Allison MacDonald, a fourth year Honours Physics Co-op student, has been selected as one of only five Canadian students to receive special funding from the Institute of Particle Physics to spend part of the Summer 2011 at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), one of the world's premier international laboratories.  Allison will be able to take full advantage of this opportunity as she has also been awarded an NSERC USRA from Simon Fraser University to work under the supervision of Professor Dugan O'Neal, a researcher on the ATLAS project at CERN.  Allison will participate in the renowned CERN Summer Student Lecture Program as well as active research. For more information about the progran click here http://www.ipp.ca/programs/CERN_summer.shtml