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Fermilab scientists receive American Physical Society honors
EDITED BY LISA ROBERTS | In mid-October, the American Physical Society awarded two prestigious prizes, the 2022 Panofsky Prize and the 2022 Wilson Prize, to four scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Stephen Holmes and Bill Foster received the 2022 Wilson Prize for their leadership in developing the modern accelerator complex at […]
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Rep. Bill Foster Presents Bill to Update DOE National Laboratories
BY NICHOLS MARTIN | Rep. Bill Foster, D-Ill., has introduced a bill that would task the Department of Energy to modernize and restore national laboratories. H.R.4514 would have the secretary of energy invest funds in national laboratory restoration projects and similar efforts, according to the Congress website. Foster, who is also a scientist, uses his expertise […]
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Bill Would Commit Tens of Billions to Modernize National Labs
BY BRANDI VINCENT | Rep. Bill Foster shed light on how the bill fits into a broader Congressional strategy to boost U.S. investments in science and research, and what’s to come for the National Lab Caucus. “What we were doing when I was [working at Fermilab] was colliding protons and antiprotons together to make particles […]
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Congressional science panel pushes for more energy research
By: Adrian Cho Last month, the Biden administration proposed boosting the budget for the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) basic research wing, the Office of Science, by 5.7% to $7.4 billion for fiscal year 2022. Members of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology think the agency, the single largest U.S. funder of the physical sciences, […]
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