Every year, the editors of R&D Magazine, an Advantage Business Media publication, chooses one individual who demonstrates excellence and creativity in the design, development and introduction into the marketplace of one or more technologically significant products over the past five years. Please refer to website for nomination criteria.
The five-year, $2.5-million Premier’s Award for Agri-Food Innovation Excellence, announced as part of the 2006 provincial budget, recognizes that farmers have always been innovative in the running of their businesses and will foster even greater innovation across the province’s agri-food sector. There will be up to 55 regional award winners annually, with a cash prize [...]
This award is awarded to an individual, pre-eminent in science, medicine, law, business, industry, education or politics, who has contributed significantly to the Canadian Scientific Community through the commitment of time, skills, wisdom, or funds. Individuals may be proposed by a CSCI member.
The Research Project Grant (R01) provides support for health-related research and development based on the mission of the NIH. R01s are most often investigator initiated in response to either the R01 Parent Announcement or a Program Announcement highlighting particular scientific areas. Requests for Applications (RFAs) may also utilize the R01 mechanism. NIH runs three competitions [...]
Rotman prof proposes a tax break for diversity
We know that gender differences at home and work are the result of some complex forces. read more
Rotman dean on how capitalism can work for everyone
Roger Martin is an unlikely revolutionary: He is the dean of the Rotman School of Management, the business school at the University of Toronto, he sits on blue-chip corporate boards, and he has worked as a consultant for big, traditional companies like Procter & Gamble and General Motors. read more
To recognize an individual with outstanding career achievements in neuroscience, who has also significantly promoted the professional advancement of women in neuroscience. Candidates will be evaluated by the following criteria: Sustained exceptional achievements in neuroscience as evidenced by publication, inventions, and/or awards; Serving the profession through WIN, SfN, and/or related organizations; Recognition at national or [...]
Our theories are "fatally flawed"
You would think that after two catastrophic failures in capitalism less than a decade apart, culminating in the Great Recession from which we’re still recovering, powerful reforms would by now be in place or in the works to protect our free-market economy — ourselves, that is — from the system’s worst abuses. read more
OISE Professor Megan Boler thinks that may be changing.
As the federal election intensifies, you hear it time and time again – young adults, by and large, don’t vote. Professor Megan Boler of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto has been examining this phenomenon and is exploring it in a new project funded by the Social Sciences and [...]
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has issued an invitation for Notices of Intent to it’s newly launched CLUSTER PILOT PROGRAM. This is a two-step application where those satisfying the Notice of Intent criteria will be provided with an application form in order to submit a fully-developed proposal. The timelines are fairly short, where the NOI [...]
