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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.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Menlo Park, Calif., today jointly announce the launching of an email news wire, HEP Interactions, for communicating news from high-energy physics and related fields.

Officials at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today (September 10, 2002) that the laboratory would close to most visitors, effective immediately.

Officials at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermilab announced that the laboratory re-opened to visitors on Thursday, August 8. The Department of Energy had ordered the closing of the laboratory to most visitors as a security measure following the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.