SRF Accelerator Physicist Uttar Pudasaini works to unload a five cell niobium cavity from the furnace inside the R&D Thin Film Lab at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

The public participates in activities and tours during the Jefferson Lab 2024 Open House held at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Jun. 8, 2024. (Photo by Susan Fowler for Jefferson Lab)

The event provides the public with an ideal opportunity to explore this world-class research facility and features entry into research areas; demonstrations; and numerous exhibits and hands-on activities. During your visit, you can learn about superconducting materials, supercomputers, particle accelerators, particle detectors, nuclear physics research and much more.

Students from Centreville High School encourage each other before competing in the Virginia Regional Science Bowl held at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

The Virginia Regional High School Science Bowl is open to teams of five students. Teams face-off in a fast-paced, question-and-

answer format, and will be tested on a range of science disciplines including biology, chemistry, Earth science, physics, energy,

and math. Winner advances to represent Virginia at the National Science Bowl.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Bowl® is a nationwide academic competition that tests students’ knowledge in all areas of science and mathematics. Middle and high school student teams from are comprised of four students, one alternate, and a teacher who serves as an advisor and coach. These teams face-off in a fast-paced question-and-answer format, being tested on a range of science disciplines including biology, chemistry, Earth science, physics, energy, and math.

Cryogenics Electrical Engineer II Jake Magnin chat with high school students during the Engineering Career Day held at Hampton University in Hampton, Va., on Thursday, March 6, 2025. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Featuring more than 30 experts from Jefferson Lab, NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton and Newport News Shipbuilding, the event exposed Hampton Roads high schoolers and their teachers to the vast array of engineering and related disciplines — mechanical, chemical, aerospace, nuclear, electrical, to name a few. It also tested students’ wits with hands-on design and engineering challenges based on each facility’s mission.

The event is a celebration of National Engineers Week and is sponsored by the Peninsula Engineers Council (PEC).

Beam Reproducibility Lead Matt Poelker speaks to students about purpose and components of Test Lab to the students on the USPAS Tour at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Saturday Jan. 27, 2024. (Emily Perdue | Jefferson Lab).

CIVIC Leadership Institute Program members tour the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Patent Awards reception held at the James River Country Club in Newport News, Va., on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Jefferson Lab hosted an afternoon reception in honor of our community of inventors. At this invite-only event, we celebrated inventors' accomplishments with a toast to innovation and a convivial afternoon of conversation and refreshments.

Our keynote speaker is Parikha Mehta, Special Advisor to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO.)

Christopher Newport University students in the MAT (Master of Arts in Teaching) students Joshua Culright, left, and Ella Huck, right, chat with teachers during the Region II Physical Science Teacher Night held at Jefferson Lab on Newport News, Va., on Thursday, April 3, 2025. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Teachers from the JSAT (Jefferson Lab Science Activities for Teachers) shared science-themed classroom activities geared toward upper elementary and middle school students.

From left: University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) postdoc Laveen Puthiya Veetil, undergraduate student Ben Simpson, Jefferson Lab Engineering Staff Scientist Vladimir Berdnikov, and UNCW undergraduate student Shane Whaley pose for a photo inside the Hall D detector at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on June 7, 2024. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Hall D is dedicated to the operation of a large-acceptance detector for experiments with a broad-band, linearly-polarized photon beam produced by ~12 GeV electrons from CEBAF.

Staff Scientist Eric Lechner work with niobium samples inside the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, July 10, 2018. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Lechner preps the samples for an electropolishing chemical bath, which smooths out the surface quality equivalent to the interior of niobium cavity, and helps understand the purity content inside the cavity.

The sun begins to set behind the Jefferson Lab’s experimental halls which are visible as three round mounds in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

A pack of deer walk past the Experimental Hall D truck ramp at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Thursday, June 15, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Scenes from the Accelerator Applications Conference held at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Norfolk, Va., from March 17-21, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Valeriia Starovoitova)

Accelerator Applications 2024 is the fifteenth international topical meeting on the applications of accelerators; it is being organized jointly by Jefferson Lab and Accelerator Applications Division (AAD) of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). Accelerator Applications 2024 is co-sponsored by the International Symposium On Hydrogen In Matter (ISOHIM), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other organizations.

Scenes from the Accelerator Applications Conference held at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Norfolk, Va., from March 17-21, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Valeriia Starovoitova)

Accelerator Applications 2024 is the fifteenth international topical meeting on the applications of accelerators; it is being organized jointly by Jefferson Lab and Accelerator Applications Division (AAD) of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). Accelerator Applications 2024 is co-sponsored by the International Symposium On Hydrogen In Matter (ISOHIM), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other organizations.

Closing remarks and graduation ceremony for the interns of the Technology Commercialization Internship Program held at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

The Technology Commercialization Internship Program (TCIP) is a unique paid opportunity for undergraduate STEM and business students to experience the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE's) world-class National Lab system, boost their entrepreneurial thinking, and explore energy technology markets.

Interns have the opportunity to engage with National Laboratory mentors and learn about technologies at their partnered Laboratories. This internship focuses on the business side of technology commercialization where interns will learn skills such as customer discovery, value propositions development, and market sizing. Interns apply these skills to their assigned technologies at their host lab.

SRF Scientist I Uttar Pudasaini poses next to the Nb3Sn QCM cyromodule inside the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Vertical Attachment Clean Room at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

From left: University of Massachusetts, Amherst graduate student Jhih-Ying Su, Hall A/C Post Doctoral Fellow Jimmy Caylor, Hall A/C Staff Scientist Simona Malace, Virginia Tech Postdoc Debaditya Biswas, Hall A/C Staff Scientist Donald Jones, and Virginia Tech graduate student Mahmoud Gomina pose next to the Electron calorimeter (ECal) in Experimental Hall A at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

A group of lab scientists, technicians, mechanical designers, engineers, scientific users and students are building a new electron calorimeter in Hall A. Known as ECal, the apparatus is a detector for a nuclear physics experiment that will allow scientists to better understand the internal structure of the proton.

Science Education Administrators Rhonda Bell, left, and Jalyn Dio, right, work to sign-in arriving teachers during the Region II Physical Science Teacher Night held at Jefferson Lab on Newport News, Va., on Thursday, April 3, 2025. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Teachers from the JSAT (Jefferson Lab Science Activities for Teachers) shared science-themed classroom activities geared toward upper elementary and middle school students.

The public participates in activities and tours during the Jefferson Lab 2024 Open House held at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Jun. 8, 2024. (Photo by Susan Fowler for Jefferson Lab)

The event provides the public with an ideal opportunity to explore this world-class research facility and features entry into research areas; demonstrations; and numerous exhibits and hands-on activities. During your visit, you can learn about superconducting materials, supercomputers, particle accelerators, particle detectors, nuclear physics research and much more.

Attendees at the Earth Day clean up event at Newport News, Va., on Thursday, April 18, 2024. (Emily Perdue | Jefferson Lab)

Both teams from Cooper Middle School pose for a photo after competing against each other in the final round of the 2025 Virginia Regional Middle School Science Bowl Competition held at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Saturday, March 1, 2025. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

The Department of Energy’s National Science Bowl® is a nationwide academic competition that tests students’ knowledge in all areas of science and mathematics. Middle and high school student teams are comprised of four students, one alternate, and a teacher who serves as an advisor and coach. Teams face-off in a fast-paced question-and-answer format, being tested on a range of science disciplines including biology, chemistry, Earth science, physics, energy, and math.

Join industry and academic experts in the quantum field for a panel inspired by Ted Chiang's story "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom." Ted Chiang's Exhalation: Stories is the UCSB Reads pick for 2022.

Panelists include Kerem Camsari (Electrical & Computer Engineering), Sabrina Hong (Quantum Google AI), Matt McEwen (PhD student, Quantum Foundry), Seamus O'Hara (PhD Student, Quantum Foundry).

Erik Lucero (Quantum Google AI) will moderate.

(Left to Right) Student Tasean Wilson, Coach Jacob Hendrick, Student Anna Winbush, and Student A’kyra Buckley from Heritage High School confidently walk into CEBAF for the Science Bowl held at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Saturday February 3, 2024. (Emily Perdue | Jefferson Lab).

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Bowl is a nationwide academic competition that tests students’ knowledge in all areas of science and mathematics.

The University of Virginia's Cidra Roberts-Johnson presents research during the poster session held at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. (Parish Thompson | Jefferson Lab)

Deyanira Martinez Romero during the Science Education summer student poster session at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Friday, Aug. 2, 2024. (Photo provided by Carlos Hernandez-Garcia | Jefferson Lab)

The public participates in activities and tours during the Jefferson Lab 2024 Open House held at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Jun. 8, 2024. (Photo by Susan Fowler for Jefferson Lab)

The event provides the public with an ideal opportunity to explore this world-class research facility and features entry into research areas; demonstrations; and numerous exhibits and hands-on activities. During your visit, you can learn about superconducting materials, supercomputers, particle accelerators, particle detectors, nuclear physics research and much more.

Quark Quest attendees pose for a group photo in the CEBAF Center auditorium at Jefferson Lab Newport News, Va., Jan. 10, 2025. (Lindsay Cunningham | Jefferson Lab)

Staff Scientist Eric Lechner carefully places a niobium sample into the electropolishing fixture inside the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, July 10, 2018. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Lechner preps the samples for an electropolishing chemical bath, which smooths out the surface quality equivalent to the interior of niobium cavity, and helps understand the purity content inside the cavity.

Internal Communication Specialist Rebecca Anderson, left, Employee Communications Intern Nick Delaney, center, and Hall D Staff Scientist Mark Dalton, right, look over the back half of the forward calorimeter in Experimental Hall D at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Thursday, Apr. 6, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Hall D is dedicated to the operation of a large-acceptance detector for experiments with a broad-band, linearly-polarized photon beam produced by ~12 GeV electrons from the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF).

speaks to the crowd during the State of the Labs event held at the Holiday Inn in Newport News, Va., on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

This event was hosted by the Virginia Chamber of Commerce and featured multiple speakers from the Department of Energy’s Jefferson Lab and NASA Langley Research Center. Local businesses, partners, and stakeholders in the science and technology fields attended to network and build partnerships alongside the Virginia Peninsula’s premier research facilities.

Students from Hampton Roads Academy compete during the “Stay All Day Cyber Competition” after the 2025 Virginia Regional Middle School Science Bowl Competition held at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Saturday, March 1, 2025. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

The Department of Energy’s National Science Bowl® is a nationwide academic competition that tests students’ knowledge in all areas of science and mathematics. Middle and high school student teams are comprised of four students, one alternate, and a teacher who serves as an advisor and coach. Teams face-off in a fast-paced question-and-answer format, being tested on a range of science disciplines including biology, chemistry, Earth science, physics, energy, and math.

A Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) prepares to scan a C75 single cavity inside the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Braden Beregenstock, 12, participates in the Middle School Data Science Workshop in the CEBAF Center at Jefferson Lab Newport News, Va., Oct 16, 2024. (Lindsay Cunningham | Jefferson Lab)

The Middle School Data Science Workshop is a one-day event for seventh grade students to learn about artificial intelligence and how it works. Students will learn about AI, look at code, modify it, and run it to train an AI model. Graphs will be made showing the performance of their models and they will learn how to read them.

Cooper Middle School student, Eric Schellhaas, center, participates in the Middle School Science Bowl in CEBAF Center at Jefferson Lab Newport News, Va., Mar. 1, 2025. (Lindsay Cunningham | Jefferson Lab)

The Department of Energy’s National Science Bowl® is a nationwide academic competition that tests students’ knowledge in all areas of science and mathematics. Middle and high school student teams are comprised of four students, one alternate, and a teacher who serves as an advisor and coach. Teams face-off in a fast-paced question-and-answer format, being tested on a range of science disciplines including biology, chemistry, Earth science, physics, energy, and math.

Science Education Summer Intern Cidra Roberts presents her research in the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., Aug. 2, 2024. (Lindsay Cunningham | Jefferson Lab)

The winning trophies for the Science Bowl held at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Saturday February 3, 2024. (Emily Perdue | Jefferson Lab).

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Bowl is a nationwide academic competition that tests students’ knowledge in all areas of science and mathematics.

The main Clean Room at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Members of the U.S. Particle Accelerator School (USPAS) tour Experimental Hall D while visiting Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

North American Young Generation in Nuclear (NAYGN) take a group photo before touring Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Visible lines, called grain boundaries, are seen on the outside of a C75 niobium cavity inside the Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) room of the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Join industry and academic experts in the quantum field for a panel inspired by Ted Chiang's story "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom." Ted Chiang's Exhalation: Stories is the UCSB Reads pick for 2022.

Panelists include Kerem Camsari (Electrical & Computer Engineering), Sabrina Hong (Quantum Google AI), Matt McEwen (PhD student, Quantum Foundry), Seamus O'Hara (PhD Student, Quantum Foundry).

Erik Lucero (Quantum Google AI) will moderate.

Join industry and academic experts in the quantum field for a panel inspired by Ted Chiang's story "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom." Ted Chiang's Exhalation: Stories is the UCSB Reads pick for 2022.

Panelists include Kerem Camsari (Electrical & Computer Engineering), Sabrina Hong (Quantum Google AI), Matt McEwen (PhD student, Quantum Foundry), Seamus O'Hara (PhD Student, Quantum Foundry).

Erik Lucero (Quantum Google AI) will moderate.

Science Education Summer Student Interns Xavier Ho, left, and Olivia Reid, right, work on equipment in the vacuum lab inside the Technology and Engineering Development Facility at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., Jul 17, 2024. (Lindsay Cunningham | Jefferson Lab)

Olivia and Xavier are part of the high school summer intern program.

Science Education Summer Intern Courtland Hurley admires her research in the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., Aug. 2, 2024. (Lindsay Cunningham | Jefferson Lab)

Patent Awards reception held at the James River Country Club in Newport News, Va., on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Jefferson Lab hosted an afternoon reception in honor of our community of inventors. At this invite-only event, we celebrated inventors' accomplishments with a toast to innovation and a convivial afternoon of conversation and refreshments.

Our keynote speaker is Parikha Mehta, Special Advisor to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO.)

SRF Cavity Assembly Technician Tashawn Smith works inside the Vertical Attachment area at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

From left: University of Massachusetts, Amherst graduate student Jhih-Ying Su, Hall A/C Post Doctoral Fellow Jimmy Caylor, Hall A/C Staff Scientist Simona Malace, Virginia Tech Postdoc Debaditya Biswas, Hall A/C Staff Scientist Donald Jones, and Virginia Tech graduate student Mahmoud Gomina pose next to the electron calorimeter (ECal) in Experimental Hall A at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

A group of lab scientists, technicians, mechanical designers, engineers, scientific users and students are building a new electron calorimeter in Hall A. Known as ECal, the apparatus is a detector for a nuclear physics experiment that will allow scientists to better understand the internal structure of the proton.

The public participates in activities and tours during the Jefferson Lab 2024 Open House held at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Jun. 8, 2024. (Photo by Susan Fowler for Jefferson Lab)

The event provides the public with an ideal opportunity to explore this world-class research facility and features entry into research areas; demonstrations; and numerous exhibits and hands-on activities. During your visit, you can learn about superconducting materials, supercomputers, particle accelerators, particle detectors, nuclear physics research and much more.

Carson Middle School Team 1’s Vidhatri Kalanadhabhatta reacts during the 2025 Virginia Regional Middle School Science Bowl Competition held at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Saturday, March 1, 2025. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

The Department of Energy’s National Science Bowl® is a nationwide academic competition that tests students’ knowledge in all areas of science and mathematics. Middle and high school student teams are comprised of four students, one alternate, and a teacher who serves as an advisor and coach. Teams face-off in a fast-paced question-and-answer format, being tested on a range of science disciplines including biology, chemistry, Earth science, physics, energy, and math.