Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty Award Program
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Ingenuity grants awarded to new faculty members
Fighting crop disease, protecting plants and animals, and increasing productivity for pig farmers are among the problems that new faculty members at the University of Alberta are tackling. Five of these new faculty members received the Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty Grant, which helps them establish labs and fund their research.
Original: ExpressNews
The Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty Award Program is designed to expand and strengthen Alberta's science and engineering research capacity by providing up to $10,000 of funding to researchers who are in their first academic career appointment.
Recipients of this award include:
2006
Ardakani, Masoud
From robust channel coding to decision-making in uncertain graphical models
Bowling, Michael H.
Subjective models in autonomous robotics
Brown, Alexander
Molecular quantum computing
Campbell, Robert E.
Synthesis and application of small-molecule probes for the study of protein localization and post-translational modification in live cells
Currie, Philip
Palaeobiology of meat eating dinosaurs
Froese, Duane G.
The ancient cryosphere: relict permafrost and impacts of a past warmer Arctic
Hamann, Andreas
Analysis of genotype climate interactions in forest trees aided by MODIS/AVHRR sensed satellite data
He, Fangliang
Modeling distribution and abundance of species in landscapes
Leuangthong, Oy
Direct sequential cosimulation on unstructured grids for geologically realistic reservoir characterization
Martin, Jonathan W.
High resolution separation and detection techniques to study the fate of persistent acidic pollutants in Alberta and around the globe
Pretorius, Frans
Gravitational wave astrophysics
Rahimi, Payam
Experimental and theoretical study of kinetics of metal transport at metal-polymer interfaces
Scarpella, Enrico
High-resolution analysis of vascular development in plants
Waskiewicz, Andrew J.
High throughput genetic, genomic, and chemical biology screens examining the role of Pbx in early embryonic patterning and leukemogenesis
Xu, Yunjie
Exploring chirality and chiral recognition on the molecular level using spectroscopic and ab initio methods
2005
Gu, Yu J.
An integrated study of the mantle structure beneath western Canada
Joseph, Dileepan
Microfossils, computer vision and climate change
Leuangthong, Oy
Direct sequential cosimulation of unstructured grids for geologically realistic reservoir characterization
Mitlin, David
Integration of Al-Si nanostructured composites into MEMS manufacturing
Rahimi, Payam
Experimental and theoretical study of kinetics of metal transport at metal-polymer interfaces
Scarpella, Enrico
High-resolution analysis of vascular development in plants
2004
Campbell, Robert E.
Molecular biophotonics: fluorescent labels and biosensors for visualizing dynamic biochemical events in living cells
Dyck, Michael K.
Development of a novel transgenic animal model exhibiting targeted insulin-like growth factor binding protein gene silencing for the study of ovarian regulation and function
He, Fangliang
Modeling distribution and abundance of species in landscapes
Strelkov, Stephen E.
Molecular basis of fungal virulence: studies with tan spot of wheat
Waskiewicz, Andrew J.
A high-throughput genetic screen to identify patterning mutants in zebrafish
2003
Deyholos, Michael K.
The phleom proteome: development and function
Gamal El-Din, Mohamed
Advanced oxidation treatment of wastewater: treatment enhancement and reactor design
Leys, Sally P.
The evolution of tissues: the origin and fate of the primary germ layers in basal metazoans
Sturdy, Christopher B.
Neuroethology of songbird acoustic communication: from the beak to the brain and back
Xu, Yunjie
Cavity ring down spectroscopic studies of chiral molecules and chiral discrimination