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U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, left, and U.S. Representative Bill Foster, right, unveil the commemorative plaque showing the late Dr. Helen Edwards and the official naming of the Helen Edwards Engineering Research Center in her honor, on Friday, Dec. 5 at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois. Credit: JJ Starr, Fermilab

Fermilab dedicates new state-of-the-art building honoring scientist Helen Edwards

Fermilab’s newest leading-edge research building, named after renowned accelerator physicist Helen Edwards, was dedicated today in a formal ceremony with DOE, state and local officials. The newly dedicated research center serves as a collaborative hub for engineers, technicians, scientists and experts from across the lab as Fermilab enters a new era of research.

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Energy Department announces partnership with Fermilab and Qblox to manufacture foundational quantum control platform for U.S. research and innovation

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a partnership between Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Qblox, under which Qblox will coordinate manufacturing, distribution and support for the Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit (QICK) to advance U.S. quantum research and workforce development.

Why choose liquid argon for DUNE detectors?

In its quest to understand why matter exists, the flagship neutrino experiment hosted by Fermilab is constructing an enormous next-generation liquid-argon-based detector a mile underground. The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is building on the successes of previous liquid-argon experiments, promising measurements of unprecedented precision over a wide range of energies that will bring significant new insights into the nature of the universe.