[News-releases] Stronger Together: University of Winnipeg Joins TRIUMF

[Tim Meyer]

News Release | For Immediate Release | April 18, 2011, 9:00 a.m. PDT

STRONGER TOGETHER: UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG JOINS TRIUMF

(Vancouver, BC) --- At its recent Board of Management meeting, TRIUMF
approved the University of Winnipeg as an associate member of the consortium
of 17 universities that owns and operates Canada’s national laboratory for
particle and nuclear physics. 

Paul Young, Chair of the Board and Vice President for Research at the
University of Toronto, said, “TRIUMF is a national enterprise that leverages
the combined strengths of Canada’s great universities.  The University of
Winnipeg is a welcome addition. ”

The university’s closer association with TRIUMF will allow it to participate
in discussions about setting the direction of the laboratory as well as
enhanced partnerships for new research infrastructure that strengthens
efforts on the University of Winnipeg campus. Dr. Neil Besner,
Vice-President, Research and International, at the University of Winnipeg,
said, “The University of Winnipeg is honoured to have been approved for
associate membership to the TRIUMF consortium.  We are excited about the
opportunities this will bring to our researchers and institution, and look
forward to a new level of research excellence.”

The University of Winnipeg has been informally involved in TRIUMF for
several decades through some of the original experiments in particle and
nuclear physics as well the materials-science facilities.  In 2008,
Professor Jeff Martin began discussions with two laboratories in Japan and
TRIUMF in Canada to formulate a new national initiative for understanding
the properties of the neutron with a premier research facility known as the
Ultra-Cold Neutron Source.  Under his leadership, a proposal to the Canada
Foundation for Innovation was prepared and successfully awarded $4.225
million.  The three-way Memorandum of Understanding among TRIUMF, Winnipeg,
and the Japanese laboratories was formally approved in February 2011.  

Professor Martin said, “The completion of cutting-edge physics research at
TRIUMF is a great opportunity for me, and for my colleagues from the
University of Winnipeg and elsewhere.  TRIUMF is an important resource for
all researchers in my field throughout Canada and the rest of the world.
The approval for associate membership in TRIUMF demonstrates the University
of Winnipeg's rising leadership in physics research in Canada.”

Nigel S. Lockyer, director of TRIUMF, commented, “TRIUMF is about excellence
in research and connecting leading university researchers to the world.  The
University of Winnipeg’s ultra-cold neutron project is a perfect example of
how we can work together to keep Canadian science relevant---and
competitive.  We look forward to working more closely with their excellent
team.”

TRIUMF’s core operations are supported via a contribution through National
Research Council Canada with additional funding from CIHR, CFI, NRCan,
NSERC, and WD.  The Government of British Columbia has provided building
capital funds.

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Timothy I. Meyer, Ph.D.
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