Astrophysicist Edward W. “Rocky” Kolb, of the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Chicago, will join United States senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), NPR News senior analyst Daniel Schorr, novelist Chinua Achebe, and other luminaries in addressing the 2002 incoming class of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 3:30 p.m. at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Menlo Park, Calif., today jointly announce the launching of an email news wire, HEP Interactions, for communicating news from high-energy physics and related fields.

Scientists of the Booster Neutrino Experiment collaboration announced this week that a new detector at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has observed its first neutrino events.

Officials at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today (September 10, 2002) that the laboratory would close to most visitors, effective immediately.

Minnesota Congressman James Oberstar today (July 2) joined scientists and other officials in an underground ceremony dedicating the particle detector for the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search.