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Twenty students participated in Jefferson Lab’s Science Camp for Deaf and Hard-Of-Hearing Youth in August

After a three-year hiatus, the STEM-focused high school internship program has returned to lab campus Darren Upton straightened his bowtie and entered the Continuous Electron Beam Facility Center atrium to meet his mentor. It was a moment he had waited three years for. In 2016, Upton learned about the Jefferson Lab High School Summer Honors program and was eager to apply. Unfortunately, this was the same year the program was put on temporary hold awaiting further resources.

Jefferson Lab’s 47th Program Advisory Committee met in July to review proposals for future experiments with the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility

Supporting scientific innovation and the growth of small businesses through strategic outreach

For a decade now, Carlos Hernandez-Garcia spearheaded a program that brings undergraduate students from Mexico to Jefferson Lab to study accelerator physics

In an earlier post, I made the case that physicists have the potential to be inventors (Inventors and Physicists: a Great Partnership). All scientists try to expand our understanding of nature and often along the way inventions can pop out.  The research tools they devise or the new principles they uncover can lead to new inventions.

Jefferson Lab reaffirms their commitment to the SPARK program in order to combat students' summer slide during the warmer months

Annual retiree planning workshop recognized for educational efforts of participants nearing retirement age When it comes to preparing for retirement, education is key. Employees approaching retirement need to know about the resources that are available to them and the timelines for applying for benefits, as well as what other practical considerations they need to contemplate to prepare for this transition after a lifetime of work.

Preparing for datasets beyond the petascale.

Users discussed international collaboration at Jefferson Lab Users Organization Annual Workshop and Annual Meeting in June.

On July 11, the U.S. Department of Energy held a swearing-in ceremony in honor of its recently confirmed appointees, including Christopher Fall as the new Director of the Office of Science.

Four nuclear physicists combine a fresh look at world data on the size of the proton with a new theoretical model to extract revised value for the proton’s radius.

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.

More than 75 presentations and posters based on Jefferson Lab-related research were presented.

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.

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.