June 16, 2021
The Natural Science and Engineering Research Council(NSERC)'s Discovery Grants program and Research Tools and Instruments(RTI) program announced the 2021 award recipients on June 15, 2021. The following 6 BPI researchers were named among the recipients. Congratulations!
NSERC DISCOVERY GRANTS
- Foster, Johan (Chemical & Biological Engineering) - $ 320,000 on "Graphitic carbon from cellulosic materials: development and use"
- Green, Sheldon (Mechanical Engineering) - $ 275,000 on "Application of Liquid Coating to a High-speed Moving Surface"
- Schafer, Laurel (Chemistry) - $ 395,000 on "Green Chemistry using Early Transition Metal Catalysts for the Synthesis of Small Molecules and Materials"
- Tu, Qingshi (Wood Science) - $ 130,000 on "Quantifying synergy and tradeoff between resource efficiency and climate change: Filling the fundamental knowledge gap in systems analysis and uncertainty treatment"
NSERC RESEARCH TOOLS AND INSTRUMENTS GRANTS
- Foster, Johan (Pulp & Paper Center) - $150,000 on "Filtration efficiency and breathability testing for permeability mask and filter technologies"
- Grecov, Dana (Mechanical Engineering) - $126,097 on "Replacement of a research grade rheometer"
- Hallam, Steven (Microbiology and Immunology) - $150,000 on "High-throughput nanoscale culture and screening applications for microbiome research"
To see the full list of UBC researchers who received the grants, please click the following link.