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The Government of Ghana has commited US$1.5 million to help launch the third independent centre of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, the centrepiece of PI's global outreach effort.

PI Associate Faculty Member Michele Mosca has been named among the country's Top 40 Under 40 by The Globe and Mail.

Perimeter Institute Associate Faculty member Niayesh Afshordi has won the Professor M.K. Vainu Bappu Gold Medal from the Astronomical Society of India (ASI).

Perimeter members and colleagues from around the world ocme together at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Qatar.

PI Outreach's latest video resource, Everday Einstein: GPS & Relativity, tied for second place in the Non-interactive Media category of the prestigious International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.

From June 5 - 9, Waterloo Global Science Initiative, a partnership between Perimeter Institute and the University of Waterloo, will host a gobal conversation on how science and technology can help solve our current energy crisis.

CBC Radio One's flagship current affairs program spoke with PI Board Chair Mike Lazaridis, PI Director Neil Turok, and members of PI's faculty about innovation and the importance of theoretical physics.

Ms. Palk, recently retired as the President of TD Asset Management Inc., has had a distinguished career in financial services with a long record of community service.

The World Innovation Summit for Education has selected PI Director Neil Turok and his AIMS Next Einstein Initiative, the centrepiece of PI Global Outreach, as one of its six winners this year.

President Barack Obama presented Professor Aharonov with the highest honour bestowed on scientists by the US government in a White House ceremony.

The past few months have seen Perimeter's Outreach team participate in the STAO conference, launch a new in-class module called Everday Einstein: GPS & Relativity, and present three successful Public Lectures, among other things.