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QuarkNet Gets Going

The QuarkNet proposal, made by Principal Investigators Marge Bardeen of FNAL (Project Spokesperson), Randal Ruchti of Notre Dame, Michael Barnett of LBNL, and Keith Baker of Hampton University, was approved for funding by NSF and DOE to begin in the 1999 Fiscal Year. QuarkNet began its operations from the FNAL Education Office under Project Director Tom Jordan of FNAL.

In the autumn of 1998 the original QuarkNet website (http://quarknet.fnal.gov/) was established, including pages for teachers and for high energy physics institutions to express interest in the program. As expressions of interest came in, the original members of the QuarkNet Staff (Tom Jordan, Andria Erzberger from LBNL, and Patrick Mooney from Notre Dame) visited prospective QuarkNet centers to acquaint them with the program. This process continued through January 1999.

In January 1999, the fourth member of the QuarkNet staff, Ken Cecire of Hampton University, came onboard and spent February catching up with what had already been accomplished. Around the same time, Ken McFarlane of Hampton University began to assist Keith Baker with his duties as PI.

The team met on February 19 at FNAL to select the QuarkNet Centers. Each of the thirteen new QuarkNet Centers chosen recruited two Lead Teachers (save one, which had only one Lead Teacher). These Lead Teacher appointments were completed by the end of May.

The Centers, Mentors, and Lead Teachers are...

QuarkNet Center	Mentor(s)	Lead Teacher(s)
Boston University/Northeastern University (Boston Group)	Ulrich Heintz (BU) Darien Wood (NEU)	Richard Dower (BU) Charles Gliniewicz (NEU)
University of Iowa/Iowa State University (Iowa Group)	Nural Akchurin (U of I) John Hauptman (ISU)	Peter Bruecken (U of I) Jeffrey Dilks (ISU)
Langston University*	Tim McMahon	Rosemary Bradley Larry Wray
University of Oklahoma*	Phillip Gutierrez	Bill Chambers Tom Davis
Florida State University	Horst Wahl Harrison Prosper	Lance King Brian McClain
Michigan State University	Joey Huston Carl Bromberg	Charles Wade
University of Texas at Arlington	Andy White Kaushik De	Cheryl Brooks Richard Gossman
Indiana University	Alex Dzierba Rick Van Kooten	David Blair Matthew Hitchings
SUNY at Stony Brook	Michael Rijssenbeek Paul Grannis John Hobbs	Chris Murphy Edward Pascuzzi
University of Rochester	Kevin McFarland Arie Bodek	Susen Clark Paul Pavone
University of Notre Dame	Randal Ruchti Jim Bishop	LeRoy Castle Dale Wiand
University of California at Santa Cruz	Harmut Sadrozinski	Stuart Briber Kelly Clark
The D0 and CDF Collaborations at Fermilab	V. White (D0) Jae Yu (D0) Rob Roser (CDF)	Richard Decoster (D0) Joseph Serpico (CDF)

*Langston and OU will unite in 2000 to form a single QuarkNet Center.

Each Center is a high energy physics research institution which recruits two Lead Teachers and mentors them in research in the first year of their involvement with QuarkNet. In the second year, the mentors and the Lead Teachers design and run a three-week workshop for up to ten Associate Teachers, whom they also recruit. The QuarkNet staff assists with all of these activities.

On April 13, a Mentor Orientation was held at FNAL. The agenda included nuts and bolts of how QuarkNet works, ways of working with high school teachers, and inquiry learning. There was also time for staff members and mentors to get to know each other.

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Last Updated: September 1999