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NPR interviewed the head of the Fermilab education and public engagement division, Natalie Johnson, about Fermilab’s quantum programs for young students and the growth of quantum research in Illinois.

Each year for Neutrino Day, SDPB hosts a special live broadcast a mile underground. This year, SDPB spoke with Mike Headley, SURF laboratory director, Dr. Sowjanya Gollapinni, senior scientist for Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment and others about DUNE and Neutrino Day events in Lead, SD.

SURF and partner organizations hosted the 18th annual Neutrino Day in Lead, SD on July 11. As a sponsor, Fermilab hosted an interactive livestream event from underground, an Ask a Scientist table and many lab staff were on hand to answer questions about DUNE.

The Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit known as QICK, is an RF control and readout system developed by engineers at Fermilab in collaboration with university research groups and industry partners, with the firmware, software, and hardware fully open source.

Italian native and Fermilab senior scientist, Anadi Canepa, is the current spokesperson for the CMS experiment at CERN. CMS is one of two large experiments at the LHC and has one of the largest scientific collaborations in the world.

Qblox announced a formalized CRADA alongside a full commercial licensing structure to manage the U.S. manufacturing, domestic supply chain coordination, and commercial distribution of the Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit developed by Fermilab.

WIRED interviews Anna Grassellino, a Sicilian physicist at Fermilab, leading the research and development for next-generation quantum computers.

The Fermi Data Platform was selected as a key partner for DOE’s Genesis Mission’s American Science Cloud, providing petabytes of storage, robust data-access tools and deep institutional expertise to ensure the data can be used to its fullest potential for AI-enhanced scientific research.

Fermilab’s Christina Wang received the American Physical Society’s Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Award in Experimental Particle Physics for developing novel techniques to detect dark matter, a substance theorized to comprise approximately 85% of all matter in the universe