UWinnipeg Research News

Attention Faculty,

Minerva Canada is pleased to announce that the 2010 Minerva Canada James
Ham Safe Design Awards contest for undergraduate engineering students
has been extended to include not only Ontario universities but also all
other Canadian universities. There will be a first and second prize of
$3,500 and $1,500 respectively. The awards will be presented in the
Spring 2010 at a Health and Safety conference yet to be determined in
Toronto.

Notification of Intent Due Date: December 19, 2009 by sending an email to: minerva@safetymanagementeducation.com

Application Deadline: February 26, 2010

Students are also advised to visit the Minerva Canada website www.safetymanagementeducation.com for more information about
Minerva and its Safe Design Awards contest.

Minerva Canada is a not for profit organization whose mission is to
promote the teaching of Safety, Health and Environmental management in
post secondary schools across Canada with a special focus on Engineering
and Business schools. Past student award winners have come from
universities at McMaster, Ontario Institute of Technology, Western
Ontario and Queen's. Aside from choosing projects they've completed
during summer or co-op employment, students can also choose university
design projects they've worked on or are currently in progress when
applying for the award. The nature of the projects must meet the
criteria contained in the contest rules.

If you have any questions, please don't hesiate to contact me at ext. 9137 or am.hussain@uwinnipeg.ca

Attention Faculty,

On Wednesday November 25 between 12:30 and 1:30 in Rm 3D01, The University of Winnipeg's Research and Graduate Studies Office will present its Inaugural Lecture Series in. Throughout the year, this lecture series will feature a scholar from each of the Faculties of Arts, Science, Business, Education and Theology. Our first lecture will feature Physicist Dr. Jeff Martin who will talk about a presentation entitled "The Global Medical Isotope Crisis: Winnipeg to the Rescue!".

Dr. Martin is an accomplished researcher and was recently awarded $4.225-million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), which is the largest award to a Manitoba post-secondary institution since the CFI was founded in 1997. Dr. Martin will use the funds to construct the Canadian Spallation Ultracold Neutron Source, making it the world’s highest density source of ultracold neutrons.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss this further, please don't hesitate to contact me at ext. 9137 or am.hussain@uwinnipeg.ca

Attention Faculty!

The Canada Council for the Arts and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada are accepting nominations for the 2010 Molson Prizes. Two prizes, worth $50,000 each, are awarded annually - one for the arts, one for the humanities or social sciences.

Eligibility criteria, nomination form and procedures:

http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/molson/

John G. Diefenbaker Award

This award, worth $75,000, is given annually to enable a German scholar to pursue research in Canada.

Eligibility criteria, nomination form and procedures:

http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/john_g_diefenbaker/

The deadline for both awards is December 1, 2009. If you have any questions, please contact me at am.hussain@uwinnipeg.ca or ext 9137.

Attention Faculty!

The Visiting Trudeau Fellowship offers Canadian universities the possibility to invite an outstanding national public intellectual, creative artist or writer of their choice. The successful candidate will join the university and participate in its activities for a period of residence of usually one academic year during the three-year mandate of the Fellowship. The universities have aces up $225,000 to finance the Fellow's stay.

The nomination deadline is December 3, 2009

About the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation:

The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation was established in 2002 to honour the humanitarian spirit of our former Prime Minister. With an endowment of $125 million, the Foundation supports exceptional individuals for three or four year terms with the expectation that they develop and disseminate original and effective public policy proposals in four areas - Human Rights and Dignity, Responsible Citizenship, Canada in the World, and People and Their Natural Environment. Trudeau Fellows, Scholars and Mentors are selected, in part, for their originality, courage and commitment to make our country and our global community a better place to live. The Foundation expects them to make meaningful contributions to critical issues of the day. Since 2002, the Foundation
has granted nearly 200 major awards to top researchers and highly accomplished individuals, in Canada and abroad.

http://www.trudeaufoundation.ca/trudeaufoundation/program/fellows?l=en

If you have any questions or would like to discuss this further, please don't hesitate to contact me at ext. 9137 or am.hussain@uwinnipeg.ca