Fermilab and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Videos

Watch videos documenting progress on Fermilab projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

NOvA — Community Voices — September 2009

Residents of northern Minnesota and construction workers building the NOvA detector facility discuss the benefits the high-energy physics research project has brought their communities.



Congressman Bill Foster at Fermilab

Congressman Bill Foster speaks to Fermilab Technical Division employees and members of the media at a press conference on Wednesday, August 5 to announce an additional $60.2 million in Recovery Act funds for the lab.



NOvA first blast

On July 20, construction crews began blasting into the rock at the future site of the NOvA detector facility in northern Minnesota.



NOvA groundbreaking ceremony

Congressman Bill Foster, who has also worked as a physicist at Fermilab, offers his own take on Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address at the NOvA groundbreaking ceremony.



NOvA groundbreaking ceremony

Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota speaks of the importance of basic research.



NOvA groundbreaking ceremony

A slideshow of images from the NOvA groundbreaking ceremony



NOvA groundbreaking ceremony

Joseph Long, the mayor of Orr, Minn., discusses the impact NOvA will have on his city.



NOvA groundbreaking ceremony

The proprietors of the Ash Trail Lodge in Ash River, Minn., discuss the impact NOvA will have on their business and community.



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