Freedom of Communication in Science
• Also LaViolette is the cofounder of the ArchiveFreedom website (ArchiveFreedom.org) which was established in 2004 to protest the blacklisting policy of arxiv.org, the electronic preprint archive run by Cornell physicist Paul Ginsparg.  The list of blacklistees includes one Nobel Laureate (Brian Josephson), who has written several letters to Nature magazine protesting the archive's practices, as well as well published physicists, university professors, and various professionals.  In 2005, LaViolette brought this discriminative practice to the attention of the National Science Foundation.  After one blacklistee filed suit against Cornell and NSF, the Foundation reportedly ceased to provide financial support for the archive project (at least openly).

University lecturing
• LaViolette has been invited to speak about his theories and their validation at a number of universities and research centers, including: SUNY Binghampton, Athens University, DeKalb College, Union College, and Democritos Nuclear Center.

Other Work Experience
• Volunteers for International Technical Assistance, 1963 - 69.  As a technical volunteer, LaViolette developed a novel solar powered heat engine for pumping water in arid developing countries.  It was a simple design that could be built locally by village technicians.
• New York State Health Department, Albany, NY, 1966.  As a college summer job, LaViolette worked as a radiochemist in the New York Health Department analyzing levels of radiostrontium in milk and water samples.  This monitored radioactive fallout in the area following a series of atomic bomb detonations in the upper atmosphere.
• Harvard School of Public Health (Dept. of Environmental Health Science), 1970 ­ 72. Dr. LaViolette achieved conscientious objector status in 1970.  In lieu of military service, he performed two years of alternative service doing public health research at Harvard University.  He was fortunate to have a boss who gave him considerable freedom in his work.  As part of a study to determine how well face masks protect coal mine workers from dust inhalation, he helped to design equipment to sample air inside a worker's dust mask.  He also developed a protocol to measure the weights of coal dust filter samples weighing as little as a few micrograms to determine mine workers' lung exposures.  This experience helped him later when, for his Ph.D. work, he was determining the weights of polar ice dust samples in the microgram range.
• During this air sampling study, LaViolette invented and developed a miniature air-pulsation dampener for use on personnel mass respirable air sampling pumps.  The dampener was so small that it could fit inside the pump housing and dampened air pulsations ten times better than previous versions, dramatically improving the accuracy of the mass respirable sample weights that were being collected.  Subsequently, his device was used in all Harvard industrial hygiene dust sampling studies and is currently a standard feature on air sampling pumps sold to industry.  The design and characteristics of the dampener were described in a technical paper he published.^[56]
• While at Harvard, LaViolette also researched the pneumatic characteristics of respirator components in a study whose aim was to computer simulate breathing apparatus functioning.  The aim of the study was to improve the design and safety of rebreather apparatus used for worker protection.  This was a two year study jointly carried out by both Harvard and MIT and funded by a $50,000 Air Force grant.