To designate the Department of Energy Integrated Engineering Research Center Federal Building located at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, as the "Helen Edwards Engineering Research Center".
Summary
This bill officially renames the Integrated Engineering Research Center at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, as the "Helen Edwards Engineering Research Center." The designation honors the late Dr. Helen Edwards, a pioneering physicist who oversaw the construction of the Tevatron, which was once the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator. While this change does not alter the facility's operations or federal funding, it serves as a formal recognition of Dr. Edwards' contributions to the field of high-energy physics and the scientific community.
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