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Home / 2014 / January / 09 / Six UBC Okanagan research projects receive grants

Six UBC Okanagan research projects receive grants

January 9, 2014

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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