Friday Flyer/News

Spotlight on the Rice University/University of Houston QuarkNet Center This center experienced a tragic loss in early 2017 with the sudden passing of long-time mentor Marj Corcoran. Though Marj…

Spotlight on the Virginia Tech QuarkNet Center The Virginia Tech QuarkNet Center is one of the more rural QuarkNet centers and also one of the newer centers. They just ran their Associate Teacher…

QuarkNet is a unique and transformative long-term professional development program for high school physics teachers. We invite them into the particle physics research community where they have an…

Spotlight on Marge Bardeen You may recall the announcement from last week's Friday Flyer that Marge Bardeen would be retiring this week from Fermilab after several decades building and working…

Spotlight on the Virtual QuarkNet Center The Virtual QuarkNet Center was established in "the aughts" as an alternative center for teachers not near or connected to an established geographic…

Spotlight on Johns Hopkins University QuarkNet Center Led by mentor Morris Swartz and lead teachers Kevin Martz and Jeremy Smith, the JHU center just completed its 16th year in 2017. In late…

Spotlight on the University of Notre Dame QuarkNet Center The University of Notre Dame focuses its QuarkNet work on an exensive summer research program. Each year about 15 teachers and 15 students…

Spotlight on the Syracuse University QuarkNet Center Professors Steven Blusk and Matt Rudolph serve as mentors for this center that just completed its sixth year in QuarkNet. Last spring, Syracuse…

Spotlight on 2017 This is the last Friday Flyer of 2017, so it is a good time to reflect on the year QuarkNet members have experienced. We had some great highlights, starting with Nate Unterman…

Spotlight on Liz Quigg Many of you may not know Liz personally, but chances are that you're familiar with some of her work. Liz joined Fermilab's Education Office in 2005 after working over 30…