{"id":641338,"date":"2026-05-01T18:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641338\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T18:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:44:08","slug":"triumf-triumph-two-saint-marys-science-students-awarded-prestigious-fellowships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641338\/","title":{"rendered":"TRIUMF triumph: Two Saint Mary\u2019s science students awarded prestigious fellowships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Clara Wrightman-Dillon, a physics major from St. Andrews, N.B., will be working with Dr. Adam Garnsworthy and researchers at the University of York. Their project, titled \u201cDecoherence of Quantum Entangled Photons,\u201d will involve the collection, sorting and analysis of data for research that could affect PET medical imaging. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">This won\u2019t be Clara\u2019s first visit to TRIUMF; she was there last year thanks to her work alongside Dr. Greg Christian, a professor in the Department of Astronomy and Physics at Saint Mary\u2019s. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">After graduating from Saint Mary\u2019s, Clara intends to pursue a Master of Science in physics. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Tehya and Clara have both spent the previous two summers at Saint Mary\u2019s conducting research with their professors in positions funded by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)\u2019s Undergraduate Student Research Awards program and the Faculty of Science at Saint Mary\u2019s.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The paid, four-month fellowship includes travel and a week&#8217;s stay at TRIUMF House, a \u201chome away from home for TRIUMF\u2019s national and international visitors\u201d. When fellowship winners complete their undergraduate degrees, a $5,000 scholarship is available to any of the 21 TRIUMF schools in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clara Wrightman-Dillon, a physics major from St. Andrews, N.B., will be working with Dr. Adam Garnsworthy and researchers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":["post-641338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}