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Register NOW for PPPL's Young Women's Conference in STEM!!
April 14, 2022
Register NOW for PPPL's Young Women's Conference in STEM!!
April 14, 2022
April 14, 2022
Fusion Apprentices!
August 2, 2019
Fusion Apprentices!
August 2, 2019
August 2, 2019
Science Education staff testify about the importance of STEM programs to joint New Jersey Assembly committee
April 8, 2019
Science Education staff testify about the importance of STEM programs to joint New Jersey Assembly committee
April 8, 2019
April 8, 2019
An interview with Shannon Swilley Greco, new vice chair of the APS Forum on Outreach and Engaging the Public
September 13, 2018
An interview with Shannon Swilley Greco, new vice chair of the APS Forum on Outreach and Engaging the Public
September 13, 2018
September 13, 2018
 
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New PPPL YouTube Series Launched!
November 21, 2025
New PPPL YouTube Series Launched!
November 21, 2025

In a new video series from PPPL called “Hey! What’s That?”, Shannon explains some of the science behind plasma and fusion.

🎬 Video credits: Filmed, edited and produced by Michael Livingston in collaboration with Shannon Swilley Greco

November 21, 2025
PPPL Virtual Tour: Science Education & Public Engagement
March 30, 2025
PPPL Virtual Tour: Science Education & Public Engagement
March 30, 2025

Join Shannon Swilley Greco, senior program associate for strategic relationships, as she shares about the many ways she and the science education team at the Lab work with teachers, students and communities to forge pathways for engagement, learning and inspiration. Part of PPPL’s Virtual Tour series.

March 30, 2025
Workshop helps prepare teachers to bring lessons on fusion energy and plasma science and plasma to the classroom
August 31, 2023
Workshop helps prepare teachers to bring lessons on fusion energy and plasma science and plasma to the classroom
August 31, 2023

More students may be learning about the potential of fusion energy as a clean, green and carbon-free source of electricity this fall thanks to the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s participation in Princeton University’s Quest 2023 teacher preparation program(Link is external) for sixth- to 12th-grade teachers. 

Shannon Swilley Greco, a senior project leader in PPPL’s Science Education Department, co-taught a one-week workshop July 17 to 21 for 15 teachers from across New Jersey on “Phenomenal Fusion: Energy and Climate Justice.”  

August 31, 2023
College women find kindred spirits at Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics
January 23, 2023
College women find kindred spirits at Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics
January 23, 2023

“The purpose of this conference was to reiterate to these students that they have a right to science, they have a right to the joy of physics, and of discovering science,” said Shannon Swilley Greco, the senior science education program leader at PPPL who organized the conference. “I’m hopeful the conference gave them the language to confront systemic discrimination and the tools to identify it, to survive and to dismantle it.” ‘’

January 23, 2023
Register NOW for PPPL's Young Women's Conference in STEM!!
April 14, 2022
Register NOW for PPPL's Young Women's Conference in STEM!!
April 14, 2022

Register now for the Virtual Young Women’s Conference in STEM hosted by PPPL and General Atomics

April 14, 2022
Informal Science Education and Career Advancement
December 20, 2021
Informal Science Education and Career Advancement
December 20, 2021
December 20, 2021
Plasma Network for Outreach and Workforce
November 8, 2021
Plasma Network for Outreach and Workforce
November 8, 2021
November 8, 2021
Fusion Power Explained – Future or Failure
October 20, 2021
Fusion Power Explained – Future or Failure
October 20, 2021

Cool explainer video for fusion from Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

October 20, 2021
What is plasma?
January 22, 2021
What is plasma?
January 22, 2021

Did you know lightning is plasma?

January 22, 2021
Fusion Energy Explained from PhD Comics
September 17, 2019
Fusion Energy Explained from PhD Comics
September 17, 2019
September 17, 2019
Fusion Apprentices!
August 2, 2019
Fusion Apprentices!
August 2, 2019

PPPL is helping to build New Jersey’s innovation economy and training technicians for fusion!

August 2, 2019
Creating a Diverse Pipeline
August 2, 2019
Creating a Diverse Pipeline
August 2, 2019

PPPL’s Underrepresented Undergraduate Workshop in Plasma Physics was highlighted by the Department of Energy!

August 2, 2019
Physicist breaks down the science of Marvel scenes
May 3, 2019
Physicist breaks down the science of Marvel scenes
May 3, 2019

“Talking raccoons, that part's OK.” A genuinely awesome and hilarious guy, Jim Kakalios, rates the science on a few Marvel moments.

May 3, 2019
Science Education staff testify about the importance of STEM programs to joint New Jersey Assembly committee
April 8, 2019
Science Education staff testify about the importance of STEM programs to joint New Jersey Assembly committee
April 8, 2019
April 8, 2019
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April 1, 2019
Alumna Highlight: Living the Science Life
April 1, 2019
April 1, 2019
“Doing science,” rather than “being scientists,” more encouraging to girls, new research shows
March 10, 2019
“Doing science,” rather than “being scientists,” more encouraging to girls, new research shows
March 10, 2019
March 10, 2019
An interview with Shannon Swilley Greco, new vice chair of the APS Forum on Outreach and Engaging the Public
September 13, 2018
An interview with Shannon Swilley Greco, new vice chair of the APS Forum on Outreach and Engaging the Public
September 13, 2018
September 13, 2018
Back to the Climate of the Dinosaurs
August 28, 2018
Back to the Climate of the Dinosaurs
August 28, 2018
August 28, 2018
Secretary of Energy Perry says PPPL research has potential to ‘change the world’
August 9, 2018
Secretary of Energy Perry says PPPL research has potential to ‘change the world’
August 9, 2018

PPPL oversees programs for middle and high school, college, and graduate students interested in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Perry (left) talks with Shannon Greco (center), program leader in science education, and Deedee Ortiz (right), program manager in science education, while PPPL and University administrators and summer interns listen to the conversation.

August 9, 2018
Profile: Ainissa Ramirez
May 31, 2017
Profile: Ainissa Ramirez
May 31, 2017

He’s screaming. Tears are streaming down his face. Oh, the agony. Just as I am composing in my head the “Reasons my son is crying” Tumblr caption (He stomped on his toy helicopter and is upset it won’t fly), Ainissa Ramirez, science superhero, comes to the rescue!

May 31, 2017
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