A total of 18 UBC projects, including six at the Okanagan campus, have received more than $1.8 million in funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund.
The recipients at UBC’s Okanagan campus are:
- Cigdem Eskicioglu, associate professor, School of Engineering
A liquid chromatograph/triple quadrupole mass spectrometer for micropollutant detection in wastewater biosolids.
Funding received: $114,001 - Jonathan Little, assistant professor, School of Health and Exercise Sciences
Biochemistry laboratory for exercise metabolism and inflammation research
Funding received: $125,000 - Lael Parrott, associate professor, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences
Seeking sustainability: Innovating modelling and analysis of complex human-environment systems
Funding received: $54,434 - Xiaohua (Adam) Wei, associate professor, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences
Forest carbon and water coupling across different spatial scales
Funding received: $60,000 - Glen Foster, School of Health and Exercise Sciences
Cardiopulmonary laboratory for experimental and applied physiology
Funding received: $124,919 - Christopher McNeil, assistant professor, School of Health and Exercise Sciences
Muscle Fatigue Research Laboratory
Funding received: $114,663
Read the complete media release at: http://news.ubc.ca/2014/01/08/1-8m-boost-for-cutting-edge-research-from-cfi/
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