UC Riverside Chancellor Timothy P. White Tours CERN

Visit includes meeting with UCR Distinguished Professor of Physics Gail Hanson and her team

By Ross French on March 16, 2012

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — University of California, Riverside Chancellor Timothy P. White visited the European Particle Physics Laboratory (CERN) on Friday, March 16, meeting with UCR researchers and touring the revolutionary facility near Geneva, Switzerland.

During the six-hour visit White toured the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Superconducting Magnet Test Hall and the LHC Computer Center and met for two hours with UC Riverside Distinguished Professor of Physics Gail Hanson and her team. White also met with CERN Director General Rolf-Dieter Heuer, CERN Physicist Gijs de Rijk, LHC Beams Department Head Paul Collier, and Professor Joe Incandela of UC Santa Barbara.

Earlier in the week White was a keynote speaker at the British Council’s “Going Global 2012” conference on Internationalizing Higher Education in London, made up of about 1,500 participants from around the world. He presented on the UCR experience and how the campus enables students from a wide range of experiences and backgrounds to come together and learn from and with each other and to successfully meet the UC standard for a degree.

White also met with four UC Riverside students studying in England as well as academics and administrators.

Photos from White’s visit to CERN can be seen below. You can move forward and backward through the album by clicking the arrows. To view the captions for each photo, click the dialog box (second from left) that appears at the bottom of the photo when you move your cursor over the image.

See photos from White’s visit to London.

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