Organization: Memorial Univ

Dr Neil Bose

Dr Neil Bose has been appointed VP research at Memorial Univ, succeeding interim VP Dr Ray Gosine who was appointed following the unexpected demise of Dr Richard Marceau. Dr Mark Abrahams will hold the position until Bose assumes the post November. Bose is currently principal of the Australian Maritime College at the Univ of Tasmania…

The Atlantic Canada Start-up Ecosystem

This article is from the March 2017 issue of Canadian Innovation News. You can read the full issue here. “There’s never been a better time to be a start-up in Atlantic Canada,” says Doug Robertson, CEO of in Moncton, New Brunswick. Venn – a globally recognized innovation hub – is a part of a growing…

NSERC awards $48M for Strategic Partnerships Grants

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council has announced $48 million in awards to 76 research teams through its latest Strategic Partnerships Grants competition. The awards include $10 million to support two networks — the new Ryerson Univ– based NSERC Energy Storage Technology Network and phase II of the NSERC Canadian Healthy Oceans Network, a…

Memorial completes new offshore R&D centre

Construction of the Suncor Energy Offshore R&D Centre at Memorial Univ has been completed, allowing its faculty of engineering and applied science R&D to grow by $6 million to $8 million annually over the next five years and engage 100 full-time equivalent researchers. The 1,320-square-metre expansion to the Memorial’s engineering building was funded with $4.8…

MEOPAR awards $3.5 million to seven projects

The Marine Environmental, Observation, Prediction and Response Network (MEOPAR) has awarded $3.5 million to seven projects that competed in its second open call for applications. The targeted basic research projects are led by universities and address issues such as fog ice, ship noise, radioactivity, whale-ship collisions, storms and tsunamis. The successful projects’ lead investigators are…

Dalhousie opens big data analytics institute

Dalhousie Univ has officially launch the Institute for Big Data Analytics, Canada’s first academic research unit dedicated to expanding knowledge in the field, and partnering with industry across a range of sectors. The institute will be directed by Dr Stan Matwin, a Canada Research Chair holder in Visual Analytics. Big data analytics is a rapidly…

RDC invests $5.3 million in Memorial R&D projects

Newfoundland’s Research & Development Corp (RDC) is investing $5.3 million in 33 projects at Memorial Univ which will leverage $16.9 million from public- and private-sector entities. The funds are being provided through RDC’s Leverage R&D, Ignite R&D and Collaborative R&D programs. One project for research into technical challenges of operating large ships and offshore structures…

Statoil and RDC fund chairs in reservoir engineering

Statoil Canada and the Research & Development Corp (RDC) will each contribute $1 million over five years to establish a chair and associate chair in reservoir engineering at Memorial Univ. The funding will help foster the development of a new Petroleum Engineering Research Program in the university’s faculty of engineering and applied science. Memorial plans…

Gas hydrate projects receive funding

Newfoundland’s Research & Development Corp is investing $313,000 in two gas hydrate research projects to determine the petroleum resource potential of western Newfoundland. The projects will be led by C-CORE and Memorial Univ‘s Fisheries and Marine Institute. The funding is provided through RDC’s three-year GeoEXPLORE program, which has invested $1.2 million in 15 projects….

RDC funds microscope for mining research

The Research & Development Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador (RDC) is providing nearly $1 million to facilitate the purchase of a specialized microscope and related software by Memorial Univ. The Field Emission Gun Scanning Electron Microscope will be used by Memorial researchers to estimate and optimize iron recovered in rock during the mining process. Iron…