Dr. Shelley Page did her undergraduate work in physics at Queen’s University, where she went on to do a Ph.D. in nuclear physics, completed in 1985. After 2 years as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow working on experiments at TRIUMF, she joined the faculty at the University of Manitoba with an NSERC University Research Fellowship. She has been a Professor of Physics at the University of Manitoba since 1999, where she served a term as Associate Head from 1999-2001. Dr. Page’s research interests are in experimental subatomic physics. She is currently a co-spokesperson for the Qweak experiment at Jefferson Lab (USA), an international collaborative effort to precisely measure the proton’s weak charge in order to test the predicted running of the weak mixing angle with energy scale -- a sensitive probe for `new physics’ beyond the Standard Model. She teaches physics at the University of Manitoba and supervises several graduate students, supported by NSERC.

Dr. Page has been a member of the CAP for over 20 years and served as Councillor for Manitoba and Saskatchewan from 1994-96. She was a member of the NSERC GSC for Subatomic Physics from 1994-97, which she chaired in 1997. She has served on numerous advisory panels, including the TRIUMF Experiments Evaluation Committee, the Jefferson Lab CEBAF Program Advisory Committee, the US Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, and on various organizing committees for conferences in her field.

She is enthusiastic about teaching and communicating the excitement of physics to a wide audience, and she enjoyed a term as Physics Columnist for CBC’s `Quirks and Quarks’ radio program during 2000-01.