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Date: Friday, July 30, 2010
Time: 11:45 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Place: Jefferson Lab, CEBAF Center Lobby, 12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, VA 23606
Event:  More than 35 high school and college interns that participated in Jefferson Lab's summer science enrichment programs will share their summer experiences and projects during a Poster Session.
Participating in this summer's poster session are:

A student watches in amazement at the behavior of inflated balloons after they have been pulled from a container of liquid nitrogen (at a temperature of -321 Fahrenheit).

Infrastructure ProjectsJune 3, 2010
What do you think of the TEDF? How about the UIM project? What would have happened if we had not got the ARRA funding for the NP GPP projects last year?
Gobbledegook!? Acronymia? Certainly different from the usual PREx, or QWeak, or DVCS that we hear from the physics side of the house!

Website Helps Students Prepare For Range of Virginia Standards of Learning Tests


NEWPORT NEWS, Va., May 21, 2010 – Thousands of Virginia students flock to Jefferson Lab's Science Education website each spring to prepare for the Virginia Standards of Learning tests.

Jefferson Lab plans "Celebration of Science" Open House for May 1


NEWPORT NEWS, Va., April 2010 - The U.S. Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab is planning a public Open House on Saturday, May 1.

News Media Invited to Jefferson Lab's May 1 Open House


What: The Jefferson Lab "Celebration of Science" Open House
When: Saturday, May 1, 2010. News Media may visit any time between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Where: The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, located at 12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, Va. 23606

Dr. William F. Brinkman, Director of the Department of Energy's Office of Science, addressed Jefferson Lab staff on the Office of Science perspective during his visit Monday.

News Media Invited to Teachers' Science Activities Night at Jefferson Lab


What: Third Annual Region II Teacher Night
When: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Where: CEBAF Center at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, located at 12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, Va. 23606 (Map and directions at: http://www.jlab.org/visitors/visiting/index.html )

National Lab Day - Open HouseApril 19, 2010
It has long been a convention to call out special days with their names, one’s birthday, Halloween, New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day and so on. Recently, we have seen the term National Lab Day appear in exchanges on the internet.
What is National Lab Day?

Jefferson Lab Names McKeown As Deputy Director


NEWPORT NEWS, VA, March 25 - The U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility today announced the appointment of Robert D. McKeown, a leading nuclear physicist and professor at the California Institute of Technology, to the position of deputy director for science.

CollaborationMarch 16, 2010
During the course of the past year, we have received visits from scientists and technologists from a number of institutions. We have also talked about visiting other institutions ourselves. Why?

Media Advisory - The Virginia Middle School Science Bowl Is Set For March 6 at Jefferson Lab


What: The 2010 Virginia Regional Middle School Science Bowl
When: Saturday, March 6, 2010. Round-robin competition will run from 10 a.m. - noon. The double-elimination, semi-final and finalist rounds will run from 1:30 to approximately 4 p.m. Awards will be presented immediately after the final round.

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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology from Alexandria beat out St. Christopher's School from Richmond, 54-44, in the final round today to win the Virginia Regional High School Science Bowl held at Jefferson Lab.
St. Christopher's finished in second at the end of the intense, day-long academic competition, while Bishop Sullivan Catholic High School, from Virginia Beach, finished third. Gloucester High School, Gloucester, took fourth place.

Jefferson Lab plans ‘Celebration of Science’ Open House for May 1


NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Feb. 23, 2010 - The U.S. Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab is planning a public Open House for Saturday, May 1.

Pennington To Lead Jefferson Lab Theory Center


NEWPORT NEWS, VA – After an extensive international search, the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has selected Michael R. Pennington, an internationally known physicist, as Associate Director for Theoretical and Computational Physics.

March 2 Speaker at Jefferson Lab Discusses Restoration of the USS Monitor


NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Feb. 19, 2010 – Jefferson Lab's March 2 Science Series event will feature a discussion of the ongoing efforts to conserve and exhibit the iconic Civil War ironclad USS Monitor at The Mariners' Museum.

Hibernation - Not! February 10, 2010
Given the time of the year, and the lack of a recent Montage, you would be forgiven for wondering whether the director had gone into hibernation or succumbed to the very real winter we have been experiencing this year. In fact neither is the case, and it’s certainly not true for the laboratory as a whole.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Some of the brightest young minds in the Commonwealth will meet at the Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab on Saturday, Feb. 27, to compete in the Virginia Regional High School Science Bowl. Teams from 20 high schools from across the region are registered for this year's academic competition.