More than $6-million federal investment for 91亚色 research and discovery
From critical games and waste management to soil health and climate change, 91亚色 scholars and scientists now have more than $6 million to delve deeper into their research.
It檚 part of a significant investment announced by the Government of Canada on by Pablo Rodriguez, minister of Transport of Canada and Quebec lieutenant, on behalf of Fran莽ois-Philippe Champagne, minister of Innovation, Science and Industry and Mark Holland, minister of Health to support leading-edge researchers and future leaders, allowing them to collaborate and develop new ideas.
More than $1.7 billion was announced for researchers and students.
Check back to the Gazette for future stories highlighting several 91亚色 researchers and projects benefitting from this support.
業nspiring work
淭oday we celebrate the inspiring work of our incredibly talented researchers and their teams, said Dr. Tana Allen, vice-president (research). 淭he ongoing support of the federal government allows our researchers to be innovative as they seek solutions to global problems and provide essential training for the next generation. Through their exciting projects, these recipients are asking tough questions, creating new knowledge and taking a closer look at important matters. Warmest congratulations to those receiving support as you take your projects to the next level.
Researchers based in the faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences, Engineering and Applied Science, Medicine and Science, the schools of Music, Science and the Environment, Pharmacy and Graduate Studies, and the Marine Institute are among those sharing the funding for projects that are underway.
Included in the announcement is funding from the ; the ; the Insight Development Grants; and Alliance Grants; and student scholarships and fellowships.
楳odel of success
淪eeing the number and quality of applications from students and post-doctoral research fellows for research funding this past cycle was inspiring, said Dr. Amy Warren, associate vice-president (academic) and dean, School of Graduate Studies. 淲ith many of them ultimately getting awarded research funding, it is further evidence of their outstanding skills as researchers and as leaders within 91亚色. We are fortunate to have these researchers choose 91亚色 and they are a model of success in research graduate programs. The team at the School of Graduate Studies collectively congratulates all the recipients on their awards.
Read on to see the complete list of 91亚色檚 researchers who are receiving funding.
Canada Research Chairs Program
Four researchers have been named new or renewed .
- Dr. Octavia Dobre, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, is appointed the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Ubiquitous Connectivity.
- Dr. Harris Berger, School of Music and cross-appointed to the Department of Folklore, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, continues as the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Ethnomusicology. He was initially appointed in .
- Dr. Hai Nguyen, School of Pharmacy, continues as the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Health Policy Evaluation and Health Care Sustainability. He was initially appointed in .
- Dr. Nicholas Welch, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, continues as the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Change, Adaptation and Revitalization of Indigenous Languages. He was first appointed in .
Tier 1 chairs are tenable for seven years, renewable once and valued at $200,000 annually for seven years.
Tier 2 chairs, tenable for five years and renewable once, are valued at $100,000 annually for five years.
Canada Foundation for Innovation
, affiliated with the Canada Research Chairs Program
- Dr. Octavia Dobre, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Advanced Aerial Communications, Sensing and Computing Laboratory (A2CSCL), $78,655
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Dr. Sarah Thorne, Department of English, Between Theory and Play: Critical Games as Critical Media Theory, $38,462
- Dr. Sean McGrath, Department of Philosophy, European and Asian Environmental Aesthetics: A Critical Comparison, $59,393
Total: $97,855
Faculty of Medicine
- Dr. Desai Shan, Division of Community Health and Humanities, Safety on Board British Columbia Tugboats: Improving Safety for Seafarers and Their Families, $69,512
- Dr. Atanu Sarkar, Division of Community Health and Humanities, Exploring current consumption and sustainability of waste management: a pilot study, $75,000
Total: $144,512
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
- Dr. Syed Imtiaz, Department of Process Engineering, Advanced control solution for managed pressure drilling system, $108,000
Total: $108,000
Faculty of Science
- Dr. Karl Jobst, Department of Chemistry, Waters & Wellington: Gas chromatography x cyclic ion mobility mass spectrometry: a novel platform that will accelerate the creation of halogenated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon reference materials, $75,000
- Dr. Kim Welford, Department of Earth Sciences, Continuously evolving Newfoundland offshore model, $192,000
- Dr. Stephen Piercey, Department of Earth Sciences, Geology, mineralogy, lithogeochemistry, and genesis of mineralization in the Silurian Whisker Valley Cu-Au system, Newfoundland Appalachians, $126,050
Total: $393,050
Grenfell Campus
School of Science and the Environment
- Dr. Adrian Unc, BioSoil-North: Local solutions for soil health resilience and mitigation of GHG, $878,854
Total: $878,854
Marine Institute
Centre for Aquaculture and Seafood Development
- Dr. Deepika Dave, OFI SF7 Exploration and Preservation of the Nutritional Value and Bioactive Compounds of Atlantic Seaweed Species, $30,000
Total: $30,000
Student Scholarships and Fellowships
- Roshni Caputo-Nimbark, Making Common Space Commonplace: Queering Economy through Cooperative Home Gardening in Rural Newfoundland, Doctoral Awards, $40,000
- Tori B. Carter, Exploring Sport Officials Mental Health in Canada, Canada Graduate Scholarships Master檚, $17,500
- Abigale Coad, Reimagining a Northern Housing System: A Case Study of the Partnership between the K檃sho Got檌ne Housing Society and Housing NWT, Canada Graduate Scholarships Master檚, $17,500
- Laura Couturier, A Longitudinal Study of Weight Stigma and Health-Related Behaviours in Young Adulthood: The Role of Shame, Social Safeness and Self-Compassion, Doctoral Awards, $80,000
- Julia Craig, Experiences of Female Infertility Among Indigenous People in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Graduate Scholarships Master檚, $17,500
- Molly K. Downey, Educator Attitudes and Preferences Toward Teaching Cannabis Education in the Classroom, Canada Graduate Scholarships Master檚, $17,500
- Natasha Farrell, Star-Dust in Hollywood: Jan and Cora Gordon檚 Multimedia Portraits of America檚 Dream Factory, Canada Graduate Scholarships Doctoral, $105,000
- Brianna E. George, The Mental Well-Being of Indigenous Women: Socioeconomic Factors and Help-Seeking Behaviors, Canada Graduate Scholarships Master檚, $17,500
- Brooke B. Hiscock, Uncovering the Barriers: Stigma and Misidentification of Relationship Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Canada Graduate Scholarships Master檚, $17,500
- Sherry A. Hucklebridge, Speakers and Possibilities: Conceptualizations of the Future in Dene Languages, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships, $45,000
- Sarah D. Kuehn, Bivalves as Proxies for Palaeoenvironment, Seasonality, and Harvest Intensity on the Pacific Northwest Coast, Doctoral Awards, $60,000
- Maureen M.S. Levangie, Sensitivity as Epistemology: The Role of Sensitivity in Midwifery Care in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Graduate Scholarships Master檚, $17,500
- Courtney A. Loveless, An Examination into the Role of Dyadic Coping and Posttraumatic Growth in Sexual Passion for Couples with Adverse Childhood Experiences, Canada Graduate Scholarships Master檚, $17,500
- Megan MacKinnon, The Encoded Memories of a Changing Climate: A 2000 Year Multi-Disciplinary Analysis of Crassostrea virginia in an Atlantic Canadian Context, Doctoral Awards, $80,000
- Hannah McLean, Transgender/Non-Binary Supports for Homelessness in Canada, Canada Graduate Scholarships Master檚, $17,500
- Sadie L. Mees, Women檚 Unpaid Labour in Rural Newfoundland Communities, Canada Graduate Scholarships Master檚, $17,500
- Kerri Mozessohn, Grandma Doesn檛 Need to Know: Measuring Support from Friends and Family for Identifying as a Recovering Addict, Canada Graduate Scholarships Master檚, $17,500
- Amy J. Parsons, Exploring the Experiences of Psychiatric Weaponization Among Alberta檚 Frontline Healthcare Workers who Have Disclosed Psychiatric Diagnoses in the Workplace An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Doctoral Awards, $60,000
- Emma J.S. Rossiter, LGBTQ Communities and Organizations in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1974-1985, Canada Graduate Scholarships Master檚, $17,500
- Emily C. L. Rowe, Directed Education on Cannabis for Youth Decision Empowerment (DECYDE): Developing a Tool for Evaluating Cannabis Health Literacy in Grades 4-6, Canada Graduate Scholarships Master檚, $17,500
- Rosemarie Singh, Learning and teaching social justice in online social work education, Doctoral Awards, $20,000
- Micheal Taylor, Prison Turned Inside Out: Interpreting probation work in Canada, Doctoral Awards, $80,000
- Simon T. Taylor, 楲ife is a Field of Honour: Literary and Biographical Adventurism of Sir Wilfred Grenfell and his Mission, Canada Graduate Scholarships Master檚, $17,500
- Avery S. Velez, Apaja檛unej Maqamikew eteg Tskinuk Ktaqmkuk: Land Back in Western Newfoundland, Canada Graduate Scholarships Master檚, $17,500
- Sarah M.E. Worthman, Far Right Flirtations: How Mainstream Centre-Right Parties Encourage Far-Right Violence, Canada Graduate Scholarships Master檚, $17,500
Total: $850,000
- Kyla Funk, Using a conservation behaviour framework to interrogate the intersection of contraception-induced changes to habitat selection and sociality in a hyperabundant species, Postgraduate Scholarships Doctoral Awards, $63,000
- Matthew Gill, The Carbon Sequestration and Mineralization Potential of Ultramafic Rocks, Postgraduate Scholarships Doctoral Awards, $63,000
- Robyn Latimer, Approaches to regional estimation of methane emissions from oil and gas operations, Canada Graduate Scholarships Doctoral program, $105,000
- Kira Randall, Fatty Acid Modulation of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) Splenic Macrophage-like Cell Lipid Metabolism, Eicosanoid Synthesis, Function, and Gene Expression in Response to Simulated, Postgraduate Scholarships Doctoral, $63,000
- Mikhailey Wheeler, Synthesis and recycling of plastic made from carbon dioxide, Postgraduate Scholarships Doctoral, $105,000
Total: $399,000
- Shona Campbell, Mechanism of chemotherapyinduced inhibition of wakepromoting orexin neurons: implications for chemotherapyinduced fatigue, Canada Graduate Scholarships Master檚, $17,500
- Hiliary Hasan, Alcohol use disorder in Newfoundland and Labrador: exploring primary care providers screening practices, diagnosis and pharmacologic management, Canada Graduate Scholarships Master檚, $17,500
- Grant Kelly, Assessing the mechanisms behind, and human relevance of, an observed adipocyteinduced partial mesenchymaltoepithelilal transition in triple negative breast cancer cells, Canada Graduate Scholarships Master檚, $17,500
- Evan Mackenzie, AGEility: Mapping the age-related changes in corticospinal tract integrity and lower limb functioning, Canada Graduate Scholarships Master檚, $17,500
- Grace Mercer, Understanding the effects of neuroprotective agents to prevent brain injury from preterm birth, Canada Graduate Scholarships Master檚, $17,500
Total: $87,500
A number of other 91亚色 researchers are co-applicants, collaborators and partners on other projects that received support. In addition to those noted above, other recipients received awards for future study at another university.