Connection Grants support events and activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization intiatives, including workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums and summer institutes. Events may be face-to-face or involve virtual interaction, and may be one-time encounters or catalysts designed to lead to longer-term partnerships and/or sustained programs of scholarly research. Face-to-face events may be held abroad; the [...]
Banting Research Foundation will support the work of young Canadian Scientists to initiate their research program with an annual grant of up to $20,000, not to exceed a ceiling for total support of $60,000 per annum comprised of The Banting Foundation award together with any other operating grants received. The annual deadline for applications is [...]
The University of Toronto’s Connaught Committee has announced the recipients of its 2011-12 Innovation Award and Summer Institute competitions, recognizing research excellence in projects as varied as plastic solar cells, “extreme” astronomical devices to detect earth-like planets outside our solar system and the potential of music to promote healing. Founded in 1972, the Connaught Fund [...]
Examining social networking among children and teens
iSchool Professor Sara Grimes’s background and expertise in children’s digital culture has led to a new, exciting collaboration with the Joan Ganz Cooney Center (JGCC), the research division of the Sesame Workshop, makers of Sesame Street. In addition to the wealth of research the Sesame Workshop has generated over the past 4+ decades to inform [...]
Researchers often work with a narrow range of compounds when making organic electronics, such as solar panels, light emitting diodes and transistors. Professor Tim Bender and Ph.D. Candidate Graham Morse of University of Toronto’s Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry have uncovered compounds that exhibit unique and novel electro-chemical properties. “Organic solar cell need [...]
Financial market dips and crashes typically happen in the fall
It’s no surprise to University of Toronto researcher Lisa Kramer that financial market dips and crashes typically happen in the fall. Her most recent study, forthcoming in Social Psychological and Personality Science, shows that people who experience seasonal depression shun financial risk-taking during seasons with diminished daylight but are more willing to accept risk in [...]
Full program details and application materials can be found on the Connaught website at http://www.research.utoronto.ca/connaught/ Questions may be addressed to connaught.secretariat@utoronto.ca or 416-978-7577. Connaught Summer Institute – deadline: October 3, 2011 Approximately $150,000 allocated annually for up to three awards to bring together international graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, other scholars in order to foster rich [...]
The Connaught programs are open to emerging and established scholars across disciplinary, career stage, geographic and sectoral boundaries. For further information, please consult the program information on this website and/or contact the Connaught Secretariat at connaught.secretariat@utoronto.ca or 416-978-7577. The Connaught Global Challenge Award Deadline: October 15, 2012 (Letter of Intent); April 1, 2013 (Full Proposal, by invitation only) One award, [...]
The competition deadlines & the program materials for the 2012-13 competition cycle will be updated in summer 2012. Approximately $1M annually will be awarded to support one initiative that encompasses an International Symposium, a Distinguished Visiting Scholar and a Research Cluster. The successful proposal will bring together the University’s leading researchers from multiple disciplines with [...]
Approximately $500,000 allocated annually for awards of up to $100,000 to accelerate the development of promising technology and promote commercialization and/or knowledge transfer. For each project, a NOI must be submitted to Connaught Secretariat by October 1, 2012 in order to facilitate the selection of reviewers. Full applications are due by November 1, 2012. Projects must be [...]
