Category: 2025
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Time to celebrate: TIMEPIX@School project leader wins IEEE Award
Time to celebrate: TIMEPIX@school project leader wins IEEE Award Congratulations are in order for Michael Campbell, who has been awarded the Glen Knoll Prize by the IEEE in recognition of his outstanding contributions to technology and engineering. Michael has worked at CERN since 1988, mostly designing pixel detector electronics for high energy physics (HEP) experiments.…
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Q&A with a non-Member State summer student – meet Ayoub!
Q&A with a non-Member State summer student – meet Ayoub! Over summer, 60 young people from non-Member States were supported through the CERN & Society Foundation to attend the CERN Summer Student Programme. We recently caught up with Ayoub to hear about his experience! How did you find out about CERN and the Summer Student…
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Engage with science: CERN Public Events season 2025/2026 underway
Engage with science: CERN Public Events season gets underway The 2025/2026 public events season is underway! The programme kicked off last Thursday with a screening of the film Les vrais chercheurs (ne savent pas ce qu’ils cherchent) – an exploration of the journey of scientific research. Read the full programme of events, and find information on how to…
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CERN-MEDICIS: Accelerating for society
CERN-MEDICIS: Accelerating forward Photo: Maximilien Brice Earlier in the year, CERN Council approved an extension to the MEDICIS platform. MEDICIS, a collaborative project between 19 partner institutions, and based at CERN, is using proton beams from the Proton Synchrotron Booster and advanced mass-separation technologies to produce innovative medical radionuclides for biomedical research. This new generation of…
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The summer of ‘25
Summer is a special season, as it provides the chance to see many of the projects that we receive donations for during the year become a reality. Among these, we are especially pleased to have welcomed 60 young people to CERN from non-Member States as part of the 2025 Summer Student Programme. This programme gives students…
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CERN, Society, and the European Network for Light Ion Hadron Therapy
Developing the skills and expanding the knowledge base of a group, or even just one person, can create positive change which ripples through society to generate lasting impact The European Network for Light Ion Hadron Therapy (ENLIGHT) was founded over two decades ago to coordinate the research of professionals in the field of hadron therapy…
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Smashing more than just particles: read about the achievements of the CERN & Society Foundation in 2024
Smashing more than just particles: read about the achievements of the CERN & Society Foundation in 2024 With our 2024 Annual Review now available to read online, we reflect on some highlights from the previous year ‘To every donor, partner and friend of the Foundation: there are no words to fully capture our gratitude. You…
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Soft Robots: art and science in dialogue
Work of CERN resident artists on display at Copenhagen Contemporary From quantum communication and the paradoxes of black holes to climate futures and synthetic images, CERN artist residents explore the frontiers of scientific research in the exhibition, Soft Robots, on display until 31 December 2025 at Copenhagen Contemporary – CC. Soft Robots brings together fifteen artists who reflected…
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Students from Belgium, Canada, Mexico, Türkiye and the USA announced as winners of Beamline for Schools (BL4S)
The five winning teams will travel to CERN, DESY and ELSA to perform their proposed experiments Congratulations are in order! Five teams have been announced as the winners of the 2025 edition of the Beamline for Schools (BL4S) competition: “The Spallateam” (Collège Cardinal Mercier, Belgium), “Physical” (Cağaloğlu Anadolu Lisesi, Türkiye), “Dawson Technicolor” (Dawson College, Canada),…
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Sparks! 2025 invites discussion, ignites curiosity
In June, the fourth edition of the Sparks! forum took place here at CERN – an opportunity for the public to engage with leading science and technology experts and incidentally, a huge success! Given the burgeoning nature of quantum and its potential to significantly shape our collective future, this year’s event, Imagining Quantum City, showcased recent developments in the…