World Population Day Message from UNFPA's Executive Director

A Message from the Executive Director

On behalf of the team at WINS, I am pleased to share our achievements of 2015. Facing the headwinds of tough economic times, Calgarians stepped up in so many ways to help one another and I express my sincere gratitude to the donors, volunteers, customers, grantors, funders and community partners who helped make the past year a success. Together, we created hope and new beginnings for 1,800 indi...

Message from Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization.

An example of our fruitful collaboration and teamwork was the reciprocal and complementary contributions for the development of UNSCEAR and WHO reports related with the Chernobyl and Fukushima-Daichi nuclear accidents. Our successful cooperation also included the evaluation of risks of the exposure to radon and other natural radiation sources as well as the assessment and communication of radia...

Message from the Director - General

From the Desk of the Executive Director.

A Message from the Director Steven Ealick

In May 2009, NE-CAT applied for a high end equipment grant from NCRR to fund the purchase of a Pixel Array Detector (PAD). As a class, PADs are generally acknowledged as the near-term successor to CCD’s at 3rd generation synchrotron crystallography beamlines. The PILATUS-6M, from Dectris Ltd., is the first commercially available PAD suitable for synchrotron-based macromolecular crystallographic...