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Current Events |
TRIUMF community joins in Higgs@10 celebrations |
03 July 2022 |
Today, members of TRIUMF's particle physics communities both on-site and around the world are joining in the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery, which was announced by the ATLAS and CMS experiments shortly after 9:00 AM on July 4, 2012. |
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Current Events |
ACOT Chair Dr. Young-Kee Kim elected to National Academy of Science |
11 May 2022 |
Dr. Young-Kee Kim, Chair of the Advisory Committee on TRIUMF (ACOT), has been elected to the National Academy of Science (NAS). |
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Current Events |
TR24 cyclotron touches down in IAMI |
26 April 2022 |
The TR24 cyclotron, one of the world’s most technologically advanced commercial cyclotrons, took flight briefly on Friday, April 8, up and over the IAMI site fence and then down to its permanent home on the B2 level of the Institute. |
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Current Events |
Large Hadron Collider activates for Run 3 |
22 April 2022 |
Just after 3:00 AM PT this morning, twin beams of protons once again began circulating the 27-kilometre ring of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, bringing to an end a three-year period of maintenance and upgrades for the collider’s next phase of data-taking. |
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Current Events |
Lia Merminga, former TRIUMF Head, Accelerator Division, to become Director of Fermilab |
11 April 2022 |
Dr. Lia Merminga, who led TRIUMF’s Accelerator Division from 2008 to 2016, has been appointed to lead Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), effective April 18, 2022. |
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Current Events |
TRIUMF marks International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2022 |
11 February 2022 |
Three TRIUMF community members are lending their unique voices to the global International Day of Women and Girls in Science (#IDWGS2022) initiative. |
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Current Events |
TRIUMF-led CaNPAN tapped to join International Research Network for Nuclear Astrophysics |
07 February 2022 |
The Canadian Nuclear Physics for Astrophysics Network (CaNPAN), a national network of nuclear astrophysics researchers from TRIUMF and other Canadian institutions, has been selected to join the International Research Network for Nuclear Astrophysics (IReNA) |
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Current Events |
Former TRIUMF Director Dr. Nigel Lockyer awarded OBE |
13 January 2022 |
Dr. Nigel Lockyer, who served as TRIUMF’s Director from 2007 to 2013, has been awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, or OBE, for his services to science and UK/US relations. |
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Current Events |
Verma Family gifts $25,000 to establish Vijay and Shiksha Verma Family Endowment Fund for TRIUMF |
07 January 2022 |
TRIUMF is pleased to announce that Vijay Verma, Researcher Emeritus and alumnus, and his wife Shiksha have made a generous contribution of $25,000 to establish the Vijay and Shiksha Verma Family Endowment Fund |
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Awards & Honours |
TRIUMF-UBC co-op student Emily Love scores multiple accolades at Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference awards |
08 December 2021 |
Emily Love, a 4th year Engineering Physics student at the University of British Columbia currently undertaking a co-op semester with TRIUMF’s Theory Group and Research Scientist Dr. Jason Holt, has been awarded a trio of top awards as part of the Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference (CUPC) 2021. |
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