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UPEI research centre to focus on climate change, adaptation
UNB receives $1.12M for marine additive manufacturing research
Brock partners with seven Niagara municipalities to tackle climate change
Government of Canada funding to support innovative ideas of early career researchers
Press release from Canada Research Coordinating Committee:
“Canada’s researchers provide creative thinking and insight that help our health, environment, communities, and economy thrive. Young researchers, in particular, are engaged in some of the most innovative projects across and between disciplines, but often face challenges accessing funds to support their work, despite its potential to deliver huge benefits to Canadians. That’s why the Government of Canada launched the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF): to provide funding that supports high-risk, high-reward, interdisciplinary and international research to help Canadian researchers make the next great discoveries in their fields.
Today, the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, was at Laurentian University to announce the first 157 early career researchers to receive funding for exploratory research that crosses disciplinary boundaries. This first investment of $38 million will support early career researchers with five years or less of experience since their first academic appointment. Each recipient will receive up to $250,000 over the next two years.
The Exploration stream is one of three streams that comprise the New Frontiers in Research Fund, a new initiative that will enable researchers to work together to solve the world’s most pressing issues. The Transformation stream will provide large-scale support for Canada to build strength and leadership in interdisciplinary and transformative research. Another future stream, International, will enhance opportunities for Canadian researchers to participate in research with international partners so they can exchange ideas with the world’s best and brightest.” Read the full announcement here.
We are pleased to announce that 11 teams based at ACCRU member institutions will receive funding under this program. The recipients are:
| Recipient | Institution | Project | Award |
| Spy Dénommé-Welch | Brock University | Sonic Coordinates: Decolonizing through land-based music composition | $184,793 |
| Xu Zhang | Cape Breton University | Harvesting Visible and Near-Infrared Light with Upconverting Black Titania Nanowire Membrane Devices for Water Treatment | $250,000 |
| Jasmin Raymond | Institut national de la recherche scientifique | Franchir les obstacles pour un développement énergétique durable de l’Arctique grâce au stockage thermique | $250,000 |
| Frédéric Veyrier | Institut national de la recherche scientifique | Novel device for sepsis and meningitidis detection | $250,000 |
| Jérôme Comte | Institut national de la recherche scientifique | Access to safe drinking water in a changing Arctic | $250,000 |
| Thomas Sanders | Lakehead University | Personal Identification (PID) and Social Determinants of Health: Invisibility as a Barrier to Services Among First Nations in Northern Ontario | $196,500 |
| Erin Cameron | Lakehead University | The Transformative Potential of Socially Accountable Education: Understanding Global and Local Perspectives | $164,825 |
| Carlos Rossa | Ontario Tech University | Steerable tumour-sensing needles for real-time biopsy and brachytherapy of breast, prostate, and gynecological cancers | $250,000 |
| Roxanne Lemieux | Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières | A psychosocial program to interrupt the intergenerational transmission of the biological consequences of child abuse and neglect | $242,935 |
| Christine Clark | University of Lethbridge | Concepts That Bite Through Time | $249,953 |
| Ali Ahmadi | University of Prince Edward Island | Development of technologies for cultivating “uncultivable” marine bacteria: a paradigm shift in natural product discovery | $250,000 |
UQTR partners with Hydro-Quebec to establish a research chair
Two Trinity Western University faculty receive CRC awards
ACCRU universities awarded NSERC Partnership Grants
We are pleased to announce that recent funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council through its Strategic Partnership Grants program will bolster STEM research at ACCRU member universities. The funding will support 11 projects related to the environment, communications technologies, and more.
The recipients are as follows:
| Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) | Daniel Guay | $595,550 |
| Superaerophobic porous 3D catalytic electrodes for water splitting | ||
| Jonathan Perreault | $589,000 | |
| Electrochemical drug sensing with hydrophobic compound-adapted aptamers | ||
| Shuhui Sun | $579,000 | |
| Strategies to obtain stable, active and operforming non-PGM catalysts for the reduction of oxygen in H2/Air PEM fuel cells | ||
| Claude Fortin | $623,533 | |
| Terrestrial-aquatic mobility of technology critical elements in a changing Canadian environment (TAMTeC) | ||
| Jose Azana | $526,500 | |
| PERSEUS: Programmable Elastic broadband information processors with controlled high precision frequency and time Reference SystEms Using all optical fiberS | ||
| Roberto Morandotti | $599,600 | |
| Frequency domain nonlinear optical conversion for efficient high-dimensional quantum processing | ||
| Roberto Morandotti | $573,000 | |
| Optical reservoir computing for machine learning at the speed of light | ||
| François Vidal | $462,700 | |
| In situ and real-time measurement of platinum group metal concentrations by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy | ||
| Mount Royal University | Michelle DeWolfe | $306,250 |
| Evaluating mineral potential of the Winter Lake greenstone belt, Slave craton, Northwest Territories | ||
| Ontario Institute of Technology (Now Ontario Tech University) | Langis Roy | $476,500 |
| ANR – Reconfigurable Wireless Components Using Field Programmable Microwave Substrates (FPMS) | ||
| Trent University | Céline Guéguen | $797,104 |
| Advancing clean water treatment technology through euglena transcriptome modulation and metabolome mining |
