Rich Kron and Tom Diehl will lead the sky survey through the close of observations and into an era of full-data analysis.
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From The Story Collider, Aug. 24, 2018: Fermilab scientist Herman White tells the story about leaving his hometown of Tuskegee to pursue physics. His Alabama roots help him make a surprising connection later in his career.
The upgraded collider will produce collisions at seven times the rate of the current LHC. Apresyan’s work will ensure the CMS detector can take on the particle flood.
From STFC, Aug. 15, 2018: STFC has appointed Dave Newbold of the University of Bristol, who has been leading the data acquisition design for DUNE, as new director of its Particle Physics Department.
From UQ News, Aug. 1, 2018: A scientist from the Dark Energy Survey, which is hosted by Fermilab, is selected for the television program Australian Survivor.
The DOE Early Career Award will fund research and development for special technology to study the lightest and most elusive particles.
From Story Collider, July 27, 2018: Fermilab engineering physicist Cindy Joe is featured in this podcast. She talks about how, as a first-generation college student, she grew up dreaming big in the back of her family’s Chinese restaurant in a small town in Arkansas.
Growing up on the Crow reservation in Montana inspired JoRee LaFrance to pursue a career in hydrology.
From Brown University, July 18, 2018: Meenakshi Narain will lead the collaboration board for U.S. institutions participating in the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Fermilab is the U.S. center for research at CMS.
Sometimes teenage rebellion means going for a degree in physics.