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Current Events |
MLA Richard Lee Recognizes TRIUMF |
05 March 2008 |
Burnaby-North MLA Richard Lee made a floor speech in the BC Legislative Assembly on Thursday, February 21, 2008. |
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Current Events |
ATLAS Completes World’s Largest Jigsaw Puzzle |
29 February 2008 |
Thanks to the contribution by TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics located in Vancouver, BC, Canadians can celebrate their role in placing the final piece of equipment in a mammoth machine begun over nine years ago: The ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). |
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Awards & Honours |
TRIUMF Supports Division of Nuclear Physics Thesis Competition |
18 February 2008 |
By unanimous agreement among the judges, the recipient of the 2007 Division of Nuclear Physics Thesis Prize is Dr. Simon Turbide. |
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Current Events |
Nobel Laureate Gives Saturday Morning Lecture |
18 February 2008 |
UBC Professor Carl Wieman, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Physics, held his audience in rapt attention during the February 8th Saturday Morning Lecture. |
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Current Events |
TRIUMF Partners with “Virtual Researcher on Call” |
18 February 2008 |
TRIUMF, Canada’s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, is pleased to announce a partnership with Virtual Researcher On Call (VROC). |
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Current Events |
TRIUMF Policy and Planning Advisory Committee Formed |
18 February 2008 |
TRIUMF is owned and operated as a joint venture by a consortium of seven Canadian universities together with six associate members. To assist TRIUMF in identifying the most promising directions for pursuit, the Board of Management has created a Policy and Planning Advisory Committee (PPAC). |
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Awards & Honours |
TRIUMF Selected by Government of Canada as Centre of Excellence for Commercialization and Research |
14 February 2008 |
The Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry, today announced $163 million to establish 11 new Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECRs). |
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Current Events |
UBC Science Journalism Students Visit TRIUMF |
24 January 2008 |
Eight students from the Science Journalism program at the UBC School of Journalism visited TRIUMF on January 21, 2008. |
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Current Events |
An Open Letter to the Broader TRIUMF Community |
21 January 2008 |
Since the 1990s, TRIUMF has secured its operating funds through a 5-year contribution agreement with National Research Council Canada. The present cycle ends in 2010 and efforts to develop the plan for the 2010-2015 are well underway. |
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Current Events |
TRIUMF Featured on MSNBC.com |
16 January 2008 |
The global, perhaps even stellar, significance of TRIUMF’s nuclear astrophysics program was featured on MSNBC.com’s Cosmic Log on January 4, 2008, in an article by renowned science journalist Alan Boyle. |
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