Research in Action
  May 2009 | Vol. 1 | No. 5
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RIAonline Archives
Dr. Rose Goldstein
Summer research and the Olympics; Nature retraction; H1N1 influenza; and the Strategic Research Plan.
Update on Research Offices
ASTech Awards call for nominations
The deadline is May 27 for the annual awards that honour exceptional individuals, organizations and companies within Alberta's science and technology community.
Avenue magazine’s Top 40 Under 40
Calgary magazine seeks top movers and shakers to honour in annual awards.
News and highlights
Early interventions help families
Nursing research projects examine effectiveness of child and family programs and aims to help dads of preemies hone parenting skills.
Pharmaceuticals come packaged with messages for health practitioners
Nursing doctoral student examines how the pharmaceutical industry turns health care providers and patients into agents and marketers for drug companies.
Law grad Harvard-bound
Seun Kelani will continue his work on decommissioning of offshore oil facilities and evaluating sustainable ways to control greenhouse gases emissions on a full scholarship at the Ivy League university.
Share your research with the world
Research Outreach Program helps you be more effective in helping others understand your research.
Awards and Honours
Two U of C doctoral students named Vanier scholars
Two University of Calgary doctoral students were among the inaugural winners of a generous and prestigious new federal award—the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.
U of C shortlisted for new national research chair
Proposal for CERC Chair in Carbon Capture and Storage invited to final round in the Canada Excellence Research Chair selection process. Chairs are worth up to $10 million over seven years.
Kluane Lake Research Station to be renovated
Arctic Institute of North America awarded $3.4 million for northern research facility.
Funding boosts research for Johne’s disease in ruminants
Veterinary medicine researchers receive funding from the Alberta Agriculture Research Institute to study a disease that costs the Canadian cattle industry up to $90 million per year.
AHFMR awards $5 million to Interdisciplinary Chronic Disease Collaboration
Patients with or at risk of chronic disease could benefit from better service through a project that evaluates programs to find cost-effective ways to deliver the best possible programs.
Outstanding research service honoured
Lori Foster, director of grants and administration, wins award from Canadian Association of University Research Administrators.
News Makers
An R&D machine in need of direction
U of C President Harvey P. Weingarten examines where Canada’s research priorities should lie, where the money should go and how to strengthen innovation.
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