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Experimental Result |
New Partnership to Advance Diagnostic Imaging Agents |
27 May 2009 |
MDS Nordion, TRIUMF, and UBC announced on Monday, May 4, 2009, that they have entered into a strategic research-and-development partnership to pursue the development of new diagnostic imaging agents. |
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Workshops & Conferences |
A Triumph for TRIUMF and Accelerator Science |
19 May 2009 |
The 23rd Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC09), hosted by TRIUMF, came to a close on Friday, May 8th, after a highly successful week of speakers, poster sessions, exhibits, and more. |
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Workshops & Conferences |
Annual Meeting: NW Section of APS |
15 May 2009 |
The Annual Meeting of the NW section of APS will be taking place at UBC from May 14 to 16. TRIUMF will be a venue for various meetings and a poster session Friday afternoon. |
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Workshops & Conferences |
TRIUMF Gets Schooled in Nuclear Structure |
08 May 2009 |
"We are at the end of the beginning. Now begins the middle," said Professor John Wood about the future of nuclear structure physics and his work at TRIUMF. |
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Awards & Honours |
UBC Graduate Student at TRIUMF Lands Prestigious Vanier Scholarship |
30 April 2009 |
Stephan Ettenauer, a UBC graduate student working with TRIUMF researcher and adjunct professor Jens Dilling, is among the elite hundred or so graduate students across Canada that have been selected to receive the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, an award valued at $50,000 per year for up three years. |
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Experimental Result |
Mo-99 Collaboration: MDS Nordion & TRIUMF |
28 April 2009 |
MDS Nordion and TRIUMF announced on Tuesday, April 28, 2009, that they have signed an agreement to study the feasibility of producing a viable and reliable supply of photo-fission-produced molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) used globally for diagnostic medical imaging. |
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Experimental Result |
T2K Experiment Launches with Great Success |
24 April 2009 |
T2K, also known as the Tokai-to-Kamioka long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, has taken the first step into a realm of research and discovery. Experimenters have confirmed the first production of neutrino beams by observing the muons produced by the proton beam in the neutrino facility at Japan Proton Accelerator Complex (J-PARC). |
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Awards & Honours |
TRIUMF Collaborator François Bénard Named to BC Leadership Chair in Functional Cancer Imaging |
08 April 2009 |
In a special event at the British Columbia Cancer Agency Research Centre on Tuesday, provincial and scientific leaders gathered to announce the naming of François Bénard as the province's Leadership Chair in Functional Cancer Imaging. |
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Experimental Result |
Fermilab Experiments Confine the Higgs Mass |
18 March 2009 |
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have obtained the world's most precise measurement of the W boson's mass. This has led to a reduction of territory where the Higgs boson could actually exist. |
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Awards & Honours |
TRIUMF Collaborators Receive Gen-IV Energy Technologies Program Grant |
26 February 2009 |
Imagine receiving $100,000 for three consecutive years to work on an idea that you've proposed. For Paul Percival, Khashayar Ghandi and Craig Stuart that dream has become a reality. In July 2008, NSERC announced a new grant program with Natural Resources Canada and AECL Ltd. under the Generation IV Energy Technologies Program... |
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