Pine Street closures Tuesday and Wednesday

On Tuesday and Wednesday, June 5 and 6, utility trenching and pavement marker installation activities will require partial closures of Pine Street. Inbound Pine Street. will be closed Tuesday from 7:30 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. On Wednesday, outbound Pine St. will be closed from 7:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Please use the Wilson Street gate as the detour route. Notice and detour signs will be posted. Check Fermilab Today for weather-related schedule changes.

The bike path south of inbound Pine Street will be open from Kirk Road to the Lederman Science Center. Access east of the Lederman Science Center will be through the woodland path that links the LSC and the west lot of Wilson Hall.

No more roadside parking along Kautz Road curve

Parking along the curve on Kautz Road, which runs east of Wilson Hall, will be eliminated for safety reasons.

Following a report of a near-accident, parking will be eliminated along the curve of Kautz Road across from Swan Lake. No-parking signs will be placed this week.

"Parallel parking on a curve like that makes for a dangerous situation," said Bill Griffing, Fermilab ES&H Director. "We are going to do something about this hazardous situation before someone gets seriously injured there."

Several employees had raised concerns in the past, pointing out that limited space and poor visibility provided for a dangerous situation. An email sent in response to a safety article in Fermilab Today last week described a near-accident and prompted the lab to take action.

"I had an encounter about a month ago as I was driving in," wrote a lab employee. "Another car was coming toward me, and someone [who was parked along the Kautz Road curve] opened their car door. The oncoming car swerved to avoid the door and barely missed hitting me."

The parking restrictions will remove twelve parking spots. Alternate parking places can be found at the far end of the main parking lot west of Wilson Hall.

If you know of any additional, unsafe traffic locations on the Fermilab site, please send email to Fermilab Today.

Outreach workshop and GSA career night June 5 attractions

On Tuesday, June 5, the Fermilab Users' Organization will host an Outreach Workshop from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in One West.

The workshop will consist of three panel sessions, each involving a different outreach focus: education, public and government. The focus of the workshop, according to UEC outreach subcommittee chairman Brendan Casey, is to connect those involved with outreach to each other and to connect them with those interested in outreach who don't know how to proceed. "We're trying to reach people who are interested in outreach, and understand its importance, but don't know how to get involved yet," he said.

Casey and Jean Slaughter, a member of the outreach subcommittee, said the first-year event is an experiment that came out of discussions among users. "Many people were doing many different things with outreach and thought "Wouldn't it be great to learn from each other?" said Slaughter.

The outreach subcommittee will also showcase hands-on demonstrations that can be done in the classroom during Outreach Day presentations on the second floor crossover. .

Also taking place on Tuesday is the Graduate Student Association's Career Night, which will feature a question and answer session with speakers about how their careers have been shaped by the skills they learned in graduate school. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. with dinner in the cafeteria. At 6:15 pm, four speakers will give brief 10-15 minute talks in One West, followed by the question and answer session. Speakers include Don Engel, a physicist who now works in government; Gina Rameika, a research physicist in the neutrino department; Kevin Davis, formerly of DZero, who now works for Allstate Insurance; and Brad Abbott, a professor from University of Oklahoma.