Abstract

and four math majors are among the 21 minority students in the summer program completed this week at the FermiLab. It is the fourth summer that students from colleges in the southern half of the U.S. have worked at the Laboratory in a program initiated by the Laboratory in 1970 to encourage wider participation by minorities in high energy physics careers. Two major features were added to the 1974 format to strengthen the goals of the project. A Committee of five members of the Laboratory's professional staff has given assistance and attention to planning and organizing objec-tives for the 1974 summer program. Frank Cole, Gene Fisk, Fred Hornstra, Ernie Malamud, and Frank Nezrick joined the EEO staff in recruiting students at schools in the early months of the year. They were able to give students first hand answers to technical questions about the Laboratory and the work that is done here. Job descriptions for the work to be done by the students selected to come to the Laboratory were then tailored by the committee and by Laboratory super-visors to provide challenges as well as some perspective on high energy physics. Eleven FerrniLab staff members gave lectures on a bi-weekly schedule during the seven weeks of the program. Lecturers