Dr. Michel Gingras, who spent some of his formative years at TRIUMF as a research associate in the Theory Group, has been awarded the 2009 Canadian Association of Physicists Brockhouse Medal.
The Canadian Association of Physicists recently announced a new Award for Excellence in Teaching High School and CEGEP Physics in collaboration with TRIUMF, Perimeter Institute, Merlan Scientific, Nelson Education, and Vernier.
Two members of the senior management team of Japan's RIKEN laboratory visited TRIUMF on Thursday, October 29, 2009, to share operating models and discuss opportunities for partnership.
This summer the Accelerator Section of the Health Physics Society established an award in memory of Lutz Moritz recognizing his support for the section and his contributions to the field of accelerator health physics.
Nine students from the UBC Graduate School of Journalism visited TRIUMF last week for a tour of the facility and an exercise in science journalism - finding and developing a worthy science news pitch.
TRIUMF is pleased to announce the establishment of the Otto Häusser Postdoctoral Fellowship, a two year appointment with the aim of recognizing the achievements of outstanding recent Ph.D. recipients.
The 2009/2010 Saturday Morning Lecture Series kicked- off its first event this past weekend. The morning featured a lecture on short-term climate variability & prediction and a science and technology career panel.
The new SHARC-TIGRESS detector system has enabled experimenters to clearly observe the transfer reactions of sodium-26 giving new insight into the change in shell structure of this neutron- rich isotope.
Eminent nuclear physicist Bikash Sinha has been awarded the prestigious Dr. Homi J. Bhabha Chair Professorship at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
Celebrate National Science & Technology Week 2009 with TRIUMF! Join us for the kick-off to the 2009/2010 Saturday Morning Lecture Series and a "Science in the Movies Night" featuring The Atom Smashers.