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Scientists of the CDF collaboration at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today (January 8, 2007) the world’s most precise measurement by a single experiment of the mass of the W boson, the carrier of the weak nuclear force and a key parameter of the Standard Model of particles and forces.

With site-access restrictions still in place, the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is introducing a new type of visitor’s pass to restart its popular Ask-a-Scientist program on Sundays from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will host the next Virtual Ask-a-Scientist on-line chat session on October 9, 2002 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Central Time. Physicists Don Lincoln, an Associate Scientist for Fermilab’s DZero experiment, and Jocelyn Monroe, a researcher for Fermilab’s MiniBooNE experiment, will respond to questions live on-line.

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.

With a twin-bill of Groucho Marx movies on Friday night, Sept. 20, and with Frank Ferrante’s live performance of “An Evening with Groucho” on Saturday night, Sept. 21, the Fermilab Arts Series for 2002-2003 gets off to a rousing start this weekend at Ramsey Auditorium in Wilson Hall.

The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will host the next Virtual Ask-a-Scientist on-line chat session on October 9, 2002 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Central Time. Physicists Don Lincoln, an Associate Scientist for Fermilab’s DZero experiment, and Jocelyn Monroe, a researcher for Fermilab’s MiniBooNE experiment, will respond to questions live on-line.