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COD Hosts Free STEMinar Event Featuring Physicist and Author Pauline Gagnon Nov. 3

College of DuPage is hosting a free STEMinar event featuring physicist Pauline Gagnon at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 3, in the Health and Science Center, Room 1234, on the College's Glen Ellyn campus, 425 Fawell Blvd.

During her talk, "Improbable Feats and Useless Discoveries," which is open to the public, Gagnon will discuss the importance of research and the scientific collaboration of thousands of physicists from across the globe that led to the creation of large detectors, such as the Large Hadron Collider, used at CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics.

Gagnon received a B.S. in Physics from the University of Quebec in Montreal, a master's degree from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. in particle physics from the University of California in Santa Cruz. She was part of a research team from Carleton University in Ottawa formed to conduct research at CERN and later became Senior Research Scientist at Indiana University, where she stayed until her retirement in 2016. From 2011 until 2014, she worked within the CERN Communication group, writing blogs for "The Quantum Diaries" and answering questions from numerous media outlets worldwide.

Since 2013, she has given more than 80 presentations to audiences in eight countries on three continents and published "Who Cares about Particle Physics: Making Sense of the Higgs boson, the LHC and CERN" in 2016.

For more information about this event, contact College of DuPage STEM Outreach Coordinator Sara McCubbins at (630) 942-3021 or email mccubbinss@cod.edu.

Upcoming STEMinar events in the spring will feature a variety of speakers, including CERN scientist and MicroBooNE collaborator at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Wes Ketchum, Argonne National Laboratory Chemical Engineer Andrew Jansen, and science communicator and educator Emily Graslie.

The STEMinar Series at College of DuPage consists of free talks covering a broad range of topics related to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math throughout the fall and spring semesters.

The goal of STEM at College of DuPage is to enhance the quality of STEM instructional and outreach programs and to help current and future students prepare for careers in STEM fields. COD offers a broad range of academic programs designed to provide students with the educational background and training needed to successfully pursue an advanced degree or career in STEM. In addition, the program provides a variety of opportunities for professional development and events such as STEM-CON, an annual interactive, family-based celebration of all things STEM hosted at the College each spring.

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