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  • Thomas Jefferson High School Wins Virginia Science Bowl for 7th Year Running


    NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Feb. 20, 2008 - The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology team pummeled its competition at the Virginia Regional Science Bowl held Feb. 2 at Jefferson Lab.
    The team finished the day winning all of its matches. This marked the seventh time since Jefferson Lab has been hosting this annual event that the Thomas Jefferson team, from Alexandria, took the regional title. Eighteen teams competed in the day-long academic event that pitted teams of the brightest students from across Virginia against each other.

  • George Neil Named to Lead JLab's Free-Electron Laser Program
    George Neil Named to Lead JLab's Free-Electron Laser Program
    NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Feb.15, 2008 - Dr. George Neil has been named Associate Director of the Free-Electron Laser Division at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab).
    Neil is responsible for managing the Free-Electron Laser (FEL) operations and research programs. The machine uses superconducting radiofrequency technology to convert electron-beam energy into light that is used to conduct an array of defense, industrial and academic research.

  • Civil War Unplugged Featured In Jefferson Lab Spring Science Series Lecture
    Civil War Unplugged Featured In Jefferson Lab Spring Science Series Lecture
    NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Feb.12, 2008 - Discover how sounds affected the outcome of battles during the Civil War when the Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab presents a public lecture dubbed "The Civil War Unplugged" in late March.

  • Imager Spots and Samples Tiny Tumors

    Imager Spots and Samples Tiny Tumors


    NEWPORT NEWS, Va. Feb. 8, 2008 -- The positron emission mammography/tomography breast imaging and biopsy system was designed and constructed by scientists at Jefferson Lab, West Virginia University and the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The PEM/PET system is designed for detecting and guiding the biopsies of suspicious breast cancer lesions.

  • Inaugural JSA Postdoctoral Research Fellow Announced
    Inaugural JSA Postdoctoral Research Fellow Announced
    NEWPORT NEWS, VA, Feb. 5 - Research that will cast a new spin on particles inside the atomic nucleus has earned a researcher based at Temple University the first-ever JSA Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.

  • Woman Credits JLab Technology With Saving Her Life

    Woman Credits JLab Technology With Saving Her Life


    NEWPORT NEWS, Va. Jan. 30, 2008 -- When Sue Parham underwent tests prior to undergoing surgery for breast cancer, she had no idea how much her life was about to change.

  • Device Zeroes in on Small Breast Tumors
    Device Zeroes in on Small Breast Tumors
    NEWPORT NEWS, VA, Jan. 28 - A new medical imager for detecting and guiding the biopsy of suspicious breast cancer lesions is capable of spotting tumors that are half the size of the smallest ones detected by standard imaging systems, according to a new study.
  • Physics of Dance
    CANCELLED: March 4 Physics of Dance Lab Lecture Has Been Cancelled
    NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Feb. 12, 2008 – The Physics of Dance Science Series lecture that had been scheduled for March 4 has been cancelled.

  • Jefferson Lab Hosts 20 Teams for High School Science Bowl on Feb. 2
    Jefferson Lab Hosts 20 Teams for High School Science Bowl on Feb. 2
    NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Jan. 25, 2008 - Some of the brightest young minds in the Commonwealth will meet at the Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab on Saturday, Feb. 2, to compete in the Virginia Regional High School Science Bowl. Twenty teams, representing high schools from across the region are registered for this year's academic competition.
  • Virginia Regional High School Science Bowl


    What:              Virginia Regional High School Science Bowl
    When:              Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008. Round robin competition runs from 10 a.m. - noon. The double elimination, semi-final and finalist rounds run from 1:30 - 5 p.m. Awards presentations will be made immediately after the final round.

  • Spin in the Neutron

    Spin in the Neutron


    NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Puzzling out the source of proton and neutron spin is part of the ongoing experimental effort at Jefferson Lab to understand their structure and the structure of the nucleus of the atom.

  • New particles get a mass boost
    New particles get a mass boost
    October 1, 2007
    NEWPORT NEWS, VA - A sophisticated, new analysis has revealed that the next frontier in particle physics is farther away than once thought. New forms of matter not predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics are most likely twice as massive as theorists had previously calculated, according to a just-published study.
    The discovery is noteworthy because experimental improvements of this magnitude rarely occur more often than once in a decade.

  • Dust Defeats Germ-Killing Fabrics
    Dust Defeats Germ-Killing Fabrics
    September 24, 2007
    NEWPORT NEWS, VA, Sept. 24 -- While researchers have found many ways to make fabrics that kill germs in the lab, the first field study of germ-killing fabric reveals that the real world is a tougher place.
    Contaminants, such as dust and spilled coffee, can coat the surface of a germ-killing fabric and allow germs to thrive, according to research performed at the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.

  • News Media invited to interview Jefferson Lab summer science enrichment program participants; cover closing Poster Session
    News Media invited to interview Jefferson Lab summer science enrichment program participants; cover closing Poster Session
    August 1, 2007
    News Media representatives are invited to interview, photograph and/or film participants of Jefferson Lab's summer science enrichment programs as they share their summer experiences and projects with JLab staff during a Poster Session scheduled for Friday, Aug. 3, from 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. in the CEBAF Center lobby.
    Participating in this summer's poster session are: