education
May 2013
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May 21, 2013day in the life: Fermilab docentFormer biology teacher Felicia Svoboda shows Fermilab visitors the ins and outs of doing science.
March 2013
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March 20, 2013signal to background: Meet 63 women in STEM, and countingIn celebration of Women’s History Month, the US Department of Energy is recognizing some of the many women who make a difference in science and technology innovation.
January 2013
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January 23, 2013breaking: Say hello to CERNScientists, engineers and other personalities from Europe’s largest physics lab begin a new series of “Hangout with CERN” video chats.
November 2012
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November 30, 2012signal to background: Physics education program QuarkNet develops global reachA professional development program created in the United States to help teachers explain particle physics has caught on across the world.
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November 21, 2012signal to background: Fermilab's first physics slam a smash hitFive scientists spent a Friday night on stage competing to see who could best convey the fun of particle physics.
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November 12, 2012signal to background: Passing along LHC know-how to future generationsPreserving expertise about how complicated detectors work is one of the Large Hadron Collider's biggest challenges.
October 2012
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October 18, 2012breaking: Angry Birds to teach particle physicsThe vengeful Angry Birds cardinal sets his sights on a new target: teaching kids particle physics.
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October 15, 2012signal to background: A summer of (physics) codeThis summer, seven young coding whizzes contributed to CERN projects through the Google Summer of Code program.
September 2012
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September 20, 2012signal to background: African School of Physics student awarded international fellowshipLaza Rakotondravohitra will pursue his Ph.D. as part of the MINERvA experiment at Fermilab.
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September 18, 2012breaking: ATLAS collaboration gains real recognition for virtual visits programA jury of 30 experts judged the ATLAS Virtual Visits program as the top online event of 2012 in European public relations and communication.
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September 11, 2012feature: From particle physics to the computing industryA new generation of computer scientists is applying unique skills learned in particle physics to tough problems in industry, working on everything from high-efficiency light bulbs to Internet search engines.
August 2012
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August 29, 2012breaking: Summer school gives African students glimpse into lives in physicsThis month, about 30 instructors and 50 students traveled from around Africa and the rest of the world to gather in Ghana for three and a half weeks of training in physics and computing.
May 2012
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May 1, 2012signal to background: The electron's danceParis’ Trocadéro science exhibition allows science enthusiasts to see—and even control—a real electron accelerator.
January 2012
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January 12, 2012breaking: Calling young scientists: Google teams up with CERN and Fermilab for 2012 science fairSubmissions opened today for Google’s second annual science fair. Last year’s winner earned a trip to CERN laboratory in Europe, among other things. This year not one, but two particle physics institutions will contribute to the fair. Engineer Steve Myers, director of accelerators and technology at CERN, and physicist Young-Kee Kim, deputy director of Fermilab, will each participate on the final judging panel. The grand prize winner will receive a trip to visit both labs.
September 2011
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September 28, 2011breaking: LHC control centers open to teens for a nightOn Friday Sept. 23, students arrived at control rooms for the LHC and its detectors throughout the evening in groups of five to 10. For the second time, members of the four largest experiments at the LHC at CERN were participating in Researchers’ Night, a Europe-wide event in which members of the public from more than 320 cities spend an evening alongside scientists in action.
June 2011
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June 13, 2011breaking: Bob's most excellent particle detector adventureOne month ago, Fermilab's Bob Peterson embarked on a month-long journey in the Atlantic Ocean with two cosmic ray muon detectors, collecting data for science and education programs. This offers a chance to study how cosmic ray recordings differ on land and sea and at different latitudes. The data will be accessible to high school students and teachers in several countries who use similar detectors to learn about particle physics. Bob recorded the entire adventure, which concluded last week, in Quantum Diaries. He posted the following entry on May 12, just as his ship was about to pass the equator.
February 2011
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February 1, 2011signal to background: Slammed by scienceBathed in orange lighting reminiscent of a beat-generation lounge, 200 people grabbed beers and pretzels and settled in to watch six particle physicists compete for their affection.
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February 1, 2011signal to background: Young researcher tackles world's biggest cameraWhen David Lawrence joined the Brookhaven High School Research Program at age 15, he said he wanted a project challenging enough to catch the attention of the judges at the Intel Science Talent Search.
October 2010
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October 1, 2010breaking: Students on shift at the LHCThe average age of operators in the CERN Control Rooms dropped dramatically last Friday, September 24, as 130 students between the ages of 12 and 19 joined the teams on shift as part of European Researchers’ Night. The event was a unique occasion for 130 students from the local French and Swiss schools to sit right next to the scientists who control the LHC and its detectors and get hands-on particle physics experience.
September 2010
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September 24, 2010breaking: So long and thanks for all the physics: The Hitchhiker’s GuideOf all of the documents uploaded to the arXiv – a virtual library of scientific publications – it is possible that only one is adorned with a smiling alien made of Feynman diagrams and the words “DON’T PANIC.”
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