Harvard students pick up particle physics at CERN collider

Harvard undergraduate and graduate students work over the summer at the world’s largest particle collider at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Switzerland, where the Higgs boson was discovered in 2012. Faculty members and postdoctoral fellows look back at their own summer experiences there as formative ones, during which they got a taste of the lives of professional scientists and furthered their own scientific journey.