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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
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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