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Friday Flyer - November 16, 2018

There will be no Friday Flyer next week; we'll pick it up again on November 30. Happy Thanksgiving!   Spotlight on the SUNY – University at Buffalo QuarkNet Center Buffalo hosted a CMS…

Friday Flyer - November 9, 2018

Spotlight on the Virginia QuarkNet Center The Virginia center (not the same as the Virginia Tech center—more on them in another Flyer) was once again very active in the past year. They met twice…

Friday Flyer - November 2, 2018

  Spotlight on the Rice University/University of Houston QuarkNet Center This Houston center held two major events in 2018: A CMS masterclass for students and a week-long summer workshop for…

Friday Flyer - October 26, 2018

  Spotlight on the Boston QuarkNet Center The Boston Center—really a composite center sponsored by particle physicists at Northeastern University in Boston and Brown University in nearby…

Friday Flyer - October 19, 2018

Spotlight on the Fermilab/University of Chicago QuarkNet Center Summer 2018 was a busy one, with 15 teachers taking part in a workshop and four students involved in a summer research experience …

Friday Flyer - October 12, 2018

Spotlight on Leon Lederman, 1922–2018 Leon Lederman was one of the great physicists, perhaps the foremost, of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. To Fermilab and to QuarkNet, he was that great…

Friday Flyer - October 5, 2018

Remembering Leon Lederman, pictured here with children at FNAL daycare. (Photo from Fermilab.org)   Nobel laureate, trail-blazing researcher, and former director of Fermilab passed away on…

Friday Flyer - September 28, 2018

Spotlight on the Queensborough Community College QuarkNet Center The Queensborough Community College (QCC) center is, well, different. Mentor Raul Armendariz has been gearing the center, along…

Friday Flyer - September 21, 2018

Spotlight on the University of New Mexico QuarkNet Center Located in Albuquerque and led by Sally Seidel, this is one of QuarkNet's newest centers, starting in the 2016-17 academic year with…

Friday Flyer - September 14, 2018

Spotlight on the Catholic University of America QuarkNet Center Catholic University of America (CUA) had an eventful workshop this summer. The group visited Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator…