Faculty research is supported by provincial, national and international agencies and foundations. In 2012, the U of L received the following new funding (listed alphabetially by funding agency):
A to D ¦ E to H ¦ I to L ¦ M to P ¦ Q to T ¦ U to Z
Alberta Advisory Committee for Educational Studies
|
| Noella Piquette |
Education |
$6,000 |
| Jennifer Thannhauser |
Education |
$6,000 |
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Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development
|
| Wei Xu |
Geography |
$20,000 |
Commercialization for TECTERRA funded project |
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Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research
|
| Claudia Malacrida |
Sociology |
$10,000 |
| Claudia Malacrida |
Sociology |
$40,000 |
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Alberta Foundation for the Arts
|
| Award |
Recipient |
Faculty / Department |
Value |
|
| Individual Artists Project Grant |
Mary Kavanagh |
Art |
$15,000 |
|
| Cultural Relations Grant |
Taras Polataiko |
Art |
$6,000 |
|
| Cultural Relations Grant |
Janice Rahn / Michael Campbell |
Education/Art |
$14,000 |
Co-PI's |
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Alberta Gaming Research Institute grants
|
| Yale Belanger |
Native American Studies |
$138,821 |
|
| Cheryl Currie |
Public Health |
$86,274 |
|
| Gabriela Novotna |
Addictions Counselling |
$2,500 |
Co-applicant: Rob Willilams |
| Claudia Steinke |
Nursing |
$4,000 |
Co-applicant: Rob Williams |
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Alberta Inflammatory Bowel Disease Consortium
|
| Sameer Deshpande |
Management |
$50,000 |
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Alberta Innovates: Health Solutions (misc. grants)
|
| Benjamin Clark |
Neuroscience |
TBD |
Postdoctoral fellow working with Bruce McNaughton |
| Gerlinde Metz |
Neuroscience |
$25,000 |
Co-director with the U of A |
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Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions Summer Studentships
|
Each award is valued at $1,300/month for up to 4 months.
| RECIPIENT |
SUPERVISOR |
DEPARTMENT |
| Burger, Danielle |
Iwaniuk, Andrew |
Neuroscience |
| Dube, Sutherland |
McNaughton, Bruce |
Neuroscience |
| Kovalchuk, Anna |
Kolb, Bryan |
Neuroscience |
| Kurio, Kristyn |
Metz, Gerlinde |
Neuroscience |
| Matkin, Ashlee |
Metz, Gerlinde |
Neuroscience |
| Nakahashi, Ayuno |
Kolb, Bryan |
Neuroscience |
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Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions Sustainability Funds
|
| Roy Golsteyn |
Biological Sciences |
Mapping new pathways for checkpoint adaptation in human cancer cells |
$40,000 |
| Aaron Gruber |
Neuroscience |
Optogenetic activities kickstart |
$40,000 |
| David Naylor |
Physics & Astronomy |
THz imaging of breast cancer |
$40,000 |
| Paul Vasey |
Psychology |
Health Research in Samoa and Japan |
$40,000 |
| Ute Wieden-Kothe |
Chemistry & Biochemistry |
Biochemistry of the early steps of Ribosome Biogenesis |
$40,000 |
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Alberta Rural Development Network grants
|
| Shawn Bubel |
Geography |
$9,995 |
| Glenda Bonifacio |
Women and Gender Studies |
$10,000 |
| Jon Doan |
Kinesiology & Physical Education |
$8,500 |
| Leanne Elias |
New Media |
$6,600 |
| Carmen Mombourquette |
Education |
$9,100 |
| Monique Sedgwick |
Nursing |
$10,000 |
| David Slomp |
Education |
$10,000 |
| Carol Williams |
Women & Gender Studies |
$8,528.40 |
| Carol Williams |
Women & Gender Studies |
$9,968 |
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Alzheimer Society of Canada
|
| Shannon Spenceley |
Nursing |
$83,207 |
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| Raphael Lencucha |
Public Health |
US$26,360 |
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| Gordon Hunter / Dan Kazakoff |
Management |
$36,000 |
Funding for Small Business Institute speaker series |
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Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
|
| Nadia Rochdi |
ATIC |
$25,000 |
Co-applicant: Karl Staenz |
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Canada Council for the Arts
|
| Visual Artists: Project Grant |
Mary Kavanagh |
Art |
$15,000 |
| Grant for Professional Writers |
Maria Ng |
English |
$11,000 |
| Travel Grant |
Michael Campbell |
Art |
$2,500 |
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Canada Foundation for Innovation
|
| Recipient |
Department |
Award |
Value* |
Co-applicants |
| Aaron Gruber |
Neuroscience |
Leader's Opportunity Fund |
$368,598 |
|
| Paul Hazendonk |
Chemistry & Biochemistry |
Leader's Opportunity Fund |
$1,916,000 |
Michael Gerken, Paul Hayes |
| Andrew Iwaniuk |
Neuroscience |
Leader's Opportunity Fund |
$131,633 |
|
| H.J. Wieden |
Chemistry & Biochemistry |
Leader's Opportunity Fund |
$374,424 |
|
* note, value of award includes matching funds provided by Alberta Advanced Education and Technology, and the University of Lethbridge.
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Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation
|
| Olga Kovalchuk |
Biological Sciences |
$45,000 |
Subgrant from U of A |
| Olga Kovalchuk |
Biological Sciences |
$375,000 |
co-applicant: Rob McDonald |
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| Award |
Recipient |
Department |
Value |
|
| Contract |
David Naylor |
Physics & Astronomy |
$26,880 |
|
| Contract |
David Naylor |
Physics & Astronomy |
$67,016 |
|
| Contract |
Karl Staenz |
Geography |
$60,000 |
co-applicant: Jinkai Zhang |
| Space Science Enhancement Award PDF Fellowship |
Matthijs Van Der Wiel |
Physics & Astronomy |
$156,000 |
PDF working with David Naylor |
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Canadian Stroke Network Summer Studentship
|
| Recipient |
Supervisor |
Department |
Value |
| Devany Benis |
Gerlinde Metz |
Neuroscience |
$7,000 |
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Canadian Wildlife Federation
|
| Richard Mrazek |
Education |
$50,000 |
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Chinook Summer Research Awards
|
Each award is valued at $5,625.
| RECIPIENT |
SUPERVISOR |
FACULTY/DEPARTMENT |
| Clifton, Brett |
MacDonald, Heidi |
History |
| Couture, Jesse |
Adams, Carly |
Kinesiology & Physical Education |
| Elniski, David |
Russell, Tony |
Biological Sciences |
| Huseby, Krista |
Rosen, Nicole |
Modern Languages |
| Lenz, Stefan |
Wetmore, Stacey |
Chemistry & Biochemistry |
| Lerner, Camara |
Cheng, Howard |
Mathematics & Computer Science |
| Moranz, Gillian |
MacKenzie, James |
Anthropology |
| Ortiz Ospina, Sara |
Wilson, Patrick
|
Anthropology |
| Patton, Karissa |
MacDonald, Heidi/Perry, Michael |
Library - Archives |
| Sutter, Kendra |
McDonald, Robert |
Neuroscience |
| Uchiyama, Ryutaro |
Grant, Kevin/Tata, Matthew |
Mathematics & Computer Science/Neuroscience |
| VanOyen, Jenn |
Euston, David |
Neuroscience |
| Veenendaal, Ian |
Naylor, David |
Physics & Astronomy |
| Vuong, Ben |
Mosimann, Steven |
Chemistry & Biochemistry |
| Wrightson, Chelsea |
Vasey, Paul |
Psychology |
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| Penny D'Agnone |
ORIS |
Cafe Scientifique |
$3,000 |
H.J. Wieden is a co-applicant |
| Sameer Deshpande |
Management |
Operating Grant |
TBA |
Co-applicant |
| Sameer Deshpande |
Management |
Research Planning grant |
TBA |
Co-applicant |
| Judith Kulig |
Nursing |
Operating Grant |
$173,055 |
|
| Gabriela Novotna |
Health Sciences |
CIHR |
$6,483 |
Subgrant from McMaster University |
| Ute Wieden-Kothe |
Chemistry & Biochemistry |
Dissemination Events |
$8,000 |
|
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Community Research Excellence Development Opportunities (CREDO) Grants
|
| Jerimy Cunningham |
Anthropology |
The Temporal Association of CH-315 and Paquime in the Casa Grandes Culture |
$23,000 |
| Claudia Malacrida |
Sociology |
Eugenics to Newgenics in Alberta: An Exploratory Study |
$23,000 |
| Janay Nugent |
History |
Parenting and Childhood in Early Modern Scotland, c. 1560 - c. 1750 |
$22,634.80 |
| Amy Shaw |
History |
The Boer War, Imperialism and Nationalism in Canada |
$15,516.98 |
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Emmy Droog Research Awards in Health Sciences
|
| Cheryl Currie |
Health Sciences |
Aboriginal spirituality as an alternative and complementary therapy for mental health challenges |
$10,000 |
Team: Brad Hagen, Bernadine Wojtowicz and Jan Wiebe-Neufeld (Gray Wolf Counselling) |
| Ruth Grant Kalischuk |
Health Sciences |
Complementary therapy use among those living with cancer: Navigating the health care environment |
$10,000 |
Team: Cheryl Currie, Mary Kavanagh, Aleitha Ward (The Medicine Tree Healing Arts Centre) |
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endMS Summer Studentship Assistant
|
| Gerlinde Metz |
Neuroscience |
$5,000 |
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| David Naylor |
Physics & Astronomy |
€403,200 |
Project led by University College London (UK) |
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Grand Challenges in Global Health
|
| Gerlinde Metz |
Neuroscience |
US$1,150,000 |
co-applicant, project led by U of A |
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| Judith Kulig |
Health Sciences |
$3,500 |
co-applicant |
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Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction
|
| Judith Kulig |
Health Sciences |
$5,000 |
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Interdisciplinary Research Development Fund
|
| Leanne Elias |
New Media |
The e-Book of New Media Methods and Practice |
$97,345 |
Team: Michael Campbell, Cheryl Meheden, John Usher, and Janice Rahn |
| Roy Golsteyn |
Biological Sciences |
An inSPIRED View of Cancer Cells |
$100,000 |
Team: Olga Kovalchuk, David Naylor |
| Josephine Mills |
Art |
Complex social change: Teaching, performing, exhibiting, designing, mapping |
$100,000 |
Team: Louise Barrett, Lisa Doolittle, Emily Luce, Bruce MacKay, Tiffany Muller Myrdahl |
| Nicole Rosen |
Modern Languages |
Language: Development, Identity and Assessment |
$100,000 |
Team: Inge Genee, Robbin Gibb, Claudia Gonzalez, Fangfang Li, Noella Piquette |
| Carol Williams |
Women & Gender Studies |
Creative Appropriations |
$98,723 |
Team: Glenda Bonifacio, Bonnie Lee, Linda ManyGuns, and Patrick Wilson |
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Internal Artistic/Creative Grant
|
| Michael Campbell |
Art |
Field Recordings of Icebergs Melting |
$4,500 |
| Dagmar Dahl |
Art |
Berlin Monument Paintings |
$4,500 |
| Mary Kavanagh |
Art |
Atomic Suite |
$4,500 |
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| Michelle Hogue |
Chemistry & Biochemistry |
Chemistry Through Theatre |
$4,500 |
| Janay Nugent |
History |
Health and Healing of Children in Early Modern Scotland |
$4,500 |
| Kent Peacock |
Philosophy |
An Epsilon Calculus without the Epsilon |
$4,500 |
| Amy Shaw |
History |
The Boer War: Imperialism and Citizenship in Canada |
$4,500 |
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Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
|
| Postdoctoral Fellowship (Short-term) for North American and European Researchers |
Noelle Gunst |
Psychology |
$31,538 |
working with Paul Vasey |
| Postdocoral Research Support Allowance (Short-tern) for North American and European Researchers |
Noelle Gunst |
Psychology |
$6,294 |
working with Paul Vasey |
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| Jean-Baptiste Leca |
Psychology |
$13,140 |
PDF working with Paul Vasey |
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| Noella Piquette |
Education |
$199,992 |
co-applicant |
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The Monieson Centre, Queen's Business School
|
| Gordon Hunter |
Management |
$238,610 |
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National Science Foundation
|
| Jennifer Mather |
Psychology |
TBA |
Collaborating Consultant |
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| Bryan Kolb |
Neuroscience |
$100,000 |
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| NSERC CREATE International and Industrial Imaging Training (I3T) Program |
Albert Cross |
Neuroscience |
TBD |
Co-applicant |
| NSERC CREATE in Biological information processing: From genome to systems level |
Robert Sutherland |
Neuroscience |
$1,650,000 |
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| Louise Barrett |
Psychology |
$25,000 |
Situated social cognition |
| Sarah Boon |
Geography |
$135,000 |
Effects of forest disturbance on snow mass and energy balance in headwater regions |
| Howard Cheng |
Math & Computer Science |
$85,000 |
Space-efficient algorithms in computer algebra and image processing applications |
| Saurya Das |
Physics & Astronomy |
$85,000 |
Quantum gravity: Phenomenological and theoretical aspects |
| Jon Doan |
Kinesiology & Physical Education |
$105,000 |
Perceived affordances for human biomechanics work |
| Cam Goater |
Biological Sciences |
$130,000 |
Ecology and evolution of host/parasite interactions |
| Bruce McNaughton |
Neuroscience |
$450,000 |
The hippocampal indexing theory: Impact of hippocampal-neocortical back projections on neocortical neurodynamics, plasticity, and coding. |
| Jackie Rice |
Math & Computer Science |
$90,000 |
Logic synthesis for reversible and traditional logic circuits |
| Elizabeth Schultz |
Biological Sciences |
$125,000 |
Understanding the molecular mechanism of vein formation in Arabidopsis |
| Robert Sutherland |
Neuroscience |
$450,000 |
Hippocampus and memory: A systems level approach |
| Soroosh Yazdani |
Math & Computer Science |
$85,000 |
Local szpiro conjecture and congruences between modular forms |
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NSERC Research Tools & Instruments
|
| Amir Akbary |
Math & Computer Science |
$10,407 |
Computational problems in number theory |
Co-applicants: Nathan Ng, Soroosh Yazdani |
| Paul Hazendonk |
Chemistry & Biochemistry |
$150,000 |
Solution- and Solid-state 500 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility upgrade |
Co-applicants: Rene Boere, Michael Gerken, Paul Hayes, David Siminovitch |
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NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards
|
Each award is valued at $5,625.
| RECIPIENT |
SUPERVISOR |
DEPARTMENT |
| Baedke, Jessica |
Wieden, H.-J. |
Chemistry & Biochemistry |
| Booth, Ryan |
Tatsuno, Masami |
Neuroscience |
| Case, Julia |
Rendall, Drew |
Psychology |
| Caton, Evan |
Wieden-Kothe, Ute |
Chemistry & Biochemistry |
| Daviduck, Quinn |
Wieden, H.-J. |
Chemistry & Biochemistry |
| Gohdes, Kari |
Burg, Theresa |
Biological Sciences |
| Hakstol, Rhys |
Gruber, Aaron |
Neuroscience |
| Leavens, Fern |
Wieden-Kothe, Ute |
Chemistry & Biochemistry |
| Mills, Kelly |
Gonzalez, Claudia |
Kinesiology & Physical Education |
| Petterson, Lanna |
Vasey, Paul |
Psychology |
| Powis, Oba |
Das, Saurya |
Physics & Astronomy |
| Ramp, Hugh |
Naylor, David |
Physics & Astronomy |
| Sawatsky, Megan |
Lalumiere, Martin |
Psychology |
| Stimson, John |
Russell, Tony |
Biological Sciences |
| Stone, Kayla |
Gonzalez, Claudia |
Kinesiology & Physical Education |
| Van Hell, Dennis |
Hontela, Alice |
Biological Sciences |
| Vathracoulis, Sophia |
Metz, Gerlinde |
Neuroscience |
| Villiger, Majken |
Hayes, Paul |
Chemistry & Biochemistry |
| Visser, Mackenzie |
Russell, Tony |
Biological Sciences |
| Vuong, Anthony |
Wieden, H.-J. |
Chemistry & Biochemistry |
| Zahir, Saif |
Hayes, Paul |
Chemistry & Biochemistry |
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Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS)
|
| Shahadat Hossain |
Mathematics & Computer Science |
$3,000 |
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| Claudia Malacrida |
Sociology |
$5,000 |
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SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Journals grant
|
| Edward Jurkowski |
Music |
$60,330 |
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| Insight Development Grant |
Abdie Kazemipur |
Sociology |
TBD |
co-applicant, project led by Memorial University |
| Insight Grant |
Harold Jansen |
Political Science |
$296,748 |
|
| Insight Grant |
Heidi MacDonald |
History |
$61,802 |
|
| Insight Grant |
Noella Piquette |
Education |
TBD |
co-applicant. project led by McGill University |
| Insight Grant |
Paul Vasey |
Psychology |
$197,635 |
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| Partnership Grant |
Yale Belanger |
Native American Studies |
TBD |
co-applicant, led by Trent |
| Partnership Grant |
Henning Bjornlund |
Economics |
TBD |
co-applicant, led by Brock |
| Partnership Grant |
Glenda Bonifacio |
Women & Gender Studies |
TBD |
collaborator, led by UWO |
| Partnership Grant |
Abdie Kazemipur |
Sociology |
TBD |
co-applicant, led by UWO |
| Partnership Grant |
Richard Mueller |
Economics |
TBD |
collaborator, led by UWO |
| Partnership Grant |
Ivan Townshend |
Geography |
TBD |
co-applicant, led by U of T |
| Partnership Grant |
Wei Xu |
Geography |
TBD |
co-applicant, led by Brock |
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SSHRC Public Outreach grant
|
| Debra Basil |
Management |
$36,927 |
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U of L Research Dissemination Grant
|
| Fall 2012 |
Glenda Bonifacio |
Women & Gender Studies |
$2,000 |
| Spring 2012 |
Inge Genee |
Modern Languages |
$2,000 |
| Fall 2012 |
Catherine Kingfisher |
Anthropology |
$1,680 |
| Spring 2012 |
Janice Newberry |
Anthropology |
$2,000 |
| Fall 2012 |
Hillary Rodrigues / John Harding |
Religious Studies |
$1,800 |
| Fall 2012 |
Arlan Schultz |
Music |
$2,000 |
| Spring 2012 |
Amy Shaw |
History |
$1,580 |
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| Recipient |
Department/Faculty |
Award |
Title |
| Vishaal Baulkaran/Ebenezer Asem |
Management - Finance |
$9,000 |
When does good news carry value? An examination of earnings announcements in bull and bear markets. |
| Sarah Boon |
Geography |
$4,500 |
Disappearing streams: Glacier retreat, landscape evolution, and hydrology |
| Shawn Bubel |
Geography |
$4,500 |
Analysis of the lithic remains from Tel Beth Shemesh, Israel |
| Michael Campbell |
Art |
$2,150 |
Documentary on west coast builders |
| Arundhati Dasgupta |
Physics & Astronomy |
$4,500 |
Aspects of quantum gravity |
| Larry Flanagan |
Biological Sciences |
$4,479 |
Temperature and moisture controls on ecosystem carbon exchange and productivity |
| Claudia Gonzalez/Fangfang Li |
Kinesiology & Physical Education/Psychology |
$4,500 |
Hand use for grasping in children with delayed language development |
| Ute Wieden-Kothe |
Chemistry & Biochemistry |
$4,500 |
RNA recognition mechanisms of pseudouridine synthases |
| Jason Laurendeau |
Sociology |
$4,500 |
Halifax Regional Search and Rescue: Risk and responsibility |
| Raphael Lencucha |
Health Sciences - Public Health |
$4,460 |
The role of international non-governmental organizations during the negotiation of the Protocol on the Illicit Trade of Tobacco Products |
| Hua Li |
Mathematics & Computer Science |
$4,500 |
A secure and fault tolerant architecture for wireless sensor networks |
| Heidi MacDonald |
History |
$4,500 |
Disappearing identities: Women's religious congregations in Atlantic Canada since 1960 |
| Kimberly Mair |
Sociology |
$4,491 |
Spatial deployments: Reiterations of contact and identification in the museum |
| Steve Patitsas/Saurya Das |
Physics & Astronomy |
$9,000 |
Testing for modified Newtonian dynamics in a terrestrially-based free fall experiment |
| Adriana Predoi-Cross |
Physics & Astronomy |
$4,500 |
Spectroscopic study of carbon dioxide to enable isotopic fractionation studies of the Martian atmosphere |
| Drew Rendall |
Psychology |
$4,400 |
The nature and function of variability in the song of male house wrens (Troglodytes aedon) |
| Shelley Scott |
Theatre & Drama |
$4,500 |
Women Playwrights International Conference - August 2012 - Stockholm, Sweden |
| David Siminovitch/Tony Montina |
Physics & Astronomy |
$9,000 |
The use of a home-build computational cluster for the design and analysis of NMR recoupling sequences under magic-angle spinning conditions |
| d. Andrew Stewart |
Music |
$4,500 |
Research residency - exchange at the Centro Mexicano para la Musica y Artes Sonoras (Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Arts) |
| Mark Walton |
Physics & Astronomy |
$4,500 |
Quantum box with running boundary conditions
|
| John Zhang |
Mathematics & Computer Science |
$4,500 |
Enhancing classification accuracy in music through ensemble techniques
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| Wei Xu |
Geography |
$490,000 |
Co-applicant: Karl Staenz
Commercialization Partner: Alberta Agriculture & Rural Development
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