Professor Art Weis on the value of preserving our natural systems
This year Parks Canada is marking the 100th anniversary of our country’s national parks. Our national parks, such as Banff National Park (Canada’s first national park), are all in wilderness areas, but the Government of Canada recently announced its intention to add a new kind of park to the Parks Canada system. That would be [...]
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation makes grants year-round in the follwing major program areas. Basic Research The Foundation believes that a carefully reasoned and systematic understanding of the forces of nature and society, when applied inventively and wisely, can lead to a better world for all. With its Basic Research program area, the Foundation expands that [...]
The Intellectual Property and Venture Capital Working Group of CCSIP is committed to a single objective: to help collaborating researchers in Canada and California create high-quality, investable IP. Although there is no one ‘correct’ path in the highly complex and often challenging world of IP management, the implementation of value-building IP management practices makes this [...]
Internal Application Deadline: October 3, 2011 Five-year awards provide opportunities for accomplished investigators at the assistant professor level to study pathogenesis, with a focus on the intersection of human and microbial biology. The program is intended to shed light on the overarching issues of how human hosts handle infectious challenge. The awards are intended to [...]
McNeil Medal to chemistry's Dwayne Miller
The University of Toronto’s research community has had one of its most successful years in earning honours from the prestigious Royal Society of Canada (RSC), with 18 faculty members named Fellows and one winning a major medal. Founded in 1882, the RSC is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scholars, artists and scientists. The [...]
Chair Paul Young is a renowned engineering geophysicist. He was previously Chair of U of T’s Department of Civil Engineering and holds the Keck Chair of Seismology and Rock Mechanics. An outstanding scientist and teacher, Young was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2007. A native of Britain, Young was recruited [...]
Political scientist Janice Stein and historian Rick Halpern offer their perspectives
When the terrorist attacks on the United States happened on that sunny morning of September 11, 2001, global society let out a collective gasp. No one had ever seen anything like it before. A decade later, we still grapple with the tragedy of that day — and of the aftermath. We asked Professor Janice Stein, [...]
G8 Research Councils Initiative on Multilateral Research Funding The Heads of the Research Councils of the G8 states (G8-HORCs) have established a multilateral funding initiative to create a new framework for conducting international research. The initiative aims at supporting excellent research on topics of global relevance which can best be tackled by a multinational approach. [...]
EcoEnergy Innovation Initiative The ecoENERGY Innovation Initiative (ecoEII) is a new program led by Natural Resources Canada that is aimed at supporting innovation in cleaner and more efficient energy production and energy use. The Federal Government has allocated $97 million to ecoEII for two streams of funding: Demonstration Projects, and Research and Development (R&D) projects, [...]
Vice President, Research, Paul Young is pleased to invite proposals for research projects between Canada and Brazil, including exchange of researchers between both countries. Driven by an exciting new Cooperation Agreement between the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), the University of Toronto, and the University of Western Ontario, this first call for proposals will provide: up [...]
