Chicago mayor, council honor Argonne physicists for
creating innovative science program at city high school
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ARGONNE, Ill. (January 23, 2008) — Two physicists at the U.S. Department's
Argonne National Laboratory have been honored for their work in creating one
of the nation's premiere science programs for high school students.
Susan Fischer and C.J. “Kim” Lister were honored Jan. 9 with a certificate
of commendation from Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and the city council for their
work with the Nuclear Physics Summer School at Hyman G. Rickover Naval Academy
in Chicago .
“The students get excited about the possibilities,” Fischer said. “It was
nice to see the summer school recognized.”
Many of the students are young women and minorities, who generally have been
under represented in the sciences.
Students spend a week exploring the world of physics through experiments in
nuclear physics, lectures on physics topics, presentations from scientists
about research and science professions and tours at Argonne .
Fischer and Lister said the students of today will make the discoveries of
tomorrow in laboratories like Argonne and deserve to know what is available
to them.
“It's clear the students are bright,” Lister said. “They enjoyed the more
difficult projects that challenged them.”
The summer school recently was named one of 10 best “Current Best Practice” programs
for nuclear science education in the country by the Nuclear Science Advisory
Committee of the U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation.
It was created to expose inner city children to careers in science. The summer
school is approaching its third year in existence and organizers hope to expand
the program to include chemistry and biology.
Argonne National Laboratory seeks solutions to pressing national problems in science and technology.
The nation's first national laboratory, Argonne conducts leading-edge basic
and applied scientific research in virtually every scientific discipline. Argonne
researchers work closely with researchers from hundreds of companies, universities,
and federal, state and municipal agencies to help them solve their specific
problems, advance America 's scientific leadership and prepare the nation for
a better future. With employees from more than 60 nations, Argonne is managed
by UChicago
Argonne, LLC for
the U.S.
Department of Energy's Office
of Science.
For more information, please
contact Brock Cooper (630/252-5565 or media@anl.gov)
at Argonne.
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