Registration is now open for Jefferson Lab’s annual summer science camp for deaf and hard-of-hearing youth, siblings and children of a deaf adult.
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- U.S. Senator Tim Kaine tours the nation’s premiere facility for studying the quark structure of the atom's nucleus.
- The highly anticipated interactive science show, Physics Fest, will be held twice this summer on July 10 and August 7, at Jefferson Lab.
NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Physics Fest is back this summer with science educator Steve Gagnon at the helm! In a breathtaking 75-minute-long demonstration, Gagnon makes experimenting with science “stuff” relatable and fun. Join him as he explores a multitude of scientific investigations and their principles, complete with volunteers hand-picked from the audience.
- …and other anecdotes from seasoned Jefferson Lab employees.
Jefferson Lab recently recognized and honored lab employees on their fifth, tenth, fifteenth, twentieth, twenty-fifth and thirtieth work anniversaries. Eighty lab employees gathered to celebrate the occasion during an ice cream social, a brunch and a luncheon on lab campus during a three-day span, sponsored by JSA. Casual conversation, words of congratulations and deep discussion about complicated science “stuff” filled CEBAF Center at Jefferson Lab that week.
- Jefferson Lab has been awarded the Department of Energy 2018 Outstanding Security Professional of the Year-Contractor award for improving lab security and furthering best practice safeguard initiatives.
- More than 75 presentations and posters based on Jefferson Lab-related research were presented.
- V3 Program achievement affirms the lab’s commitment to actively recruit military veterans of all stripes to join its workforce.
- Revamping infrastructure to improve lab operations; delivering significant project savings four months ahead of schedule.
- The academic testing season is now underway, and thousands of students in the Commonwealth are expected to visit Jefferson Lab's website to practice for the Virginia Standards of Learning exams.
- Leave the tired baking soda volcano experiment at home! Earlier this month, more than fifty teachers spilled out of the Jefferson Lab auditorium and into the atrium ready to share new, innovative and accessible science-based activities with fellow science teachers.
- Jefferson Lab’s Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility has confirmed production of its first charm quarks.
- The Machine Learning Lunch Series unites potential collaborators across Jefferson Lab, further progressing projects that apply this powerful tool to nuclear and accelerator physics problems.
In the fall of 2018, the scientific computing group at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility held a workshop focused on machine learning. The room was packed. So packed that one attendee, Chris Tennant, a Jefferson Lab staff scientist, realized he didn’t recognize many of the faces in the crowd—which he wanted to change.
- The 2018-2019 Jefferson Science Associates Minority/Female Undergraduate Research Assistantship awardee spins opportunities for growth in science and throughout university campus.
- The world’s first automated production SRF quality testing facility contributes to the success of large-scale particle accelerators across the U.S. and around the world.
- Elementary and middle school science teachers are invited to register for the annual Virginia Region II Teacher Night at Jefferson Lab.
- Rachel Carson Middle School of Herndon placed first among 19 teams who competed at the 2019 Virginia Regional Science Bowl Competition at Jefferson Lab on Saturday, March 2.
- A new economic impact study reveals that Jefferson Lab generates more than half a billion dollars in economic output for the nation.
- The Electron-Ion Collider Center at Jefferson Lab is now accepting research proposals for its fellowship and visitors programs.
- Members of the media and public are invited to observe the 2019 Virginia Regional Middle School Science Bowl Competition at Jefferson Lab on Saturday, March 2.
- Guided by data from new high-precision measurements, physicists develop a universal function that suggests that proton-neutron pairs in the nucleus may be responsible for the EMC Effect.