The Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) announced yesterday announced that 15 projects led by Trent University scientists would receive a total of $1,667,920 in Discovery Grants.
“This announcement will accelerate the momentum in scientific research currently taking place at Trent University,” said Dr. James Parker, associate vice president of research at Trent. “We greatly appreciate NSERC’s support which will enable our faculty to move forward on exciting new projects that are poised to make a real difference in our world.”
“Investing in our university research is also an investment in our future, since this will enhance Canada’s competitive position in the global economy,” said Minister Prentice. “This funding will help ensure that the best university professors and their students across the country can continue to engage in research that will directly contribute to our national stock of knowledge, and to our prosperity.”
Since 1999, research funding at Trent has grown 400% to just over $15 million annually in 2007 in the sciences, social sciences and humanities. This investment has enabled Trent to develop state-of-the-art facilities and support structures that nurture research excellence and in the field.
The funding announced yesterday was awarded to the following researchers at Trent:
- Atkinson, W.A.
Physics and Astronomy
Theory of inhomogenous strongly-correlated systems
$130,840 - Dokuchaev, N.G.
Mathematics
Regularity of parabolic Ito equations and applications to stochastic analysis and control
$60,000 - Dorken, M.E.
Biology
Evolution and ecology of plant sexual systems
$125,000 - Ellis, D.A.
Chemistry
The environmental fate of emerging pollutants in the Canadian environment: merging modelling and experimental techniques to create accurate predictive methods
$30,000 - Emery, R.J.N.
Biology
Cytokinins and source-sink relationships within plants
$190,900 - Guéguen, C.
Chemistry
Dissolved organic matter characterization and metal speciation in boreal streams
$75,000 - Hintlemann, H.
Chemistry
Fractionation of mercury isotopes in the environment
$175,000 - Kyle, C.J.
Natural Resources
Co-evolutionary mechanisms within vector/pathogen complexes
$90,000 - Lehmann, H.E.
Psychology
Promoting memory consolidation outside the hippocampus
$ 124,680 - Murray, D.L.
Biology
Assessment of mechanisms underlying range limit determinants in terrestrial carnivores
$175,000 - Pivato, M.J.
Mathematics
Emergent defect dynamics in cellular automata
$80,000 - Rafferty, S.P.
Chemistry
Structure-function studies on protein homodimers
$175,000 - Wallschläger, D.
Environmental and Resource Studies
Determination of redox-sensitive trace element species
$19,800 - Wilson, P.J.
Biology
Genetic structure and adaptation at a dynamic range margin
$93,575 - Xenopoulos, M.A.
Biology
Variation of stream dissolved organic carbon quantity, character and ecosystem function in a changing landscape
$123,125
Total Funding: $1,667,920
For further information about research at Trent please visit www.trentu.ca/research
Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008.