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Research Week: Top 10 research and innovation achievements of 2018

Laurentian University Research Week
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Dr. Rizwan Haq, interim vice-president of Research and Lynn Leclerc, executive administrative Assistant at Laurentian University. (Jonathan Migneault/Laurentian University)
  1. Dr. Émilie Pinard received Laurentian University's first ever SSHRC Partnership Engage grant at for her project supporting the Innu Takuaikan Uashat mak Mani-Utenam Band Council in developing a project to build a centre for the transmission of Innu culture focused on youth.
     
  2. Dr. Ming Cai and 4 students designed a patent for a new rock bolt (Superbolt) that has been issued in Chile. This is Laurentian University's first patent in Chile and the first issued patent which names four students as co-inventors.
     
  3. Drs. Jennifer Walker (co-PI), Taima Moeke-Pickering, Sheila Cote-Meek, Joey-Lynn Wabie and Celeste Pedri-Spade are part of the research team behind the inaugural summer school of Ontario's Indigenous Mentorship Network (IMN), Ontario's first Indigenous-led health research training network.
     
  4. A team of Laurentian University researchers led by Dr. Nathan Basiliko along with Dr. John Gunn, and Dr. Nadia Mykytczuk, received $1.6M from NSERC and OCE for the project entitled "Landscape Carbon Accumulation through Reductions in Emissions (L-CARE)", aimed at tackling the problem of greenhouse gas emissions.
     
  5. Dr. Tammy Eger is one of four Canadian women (from a total of 95 women representing 28 countries) to have been selected to participate in a 12-month intensive leadership program for women in STEMM entitled "Homeward Bound", which culminates with a 3-week expedition to Antarctica.
     
  6. Dr. Jennifer Walker received an Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade for her project entitled "Data as Medicine: Improving population-level health information in First Nations communities in Northern Ontario."
     
  7. Grace Scott, PhD candidate in Rural and Northern Health, received the Frederick Banting and Charles Best CGS - Doctoral Award, from the Canadian Institute of Health Research.
     
  8. Dr. Luis Radford received an Honorary Provincial Education Award from the Ministry of Education for his exceptional and sustained contribution to French-language education research in Ontario. The award was presented at the 4th edition of the forum Synergie portant sur la recherche en éducation de langue française de l'Ontario.
     
  9. Dr. Luckny Zephyr received First Prize AMBAR 2018 - Research and Development of the Colombian Energy Sector (Research Category) from the Association of Colombian Distributors of Electrical Energy for the paper "MAEP: A Mild- and Long- Term Tool for Hydro-Thermal Power Systems".
     
  10. In 2018, bachelor's and master's students in Sciences infirmières received six (6) awards for presenting quality research projects at various conferences.

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