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Newly elected ATLAS outreach co-coordinator Kate Shaw hopes to bring particle physics to students in developing countries
The ATLAS Thesis Awards recognize young postdoctoral candidates who have contributed to the ATLAS experiment with an excellent PhD thesis
Over 1400 students in Spain have entered a CERN contest to explain how science and technology can make the world better. Vote for your favourites
A record-breaking seven schools and more than 500 students took part in a mass virtual visit to the CMS detector today
The first recipients of the ATLAS PhD Grant – a fund set up with award money from the Fundamental Physics Prize – begin their scholarships this year
The RD51 electronics school at CERN this week had students examining high-tech readouts, trackers and detectors for particle physics
With registration closed, the 455 teams must now make their case for why they should win the Beamline for Schools competition
High schoolers from Europe and the US paid a recent virtual visit to CMS at CERN and the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica
Applications are open for the CERN summer student programme. Deadline is 31 January 2014 - just two days from now
In this CERN Courier article Roger Barlow recalls the ideas that motivated the Particle Physics Masterclasses in the UK, back in 1996
Applications to the 2014 school, which will be held in the Netherlands, are open until 21 February
In this Hangout with CERN special, the laboratory conducts a Virtual Field Trip with the Google Science Fair
