Friday Flyer/News

Spotlight on World Wide Data Day As October and November roll around each year, here at Notre Dame we enjoy the autumn colors, apples from local orchards, and, of course, the ramp-up to World Wide…

  First-Ever Special Dark Matter Issue   Spotlight on Dark Matter What do we know? Not much. We cannot detect dark matter directly—so far—but we have a pretty good idea that it exists from…

Spotlight on the Syracuse University QuarkNet CenterSteven Blusk and Matthew Rudolph worked with staff to organize a Zoom CMS data workshop held on August 20–21. Mike Fetsko helped facilitate this …

Spotlight on Adam LaMee There is a good chance you already know Adam. He was a lead teacher in the Florida State center for many years and, now based at the University of Central Florida in…

Spotlight on the Florida State University QuarkNet Center Leads Ted Kolberg, Jasun Burdick and Jacob Breman worked with QuarkNet staff to organize a virtual workshop on July 22–24 that primarily…

Spotlight on the Notre Dame QuarkNet Center The Notre Dame center has a unique place in QuarkNet. The university helps the center offer research opportunities for students and teachers each summer…

  Spotlight on the University of Minnesota QuarkNet Center The Minnesota crew met via Zoom on the mornings of July 13-15 for their teacher workshop this year. For the first two half-days,…

  Spotlight on Summer 2020 Well, it has been 2020 all year so far. Yet, QuarkNet teachers and mentors adjusted admirably. Some centers postponed workshops and many went to a remote online format…

Greetings QuarkNet teachers!  The Saturday Morning Physics (SMP) application for the Fall 2020 online session is open! SMP is a free-of-charge series of eleven lectures and tour visits given by…

This is the first Friday Flyer of the 2020–2021 school year, a year like none other. We encourage you to lean on your QuarkNet colleagues and staff for support. Please send e-mail to the staff with…