 8th to 11th in Primošten. The conference was attended by 124 scientists from both Croatia and abroad.

The Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) invites you to attend the "Night Under the Stars" event which will be held September 18th beginning at 18:00, at the RBI campus Bijenička 54, Zagreb.

The first international summer school on nanoscience in Croatia, entitled the Adriatic School on Nanoscience, will be held from the 19th to the 23rd of September at the Palace Hotel in Dubrovnik. The event is being organized by the Ruđer Bošković Institute and several leading European institutions in the field of nanotechnology, such as the Finnish Institute for Nanoscience, Jyvaskyla University and the Joanneum Research Centre in Graz.