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Monday, Oct. 31

  • Project X team takes shape
  • ES&H Tip of the Week: Ecology: Sustainability starts with knowing what to buy
  • Photo of the Day: Snapped: A snapping turtle
  • Accelerator Update: Oct. 26-28
  • From Black Hills Pioneer, Oct. 28, 2011: NSF expects DOE to reimburse 2012 lab cost
  • From Nature, Oct. 28, 2011: Hunting season for Higgs ends

Friday, Oct. 28

  • From symmetry: Solving for X
  • CMS Result: The quarks that miss
  • Photo of the Day: Fall settles at Fermilab
  • Special Announcement: Fermilab prairie seed harvest
  • Special Announcement: Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats
  • From New Scientist, Oct. 25, 2011: Faster-than-light neutrino result to get extra checks

Thursday, Oct. 27

  • Special Announcement: AZero parking lot bridge not accessible - Nov. 2-3
  • Result of the Week: A better understanding of the Standard Model
  • In Brief: FermiMail migration begins next week
  • Wellness Feature of the Month
  • Special Announcement: Fermilab part of team receiving the Secretary's Achievement Award
  • Accelerator Update: Oct. 24-26
  • From Science, Oct. 21, 2011: The sterile neutrino: Fertile concept or dead end?

Wednesday, Oct. 26

  • In Memoriam: Marilyn Smith - Oct. 12
  • From WDRS: General improvements and generalists
  • Milestone: Vladimir Shiltsev elected president of the Russian-American Scientists Association
  • Special Announcement: Joint Speaker Series - Nov. 17
  • Safety Update: ES&H weekly report, Oct. 25
  • From The New York Times, Oct. 25, 2011: Particle faster than the speed of light? Not so fast, some say
  • From science 2.0, Oct. 23, 2011: How SUSY gets excluded: A new ATLAS search

Tuesday, Oct. 25

  • Special Announcement: Project X collaboration meeting - through Oct. 27
  • Director's Corner: Director's corner is on hiatus
  • From symmetry breaking: The Tevatron: A training ground beyond particle physics
  • Head of OQBP - Jed Heyes
  • Photo of the Day: A bird poses in the sun
  • From ILC NewsLine: Onward and upward into the terascale
  • Accelerator Update: Oct. 21-24

Monday, Oct. 24

  • Special Announcement: Intensity Frontier workshop
  • Fermilab Historian Lillian Hoddeson wins APS prize
  • Photo of the Day: New employees - Oct. 3
  • Correction: Proton therapy
  • Correction: Misattribution
  • Accelerator Update: Oct. 19-21
  • From PhysicsOrg.com, Oct. 21, 2011: SLAC software developer discusses physics simulation tool to make cancer therapy safer
  • From Wired News, Oct. 20, 2011: Hints of new physics crop up at LHC

Friday, Oct. 21

  • Advancements in proton therapy cause for celebration
  • Special Announcement: Fermilab Lecture Series presents: Dr. Young-Kee Kim
  • Milestone: Gene Fisk retired - Oct. 7
  • Photo of the Day: New employees - Sept. 20
  • From symmetry breaking: Accelerator soup: Scientists to mix elements in LHC to study recipe for heavy-ion collisions
  • From Nature, Oct. 19, 2011: Collaborative physics: String theory finds a bench mate

Thursday, Oct. 20

  • Special Announcement: October 2011 issue of symmetry available
  • Result of the Week: Glimpse of a naked quark
  • Photo of the Day: FRA board tours Fermilab
  • Milestone: Sharon and Jim Lackey share much of Fermilab’s history
  • Accelerator Update: Oct. 17-19
  • From Nature, Oct. 19, 2011: Particle physics: Sterile neutrinos

Wednesday, Oct. 19

  • In Memoriam: Mike Petkus - Oct. 8
  • From the ES&H Section: ES&H – A world wide lab perspective
  • In Memoriam: Death: Marilyn Smith
  • Exceptional Performance Recognition Awards – Sept. 28
  • Safety Update: ES&H weekly report, Oct. 18
  • From InterActions.org, Oct. 18, 2011: A further step in the design of LAGUNA large neutrino observatory is launched
  • From Wired News, Oct. 17, 2011: Dark matter: Now more mysterious than ever

Tuesday, Oct. 18

  • New Service Desk system deploying - Oct. 19
  • Director's Corner: Detector collaborations
  • New head of the Core Computing Division
  • Milestone: NuMI protons on target
  • Accelerator Update: Oct. 14-17
  • From Discover Magazine, Oct. 15, 2011: Followup: FTL neutrinos explained? Not so fast, folks.
  • From PhysOrg.com, Oct. 14, 2011: UChicago launches search for distant worlds

Monday, Oct. 17

  • Milestone: Bob Webber retired - Oct. 7
  • ES&H Tip of the Week: Take action to achieve improvement in the workplace
  • Sustainability goal achieved at ES&H's annual picnic - Oct. 5
  • Photo of the Day: Featuring fall foliage
  • Accelerator Update: Oct. 12-14
  • From International Business Times, Oct. 10, 2011: New particle smasher to be built in “Science City”

Friday, Oct. 14

  • In Brief: Email, network and power outage – all day tomorrow
  • CMS Result: Lepton fizz
  • Milestone: Wayne Waldon - retired Oct. 7
  • From PhysOrg.com, Oct. 12, 2011: New SuperB factory particle-accelerator project launched in Italy
  • From Hubblesite.org, Oct. 13, 2011: Ambitious Hubble survey obtaining new dark matter census

Thursday, Oct. 13

  • Fermilab welcomes Tara Turner to the Benefits Office
  • Result of the Week: Dark matter from the top
  • Milestone: Chander Sood - retired Oct. 7
  • EAP offers October webinar
  • From Discovery News, Oct. 12, 2011: FTL neutrino research 'almost certainly wrong'

Wednesday, Oct. 12

  • Fermilab hosts congressional roundtable discussion
  • From the Accelerator Physics Center: National asset
  • Photo of the Day: Early-morning concrete work
  • Milestone: Zubao Qian retired - Oct. 7
  • Safety Update: ES&H weekly report, Oct. 11
  • From TechNewsWorld, Oct. 10, 2011: Physicists: If there is a God particle, we'll find it soon

Tuesday, Oct. 11

  • In Brief: Email, network and power outage – Saturday, Oct. 15
  • Director's Corner: International Committee on Future Accelerators seminar
  • Milestone: Gerry Bellendir retired - Oct. 7
  • In Memoriam: Death: Mike Petkus - Oct. 8
  • Accelerator Update: Oct. 7-10
  • From Voice of America, Oct. 8, 2011: Fermilab scientists testing faster-than-light neutrino claims
  • From the University of Oxford's newsroom, Oct. 8, 2011: Particle physics? There's an app for that!

Monday, Oct. 10

  • Bubble chamber gets more precise in dark matter search
  • ES&H Tip of the Week: Safety: Fire safety means making and practicing an evacuation plan
  • Milestone: John Urban retired - Oct. 7
  • Photo of the Day: Shake your tail feathers
  • Accelerator Update: Oct. 5-7
  • From Reuters, Oct. 6, 2011: Higgs boson reality or chimera? Next year will show

Friday, Oct. 7

  • Successful beam test brings a muon collider closer to reality
  • New “Energy” exhibition is seeking talented artists
  • Special Announcement: Road A-1 paving - Oct. 10 & 11
  • Special Announcement: John Urban retires - today
  • Photo of the Day: Follow the rainbow to the end
  • Special Announcement: Fermilab's flags at half-mast
  • From Brookhaven Today: Physics phoenix: Plotting the journey of Muon g – 2
  • From the University of Colorado's newsroom, Sept. 27, 2011: CU-Boulder physics professor named Presidential Early Career Award winner

Thursday, Oct. 6

  • Bob Grant retires - Oct. 7
  • Result of the Week: DZero’s data set
  • Special Announcement: Accelerate to a healthy lifestyle
  • Accelerator Update: Oct. 3-5
  • From the University of Chicago's newsroom, Sept. 30, 2011: End of Fermilab’s Tevatron evokes memories, pride
  • From Science, Oct. 4, 2011: Cosmic Speed-Up Nabs Nobel Prize

Wednesday, Oct. 5

  • From symmetry breaking: Nobel Prize for discovery of accelerating universe; mysterious origin unknown
  • From the Finance Section: Self service pay stub: Worth a second look
  • Milestone: David Ritchie retires - Oct. 7
  • Milestone: John Krider retires - Oct. 7
  • Special Announcement: Retirement celebration for Bob Grant - 1 p.m. today
  • Safety Update: ES&H weekly report, Oct. 4
  • From the Chicago Tribune, Oct. 4, 2011: Disappearance of the frontier itch

Tuesday, Oct. 4

  • A bird's eye view of owl shift
  • Director's Corner: Thank you, Fermilab
  • Special Announcement: Construction in Wilson Hall
  • Special Announcement: Reporting on-the-job training
  • Milestone: Chuck Serritella retires - Oct. 5
  • Milestone: Ray Green retires - Oct. 7
  • Accelerator Update: Sept. 28 to Oct. 3
  • From Science News: Sept. 24, 2011: Last words

Monday, Oct. 3

  • Staff and users celebrated the Tevatron's last beam - Sept. 30
  • Milestone: Keith Schuh retires - Oct. 7
  • Special Announcement: Carl Holmgren's retirement celebration - Oct. 4
  • Special Announcement: Extra pins, posters and t-shirts
  • From The Guardian, Sept. 30: Tevatron collider falls silent after 26 years of smash hits
  • From ABC, Sept. 30, 2011: Scientists shut down historic part of Fermilab
  • Help a former Fermilab Today intern live in a museum
  • Accelerator Update: Sept. 28-30
  • From NPR, Sept. 29, 2011: Tracking neutrinos
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