Nine McGill researchers appointed Canada Research Chairs
Over $8 million to be shared by one newly appointed and eight renewed CRCs
Nine McGill researchers were among the 132 newly awarded or renewed Canada Research Chairs just announced by the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for Science and Technology. The McGill CRCs work in fields ranging from social statistics and family change to the cognitive neuroscience of attention and expectation. McGill researchers received a total of $ 8,100,000 for four Tier 1 and five Tier 2 Chairs from a total of $124.5 million allocated from federal funds for new, cutting-edge research. The Canadian Foundation for Innovation provided a further $251,089 to fund research infrastructure that is essential to two of these chairs.
鈥淥ur Government is committed to investing in research programs that continue to have a positive effect on Canada鈥檚 economy and that touch the lives of Canadians,鈥� said Minister Goodyear. 鈥淲e are focused on what matters鈥攃reating jobs and economic growth. By supporting innovation, we are not only encouraging cutting-edge research but also help bring promising ideas to the marketplace to keep our economy strong in the future.鈥�
鈥淭he Canada Research Chairs Program helps to position Canadian postsecondary institutions as world-class research centres,鈥� said Dr. Chad Gaffield, president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and chair of the Canada Research Chairs Program Steering Committee, who attended today鈥檚 announcement. 鈥淲ith this funding support, researchers are gaining insight about, and developing innovative solutions to, today鈥檚 social, health and economic issues, and are training the next generation of top scientists and scholars.鈥�
McGill鈥檚 newest Canada Research Chairs are:
Campbell, Gwyn听R.
Canada Research
Chair in Indian Ocean World History 听 听
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Guan, Pengfei
Geometric Analysis
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Kollias, Pavlos-Radar
Applications in
Weather and Climate Research
Renewal
Le Bourdais, C茅line
Canada Research Chair
in Social Statistics and 听Family Change 听
Renewal
McBride, Heidi
Canada Research Chair in
Mitochondrial Dynamics
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Pastinen, Tomi
Canada Research Chair in
Human
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Renewal
Ramankutty, Navin
Canada Research Chair in
Land Use and Global听听Environmental Change
Renewal
Raz, Amir
Canada Research Chair in the
Cognitive听Neuroscience of听Attention and Expectation
Renewal
Schirrmacher, Ralf
Canada Research Chair in synthesis of novel radiopharmaceuticals
for Positron Emission 听 Tomography (PET) in neurology and
oncology
Renewal
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