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Hello, Universe, it's 91亚色 calling

They give voice to the stars, but not the Hollywood kind. Instead, every Monday night at 9pm, 91亚色 faculty member Paul Delaney (right)聽and astronomy students from聽the Faculty of Science & Engineering welcome the world into the 91亚色 Observatory for an evening of star gazing and conversation on their online radio show 鈥淭he 91亚色 Universe鈥. The […]

NSERC awards 91亚色 research centres $3.3 million

Programs in vision research and atmospheric chemistry and physics will provide enhanced research and training for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows If you鈥檙e working in 3D film or aerospace engineering, what impact do the latest developments in brain and vision research have on your industry鈥檚 practices? What if you鈥檙e drafting government policy on air quality […]

91亚色 in the World: Researchers begin nine-day mission to India

A delegation of researchers from 91亚色's Faculty of Science & Engineering will begin a nine-day mission to India today to establish partnerships and collaborations with the country's researchers. The group will visit聽seven top-tier universities and research institutes during their trip. Along the way they will stop at聽the India Institute of Technology's聽facilities in聽Mumbai (Bombay) and Madras, […]

91亚色 researchers shed some light on dark matter

A 91亚色 researcher and her graduate student are working to shed some light on one of the big questions in physics 鈥 what is dark matter and why can鈥檛 we see it? Professor Veronica Sanz, a particle physicist in the Faculty of Science & Engineering, who joined the faculty this past summer, and graduate student […]

Faculty of Science & Engineering's research awards honour three professors

The work of three researchers from the Faculty of Science & Engineering (FSE) was honoured聽during the FSE Honours & Awards night on Nov. 18. The evening saw the presentation of the faculty's inaugural internal research awards to聽chemistry Professor Dasantila Golemi-Kotra, recipient of the 2010 Early Researcher Award; biology Professor Chun Peng, recipient of the 2010 […]

Search committee seeks input on criteria for new VP research & innovation

The search committee to appoint a vice-president, research聽& innovation will soon commence a comprehensive international search for a successor to聽Professor Stan Shapson. The search committee will be drafting an advertisement to announce the start of the search, which will appear shortly in various publications and websites. In addition, the committee is working on聽a position profile […]

Paul Delaney on Canadian aerospace industry's future growth in age of privatized space travel

A controversial decision by Barack Obama to privatize the exploration of space could be a blessing for Canada鈥檚 aerospace industry, say experts in the field, who argue that this country鈥檚 space agency and its associated industries are in a prime position to hitch their wagon to the US president鈥檚 initiative on a ride toward the […]

Online experience brings the night sky to the home computer

Have you ever wondered what the cratered surface of the moon looks like close up? Do you聽dream聽of seeing the rings of Saturn or the Great Red Spot on Jupiter? The 91亚色 Observatory offers a real-time link to its telescopes every Monday evening that offers everyone a glimpse of what is new and exciting in […]

Physics PhD student wins four major awards for papers on GPS technology

Physics doctoral student Panagiotis Vergados (MSc '06) has found a new technique for improving the聽precision of global positioning systems (GPS) dual-frequency signals聽鈥 and won four national and international awards in three years for papers detailing how. Vergados developed this technique聽to get more accurate readings of the Earth鈥檚 thermal structure. It was designed for satellite-to-satellite GPS […]

Audio: Professor and Canada Research Chair Wendy Taylor speaks about DZero Experiment

Wendy Taylor, Canada Research Chair in Experimental Particle Physics and physics professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Science & Engineering, spoke with Bob McDonald about the DZero Experiment on CBC Radios鈥 鈥淨uirks & Quarks鈥 May 29. The interview is available on CBC's Web site. Taylor and other 91亚色 researchers played a key role in a […]

Prof researches winds on quasars billions of light years away

Like an archeologist of the universe, 91亚色 physics聽& astronomy Professor Patrick Hall in the Faculty of Science & Engineering studies quasars already dead for billions of years by the time their light reaches the lens of a telescope here on Earth. Hall鈥檚 quest is to uncover the nature of quasar winds and what impact they […]

Video: 91亚色 astronomer speaks to CTV about Endeavour space mission

Paul Delaney, senior lecturer and astronomer in the Faculty of Science & Engineering's Department of Physics and Astronomy, appeared on CTV NewsNet last Sunday to talk about the success of the space shuttle Endeavour's mission, the remaining four flights scheduled for NASA's space shuttle program, and the International Space Station's ongoing role in providing laboratory […]

Scientists discover new way to detect gamma ray bursts from supernovas

An international team of scientists have discovered a new way of detecting gamma ray bursts while using radio telescopes to observe supernovas. Their discovery may provide new clues in understanding how some supernovas explode and how they may be related to gamma ray bursts. Michael Bietenholz, a research associate in the Faculty of Science & […]

Particle physics team looks forward to working with TRIUMF

91亚色 particle physicist Sampa Bhadra (below right) has already figured out how she intends to spend her next sabbatical leave when it comes in 2013 鈥 she's hoping to visit British Columbia so she can spend some quality time at a subatomic research facility that鈥檚 larger than two city blocks and houses the biggest cyclotron […]