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Fermilab recently recognized a group of dedicated employees for their outstanding contributions with Exceptional Performance Recognition Awards. The employees were nominated by their divisions and sections for the awards. Fermilab Director Nigel Lockyer handed out the awards at a reception on Sept. 15. Click image for larger version.   The following employees received awards: Accelerator Division William Pellico William Pellico is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award in recognition of his exemplary leadership of the Proton Improvement Plan and achieving…

Graduate student Mattia Checchin, who is conducting his thesis research at Fermilab, earned first prize at a poster session at the recent international SRF 2015 conference.

Fermilab scientist and ESH&Q Radiation Protection Manager Don Cossairt has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the DOE Office of Science

Last month, four Fermilab scientists were named fellows of the American Physical Society, a distinction awarded each year to no more than one-half of 1 percent of current APS members by their peers.

  The COOL’15 Workshop International Organization Committee has given Accelerator Division Head Sergei Nagaitsev the Dieter Möhl Medal. The medal, sponsored by CERN, is given for pioneering work in the construction of the first high-energy electron cooler and its application to the cooling and accumulation of antiprotons at the Fermilab Recycler Ring, contributing to the significant increase in the integrated luminosity recorded in the Tevatron during Run II. The Dieter Möhl Medal recognizes accelerator scientists for their lifetime achievements and…

The Roads and Grounds Department has been awarded the 2014 Industrial Hygiene Award for helping the Industrial Hygiene Group characterize the occupational exposures during summer lawn care maintenance and prescribed prairie burn operations.

Patrick Fox Fermilab scientist Patrick Fox was recently awarded the Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers for his work in theoretical physics. Roughly 500 Humboldt Research Fellowships are given annually. They go to scientists who work at the level of assistant professor or junior research group leader or have a record of several years of independent academic work. The fellowship allows researchers to carry out long-term research in Germany. Applicants choose their own topics of research and their academic host. Fox’s…

Last week Fermilab became one of 17 recipients of the first EPEAT Purchaser Award, which recognizes excellence in the green procurement of electronics. Fermilab was also one of nine three-star award winners, the highest level that can be achieved. The combined efforts of the 2015 EPEAT Purchaser Award winners resulted in enough energy savings to power more than 6,500 U.S. households for one year and carbon reductions equal to removing more than 11,000 passenger cars from the road for a…

Jeffrey Eldred Jeffrey Eldred was recently awarded the NPSS Graduate Scholarship Award from the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society. The award recognizes contributions to the fields of nuclear and plasma sciences. Up to four awards are made annually of $1,500 and a one-year paid membership to NPSS. Eldred is a Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University Bloomington in the Department of Physics and the Joint University-Fermilab Doctoral Program in Accelerator Physics and Technology. He studies under the joint supervision of…

Vladimir Shiltsev The Editorial Board of the Physical Review Special Topics – Accelerators and Beams has bestowed the 2015 Robert H. Siemann Award for outstanding contributions to Fermilab scientist Vladimir Shiltsev, director of Fermilab’s Accelerator Physics Center. Shiltsev was an outstanding member of the PRST-AB Editorial Board for six years. The award citation emphasizes his numerous initiatives as an Editorial Board member to make PRST-AB optimally serve the accelerator community, to render it ever more attractive and to increase its…