The Federal government has awarded $2.1 million in funding over three years for a search-and-rescue project led by Lili Liu, Waterloo public health researcher and Dean of the Faculty of Health.
NSERC recently announced the 2022 competition results, an investment of more than $506 million. University of Waterloo researchers were awarded 166 grants through NSERC's Discovery Grant Program-Individual, Research Tools and Instruments Grant Program, and Discovery Launch Supplements.
Four professors at the Waterloo School of Architecture are involved in an unprecedented research partnership to increase the equity, social value and sustainability of the built environment.
University of Waterloo researchers have been awarded more than $4.4 million in funding by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), to support research that addresses environmental inequality, economic sustainability and Indigenous language revitalization.
A University of Waterloo researcher has received half a million dollars from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to provide needed support to older adults impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eight University of Waterloo researchers have received Early Researcher Awards worth $1.12 million. The program, administered through the province of Ontario, assists recently appointed researchers to build their research teams.
Each researcher will receive $140,000 over five years plus an additional $50,000 from the University. They are:
Engineering
Professor Liping Fu, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo, was awarded over $90,000 from the Rail Safety Improvement Program, infrastructure, technology and research (RSIP-ITR) funding, Transport Canada, for his work on the development of GradeX Cost-Bene
Two University of Waterloo researchers were awarded funding through the Government of Canada’s Canada Research Chairs (CRC) Program.
A one-year membership with Community-Based Research Canada (CBRC) is now available to all University of Waterloo faculty, staff and students.
The mission of CBRC is to advance community-based research (CBR) excellence in Canada by strengthening partnerships, bridging capacity, mobilizing knowledge, and championing community-based research among individuals, communities, and institutions.
A recording of the April 26 Research Talks event, Health system decision-making in a post COVID-19 Canada, featuring Helen Angus, Dr. Sacha Bhatia, John Hirdes, Anita Layton, David O'Toole and Peter Wallace, is now available online.