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Accelerator scientists are in demand at labs and beyond.

From Chicago Tribune/Beacon-News, April 21, 2016: Fermilab’s annual STEM Career Expo brought together Fermilab scientists and engineers as well as local companies and research organizations in order for teens to learn about careers in math and science.

The recently installed ANNIE neutrino experiment at Fermilab will use a new kind of detector to get a fine-grain view of neutrino-nucleon interactions.

From the Beacon-News, April 18, 2016: Fermilab in Batavia offered its 29th Wonders of Science event, which featured three current and retired high school teachers from the area performing a variety of experiments designed to make learning about science exciting.

Light is all around us, but how much do you really know about the photons speeding past you?

From PBS Digital Studios’ The Good Stuff: Dark matter makes up 70 percent of the known universe, and we know very little about it. This video on dark matter includes an interview with theorist Patrick Fox and a tour of the MINOS underground area at Fermilab.

From Silicon Republic, April 8, 2016: Researchers in the United States, including Fermilab researchers, and CERN have teamed up to produce 20 new accelerator magnets, which, when put together into the next LHC in 2026, will up its power by a factor of ten.

The collaboration between Russian institutions and Fermilab in the 1980s became, for some, a symbol of two competing countries overcoming their differences and working together to move the field of particle physics forward.

One: The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment will look for more than just neutrinos.

Fermilab and the Dare to Dream organization host a conference encouraging young Latinas to pursue careers in STEM.