<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">TRIUMF Welcomes Infusion of Young Minds</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">TRIUMF News Release </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">For Immediate Release</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">(Vancouver, BC) The average age at TRIUMF will drop another notch</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">when three of the very finest high school science students in </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">British Columbia join the lab this summer. Already over run with</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">several dozen top undergraduate summer students, TRIUMF will welcome</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">High School Fellowship recipients Adam deAbreu of North Vancouver, </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Saige McVea of Mission, and Kiel Strang of Robert's Creek for a </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">summer work experience. </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">Their summer job of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">lifetime begins July 4</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">and will end six weeks later with a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">report or presentation about the</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">work </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">they did </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">immersed in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">active </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">research groups,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "> </span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">This year's Fellows </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">were selected </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">from a cohort of over 60 applicants</span></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">from all </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">over </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">the province through a two-stage judging process</span></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">involving judges from across BC. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">TRIUMF Outreach Coordinator Dr. </span></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">Marcello Pavan commented that "the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">selection process this year was</span></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">particularly difficult, with so many </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">truly outstanding students to </span></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">consider. I would have gladly taken </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">the whole lot of them !". In fact</span></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">the quality of the applicants led TRIUMF to increase the number of </span></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">Fellows to three from the two historically awarded. </span></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Scientists at the lab were eager to snap up these eager young minds. </font></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Adam deAbreu will join Dr. Oliver Stelzer-Chilton and his group </font></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">working on </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">analyzing data from the ATLAS experiment at the LHC </span></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">accelerator in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">Geneva. Said Adam </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">“I hope that this will be the first</font></span></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">step on the never-ending pathway of my career. I hope that at some </font></span></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">point my experience at the fellowship will bring me back to work at </font></span></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">TRIUMF or even at CERN's LHC.” </font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "> Saige McVea will join Dr. Chris Ruiz</span></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">and his team </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">working on a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">nuclear astrophysics experiment in mid-July,</span></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">and she could not be more excited, saying “The world is complex, </span></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">beautiful, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">and mysterious; understanding the laws that govern the </span></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">universe only </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">deepens my appreciation for it”. Kiel Strang will be </span></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">part of Dr. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">Cornelia Hoehr's team in TRIUMF's nuclear medicine </span></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">division. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">Said Kiel " this work term will give me a chance to learn</span></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">more about </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">current physics research and applications and help me </span></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">see where I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">might </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">fit in”</span></div><div style="font-family: Sathu; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br></font></div></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">TRIUMF has been offering the High School Fellowship since 2004. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Fellows </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">spend a six-week research experience at the lab, and are </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">awarded $3000 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">upon completion of a report or presentation. Dr. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">Stelzer-Chilton comments </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">that, “It is inspiring to see so many </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">talented young people engaging </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">in science in and outside the </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">classroom with independent ideas. At </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">TRIUMF we are delighted to give </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">these young emerging scientists a chance to develop their skill set </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">in a real life research environment.”</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">For more information, visit <a href="http://www.triumf.ca/outreach/">http://www.triumf.ca/outreach/</a></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"> ### </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">About TRIUMF: </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">TRIUMF is Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">physics. Located on the south campus of the University of British</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Columbia, TRIUMF is owned and operated as a joint venture by a</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">consortium of the following Canadian universities, via a contribution</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">through the National Research Council Canada and building capital</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">funds from the Government of British Columbia: University of Alberta,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">University of British Columbia, University of Calgary, Carleton</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">University, University of Guelph, University of Manitoba, McMaster</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">University, Universite de Montreal, University of Northern British</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Columbia, Queen's University, University of Regina, Saint Mary's</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">University, Simon Fraser University, University of Toronto, University</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">of Victoria, University of Winnipeg, York University. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">See <a href="http://www.triumf.ca">http://www.triumf.ca</a>. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Media Contacts </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">--------------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Dr. Marcello Pavan </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Outreach & Communications</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">TRIUMF</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Tel: 604.222.7525</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><a href="mailto:outreach@triumf.ca">outreach@triumf.ca</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"></font></div><div><br></div><div>
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