Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today (February 10) a series of special tours that will be given on Sunday afternoon, February 23.
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In response to the number of visitors on the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend, the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is happy to announce that the Lederman Science Center will be open on Saturday, December 28 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will host the next Virtual Ask-a-Scientist on-line chat session on December 12, 2002 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Central Time.
Helen Edwards, whose work in the early days of the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is a foundation of past, present and future scientific achievements, and whose current work is helping shape the next generation of particle accelerators, has been awarded the 2003 Robert R. Wilson Prize by the American Physical Society.
With site-access restrictions still in place, the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is introducing a new type of visitor’s pass to restart its popular Ask-a-Scientist program on Sundays from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will host the next Virtual Ask-a-Scientist on-line chat session on October 9, 2002 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Central Time. Physicists Don Lincoln, an Associate Scientist for Fermilab’s DZero experiment, and Jocelyn Monroe, a researcher for Fermilab’s MiniBooNE experiment, will respond to questions live on-line.
Astrophysicist Edward W. “Rocky” Kolb, of the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Chicago, will join United States senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), NPR News senior analyst Daniel Schorr, novelist Chinua Achebe, and other luminaries in addressing the 2002 incoming class of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 3:30 p.m. at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dr. Michael Wiant, Curator of Anthropology at the Illinois State Museum, will offer a colloquium presentation at the Department of Energy’s Fermilab on Wednesday, September 25, at 4 p.m.
With a twin-bill of Groucho Marx movies on Friday night, Sept. 20, and with Frank Ferrante’s live performance of “An Evening with Groucho” on Saturday night, Sept. 21, the Fermilab Arts Series for 2002-2003 gets off to a rousing start this weekend at Ramsey Auditorium in Wilson Hall.
The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will host the next Virtual Ask-a-Scientist on-line chat session on October 9, 2002 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Central Time. Physicists Don Lincoln, an Associate Scientist for Fermilab’s DZero experiment, and Jocelyn Monroe, a researcher for Fermilab’s MiniBooNE experiment, will respond to questions live on-line.