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Balqa- his majesty king Abdullah on Monday laid the cornerstone for the international center for synchrotron- light for experimental science applications in the middle east (SESAME) at Princess Rahma University College.
News | 20 January, 2003
The SESAME (Synchrotron Radiation Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) project to build a synchrotron light source in the Middle East took a step closer to reality in June, when it received unanimous approval from the UNESCO executive board. The board endorsed SESAME as "a model that should be made known to other regions", and described it as a quintessential UNESCO project.
News | 01 November, 2002
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Even as violence escalates in the Middle East, plans for SESAME, a synchrotron light source intended to use science to promote peace in the region, are moving forward.
News | 01 August, 2002
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The Middle East's international synchrotron research facility, which will bring together scientists from at least 11 countries, has finally been given a home. The new centre will be in Jordan, at a site halfway between the country's capital, Amman, and the West Bank.
News | 20 July, 2000
Jordan is the first-choice site for a synchrotron light source intended to promote peace and science in the Middle East. That outcome of a vote this past April by representatives from 10 of the project's 11 member states is expected to be ratified in late June at a meeting in Amman, Jordan. However, supporters of opening the facility in Armenia, the backup site, continue to campaign for a fresh vote.
News | 01 June, 2000
A new international centre for synchrotron radiation research could do for the science of the Middle East what CERN has done for science in Europe.
News | 20 March, 2000
Funding has been found for dismantling Germany's synchrotron light source BESSY I. The pieces will be carefully packed and tracked in preparation for putting the facility back together somewhere in the Middle East.
News | 01 February, 2000
A scheme to build an international research centre in the Middle East using a synchrotron donated by Germany crossed a major hurdle last week. Eleven countries in the region agreed to provide sufficient funds to pay for disman tling the machine, now located in Berlin.
News | 23 December, 1999
Scientists will tour the Middle East this month to drum up support for a planned synchrotron facility, which is threatened by lack of funding.
News | 02 September, 1999
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Last year, Nature Structural Biology published a special supplement to accompany the August issue, highlighting the wide variety of biological research that benefits from the use of synchrotron radiation and the unprecedented worldwide increase in demand for use of synchrotron facilities.
News | 01 September, 1999