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Current Events |
TRIUMF signs MOU with UBC Orbit |
16 January 2015 |
UBC
Orbit team utilizes TRIUMF’s expertise as they construct a space-ready
satellite for the Canadian Satellite Design Challenge. |
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Current Events |
The Honourable Mike Lake visits TRIUMF |
15 January 2015 |
On January 13, 2015, TRIUMF played host to the Honourable Mike Lake, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industry, and Member of Parliament from Edmonton. |
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Experimental Result |
Team Demonstrates Solution to Tc-99m Crisis |
05 January 2015 |
A Canadian team demonstrates the workability of decentralized, non-reactor based
production of Tc-99m that eliminates the threat of an isotope shortage, while providing a safe and secure supply chain for Canadian
patients. |
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Awards & Honours |
Photos Contemplate the Humanity of Science |
19 December 2014 |
Whether in the form of a researcher’s handwritten scribbles or
through a photographer’s creativity, photographers brought a fresh look to research
at work at TRIUMF 3rd Photowalk. |
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Current Events |
First Experiments Performed With GRIFFIN |
18 December 2014 |
A
state-of-the-art instrument for detecting and measuring gamma radiation with
high efficiency and precision, GRIFFIN, became operational this year and ran its first experiments. |
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Current Events |
Forty Years of Beam! |
17 December 2014 |
It was
40 years ago that the laboratory celebrated extraction of first beam from the
500 MeV cyclotron, the same cyclotron driving science at the lab today.
The TRIUMF Alumni & Retirees Association visited to connect and learn of the present status of the lab
but also to share memories of times past. |
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University Stories |
Western University Joins TRIUMF Consortium |
16 December 2014 |
Western University joins as TRIUMF's
19th Canadian member university of the consortium that owns and operates the lab, reinforcing existing networks in
nuclear medicine and materials science. Welcome! |
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Current Events |
Canada Launches ST&I Strategy |
05 December 2014 |
Prime Minister Stephen
Harper and Minister of State (S&T) Ed Holder announced the release of an
updated federal science, technology and innovation strategy, with a clear vision for Canadian
excellence. |
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Student Stories |
UBC Co-op Brings Business to Tc-99m |
28 November 2014 |
Karen Young, a fourth year commerce student from UBC’s Sauder School of Business, is spending a semester at TRIUMF bridging business and science as she develops a financial model for medical isotope production. |
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Experimental Result |
Unravelling the Proton-Radius Puzzle |
28 November 2014 |
A TRIUMF-led theory group is helping to shed light on the "proton-radius" puzzle, where a once "well known" physical property of matter has been called into question by a new experimental result. |
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