The APS awarded two prestigious prizes, the Panofsky Prize and the Wilson Prize, to four scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
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In her new role on the LBNF/DUNE-US project, Mary Convery will oversee the completion of the far site conventional facilities and the near site primary and neutrino beamlines and supporting conventional facilities.
Sloan Digital Sky Survey received the 2021 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award for its “early and influential demonstration of the power of data science to transform a scientific domain.” The award recognized the contributions of Fermilab’s Bill Boroski, Steve Kent and Brian Yanny, as well as several others, for work done from 2000 to 2008 on the database systems developed to distribute SDSS data.
The physicist succeeds Marta Cehelsky, who has been at the helm of the Universities Research Association since 2011.
The deadline to submit an application for this Universities Research Association biannual award program is rapidly approaching.
After 50 years of dedicated service to Fermilab, John Reid, head of the RF Department, is retiring. Reid’s influence and designs are all over Fermilab — including new projects like PIP2IT and the Booster, one of Fermilab’s oldest accelerators.