Unity Coat seminar opens eyes to living with injury

Sara Klas, director of the Spinal Cord Injury Service for Shriners Hospital for Children, gives a presentation on spinal cord injuries.

A group dedicated to increasing respect and inclusion of individuals with disabilities at Fermilab held its first awareness seminar last month.

Unity Coat held a Spinal Cord Injury Awareness seminar on Thursday, April 29, to educate Fermilab employees and users about living with a spinal cord injury and what it takes to care for someone with a spinal cord injury.

A few dozen individuals attended the workshop, which included a presentation by Sara J. Klas, director of the Spinal Cord Injury Service for Shriners Hospital for Children, who shared her knowledge of spinal cord injuries and the impact that injuries have on the individual and their families. Klas also brought a patient with her, who talked about his own spinal cord injury, which left him paralyzed from the waist down.

Recreation Fair 2009

Electric-powered bicycles, Argentinian Tango and model airplanes were all highly visible last week at Fermilab's Recreation Fair.

The event, which took place on Thursday, April 29, was a way to showcase all of the activities that Fermilab employees and users can take part in.

Members of the Argentinian Tango group give a dance demonstration during the Recreation Fair on April 29.

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Scholars, visiting faculty, leaders represent Chicago as AAAS fellows

From The University of Chicago Chronicle, April 29, 2009

Craig Hogan

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced that nine University faculty members have been elected 2009 fellows.

...Craig Hogan, Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics and Director of the Center for Particle Astrophysics at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, was a member of one of the scientific teams that co-discovered dark energy in 1998. Dark energy is the mysterious force, whose repulsive gravity appears to accelerate the expansion of the universe.

He is currently a member of an international scientific collaboration to design and build the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. Expected to launch in the next decade, the satellite-based LISA mission will explore and measure the universe using gravitational waves. These waves, never directly detected, are predicted in Einstein's theory of general relativity. Hogan also is pursuing techniques for probing the quantum nature of space time directly in the laboratory.

Hogan's honors include the Humboldt Research Award and a Sloan Foundation fellowship. He also is the author of The Little Book of the Big Bang (1998), which has been translated into six languages.

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