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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.