Friday Flyer/News

Spotlight on the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Center:  This center held its ninth "Physics In and Through Cosmology" five-day workshop last June at LBNL. Ten teachers and 42 high school…

Spotlight on Joel Griffith:  You may not know Joel Griffith yet, but sooner or later you will. A graduate of Notre Dame with a PhD in Atomic Physics, Joel joined the QuarkNet IT team late…

Spotlight on the Cosmic Ray e-Lab: Want to have your class collect data on cosmic particles from supernovae using high-energy physics detectors? Try the Cosmic Ray e-Lab where students and…

Spotlight on the CMS e-Lab:  You had a great Data Camp and you want to share it with your class, but they are not ready for CSV files full of four-vectors. What will you do? It's the…

Spotlight on the University of Rochester QuarkNet Center: Located on the banks of the Genesee River near the shore of Lake Ontario in New York State, the University of Rochester QuarkNet Center…

Spotlight on the Wayne State University QuarkNet Center: Wayne State, located in downtown Motown, runs a cosmic ray research program every year for local high school students along with teachers…

Spotlight on QuarkNet, Notre Dame, and Chile: Recently, Pat Mooney, Ken Cecire and Chris Kolda, Physics Department Chair, retuned from a visit to Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Santiago, Chile.…

Spotlight on the University of Cincinnati QuarkNet Center: Cincinnati had a very active 2015. Students and teachers spent much time working with cosmic ray detectors by performing studies at their…

Spotlight on the Vanderbilt University QuarkNet Center: Vanderbilt continues to be an active QuarkNet center led by mentor Dr. William Gabella, with the support of emeritus mentor Dr. Med…

Spotlight on the Iowa QuarkNet Center: The QuarkNet center at the University of Iowa has an intensive workshop every other summer. This was not one of those years, but they did some great work…