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…
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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…