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Nine 海角社区 researchers appointed Canada Research Chairs

Published: 14 March 2012

Over $8 million to be shared by one newly appointed and eight renewed CRCs

Nine 海角社区 researchers were among the 132 newly awarded or renewed Canada Research Chairs just announced by the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for Science and Technology. The 海角社区 CRCs work in fields ranging from social statistics and family change to the cognitive neuroscience of attention and expectation. 海角社区 researchers received a total of $ 8,100,000 for four Tier 1 and five Tier 2 Chairs from a total of $124.5 million allocated from federal funds for new, cutting-edge research. The Canadian Foundation for Innovation provided a further $251,089 to fund research infrastructure that is essential to two of these chairs.

鈥淥ur Government is committed to investing in research programs that continue to have a positive effect on Canada鈥檚 economy and that touch the lives of Canadians,鈥 said Minister Goodyear. 鈥淲e are focused on what matters鈥攃reating jobs and economic growth. By supporting innovation, we are not only encouraging cutting-edge research but also help bring promising ideas to the marketplace to keep our economy strong in the future.鈥

鈥淭he Canada Research Chairs Program helps to position Canadian postsecondary institutions as world-class research centres,鈥 said Dr. Chad Gaffield, president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and chair of the Canada Research Chairs Program Steering Committee, who attended today鈥檚 announcement. 鈥淲ith this funding support, researchers are gaining insight about, and developing innovative solutions to, today鈥檚 social, health and economic issues, and are training the next generation of top scientists and scholars.鈥

海角社区鈥檚 newest Canada Research Chairs are:

Campbell, Gwyn听R.
Canada Research Chair in Indian Ocean World History 听 听
Renewal

Guan, Pengfei
Geometric Analysis 听
Renewal

Kollias, Pavlos-Radar
Applications in Weather and Climate Research
Renewal

Le Bourdais, C茅line
Canada Research Chair in Social Statistics and 听Family Change 听
Renewal

McBride, Heidi
Canada Research Chair in Mitochondrial Dynamics
New

Pastinen, Tomi
Canada Research Chair in Human Genomics听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 听
Renewal

Ramankutty, Navin
Canada Research Chair in Land Use and Global听听Environmental Change
Renewal

Raz, Amir
Canada Research Chair in the Cognitive听Neuroscience of听Attention and Expectation
Renewal

Schirrmacher, Ralf
Canada Research Chair in synthesis of novel radiopharmaceuticals for Positron Emission 听 Tomography (PET) in neurology and oncology
Renewal

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