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Universities Research Association, Inc., which operates the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, has named Michael Witherell, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a distinguished career in experimental particle physics, to succeed Fermilab Director John Peoples, Jr., on July 1.

Scientists working at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have announced a significant advance in the understanding of the difference in the way matter and antimatter behave.

As summer winds down and the tell-tale colors of autumn emerge, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory once again invites its neighbors to help harvest prairie flower seeds as part of its 20-year effort to restore one of the few tallgrass landscapes remaining in all of Illinois.

Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson will help usher in a new era in physics at the energy frontier when he takes a wrench to four bolts at the Department of Energy¹s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory on Thursday, September 24.

About $23,000 worth of customized copper parts are missing from a building at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and are presumed to have been stolen.

U.S. and European officials today signed an agreement for U.S. participation in the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator under construction near Geneva, Switzerland.

Soccer moms, take heart! Beginning on Saturday, December 6, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will offer an alternative to freezing on the sidelines: Bring the kids to Fermilab’s Lederman Science Center for a day of hands-on science. It’s entertaining, it’s educational, and it’s warm!

The U.S. Department of Energy and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory invite the community to a meeting on October 16, 1997, to share information about a proposed deer management plan for the Fermilab site.

In a ceremony on Monday morning, September 15, officials at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will mark the end of one era in frontier particle physics research at the laboratory and the beginning of another.

The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will host families who once farmed the land of the Fermilab site at an event in the farmers’ honor on Saturday, September 6.