Friday Flyer/News

Spotlight on Wayne State University: Wayne State University has a small but thriving QuarkNet center located in the heart of Detroit. Engagement with the community is an important aspect of their…

Spotlight on International Muon Week: IMW has passed, but the work goes on. Last week, 42 participant schools fired up their cosmic ray detectors to capture a weeklong snapshot of cosmic ray data…

Spotlight on the University of Oregon Center: The center in Eugene, Oregon is near the Laser Interfermoter Gravitational Observatory (LIGO). In previous years, teachers have gone to visit the…

Spotlight on the University of California at Santa Cruz Center: The premier project of the Santa Cruz center over the past several years has been summer research with cosmic ray detectors. (Check out…

Spotlight on Florida State University: The FSU QuarkNet Center was in QuarkNet's inaugural class; they've been active since 1999. Horst Wahl is the mentor. The group started by sending two…

Spotlight on the University of Cincinnati: Interested in cosmic ray studies? Interested in research at CERN? Don't want to decide between them? Then you'd feel at home in the UC center, where…

Spotlight on IMW: QuarkNet and the e-Lab Fellows invite you to join the 4th Annual International Muon Week (IMW). It’s all about capturing cosmic ray data for one week with as many…

Spotlight on the Purdue-Calumet QuarkNet Center: You probably know about Purdue University—Boilermakers, West Lafayette—but there is more than one Purdue. Purdue University Calumet is a mostly…

Spotlight on the Boston QuarkNet Center: The Boston group started in 1999 as a collaboration between Darien Wood at Boston University and Ulrich Heintz, then at Northeastern University. Later, Heinz…

The Friday Flyer will be on vacation until January 9. Have a nice holiday and a safe New Year. Looking forward to a great 2015. Spotlight on Virginia: Once upon a time (last month), there was a…