Friday Flyer/News

Spotlight on the Brookhaven National Laboratory – Stony Brook University QuarkNet Center The BNL-SB center is nearly as old as QuarkNet itself. Shortly after QuarkNet started in 1999, both Stony…

There will be no Friday Flyer next week; we'll pick it up again on November 30. Happy Thanksgiving!   Spotlight on the SUNY – University at Buffalo QuarkNet Center Buffalo hosted a CMS…

Spotlight on the Virginia QuarkNet Center The Virginia center (not the same as the Virginia Tech center—more on them in another Flyer) was once again very active in the past year. They met twice…

  Spotlight on the Rice University/University of Houston QuarkNet Center This Houston center held two major events in 2018: A CMS masterclass for students and a week-long summer workshop for…

  Spotlight on the Boston QuarkNet Center The Boston Center—really a composite center sponsored by particle physicists at Northeastern University in Boston and Brown University in nearby…

Spotlight on the Fermilab/University of Chicago QuarkNet Center Summer 2018 was a busy one, with 15 teachers taking part in a workshop and four students involved in a summer research experience …

Spotlight on Leon Lederman, 1922–2018 Leon Lederman was one of the great physicists, perhaps the foremost, of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. To Fermilab and to QuarkNet, he was that great…

Remembering Leon Lederman, pictured here with children at FNAL daycare. (Photo from Fermilab.org)   Nobel laureate, trail-blazing researcher, and former director of Fermilab passed away on…

Spotlight on the Queensborough Community College QuarkNet Center The Queensborough Community College (QCC) center is, well, different. Mentor Raul Armendariz has been gearing the center, along…

Spotlight on the University of New Mexico QuarkNet Center Located in Albuquerque and led by Sally Seidel, this is one of QuarkNet's newest centers, starting in the 2016-17 academic year with…