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IERC construction will begin in August with the general contractor securing the construction site on the east side of Wilson Hall. To facilitate construction activities, the IERC will have a number of impacts to the Wilson Hall footprint area, including nearby parking lots.

In the world of particle physics, scientists work with tiny, invisible particles, tracking their collisions and interactions with one another. But what if you could render them as music? What would these songs of the subatomic sound like? Adam Nadel, Fermilab’s 2018 artist-in-residence, worked with scientists at Fermilab and set out to do just that. Read on to hear his music.

On July 16, Fermilab received authorization from DOE to start construction of the Integrated Engineering Research Center. The first construction phase will begin in August and will include draining and filling the east reflecting pond, building a new roadway over the fixed-target beamline and relocating several utilities outside the footprint of the new 80,000 square-foot building.

Over two dozen high school students attending a summer course on astrophysics at the University of Chicago came out to Fermilab on July 3 to see the sites and sights. Their guide was Dark Energy Survey spokesperson and University of Chicago scientist Rich Kron. These young scientists hail from all over the United States and from other countries as well. Here are a few of them, smiling from the Tevatron tunnel.

Many from around the Chicagoland region are likely familiar with RRFB signs, which are activated by the pedestrian and act as an additional visual warning to motorists to yield or stop to pedestrians in the crosswalks. FESS, APS-TD and IARC facility management recently installed RRFB signs at the convergence of the IARC and APS-TD campuses.