Friday, Oct. 30, is the last day to submit your Fermilab Pumpkin Carving Contest entries. Please submit entries by Friday, Oct. 30, at 7 p.m. In all entries, please include: 1 photo with lights on 1 photos with lights off and candle lit *Bonus – send a photo of yourself with your pumpkin Voting starts tomorrow morning! Visit https://get-connected.fnal.gov/Halloween to vote!
Celebrate the spooky season by submitting a picture of your carved pumpkin.
As with all first responders across the nation, the Fermilab Fire Department stands ready to act should they be called upon to help with a COVID-19 incident in the areas surrounding the suburban Illinois laboratory.
Fermilab Director Nigel Lockyer hosted the Future of Fermilab Address and Reception for local leaders, who toured the lab’s facilities and heard about its near- and far-term plans to push the frontiers of science.
Feeling left out of some traditional paths to community in particle physics, a group of Latin American researchers created their own way to connect.
This sunny Saturday, October 12, Walk 4 Animals to help the animals of the Anderson Shelter and get a chance to win a $500 shopping spree! Check-in at 9 am at the Peg Bond Center in Batavia. See how you can help with fundraising and see further event info at https://www.andersonanimalshelter.org/
The West Chicago PADS homeless shelter will be opening in October, and we are in need of volunteers for all shifts. We are open each Thursday evening from 7:00 PM to 7:00 AM from October through May. The night is broken up into four shifts: 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM, 9:00 PM to 1:00 AM, 1:00 AM to 5:00 AM, and 5:00 AM to 7:30 AM. Volunteers are asked to work only one shift per month. We serve our guests…
For the second year in a row, Fermilab is hosting a rapid-fire lecture event organized by the Batavia chapter of PechaKucha 20×20.
Know any community-minded folks outside of Fermilab? Maybe a local citizen interested in engaging with the laboratory? Tell him or her about the Fermilab Community Advisory Board. Fermilab is seeking new members outside the laboratory to join. Send them this webpage, which has general and nomination information. And if you, a Fermilab badge holder, want to get more involved with laboratory life, considering joining one of several Laboratory Resource Groups.
Fifty years of scientific discovery is a good reason for a celebration. And that’s just what the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has in store on Saturday, Sept. 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.