Press releases

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley announced today (Oct. 2, 2007) that Fermilab in Batavia produced the seventh most important scientific achievement in the six-county Chicago region.

Many people can claim success nurturing a backyard garden, but few people can say they helped grow a historic nearly 1,100-acre native prairie.

For the second year in a row, the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has earned a spot on the list of best places to work in the Chicago area.

The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory selected Anna Zuccarini, a teacher at Crone Middle School in Naperville, to serve as the master teacher in this year’s Pre-Service Teacher program at Fermilab.

Scientists of the Pierre Auger Collaboration will begin today (July 3) the public release of one percent of the cosmic-ray events recorded by the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina.

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have announced the observation of the cascade b baryon-again.

Members of the public are invited to become “citizen scientists” and help ecologists track prairie restoration at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with the Prairie Quadrat Program.

Three-quark particle contains one quark from each family.

Kathleen Stanley of Warrenville, a graduating senior at Rosary High School in Aurora who hopes to major in chemical engineering in college, has been named the recipient of the Fermilab Science Award and scholarship, sponsored by the Fermilab Friends for Science Education and the Franklin Fund.

In celebration of Particle Accelerator Day this weekend in Illinois, two U.S. Department of Energy Laboratories, Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, have planned events at their respective accelerator facilities.