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Who is David Jensen? Rotary International News -- 19 March 2012  Rotary International has named David Jensen, former vice president for corporate communications at GE Capital International Services (now Genpact), as its new chief communications officer, directing all internal and external communications operations at Rotary International, headquartered in Evanston, Illinois, USA. As CCO, Jensen will oversee a staff of about 115 professionals representing public relations, editorial services, broadcast media, Rotary's website, the award-winning magazine The Rotarian, Language Services, and other functions. Major projects include Rotary's brand revitalization initiative and the coordination of internal and external communications linked to the organization’s new strategic plan, which identifies enhancing Rotary’s image as a top priority. Jensen's arrival comes at a key moment in the 107-year history of Rotary, as the organization closes in on its top goal: the global eradication of the crippling childhood disease polio. Rotary is a spearheading partner in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, launched in 1988. Since then, Rotary and its partners have reduced the incidence of polio by more than 99 percent, from 350,000 cases a year to fewer than 700 cases in 2011. "We are in the business of storytelling, and Rotary has great stories to tell -- polio eradication being the perfect example," Jensen said. "I feel very fortunate to come to Rotary at this time." Jensen held several communications management positions at GE, which he joined in 2001. Before that, he worked for the global public relations firm Ketchum for more than five years, including a stint as general manager of the company's Hong Kong operations. He also held communications positions at Boeing, Raytheon, and Ampex. Jensen earned a bachelor's degree in journalism at Arizona State University. He is accredited by the International Association of Business Communicators and is a certified green belt in Six Sigma, the process-improvement methodology. When and where was the first National Convention of the Rotary Clubs of America held?  The first national convention of the Rotary Clubs of America was held in Rotary’s birthplace, Chicago, in 1910. On 15 August 1910, Paul Harris convened the first National Convention of the Rotary Clubs of America. “This is going to be a convention in which we will get down to business and endeavor to launch the National Association of Rotary Clubs. We need the best thought and cooperation of every single man who is here," Harris told the 60 registrants assembled at the Congress Hotel in Chicago. At the time of the 1910 Convention, Rotary had 16 clubs and more than 1,000 members. In 2005, more than 39,000 people attended the RI Convention in Chicago to celebrate Rotary's centennial. Rotary has held conventions throughout the world - including Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1921; Mexico City in 1953; Lucerne, Switzerland, in 1957; and Tokyo in 1978. These yearly meetings combine Rotary business with fellowship and feature guest speakers, workshops, meetings, and exhibits. The International Fellowship of Rotarian Convention Goers, a group of Rotarians dedicated to promoting and attending the RI gatherings, encourages all Rotarians to attend at least one convention, where they will form new friendships and learn how Rotarians worldwide carry out humanitarian efforts and promote ethical service through their vocations. For more information about Rotary history, visit Rotary History and Archives or the Rotary Global History Fellowship. Is the Rotary International President a voting member of the Council on Legislation?  The Council on Legislation, created in 1934, becomes the official law-making body of Rotary in 1970. Clubs gain a voice in Rotary governance by submitting legislation to the Council. Each district sends a representative to the Council to review and vote on proposed legislation. Council actions spur some of Rotary's most important work, such as the creation of PolioPlus in 1986 and the admission of women in 1989. About the Council on Legislation The Council on Legislation, Rotary's "parliament," meets every three years to deliberate and act upon all proposed enactments and resolutions submitted by clubs, district conferences, the General Council and Conference of Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland, and the RI Board. The Council itself also makes proposals. The Council on Legislation is an important part of Rotary's governance process. While the Board of Directors sets policies for Rotary International, the Council is where Rotary clubs have their say in the governance of the association. Every three years, each district sends a representative to the Council, which reviews proposed legislation. Every club and district is entitled to submit legislation to the Council, and some of Rotary’s most important work has resulted from Council action. Women were admitted into Rotary because of the action of the 1989 Council on Legislation, and PolioPlus was born as the result of the 1986 Council. The Council comprises more than 500 representatives from every part of the Rotary world. Voting members include one elected representative of the clubs of each Rotary district. Some nonvoting members include the chair and vice chair of the Council, the RI president, members of the RI Board, and past RI presidents. 2013 Council The next Council on Legislation will be in April 2013 in Chicago. Council representatives will be selected during the 2010-11 Rotary year. The deadline to submit legislation to the 2013 Council on Legislation is 31 December 2011. What’s new for the 2013 Council? The 2010 Council made a number of changes to the legislative process for the 2013 Council, including the requirement that all proposed legislation must be submitted with a statement of purpose and effect as well as a limit to the number of times a Rotarian can serve as a voting member of the Council. Further information on these changes can be found below and in What’s New for the 2013 Council . Contact information: General Secretary c/o Council Services Section Rotary International 1560 Sherman Avenue Evanston, IL 60201 USA Fax: 847-556-2123 E-mail: Council Services More resources 2013 Council All documents are in PDF format, unless otherwise noted.
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How does Stop Hunger Now provide aid?  Stop Hunger Now has always channeled in-kind aid since its formation in 1998. It continues to expand its ability to distribute donated goods to third world countries along with its volunteer packaging program. Stop Hunger Now is seeking Rotary’s assistance to bring greater awareness among corporations of the organization’s ability to channel donated in-kind goods. Lee Warren, New Initiatives Developer for Stop Hunger Now reports, “Following the earthquake in Haiti, for example, we had a number of companies try to donate to large non-profits, but those organization only take money. We were able to channel pallets of water, meal replacement drinks, medicine, pre-cooked meat, etc. that amount to millions of dollars of aid.” Another example, Warren said, is through Stop Hunger Now’s relationships with several pharmaceutical companies. “The companies are offering free medicine that is within 7-8 months of expiration, if groups small or large, can handle shipping and delivery. Next month when I am in Haiti we will be meeting with Dr. Guy Theodore to see how Haiti might be the recipient of select meds. This is an example of how we help corporations donate directly to global poverty.” Stop Hunger Now wants corporations to know of its ability to channel aid, and it is seeking Rotary partners in Zones 33 and 34 to promote these opportunities for in-kind giving among potential corporate partners that are looking to make a difference in the world. Warren observed, “The children that receive our meals have many needs. Stop Hunger Now is committed to sending all types of essential aid to the communities we serve. We are actively seeking donations from US manufacturers and distributors of new, bulk supplies of medicine, tools, blankets, shoes and many other types of aid.” If your company or organization is able to donate any of these products, or if you know of a company that can, please contact Paul Renaud at prenaud@stophungernow.org. What are Rotary Foundation 3-H Grants?  The Rotary Foundation funds the first Health, Hunger and Humanity (3-H) Grant: a project to immunize six million Philippine children against polio. RI President James L. Bomar signs an agreement with the Philippine government to begin immunization and administers the first drops of vaccine to a Philippine child. The grant sets the stage for Rotary's decades-long commitment to the eradication of polio. What, When and Where is the Caribbean Partnership Celebration 2012?   The Caribbean Partnership provides opportunities for Rotarians in the United States and throughout the countries of the Caribbean and North Atlantic to become better educated as to our respective cultural similarities and differences and to develop relationships, share knowledge, ideas, and interests that would result in partnered clubs. Our Caribbean Partnership continues to fulfill the specific purpose for which our Corporation was organized:
When was the Four-Way Test first drafted and for whom?  Rotary International officially adopts The Four-Way Test, one of the world's most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics. Herbert J. Taylor, a member of the Rotary Club of Chicago who would later become the 1954-55 RI president, drafts the 24-word test in 1932 to help an aluminum company on the verge of bankruptcy after the Great Depression. How often are the downloadable files on the Rotary International web site updated? All of the publications and forms that RI makes available for download can be found here. Downloads are arranged according to the categories listed in the clickable tabs below. You can also find a list of Web-only and downloadable documents in the RI Catalog. Most of the items listed in the download library are available as PDFs. Adobe Reader is required to view and print the files. The software can be downloaded free of charge from Adobe. Note: Rotary logos and other graphics are at www.rotary.org/graphics. The Rotary.org website and our library of downloadable files are updated every weekday. Updated files are posted as soon as possible after publication of a revised version, so the files found here can be considered the most up-to-date versions available. Go to the Download Library. Where and when was the 1,000th Rotary club chartered? The 1,000th Rotary club is chartered in January in York, England. The Rotary clubs of Melbourne, Victoria, and Sydney, New South Wales, are the first Australian clubs admitted to Rotary. The Rotary Club of Johannesburg, South Africa, is the first Rotary club in Africa.  The Rotary Club of York was inaugurated in 1921, and 2011 marked our 90th year! We currently have around 75 members, male and female, and are a friendly, welcoming Club, with a range of events for Fellowship as well as our weekly lunch meetings. We are very active in the York community, and along with many other community and fundraising activities we are the organisers of the annual York Rotary Dragon Boat Challenge on the River Ouse, which have raised more than £600,000 for charity since they were started in 2003. To read more about the 90-year history of our Club, click here In which countries does polio remain endemic? From the Global Polio Eradication Initiative  Polio remains endemic in four countries – Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan – with a further four countries known to have (Angola, Chad and Democratic Republic of the Congo) or suspected of having (Sudan) re-established transmission of poliovirus. Several more countries had ongoing outbreaks in 2010 due to importations of poliovirus. National Immunization Day calendar Use this interactive calendar to see all planned supplementary immunization campaigns in countries. National Immunization Day calendar The calendar is updated on a weekly basis. Please note that dates are not always accurate, since they are often finalized just before the activity. Endemic countries Polio-endemic countries have never stopped transmission of wild poliovirus. Countries with re-established transmission Countries with re-established transmission have active and persistent poliovirus transmission of more than 12 months following an importation. Countries with imported poliovirus Countries with imported poliovirus are experiencing ongoing outbreaks following an importation. When did "Service Above Self" become the official motto of Rotary? Rotary International News -- 7 July 2010  Arthur Frederick Sheldon, the Rotarian whose convention speech inspired Rotary's secondary motto, One Profits Most Who Serves Best. Rotary’s official mottoes, Service Above Self and One Profits Most Who Serves Best, trace back to the early days of the organization. In 1911, He Profits Most Who Serves Best was approved as the Rotary motto at the second convention of the National Association of Rotary Clubs of America, in Portland, Oregon. It was adapted from a speech made by Rotarian Arthur Frederick Sheldon to the first convention, held in Chicago the previous year. Sheldon declared that "only the science of right conduct toward others pays. Business is the science of human services. He profits most who serves his fellows best." The Portland convention also inspired the motto Service Above Self. During a convention outing on the Columbia River, Ben Collins, president of the Rotary Club of Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, talked with Seattle Rotarian J.E. Pinkham about the proper way to organize a Rotary club, offering the principle his club had adopted: Service, Not Self. Pinkham invited Paul P. Harris, who also was on the boat trip, to join their conversation. Harris asked Collins to address the convention, and the phrase Service, Not Self was met with great enthusiasm. At the 1950 RI Convention in Detroit, slightly modified versions of the two slogans were formally approved as the official mottoes of Rotary: He Profits Most Who Serves Best and Service Above Self. The 1989 Council on Legislation established Service Above Self as the principal motto of Rotary, because it best conveys the philosophy of unselfish volunteer service. He Profits Most Who Serves Best was modified by the 2004 Council to They Profit Most Who Serve Best and by the 2010 Council to its current wording, One Profits Most Who Serves Best. For more information:
When did Rotary's relationship with the UN begin? Rotary International appoints representatives each year to UN bodies and nongovernmental organizations worldwide. These representatives increase awareness and recognition of Rotary's programs, policies, and activities within the global community. They meet regularly with officers and staff from international agencies to
Rotary and the United Nations have a long history of working together and sharing similar visions for a more peaceful world. In 1942, Rotary clubs from 21 nations organized a conference in London to develop a vision for advancing education, science, and culture after World War II. That event was a precursor to UNESCO. In 1945, 49 Rotarians went to San Francisco to help draft the UN Charter. Rotary and the UN have been close partners ever since, a relationship that’s apparent through PolioPlus and work with UN agencies. Rotary currently holds the highest consultative status offered to a nongovernmental organization by the UN’s Economic and Social Council, which oversees many specialized UN agencies. Rotary maintains and furthers its relationship with a number of UN bodies, programs, commissions, and agencies through its representative network. Contact External Relations staff for more information. In 1962, the RI Board of Directors adopted the World Community Service program. What other program did they also approve? 
 The World Community Service program is adopted by the RI Board of Directors. The Board also approves Interact, a youth program for service and international fellowship. The program's name combines inter, for "international," and act for "action." It targets young men of secondary-school age. The first Interact club is formed in Melbourne, Florida, USA. Interact is Rotary International’s service club for young people ages 12 to 18. Interact clubs are sponsored by individual Rotary clubs, which provide support and guidance, but they are self-governing and self-supporting. Club membership varies greatly. Clubs can be single gender or mixed, large or small. They can draw from the student body of a single school or from two or more schools in the same community. Each year, Interact clubs complete at least two community service projects, one of which furthers international understanding and goodwill. Through these efforts, Interactors develop a network of friendships with local and overseas clubs and learn the importance of
As one of the most significant and fastest-growing programs of Rotary service, with more than 10,700 clubs in 109 countries and geographical areas, Interact has become a worldwide phenomenon. Almost 200,000 young people are involved in Interact. For more information about Interact in your area, contact your local Rotary club , or ask RI staff . Read the Interact Handbook and the Interact Brochure. Update your club’s contact information. Subscribe to the e-newsletter The New Generations monthly e-newsletter provides news and developments regarding the Interact, Rotaract, and Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) programs. Who was the first President of the Rotary Club of Shanghai, China, and when was he elected? Historic moments--Rotary's history in China Rotary International News - 1 July 2008 
Board members of the Rotary Club of Shanghai in 1938. Rotary Images In 1919, the past president of the Rotary Club of Seattle, Roger D. Pinneo, was traveling through the Far East on business. It turned out to be a historic trip, especially for Rotarians in China. Pinneo established the first Rotary club in Shanghai on 17 July 1919 with 35 charter members. Rotary admitted the club on 1 October 1919. From the beginning, the Shanghai club was international in its membership and objectives. Records from 1924 show that the club's membership was 80 percent American, 10 percent British, and 10 percent Chinese. The club's first officers and directors, elected 24 July 1919, were as follows: president Julian Petit, vice president A.B. Rosenfeld, secretary E.O. Baker, treasurer R. Buchan, and directors Thomas Sammons, F.J. Raven, and W.L. Johnstone. The Rotary Club of Shanghai was especially active in community work. It supported schools for Russian immigrant boys and physically challenged children. By the end of the 1937-38 Rotary year, the Rotary Mobile Clinic and Dispensary had completed eight months of charitable medical work among refugees in Shanghai. By mid-1945, RI chartered 29 clubs in China. The clubs produced three RI directors: Fong F. Sec, Shanghai, 1933-34; Yen Te-Ching, Nanking, 1941-42; and Chengting T. Wang, Chungking, 1944-45 and 1945-46. By mid-1946, due to World War II, Rotary International had terminated 20 of the original clubs. Rotary experienced a resurgence in China after the war, with the admission or readmission of 19 clubs between 1946 and 1948, including Shanghai on 27 March 1946. The club, however, was terminated five years later. The Shanghai club voted to suspend its activities in May 1951 citing the following reasons: members found it difficult to attend meetings regularly because of other duties, meeting facilities would no longer be available, and it was increasingly difficult to arrange suitable programs. The RI Board terminated the club in October 1951. By January 1952, all clubs in mainland China had come to an end, although the number of clubs in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan continued to grow. More than half a century later, the Rotary Club of Shanghai returned. In 2006, Rotary welcomed the Shanghai club, along with the Rotary Club of Beijing, into membership. Only foreign passport holders may join these clubs until the government approves regulations governing international nongovernmental organizations. For more historical information about Rotary, visit Rotary History and Archives or the Rotary Global History Fellowship. Rotary International’s service partners have been approved by the RI Board of Directors to support clubs’ humanitarian service efforts. Who are these service partners? Who we work with Rotary's work with other organizations Rotary International works with many leading organizations and educational institutions in carrying out its worldwide humanitarian efforts. Polio eradication partnerships Rotary International is a spearheading partner in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative along with: Other partners include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and donor governments. Learn more about Rotary’s work to eradicate polio. United Nations Rotary International appoints representatives to work with the several United Nations agencies and international organizations. Learn more about the UN representative network. Strategic partners Under the Future Vision Plan, The Rotary Foundation Trustees have formed strategic partnerships with the following organizations to offer service opportunities for Rotarians through packaged global grants. Service partners Rotary International’s service partners have been approved by the RI Board of Directors to support clubs’ humanitarian service efforts.
Government partners The RI/USAID International H2O Collaboration is an alliance between Rotary International and the U.S. Agency for International Development to support and facilitate water and sanitation projects. Rotary Peace Centers The Rotary Foundation partners with the following universities to offer fellowships leading to degrees or certificates in areas of study related to conflict prevention and resolution:
Learn more about the Rotary Peace Centers. How many women are members of the current Rotary International Board of Directors, and who are they? Director  Elizabeth S. Demaray Rotary Club of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, USA (2011-13) Elizabeth Demaray, is a commercial real estate broker who has owned several businesses. She is a past president of her community’s United Way and Board of Realtors and is a trustee of the Lake Superior State University Foundation and the War Memorial Hospital Board. In the 1980s, she was named one of the top five female entrepreneurs in Michigan. She has served Rotary as a committee and task force member, regional Rotary International membership coordinator, and training leader. Betsy and her husband, Ken, are Benefactors of The Rotary Foundation and Bequest Society members. They have hosted six exchange students and were part of a Carl P. Miller Discovery Grant mission to Jamaica. Approximately how many people worldwide obtain water for drinking, cooking and washing from unprotected sources? Contact: Wayne Hearn 847-866-3386 or wayne.hearn@rotary.org; Alida Pham +31-15-2151722 or a.pham@unesco-ihe.org Rotary International News -- 29 November 2011 EVANSTON , Ill. (Nov. 28, 2011) — Rotary and the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education are teaming up to tackle the world’s water and sanitation crisis by increasing the ranks of trained professionals critically needed to devise, plan, and implement solutions in developing countries that bear the brunt of the problem. Through this new strategic partnership, The Rotary Foundation will provide grants to Rotary clubs and districts to select and sponsor eight students each year for scholarships to any of three 18-month Master of Science degree programs at UNESCO-IHE, a United Nations institute in Delft, The Netherlands, that is the world’s largest postgraduate water education facility. The school’s scholarship-eligible programs are Municipal Water and Infrastructure; Water Management; and Water Science and Engineering. "This strategic partnership with UNESCO-IHE enables Rotary to work with a globally-recognized leader in the training of water professionals at a time when such experts are desperately needed in many parts of the world,” said Rotary Foundation Chair William B. Boyd. "By identifying high-quality, high-potential candidates for these scholarships, Rotary clubs will help the countries most impacted by the water and sanitation crisis increase their capacity to identify and implement solutions. It is a strategic, long-term investment with long-term benefits.” "We are delighted to have this new cooperation with Rotary. The task ahead is no less than training the next generation of water leaders to be equipped to deal with the enormous water challenges ahead in the coming decades," said Prof. András Szöllösi-Nagy, UNESCO-IHE's Rector. "The water crisis, compounded with climate variability impacts, is looming. The cooperation with Rotary is an important milestone in the large scale, global capacity-building required to tackle this crisis.” According to a joint report by the World Health Organization and UNICEF, about 2.5 billion people worldwide do not have access to improved sanitation facilities. About 884 million obtain water for drinking, cooking, and washing from unprotected sources. Waterborne diseases such as diarrhea, cholera, typhoid, and dysentery, claim nearly 2 million lives a year, most of them children under age five. The continuous task of fetching water keeps millions of people, especially women and girls, from going to school and holding productive jobs. Improved water and sanitation is key to achieving all eight Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations. The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, under its new Future Vision plan, seeks to forge strategic partnerships with established organizations with expertise in Rotary’s six areas of focus, one of which is water and sanitation. The other focus areas are peace and conflict prevention/resolution; disease prevention and treatment; maternal and child health; basic education and literacy; and economic and community development. The foundation grants support major international projects with sustainable, high impact outcomes. UNESCO-IHE scholarship grants are available only to clubs in the 100 Rotary districts piloting Future Vision until the plan is fully implemented July 1, 2013. UNESCO-IHE is a United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization “category I” institute and is owned by all the UNESCO member states. Its mandate is to strengthen and mobilize the global educational and knowledge base for integrated water resources management, and contribute to meeting the water-related capacity building needs of developing countries and countries in transition. ABOUT ROTARY: Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders who provide humanitarian service and help to build goodwill and peace in the world. There are 1.2 million Rotary members in 34,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas. Rotary clubs have been serving communities worldwide for more than a century. The first Rotary club was founded in Chicago in 1905. For more information, visit rotary.org. ABOUT UNESCO-IHE: UNESCO-IHE is the largest postgraduate water education facility in the world and the only institution in the UN system authorized to confer accredited Master of Science degrees and promote PhDs. Since 1957 the Institute has provided postgraduate education to more than 14,500 water professionals from over 160 countries, the vast majority from the developing world. More than 95 PhD candidates have been promoted, and numerous research and capacity building projects have been carried out throughout the world. For more information, visit unesco-ihe.org. 01-04-12 What is Makoto Fujiwara's relationship with Rotary International, and what did he accomplish this past June? by Susie Ma Rotary Canada -- January 2012  Makoto Fujiwara Photo by Josh Fassbind Long before Makoto Fujiwara began trapping antimatter, he was a timid Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar whose primary concern was passing his classes. The Rotary Club of Kofu South, Japan, had sponsored him to study physics at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver. Fujiwara, who had found out about the Ambassadorial Scholarships program as a Rotaractor, landed on Canadian soil in the summer of 1992. In spite of his fears, he ended the year with the highest marks in his class. And he abandoned his plan to return to Tokyo to work as an engineer, instead finishing a two-year master’s program and going on to earn a doctorate in physics at UBC. Though he accepted a postdoctoral position through the University of Tokyo, at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, he returned to Canada in 2004. As a research scientist at TRIUMF, Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics in Vancouver, he has since helped lead an international team of researchers to a groundbreaking discovery in antimatter – a breakthrough that has propelled him to the forefront of particle physics research. “Sometimes I wonder what kind of life I would have had if I had gone into industry,” says Fujiwara, who is also an adjunct professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Calgary. “So far I can’t complain.” When he came to Vancouver as an Ambassadorial Scholar, one of the first Rotarians Fujiwara met was Jane LePorte, of the Rotary Club of Burnaby-Deer Lake, B.C. She gave him some household items, including a quilt for his bed, and connected him with other scholars and Rotarians. Nearly 20 years later, she has become his second mother. Affectionately characterizing him as an “absent-minded professor,” she notes that the shy young man she met now speaks confidently at conferences around the world. “Rotary deserves a lot of credit for helping him come to a new country and blossom,” she says. Fujiwara describes himself as an inquisitive kid who was fascinated by science fiction and who occasionally watched Star Trek. He liked making radios in elementary school, an interest triggered by uncles who were amateur radio enthusiasts. Now, his attention is focused on antimatter, a mystery of modern physics. According to the big bang theory, matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts when the universe was born. However, virtually no antimatter remains, a phenomenon that science has been unable to explain. “Our approach is to produce antimatter atoms artificially in a lab and then study their properties, to see if there is any difference between matter and antimatter that might explain why antimatter disappeared,” Fujiwara says. “Makoto is an exceptionally smart scientist,” says Nigel Lockyer, director of TRIUMF. “All scientists are smart at some level, but he combines it with a great deal of energy and drive.” This combination enabled Fujiwara to secure funding for his research and to recruit about 15 Canadian scientists to study the issue. He and his team spend six months of the year at CERN, using its particle accelerator to run experiments. Their first breakthrough in antimatter occurred at CERN in 2002, when they created large quantities of antimatter atoms. Then, in November 2010 at TRIUMF, Fujiwara and his team trapped antimatter for the first time – a major feat, because as soon as matter and antimatter meet, they annihilate each other. This past June, the team built on its achievement by containing antimatter for more than 16 minutes, long enough to begin studying its properties. “Now that we have trapped antimatter, there are so many things we can do with it,” Fujiwara says. “It’s impossible to stop now. It’s this whole new field of science opening up in front of me.” Looking back, Fujiwara credits Rotary with opening the doors that led to his success. “I wouldn’t have studied physics if I hadn’t come to Canada as a scholar,” he says. “It was the start of everything for me.” Return to Main Page |