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From FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News, Sept. 29, 2016: The bill extends funding for the federal government at last year’s appropriated levels through Dec. 9, or 10 weeks beyond the end of the fiscal year.
From The New York Times, Oct. 4, 2016: Fermilab congratulates scientists David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz for winning the Nobel Prize for their discoveries in condensed-matter physics.
From the College of DuPage, September 2016: Through the Fermilab VetTech Internship program, COD students provide technical support in various departments at Fermilab.
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), a next-generation dark matter detector that will be at least 100 times more sensitive than its predecessor, has cleared another approval milestone and is on schedule to begin its deep-underground hunt for theoretical particles, known as weakly interacting massive particles, in 2020.
From the National Science Foundation, Sept. 26, 2016: The awardees include the Center for Bright Beams at Cornell University, in which Fermilab is a partner. The center’s goal is to make more intense accelerators at a lower cost.