Middleton, NS – April 16, 2013 - Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) will become the only college in Canada with a research device that can unlock the mysteries off Nova Scotia’s shores thanks to the support of a national innovation award and industry partners.
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April 16, 2013
April 16, 2013
Ottawa, ON – April 16, 2013 - Funding from the Government of Canada is helping colleges across the country support business innovation at more than 90 companies. The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for Science and Technology, today announced a $12.5 million investment in support of 17 applied research infrastructure projects at colleges, cégeps and polytechnics through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) College-Industry Innovation Fund.
April 16, 2013
Saint-Hubert, QC – April 16, 2013 – As part of its research program on the automated machining of aerospace components, the Centre technologique en aérospatiale (CTA) at Collège Édouard-Montpetit received $765,092 in funding from the College-Industry Innovation Fund (CIIF), which will be used to acquire leading-edge research equipment. This is one of the projects funded in part by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).
April 16, 2013
Calgary, AB — April 16, 2013 - SAIT Polytechnic has received $800,000 in infrastructure funding from the federal College-Industry Innovation Fund to support applied research in clean energy. Administered through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the award will fund equipment involved in testing or verifying improved or new technologies that reduce energy-sector impacts on water, air and land.
April 16, 2013
Ottawa, ON – April 16, 2013 – La Cité collégiale has become a leader in the field of applied research, especially with its biotransformation research centre and its biotechnology undergraduate program. The college will now be able to offer its experts and students a more modern working and learning environment thanks to a grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).
March 15, 2013
Canada Research Chairs - News Release
Leaders Opportunity Fund – Funding for infrastructure associated with a Canada Research Chair /
Fonds des leaders – Financement de l’infrastructure liée à une Chaire de recherche du Canada
March 4, 2013
The four federal research funding organizations—the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada—have developed a new, harmonized conflict of interest and confidentiality policy. The policy will be integrated into each organization’s merit review process in the coming months.
February 22, 2013
Waterloo, Ontario, February 22, 2013 — The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), was at the University of Waterloo to announce funding for new research and development projects that the automotive industry has identified as priorities. Funded by the Automotive Partnership Canada initiative, these projects will reduce harmful vehicle emissions, improve the efficiency of electric and hybrid vehicles, and protect Canadian drivers by upgrading vehicle safety.
February 21, 2013
Boston, MA — February 21, 2013 — With nearly 20 percent of the United States experiencing an extreme drought, the damage from Hurricane Sandy estimated at $65 billion and farmers in Canada’s Prairies struggling with the effects of 2011’s devastating flooding, the importance of water security in North America is impossible to overstate.
February 19, 2013
Boston, MA – February 19, 2013 - As the National Football League braces for lawsuits by 4000 former players alleging the league failed to protect them from the long-term consequences of concussions, game-changing research by a leading Canadian researcher shows damage to the brain can persist for decades after the original head trauma.
“Even when you are symptom-free, your brain may still not be back to normal,” says Dr. Maryse Lassonde, a neuropsychologist and the scientific director of the Quebec Nature and Technologies Granting Agency.
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