From FOX 32 Chicago, April 19, 2022: Fox News Chicago’s Tim McGill visited Fermilab yesterday for a first-hand look at the lab’s newest bison calves and the well-known herd. Herdsman Cleo Garcia shared with McGill his experiences and the behaviors he has observed in caring for the bison for the past 11 years.
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From the Daily Herald, April 14, 2022: Fermilab in Batavia announced that its first baby bison of 2022 was born on Wednesday, April 14.
One goal of Fermilab’s Education and Public Engagement office is to facilitate interaction between the lab and the public. One popular way of doing this is through Ask-a-Scientist, a long-running monthly program that recently began offering a more comprehensive view of work done at the lab.
Fermilab’s Office of Education and Public Engagement has wrapped up another summer of virtual educator workshops, hosting 60 teachers from 19 different states via Zoom to connect their classrooms to the science of Fermilab.
From The Rapid City Journal, August 12, 2021: The SURF Davis-Bahcall Scholars Program exposes university freshmen and sophomores in STEM fields to a variety of disciplines helping them decide their college major. This year students took a tour of SURF in Lead, SD and they had the opportunity to speak with scientists and engineers from Fermilab.
Building on the popularity of the Ask-a-Scientist program, Fermilab recently launched the monthly Summer Sunday Tour’ series. These virtual tours are presented live over the Zoom platform and feature a Q&A with a scientist. The next Summer Sunday Tour will be held Aug. 22.
The next Summer Sunday Tour will be held at 1 p.m. on Aug. 22. Registration can be found here. Please visit Fermilab Public Events for more information on other upcoming events.
from CERN, June 21, 2021: Yesterday, CERN held a first stone ceremony for Science Gateway, the Laboratory’s new flagship project for science education and outreach.
In recognition of his own past, physicist Azwinndini Muronga has brought STEM enrichment opportunities to youth in remote, underserved towns and villages.
Catherine Clarkin, from the Office of Education and Public Engagement, presents “Your Invisible Footprint: What Steps Can You Take?” to classrooms and other participants on Earth Day 2021.