DUNE Resources Review Board to meet in South Dakota for the first time March 29, 2023 Representatives from science funding agencies from around the world will convene in Lead, South Dakota, the future home of the large particle detector for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
A minute with Holly Lett, head of talent development March 29, 2023 After years of running her own business, Holly Lett came to Fermilab to help its employees reach their highest career aspirations. Now, her team is revamping online-trainings and spearheading a new leadership class for Fermilab employees.
A collaboration pairs Fermilab with fashion students March 28, 2023 Students in the fashion studies department at College of DuPage designed personal protective equipment for SPOT, a dog-like robot that can send data back to researchers from areas that are unsafe for humans due to environmental hazards, such as radiation.
LHC experiments see four top quarks March 24, 2023 The ATLAS and CMS experiments have observed a process 4,000 times rarer than the production of Higgs bosons.
A minute with Claire Lee, particle physicist March 23, 2023 Claire Lee works for the US-CMS collaboration at CERN. When she’s not taking shifts in the CMS control room, ensuring the detectors are functioning properly and safely, she takes guests on tours and teaches them about the amazing particle physics investigated by the variety of experiments there.
Mary Bishai joins Sergio Bertolucci as co-spokesperson of DUNE March 20, 2023 Bishai and Bertolucci lead the 1,400-member collaboration of scientists and engineers of the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, hosted by Fermilab.
How to put together an international physics experiment March 17, 2023 To build the DUNE neutrino experiment and its associated accelerator upgrade, experts invent customized ways to transport fragile, expensive and highly specialized components.
New STEM program for high school girls comes to Fermilab March 10, 2023 SAGE camp, a week-long summer program designed to educate and enlighten underrepresented students interested in STEM, becomes established at the lab.
Do hidden influences give neutrinos their tiny mass? March 7, 2023 The quest to understand the small mass of neutrinos is also a quest to discover new particles.
Fermilab welcomes a new chief financial officer March 7, 2023 Teresa Nightengale joins the lab as chief financial officer bringing more than 35 years of experience. In her role as CFO, she will be responsible for all budgeting, accounting, payroll, finance and procurement systems at Fermilab.