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Friday, December 9 3:30 p.m. Director's Coffee Break - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Joint Experimental Theoretical Physics Seminar - 1 West Speaker: S. Stone, Syracuse University Title: Leptonic and Semileptonic D-Decays at CLEO-C
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Friday, December 9 - Old Fashioned Ham & Bean - Black & Blue Cheese Burger - Summer Herb Cod - Stuffed Manicotti - Roasted Veggie & Provolone Panini - Assorted Pizza Slice - Vegetarian Stir Fry The Wilson Hall Cafe accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover and American Express at Cash Register #1. |
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| Donations Sought For Toys for Tots Program |
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Go on, bring your toys to work. Just remember to drop them off in Wilson Hall before heading to the office. The annual Fermilab toy drive for the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program has begun. Lab employees can drop off new, unopened toys in the collection bin in the Wilson Hall Atrium through December 23.
"It helps the children in the community who are less fortunate," said former Fermilab employee Charisse Malo. "Without this, they would have nothing for Christmas." Malo accepted a severance package in September, but continues to coordinate the Fermilab drive she started two years ago. Both years, about 125 toys were collected, and Malo said this year's goal is to exceed that amount. Toys are needed for children from infancy through the age of 16. Popular items include board games, Hot Wheels, Barbie dolls, portable CD players for teens and gift cards, Malo said. The toys will be distributed to needy children in DuPage County.
For more information, contact Debbie Ziomek at extension 4741.
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| Universities Test Prototype Detectors for an ILC Muon System | ||
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A group of universities in the United States are currently testing prototype detectors that could be used for a muon system in the International Linear Collider. With the help of some high school students from Quarknet, an educational program that brings students and teachers into the laboratories, the University of Notre Dame completed two of the eight large rectangular planes that make up the prototype detector this past summer. These planes are now undergoing tests and collecting cosmic ray data at Fermilab.
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From The New York Times, December 7, 2005: Report Says States Aim Low in Science Classes WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 - Nearly half the states are doing a poor job of setting high academic standards for science in public schools, according to a new report that examined science in anticipation of 2007, when states will be required to administer tests in the subject under President Bush's signature education law. The report, released Wednesday by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, suggests that the focus on reading and math as required subjects for testing under the federal law, No Child Left Behind, has turned attention away from science, contributing to a failure of American children to stay competitive in science with their counterparts abroad.
The report also appears to support concerns raised by a growing number of university officials and corporate executives, who say that the failure to produce students well-prepared in science is undermining the country's production of scientists and engineers and putting the nation's economic future in jeopardy.
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| Open Communications | ||
Yesterday afternoon, in the snow, a team from Fermilab hand-delivered a
The tritium in Indian Creek was discovered in mid-November in our regular environmental sampling program. In the last three weeks we have confirmed the measurement and taken many more measurements. We have understood how the water movement within the laboratory's ponds coupled with a leaky pipe could have led to this level of tritium in Indian Creek. While the levels are well below regulatory standards we want to make them as small as possible. We are taking measures to bring Indian Creek back to a level of tritium so low that it cannot be detected. The presence of tritium on our site is a normal result of accelerator operations. The major new source this year is the NuMI facility. Pumping from the NuMI tunnel brings tritiated water to the surface, protecting the underlying aquifer. It has always been our intent to contain the tritium from NuMI operations within the industrial cooling water system and the surface waters of the laboratory. We believe that leakage from these surface waters was feeding Indian Creek, and we have taken measures to mitigate the release. Although we are addressing the problem, and although the tritium levels in Indian Creek were very small, we want Fermilab's operations to be completely transparent to you, our employees; to our community; our sponsors; and our government representatives. That is why we delivered 300 letters to our neighbors in the snow yesterday afternoon, and why the Director's Corner is coming to you a few days early this week. We have created a Website where you can read our letter to the neighbors and find more information. |
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