阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 nserc grants research

nserc awards $2.3 million to lakehead researchers

october 20, 2017 – thunder bay, on

阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 researchers are receiving more than $2.3 million in funding from the natural sciences and engineering research council of canada (nserc) for innovative research.  

the funding will support research projects that explore a variety of areas – from biology and chemistry and physics to engineering and geology and computer sciences.

“our nserc grant recipients demonstrate the breadth of high-calibre, innovative research being undertaken at 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 ,” said dr. andrew p. dean, vice-president, research and innovation. “we are very proud of our recipients, who are exceptional scientists seizing opportunities to excel in their research.”

dr. laura curiel, an assistant professor in electrical engineering, received $120,372 for a verasonics ultrasound device that will allow dr. curiel and her team to continue their work finding new materials, new electronics and new processes that will make significant improvements to ultrasound therapy and imaging.

“our hope, in particular for canada, is to make ultrasound therapy more affordable and more portable, to allow remote locations to benefit from it without having to move to urban centres,” she said.  “this will also be translatable to developing countries.”

dr. vijay mago, an assistant professor in computer science, has received $100,000 to develop the software platform and hardware for a real-time analytic tool that will analyze large-scale social networking websites to determine the effectiveness of public health awareness social media campaigns.   

“we know that more and more people rely on online sources for health information including symptoms, treatments and general health-related advice,” said dr. mago.

“with this research we will be able to identify the effectiveness of public health awareness strategies used by health agencies and medical associations around the globe, by monitoring the reach and engagement with their content versus the onset of public health events.”

dr. amanda diochon, an associate professor in geology, is receiving more than $100,000 over the next three years to develop an outreach program that provides culturally responsive, hands-on learning opportunities for indigenous youth in northwestern ontario.

“we hope that integrating aboriginal and western ways of knowing into learning will encourage indigenous 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 to pursue careers in science,” dr. diochon said.

funding from nserc also generates support from the federal research support fund to offset the indirect costs of research incurred by universities. in 2017/18, 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 will receive nearly $2 million in assistance from the research support fund to support the indirect costs of research, which includes costs for supporting the management of intellectual property, research and administration, ethics and regulatory compliance, research resources, and research facilities.

the following 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 researchers have also been awarded nserc grants and scholarships, for a total of $2,329,414.

collaborative research & development grant (four-year grant)

  • dr. pedram fatehi, department of chemical engineering, process development for the production of lignin based flocculants and dispersants, $320,000 (in partnership with fpinnovations).

 

research tools and instruments (rti) grant (one-year grant)

  • dr. laura curiel, department of electrical engineering, increasing efficiency of focused ultrasound transducer applications,   $120,372.
  • co-applicants:
  • dr. carlos christoffersen, department of electrical engineering
  • dr. samuel pichardo, department of electrical engineering, thunder bay regional health research institute (tbrhri)
  • dr. oleg rubel, mcmaster university
  • dr. han chen, faculty of natural resources management, li-8100a-s2 soil gas flux system survey package, $40,838.

  • dr. pedram fatehi, department of chemical engineering, particle size analyzer for investigating flocculation and dispersion systems, $121,393.

discovery grants – (five-year grants, unless otherwise indicated)

  • dr. wensheng qin, department of biology, $140,000, understanding and optimizing enzyme efficiency for cellulose biodegradation.
  • dr. pedram fatehi, department of chemical engineering, $24,000, design of lignin based flocculants/dispersants for various aqueous systems.*
  • dr. md nur alam, department of chemistry, $110,000, applications of highly-reactive chemical cellusloses and their derivatives with novel properties and unique functionalities.
  • dr. mitchell albert, department of chemistry, tbrhri, $225,000, hyperpolarized xenon mri biosensors development program.
  • dr. zi-hua jiang, department of chemistry, $110,000, modulation of innate immune responses.
  • dr. xiaoping liu, department of electrical engineering, $110,000, finite-time adaptive control of nonlinear systems and its applications.
  • dr. peter hollings, department of geology, $110,000, geochemistry of pyroxene-phyric komatiites in the southern superior province; implications for archean geodynamics.
  • dr. gautam das, department of physics, $105,000, investigation into optical fiber waveguides, lasers and applications.
  • dr. hubert de guise, department of physics, $105,000, understanding quantum systems with higher symmetries.
  • dr. vijay mago, department of computer science, $100,000, reliable and efficient real-time tools for collecting and analyzing large health datasets.

 *one-year grant.

 

discovery development grants (two-year grants worth $20,000)

  • dr. carlos christoffersen, department of electrical engineering, design of circuits for biomedical therapy devices.
  • dr. eltayeb mohamedelhassan, department of civil engineering, integrated electrokinetic-phytoremediation of contaminated soils.

engage grants (up to six months)

  • dr. lew christopher, biorefining research institute, department of biology, generating sugar streams from pulp and paper mill sludge, $25,000.00 (in partnership with domtar inc.).
  • dr. ayan sadhu, department of civil engineering, cost-effective fault diagnostics of material handling system in critical mining site, $24,290.00 (in partnership with north american palladium lac des iles mine ltd).
  • dr. salama ikki, department of electrical engineering, quadrature spatial modulation for large-scale mimo systems, $25,000.00 (in partnership with ericsson).
  • dr. ehsan rezazadeh azar, department of civil engineering, improving productivity of material cutting and movement in steel fabrication plants, $22,198.00 (in partnership with coastal steel construction ltd.).
  • dr. amir hossein azimi, department of civil engineering, innovative methods for condition assessment of wastewater collection systems, $25,000.00 (in partnership with the city of thunder bay).
  • dr. aicheng chen, department of chemistry, in situ electrochemical determination of the surface area of aluminum targets, $25,000.00 (in partnership with hupe manufacturing ltd.).
  • dr. salama ikki, department of electrical engineering, mine safety system using wireless sensor networks, $25,000 (in partnership with goldcorp inc.).
  • dr. baoqiang liao, department of chemical engineering, identification of the causes and its control of foaming in membrane bioreactors, $25,000 (in partnership with goldcorp inc.).

promoscience grants (three-year grants)

  • dr. amanda diochon, department of geology, bridging ways to knowing over water, $100,758.00.
    • co-applicants:
      • dr. robert stewart, department of geography and the environment
      • dr. michael rennie, crc in freshwater ecology and fisheries, department of biology
      • dr. peter lee, department of biology
  • dr. christopher murray, sustainability sciences (orillia campus), ecoreach,         $21,000.00.
    • co-applicants:
      • dr. thamara laredo, sustainability studies/chemistry (orillia campus)
      • dr. victoria te brugge, laboratory coordinator, sustainability studies (orillia campus)
      • dr. rosario turvey, sustainability studies/geography (orillia campus)
      • dr. maria grazia viola, department of mathematics (orillia campus)

connection grant (up to three months)

  • florence bailey, economic development and innovation office, 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 industry connections, $8,865.00.
  • dr. amir hossein azimi department of civil engineering, experimental and numerical modeling of multiphase flow systems,    $2,700.00.
  • dr. lew christopher, biorefining biorefining research institute, department of biology, international forest bioeconomy planning summit, $15,000.00.

 

graduate student awards

alexander graham bell canada graduate scholarships-doctoral program (two-year award)

  • eric searle, faculty of natural resources management, $70,000.

 

nserc postgraduate scholarships-doctoral program (three-year award)

  • islam abu mahady, department of electrical engineering, $63,000.

canada graduate scholarships-master's program– (one-year awards)

  • jeffrey andrew-cotter, electrical engineering, $17,500
  • nicholas frayn, electrical engineering, $17,500
  • sophie kurucz, geology, $17,500
  • zeke sedor, electrical & computer engineering, $17,500

 

 

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lakehead faculty awarded $1.4 million in new research grants

june 30, 2016 – thunder bay, on

fourteen 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 researchers and three graduate 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 are receiving new natural sciences and engineering research council (nserc) grants and scholarships worth more than $1.4 million.

lakehead secured nserc funding for research in chemistry, engineering, math, computer science, geology and biology.

the following nserc grants are allowing lakehead researchers to examine better ways to treat and purify water, to understand fish responses to environmental stresses, to study carbon stores in forest soils, and to develop better technologies to monitor industrial motors for faults.

dr. aicheng chen, a professor in chemistry and canada research chair in materials and environmental chemistry, is receiving $150,000 through a research tools and instruments grant for an advanced synchronized scanning photoelectrochemical microscopy (specm) system. the system is to support his research on the production and storage of hydrogen as well as the development of clean technologies to treat wastewater and purify water.

dr. chen is working with the city of thunder bay’s environmental division to develop advanced approaches for treating wastewater and is collaborating with zenyatta, a company based in thunder bay, to develop novel carbon nanomaterials for green chemistry applications.

“electrochemical technologies can be used to develop a wide variety of green chemistry applications,” said dr. chen. “these include the use of hydrogen as a clean and sustainable replacement for fossil fuels in energy production and advanced approaches for water purification.”

dr. michael rennie, assistant professor in biology and canada research chair in freshwater ecology and fisheries, received $120,000 through a discovery grant to continue his research on the response of fish to environmental stressors.

studies are taking place in lake superior, lake winnipeg, lake simcoe, black bay and in lakes in the experimental lakes area between dryden and kenora.

his research will focus on how the response of fish to stress can affect both fish populations and ecosystems.

“understanding the impact of environmental stressors on ecosystems and how fish respond to those stressors will help policy makers and resource managers better protect our freshwater resources,” said dr. rennie.

dr. wilson wang, a professor in mechanical engineering, is receiving $290,000 (through both an nserc discovery grant and a prestigious discovery accelerator supplement) to develop new technologies for online monitoring of industrial motors for early fault diagnostics.  

“improving the performance, efficiency and maintenance of industrial motors will help canadian companies improve production rates and reduce costs, enhancing their global competitiveness,” dr. wang said.

dr. amanda diochon, assistant professor in geology, received $105,000 through a discovery grant to study how carbon that is stored in forest soils is altered by wildfires and harvesting. she is studying the boreal forest north of thunder bay.

according to dr. diochon, very few studies have been done comparing the effects of these common disturbances on the carbon cycle in the soil. “improving our understanding of these effects will help guide future forest management practices and policies around climate change,” she said.

“a lot of exceptional research is being done at 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 , as evidenced by the number of projects which won nserc grants this year,” said dr. andrew p. dean, 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 ’s vice-president, research and innovation.

“we congratulate all of our award recipients and thank nserc for recognizing the high-calibre research being conducted at lakehead. the university is also appreciative of the associated research support funding from the federal government which helps with indirect costs to support these grants,” dr. dean said.

i’m proud of our government’s efforts to bring science back to the forefront,” said patty hajdu, minister of status of women and member of parliament for thunder bay-superior north.

“we know the importance of science and research in formulating informed and evidence-based policies, programs and legislation, which is why we are making significant investments in science across the country. this investment will allow 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 to continue to conduct innovative and high quality research that will benefit northern ontario now and in the future.”

 

2015/16 nserc grants awarded to lakehead faculty & 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 :

total value of awards:  $1,466,200

faculty member grants

research tools and instruments (rti) grant (one-year grant)

  • dr. aicheng chen, department of chemistry, $150,000, advanced synchronized scanning photoelectrochemical microscopy.

collaborative research & development grant (two - three year grants)

  • dr. wilson wang, department of mechanical engineering, $120,000, a smart monitor for pump system fault diagnostics (with partner bare point water treatment plant, thunder bay, on).

discovery development grants (two-year grants worth $20,000)

  • dr. ehsan atoofian, department of electrical engineering, high performance, power-aware and reliable many-core accelerators.
  • dr. andrew dean, department of mathematical sciences, classification of real c*-algebras and related structures.
  • dr.  jian deng, department of civil engineering, stochastic dynamic stability of fractional viscoelastic nonlinear structures.

discovery grants - individual operating grant (five-year grants)

  • dr. amanda diochon, department of geology, $105,000, the effect of disturbance on the biogeochemical cycling of carbon in northern forest soils.
  • dr. lew christopher, director, biorefining research institute, departments of biology and chemistry, $135,000, valorization of negative-cost industrial waste at the forest biorefinery.
  • dr. kefu liu, department of mechanical engineering, $145,000, enhanced vibration suppression and energy harvesting by exploiting features of nonlinear systems.
  • dr. michael rennie, canada research chair in freshwater ecology and fisheries, department of biology, $120,000, feedback mechanisms between ecosystem change, fish behaviour and metabolism.
  • dr. wilson wang, department of mechanical engineering, $170,000, online condition monitoring of electric machines.
    • dr. wang was also awarded a $120,000 nserc discovery grant accelerator supplement.
  • dr. wei ruizhong, department of computer science, $90,000, combinatorial methods in networks and communications.

engage grants (six month awards worth $25,000)

  • dr. richard khoury, department of software engineering, chat assistant for criminal group infiltration (in partnership with thales research and technology canada).
  • dr.  jiang zi-hua, department of chemistry, synthetic lipo-mdp analogs as mucosal adjuvants for animal vaccines (in partnership with lilly creek vaccines inc.).
  • dr. amir azimi, department of civil engineering, sediment transport and surface water quality modeling of river-lake systems in northwestern ontario (in partnership with dst consulting engineers).
  • dr. lew christopher, biorefining research institute, and departments of biology and chemistry, valorization of crude tall oil derived at softwood kraft mills (in partnership with resolute forest products).
  • dr. salama ikki, department of electrical engineering, lte-advanced machine type communication for internet of things (in partnership with wimatek systems).
  • dr. laura curiel, department of electrical engineering, positron emission tomography guided focused ultrasound platform for experimental molecule delivery, $24,200 (in partnership with fus instruments).
  • dr. pedram fatehi, department of chemical engineering, production of cationic flocculants using ecosynthetix’s engineered biopolymers (in partnership with ecosynthetix inc.).

 

graduate student awards

master's 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 - joseph-armand bombardier canada graduate scholarships (one-year awards worth $17,500)

  • andrew chapelsky, biology, patterns of species and genetic diversity in a fragmented landscape.
  • peter villa, biology, isolation and characterization of cell lines from cervical lesions for construction of host-specific three-dimensional organotypic raft cultures.

phd 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 - nserc postgraduate scholarship (pgs) program (two-year award worth $42,000)

  • shuai chen, phd chemistry and material science, design of nanostructured semiconductors and metal oxide cocatalysts for water splitting.

 

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阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 has about 9,700 full-time equivalent 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 and 2,000 faculty and staff in 10 faculties at two campuses in orillia and thunder bay, ontario. lakehead is a fully comprehensive university: home to ontario’s newest faculty of law in 44 years, the northern ontario school of medicine, and faculties of engineering, business administration, health & behavioural sciences, social sciences & humanities, science & environmental studies, natural resources management, education, and graduate studies.

maclean’s 2016 university rankings place 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 second in ontario and among canada’s top 10 undergraduate universities and first among ontario’s undergraduate universities for total research dollars, social sciences & humanities grants, and library expenses. in 2015, re$earch infosource ranked lakehead first among canada’s undergraduate universities.

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