$175,000 for Climate Change Research
Audrey Dallimore of the School of Environment and Sustainability was awarded a prestigious Canada Foundation for Innovation grant to pursue her research on marine sediments.
More information on Dr. Dallimore's research can be found
here.
CIHR funds eminent RRU researcher
CIHR’s Meetings, Planning and Dissemination: Partnerships in Health System Improvement program has funded Graham Dickson’s proposal,
Health Leadership Research Network: Building Leadership Capacity for Canada’s Health System. The proposal includes 15 participants from universities and organizations from across Canada.
For more information about this proposal, please click
here.
Finding Self in Space
Matthew Heinz, Associate Dean for the Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences, is exploring the significance of our natural environment for human communication, culture, and sense of self. Participants on Vancouver Island, in Calgary, in the Temagami Wilderness and in the U.S. Midwest were interviewed about their impressions, perceptions and experiences. More information about his research can be found
here.
RRU researcher uncovers novel nitrogen strategy
New York Times, Monday, June 15, 2009
Jonathan A. Moran of the School of Environment and Sustainability and Charles M. Clarke of Monash University in Malaysia and their colleagues describe this “novel nitrogen sequestration strategy” in a paper in
Biology Letters. Using isotopic analysis, they estimate that shrew feces deposited in N. lowii’s pitchers are a significant source of nitrogen for the plants….“Form follows function,” Dr. Moran said. N. lowii’s bowls “even look like toilets,” he added, “though we were too polite to say that in the paper.”
$3.045 million for Innovative Learning Commons
Royal Roads University is to receive $3.045 million from the Government of Canada to build an innovative learning commons within the Learning and Innovation Centre. The funding is part of the federal government’s two-year, $2-billion Knowledge Infrastructure Program that is in turn part of the government’s Economic Action Plan to help stimulate the economy.
Find out more about the funding.
$10,000 for Open Educational Resource Initiative
Mary Burgess, Director of the
Centre for Teaching and Educational Technologies, was awarded a $10,000 grant from BCcampus for the Royal Roads Open Educational Resource Initiative, which responds to the “Open Educational Resources” movement. The primary objective of the project is to share Royal Roads online instructional resources with the rest of the educational community and to showcase our learning of the process, such that other institutions are encouraged to do so as well and are supported in that endeavor.
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NSERC-Pacific Regional Opportunities Fund
Dr. Audrey Dallimore of the School of Environment and Sustainability was awarded $10,000 for the Creatures of Habitat Day, held April 22,2009. Funding was provided by NSERC-Pacific.
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Canada Research Chair receives prestigious award
Dr. Ann Dale, RRU's own Canada Research Chair, received the prestigious Bissett Alumni Award for Distinctive Contributions to the Public Sector, awarded by Carleton University's School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA). It is awarded annually and recognizes graduates of the SPPA who have made exceptional contributions to the public sector.
Click
here to see Dr. Dale's acceptance speech. More information about the award can be found on Carleton University's
website.