Acadia ALERT - Campus Closed (Weather)

Today, Monday, February 23, 2026, Acadia University will remain closed, with the exception of residences and Wheelock Dining Hall, due to the forecasted weather. Wheelock Dining Hall may adjust their hours due to the weather and any change in hours will be communicated through Residence Life.

Employees and students are not expected to come to campus and only employees deemed essential are required to report to work. Non-essential employees are not expected to work during the closure. Any events scheduled for today will be postponed or cancelled.

Updates will be posted on www.acadiau.ca and pre-recorded on Acadia’s Information Line: 902-585-4636 (585-INFO). If you need emergency-related information, please contact the Department of Safety and Security by dialing 88 on all 585-phone systems, or by calling 902-585-1103.

If you have any questions, please contact:

Acadia University

Department of Safety & Security

902-585-1103

security@acadiau.ca

(Monday February 23, 2026 @ 5:55 am)

Matthew LeBlanc Wins the TRIUMF Summer Research Award

Acadia Physics Double major, Matthew LeBlanc, wins the TRIUMF Summer Research Award for the Atlantic Region.

SUCCESS AT LAST! The Large Hadron Collider just got its first physics data at the record-breaking collision energies of 7 TeV (3.5 TeV per beam).  That marks the start of the LHC research programme.

This is a great time to be a particle physicist. One of our own, Acadia student Matt LeBlanc, will be spending a part of this summer in Geneva doing research at CERN.

Matt will be working on the "ATLAS at the CERN Large Hadron Collider Project". Matt will help to "re-discovered" the known Standard Model particles like top quark.

In several months, the LHC will be ready to look for the truly new physics, like the Higgs boson and Dark matter particles. The press release is posted at http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2010/PR07.10E.html.

Congratulations Matthew!

 

 

 

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