News at work

On Thursday, May 30, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Lederman Science Center, the Education Office will host a party to celebrate a successful renovation project, which includes new exhibit signage and two new exhibits in the Accelerators room. Everyone is invited! Please come and explore our exhibits, and see Fermilab’s science from a kid’s point of view. Cake and refreshments will be available.

On April 10, the Event Horizon Telescope published an exciting image of that black hole. If no light can escape, how can it be seen? It cannot, not really. But that amazing image was made by cleverly combining signals from eight microwave telescopes spread over Earth, all recording signals from M87 at the same time for a few hours.

Physicists meet this week in Granada, Spain, to update the European Strategy for Particle Physics. Hundreds of scientists from around the globe associated with the European particle physics program are meeting ti discuss and evaluate what Europe’s next collaborative projects should be. The end goal is a consolidated strategy that European research institutions can use to guide their efforts for the next several years.

Fermilab management is committed to promoting a positive environment at the lab. Both the Statement of Community Standards and the lab’s Anti-Harassment Policy apply to all members of the Fermilab community — employees, users, subcontractors, visitors and guests — and communicate the expectations that all members of the community are treated with respect and interact in a way that promotes diversity and inclusion across the lab.

In their quest to discover physics beyond the Standard Model, physicists weigh the pros and cons of different search strategies.

Fermilab employee Wayne A. Johnson, badge number 6909, will retire on Friday, May 24, after 34 years of service to the lab. As an electronics technician, Johnson worked on cabling and beamlines for many of the the lab’s experiments and projects, contributed to NML and the Cryomodule Test Facility, and to the design and installation of the CDMS detector.

The COO organization gathered on May 6 for an all-hands meeting. Here are the top five takeaways from presentations given by Karen Kosky, Kay Van Vreede and me.

The Office of the Deputy Director for Administration organization gathered for their first all-hands meeting on May 6. Following are the top five takeaways from the meeting.

We are extremely busy in the Finance Section, with many unique challenges. On Tuesday, May 6, we gathered to discuss how we can best support the lab, highlight ongoing and upcoming activities and shine a spotlight on Payroll Department. Here are the highlights from the meeting.

The annual DOE Project Management Achievement Awards recognize teams that have demonstrated significant results in completing projects within cost and schedule. Fermilab received two of the three given for Office of Science projects this year: one for the Muon g-2 Project and one for the Utilities Upgrade Project, both of which are key to the laboratory’s research programs.

By developing clever theories and conducting experiments with particle colliders, telescopes and satellites, physicists have been able to wind the film of the universe back billions of years—and glimpse the details of the very first moments in the history of our cosmic home. Take a (brief) journey through the early history of our cosmos.

The joint CIO/CRO all-hands meeting took place on Apr. 30. Jon Bakken, Jim Amundson and I presented on behalf of Computing. Here are our top five takeaways.