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Sudbury project gets $1.6M to tackle GHG issue

The Landscape Carbon Accumulation Research (L-CARE) project of Laurentian Univ is receiving a total of $1.6 million to support its research on addressing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in Ontario. Of the total funds, 50% or $798,000 is from the TargetGHG program under the Ontario Green Investment Fund announced in Budget 2015. The other half will…

Perimeter Institute lands Stephen Hawking

The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) has launched a new Distinguished Research Chair program and landed Dr Stephen Hawking as the inaugural chairholder. Under the arrangement, Hawking will become a regular visitor to the Waterloo ON-based institute, with his first extended stay scheduled for the summer of 2009. Hawking is the latest coup for…

UK funds major infrastructure projects

The UK government has allotted Cdn $790 million from its Large Facilities Capital Fund to nine large-scale research projects including $195 million to complete the last 10 beamlines on its Diamond Light Source synchrotron. Other projects which received funding include redevelopment of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge Univ ($134 million), a next-generation super…