Organization: Memorial Univ

Memorial gains new mechatronics capability

Memorial Univ will soon be home to a new Mechatronic Development and Prototyping Facility funded by The Boeing Co and the Research and Development Corp of Newfoundland and Labrador (RDC). RDC will provide $724,000 in funding, augmenting Boeing’s unspecified investment made under the company’s industrial regional benefits obligations. Mechatronics (the integration of mechanical, electrical and…

AIF unveils 6th round competition results

The sixth round of the Atlantic Innovation Fund has announced funding of $51.8 million for 24 projects throughout the Atlantic region, leveraging a nearly equal amount of $51.5 million from various partners. As in the previous competition announced January 2008 (R$, February 8/08), Prince Edward Island outperformed all three other Atlantic provinces on a per…

Northstar teams with Memorial Univ and NRC

Northstar Technical Inc has signed an agreement with Memorial Univ and the National Research Council’s Institute for Ocean Technology to provide sonar technologies for C-SCOUT, an experimental, autonomous underwater vehicle. The vehicle is part the Aquacomm Program, which Northstar has supported to the tune of $1.4 million. In return for its sonar technology, the St…

Inco Innovation Centre opens at Memorial Univ

The Atlantic Innovation Fund (AIF) is contributing $13.1 million over five years to the $39 million cost of the Inco Innovation Centre at Memorial Univ. The proposal for the Centre was submitted by Inco Ltd, Toronto, as part of the second round of competitions for the AIF, which is administered by the Atlantic Canada Opportunities…

Correction

In the January 29/01 issue of RE$EARCH MONEY, Memorial Univ was omitted as a recipient of three New Opportunities awards from the Canada Foundation for Innovation. We apologize for the error….