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July 2010 | Vol. 2 | No. 7

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> U of C receives 8 Discovery Accelerator grants

U of C receives 8 Discovery Accelerator grants

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of
Canada (NSERC) has awarded eight researchers at the University
of Calgary funding under the 2010 Discovery Accelerator
Supplements program (DAS).

Each award is valued at $120,000 over three years.

DAS aims to provide additional resources to "accelerate
progress and maximize the impact of outstanding research
programs." In 2010, NSERC awarded $15 million to 125
applications in the DAS competition.

"University of Calgary was awarded six per cent of the
total NSERC accelerator grants nationally, for a total of
$960,000 in funding," says Dr. Rose Goldstein, Vice President
(Research) at the U of C. "This is a significant amount of the
$15 million allocated across Canada. The success of our NSERC
researchers indicates the high quality of faculty members we
have and the caliber of research we are engaged in at U of C.
Congratulations to each of the award winners and their
teams."

The U of C recipients are as follows:

Michael Antle in the department of Psychology is studying
the effects of arousal on the circadian clock.

Alexander Brudnyi in Mathematics and Statistics is
investigating algebraic and geometric methods in problems of
analysis.

Ina Dobrinski in Veterinary Medicine is working on the
characterization and germ line differentiation of non-rodent
embryonic stem cells.

Civil Engineering's Neil Duncan is exploring multi-scale
mechanics of musculoskeletal tissues.

Alexander Lvovsky from Physics and Astronomy is studying
quantum information with light and atoms.

William Rosehart of Electrical and Computer Engineering is
investigating multi-objective optimization under uncertainty
for electrical energy systems with renewable energy sources,
load participation, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.

Yan Shi of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases is
exploring biophysical basis of single cell force
spectroscopy.

Raymond Turner of Biological Sciences is working on studies
in multi-resistance mechanisms: small multidrug resistance
proteins.

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