Brookhaven Lab Physicist Mary Bishai Elected DUNE Co-Spokesperson

Newswise — UPTON, NY—Mary Bishai, a distinguished scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been elect...

March 20, 2023
7:22 PM

Newswise — UPTON, NY—Mary Bishai, a distinguished scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been elected co-spokesperson of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). In her new role, Bishai will lead DUNE's 1,400-member international collaboration—the largest neutrino collaboration in the world. Currently under construction, DUNE will send the world's most intense neutrino beam hundreds of miles through Earth's crust, from DOE's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, to the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota.