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His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, will be presenting Dalhousie battery researcher Jeff Dahn with one of theGovernor General’s Innovation Awards. The Governor General’s Innovation Awards honour Canadian innovation across all sectors while aiming to inspire a culture of entrepreneurial innovation. The awards are given to individuals, teams or organizations… Read more »

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The Manifesto @4womeninscience promotes a six-point agenda:  Encourage girls to explore scientific career paths, Break down the barriers that prevent women scientists from pursuing long term careers in research, Prioritize women’s access to senior positions and leadership positions in the sciences, Celebrate with the general public the contribution that women scientists make to scientific progress… Read more »

Dear Colleagues: SNOLAB is embarking on an update to its Strategic Plan for 2017 through to 2021. The Strategic Plan (https://goo.gl/n6x8ib) guides the SNOLAB management in prioritizing resources in order to align the laboratory’s activities with the strategic aims of the SNOLAB community and stakeholders. It is essential to have the engagement of the full… Read more »

Dear Colleagues, The CAP NSERC Liaison Committee has, at the request of a CAP member, looked into the NSERC Discovery Grant (DG) program external review process, specifically the response rate for external reviewer reports received for grant applications.   Unfortunately, in each competition year, there are a number of DG applications that receive no external… Read more »

On 2015 November 8, the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) Collaboration shared the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, valued at $3 million, with T2K/K2K and three other international collaborations (Super Kamiokande, KamLAND, and Daya Bay) “for the fundamental discovery of neutrino oscillations, revealing a new frontier beyond, and possibly far beyond, the standard model of… Read more »

2015 September 24  The Canadian Association of Physicists congratulates the following members for their recent recognition / awards: 2015 ROYAL SOCIETY RUTHERFORD MEMORIAL MEDAL IN PHYSICS : CLERK, Aashish – Department of Physics, McGill University Aashish Clerk is a leading theoretical physicist working at the boundary of quantum optics and condensed matter physics. His research… Read more »

Some of you are aware of this, but for those who are not, I want to bring to your attention an outreach project that will greatly help in our efforts to educate the general public about physics. Hopefully this eventually gets translated into increased support for all basic research. The U.S. National Science Foundation has… Read more »

From June 3-5, the CBC radio program Ideas will be airing“Science under Siege” – a three-part special on science and democracy. The episode examines the historical relationship between science and democracy, the state of science in the modern world, and solutions for addressing the undermining of science happening today. Givenrecent criticisms surrounding Canada’s changing science… Read more »

The Canadian Association of Physicists feels very strongly about the need for openness with regard to communication of scientific results, particularly when they impact public policy and the overall well-being of the nation. More specifically:   Citizens and their elected representatives need easily accessible information to be able to fully contribute to the democratic decision-making process. Scientific… Read more »