A five-member bipartisan delegation toured the laboratory, met a Nobel laureate, and discussed the flagship LBNF/DUNE neutrino project.
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From Business Insider, April 24, 2018: In Chicago, Her Excellency visits Fermilab, America’s premier national laboratory for particle physics and accelerator research.
Governor General Payette toured Fermilab’s extensive research complex and marked the start of a new partnership in particle physics research.
Binkley discussed our neutrino, muon and collider physics programs with Fermilab experts, as well as our accelerator science and technology efforts.
Menezes is DOE’s principal advisor on energy policy and emerging energy technologies. He is also responsible for the coordinated management of DOE energy programs.
From Naperville Community Television, Jan. 14, 2018: The former governor and two-time presidential hopeful recently toured Fermilab and spoke to a packed auditorium of scientists who work at the national laboratory – a laboratory Perry called a jewel of the United States.
From The Beacon-News, Jan. 9, 2018: National laboratories should continue to bring in talent from across the world to advance understanding of science and promote global outreach, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry said Tuesday during a speech to employees at Batavia’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
From Kane County Chronicle, Jan. 10, 2018: In a folksy, down-home talk at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Batavia Jan. 9, U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry presented himself as an advocate for the Department of Energy’s 17 national laboratories and the expansion of science on a global scale.
From Daily Herald, Jan. 9, 2018: Secretary of Energy Rick Perry tells scientists at Fermilab that the the particle physics research facility is one of the “jewels” of the United States.
Secretary Perry’s visit encompassed the breadth of the Fermilab research program and included a town hall meeting with lab employees and users.