Posted by Jonathan at 8:05 AM.
A new research centre to fight cybercrime is being established at Simon Fraser University’s Surrey campus, thanks to a $350,000 grant from the provincial government. The centre is a joint venture of SFU, the province, and the International Society for the Policing of Cyberspace (POLCYB), a B.C.-based non-profit organization established to prevent and combat crimes on the Internet. The International Cybercrime Research Centre will be headed by Bill Glackman of SFU’s School of Criminology. It will investigate online crime trends and help to develop new tools to counter cybercrime.
Posted by Jonathan at 7:53 AM.
This summer, nearly 40 members of the University of British Columbia (UBC) community will participate in the 2008 Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games as athletes, coaches sports doctors and staff. One of them is West Vancouverite Nikola Girke.
If there’s a good wind up, West Vancouverite Nikola Girke can usually be found on the water. That’s not unusual for a sailor. But what is unusual is that Girke is one of the few athletes who has successfully switched from one Olympic sport to another: from sailing to windsurfing.
Posted by Jonathan at 6:15 AM.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Donald Woods, PhD, of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, $1.7 million for research into vaccines against agents of bioterrorism.
Posted by Jonathan at 9:04 AM.
Can stroke victims regain lost motor skills by playing the piano? How does music affect newborns? These are just two of the subjects being explored at an international conference – The Neurosciences and Music III: Disorders and Plasticity – held in Montreal from June 25 to 28. The event is being organized by Fondazione Mariani in partnership with the Brain, Music and Sound (BRAMS) research centre and partner institutions: the Université de Montréal, McGill University and the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital.
Posted by Alex at 12:41 PM.
Ontario's Trent University announced last week that an anonymous donor gave $1 million to establish its first endowed professorship, the David Schindler Endowed Professorship in Aquatic Studies. Schindler has a worldwide reputation for his achievements in limnology, the study of freshwater bodies, and the university hopes this endowment will attract some talent to it's aquatic sciences faculty ...
Posted by Alex at 8:23 AM.
Vancouver Island University will expand existing research capacity at the Centre for Shellfish Research by establishing a Shellfish Genomics Laboratory thanks to an investment by the Government of Canada through Western Economic Diversification Canada. Federal funding of more than $400,000 will support and enhance shellfish genomics research capacity in B.C. through the acquisition and installation of genomic science equipment that will examine biological and environmental stress factors inherent in shellfish.
Posted by Rebecca at 6:02 AM.
Phoenix marks the first time Canada will take part in a Mars landing. It carries a Canadian-built weather station, including sophisticated laser instrumentation designed and built by scientists at York University, the Canadian Space Agency, the University of Alberta, Dalhousie University, and the University of Aarhus (Denmark), in partnership with MDA Space Missions and Optech Inc....
Posted by Rebecca at 6:12 AM.
The University of Western Ontario Research Park, already home to 60 companies and organizations, is set to expand. Construction will begin in mid-May on a 60,000 square foot, high performance building at the London Campus of the Research Park, just north of The University of Western Ontario. The building represents an investment of more than $20 million into the region’s advanced manufacturing sector and will support up to 120 jobs.....
Posted by Rebecca at 5:59 AM.
A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education profiled Quest University, one of Canada’s few private universities. Opening in August 2007, Quest is the first private, secular, liberal-arts institution in the country ...
Posted by Rebecca at 1:09 PM.
Effective immediately, and for the first time, international students will be able to obtain an open work permit under the Post-Graduation Work Permit Program, with no restrictions on the type of employment and no requirement for a job offer. In addition, the duration of the work permit has been extended to three years across the country.....
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