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Kicking off our third annual Research Celebration Week
UNB Research
Posted: October 7, 2024 6:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Partnerships , Research Services , Accolades , Innovation & Commercialization
Just over two years ago, we launched our first Research Celebration Week to shine a spotlight on the impactful research taking place at UNB, and especially the people who make it happen. That focus on celebrating our people and their accomplishments, and on recognizing the important contributions of research in our communities and our world, continues to be our driving force today as we kick off our third annual event. I was inspired to create this event by all the wonderful stories of...
UNB nuclear experts sign on as members of Canadian Nuclear Isotope Council
UNB Research
Posted: August 14, 2024 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Partnerships , Innovation & Commercialization , Research
The University of New Brunswick (UNB) Centre for Nuclear Energy Research (CNER) has signed on as the newest academic member of the Canadian Nuclear Isotope Council (CNIC). “Isotope production has been a strength of Canada’s nuclear program for decades, and our home-made CANDU reactor technology is well suited and demonstrated for this task,” said Dr. William Cook, director of the CNER and a professor of chemical engineering at UNB. “In New Brunswick, the focus on...
UNB research administration staff honoured for contributions to innovation ecosystem
UNB Research
Posted: June 18, 2024 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Partnerships , Innovation & Commercialization , Accolades , Research Services
Three current and former University of New Brunswick (UNB) research administrators have been recognized for their contributions to Springboard Atlantic and its support for research and innovation in the region. The celebrations occurred as Springboard marked its 20th anniversary of working in the region. Hart Devitt, director of research and innovation partnerships, has been a part of Springboard Atlantic since its early days. He joined UNB’s Office of Research Services in 2008 after a...
Recognizing 2023 University Research Scholar, Dr. Donald Wright
UNB Research
Posted: October 4, 2023 6:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Accolades , Partnerships , Research , Innovation & Commercialization
As part of our 2023 Research Celebration Week, we are highlighting the most recent recipients of two of UNB’s major research awards: The University Research Scholar award, and the Award for Excellence in Research. Dr. Donald Wright is the 2023 recipient of UNB’s University Research Scholar award, which "honours members of the active faculty complement of the University of New Brunswick (UNB) who have demonstrated a consistently high level of scholarship, and whose research is, or...
Welcome to the 2023 UNB Research Celebration Week
UNB Research
Posted: October 3, 2023 6:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Partnerships , Accolades , Research , Innovation & Commercialization
UNB’s annual Research Celebration Week is an opportunity to showcase and celebrate the efforts and contributions of our institution's research community: the faculty, students and staff who help make the world better through their scholarly work. It's also an opportunity for us to recognize some of the organizations and individuals that help make that research possible: our funders and partners in government, industry and community. In addition to the events we are hosting this week,...
Meet the chair: Dr. Hamed Asgari, Lockheed Martin Research Chair in Additive Manufacturing
UNB Research
Posted: July 14, 2023 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Partnerships , Innovation & Commercialization , Research
Dr. Hamed Asgari is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and Lockheed Martin Research Chair in Additive Manufacturing at the University of New Brunswick (UNB). With his appointment, the university’s sector-leading expertise in marine additive manufacturing will get a new boost in capacity as Asgari takes metal-part fabrication from 3D printing to 4D. 4D printing involves creating parts using smart materials that adapt to the world around them – potentially enabling...
UNB experts join Black Arcs to create novel disease modelling system
UNB Research
Posted: June 20, 2023 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: COVID-19 , Partnerships , Research , Innovation & Commercialization
At the height of COVID-19, Fredericton company Black Arcs knew they could help governments and experts with better pandemic response planning. They already had Citisketch, a product that simulates the daily life of communities; how people move around and behave throughout their day. They’d built it with trusted, anonymized statistical data and knew it provided reliable insights about community-level contact. It could iterate through new scenarios quickly and provide a visual, more...
Meet the chair: Dr. Mohsen Mohammadi, CRC in Marine Additive Manufacturing
UNB Research
Posted: January 17, 2022 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Innovation & Commercialization , Accolades , Partnerships , Research
Meet the chair: Dr. Mohsen Mohammadi, CRC in Marine Additive Manufacturing On January 12, the Government of Canada announced research funding that included $151 million in funding for 188 new and renewed research chairs at 43 institutions across Canada. We’re proud to have two of these new chairs here at UNB, joining the 9 other Canada Research Chairs at UNB. Dr. Mohsen Mohammadi is the new CRC in Marine Additive Manufacturing, where we will continue his focus on this innovative area at...
Blue water, green futures: OFI Seed Fund supports four UNB projects in 2021
UNB Research
Posted: December 17, 2021 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research , Innovation & Commercialization
Researchers at the University of New Brunswick have received funding for four projects from the Ocean Frontier Institute’s (OFI) Seed Fund program. This funding will enable novel research opportunities that advance UNB’s emphasis on, and leadership in, scholarship that supports the blue economy and a healthier future for our oceans. The projects funded will create new knowledge and innovations in four areas: salmon population growth; oceanic ecology and sustainability; subsea...
UNB partners with Kognitiv Spark as first university to offer remote research site tours using Microsoft’s Hololens technology
UNB Research
Posted: October 18, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Partnerships , Innovation & Commercialization , COVID-19
The University of New Brunswick’s Research & Innovation Partnerships (R&IP) team is used to seeing and sharing innovative new solutions to major challenges. Today, they’re implementing one of their own, offering secure, remote tours of research facilities to support new and existing R&D partnerships. This new offering is the first use of Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 and Kognitiv Spark’s RemoteSpark technologies for this purpose. “With the disruptions caused by...
UNB researchers adding a new dimension to ocean exploration
UNB Research
Posted: September 9, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Innovation & Commercialization , Research , Partnerships
University of New Brunswick researchers are joining forces with industry-leading companies to help develop a way of seeing ocean floor maps like never before: in three dimensions. Hydrospark is a new project funded by Canada’s Ocean Supercluster that uses mixed reality technology and three-dimensional visualization to explore subsea data remotely and realistically. UNB researchers Dr. Scott Bateman, associate professor of Computer Science and director of the Human-Computer Interaction...
UNB researchers explore augmented reality and high-speed data to support first responders
UNB Research
Posted: June 23, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Innovation & Commercialization , Accolades
A team of University of New Brunswick-affiliated researchers has recently won a 5G-focused event to develop and implement potential solutions to municipal issues using leading-edge network technology. The Fredericton Innovation Partnership/Rogers 5G BOOST Innovation Camp took place the week of May 31st, with the winning team announced following pitch presentations on Friday, June 4. Led by Dr. Scott Bateman, an expert in human-computer interaction who specializes in virtual and augmented...
Meet Bernadette Fernandes, our new advanced manufacturing partnerships lead
UNB Research
Posted: May 20, 2021 10:45:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Innovation & Commercialization , Research Services , Partnerships
Meet our new advanced manufacturing partnerships lead Learn about UNB's Advanced Manufacturing Convergence Hub, and how we can support Atlantic Canada's manufacturing industry. Bernadette Fernandes Bernadette Fernandes was born in Paris and studied in Portugal, Spain and Canada; as a result, she speaks five languages. Her work and travel have brought her across five continents, where she has developed successful public-private engagements and collaborations across all sectors, igniting and...
UNB research team awarded IBM CAS 2020 Project of the Year
UNB Research
Posted: April 7, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Partnerships , Accolades , Innovation & Commercialization
University of New Brunswick students in the faculty of computer science and professor Dr. Kenneth Kent were awarded the 2020 Project of the Year Award by the IBM Center for Advanced Studies for Project 1035: OMR in Resource Constrained Environments (Embedded/ IoT/ Mobile OMR). The project is the second largest ever conducted by the Centre of Advanced Studies –Atlantic (CAS–Atlantic). The research team successfully enabled numerous existing, non-native applications to run on the...
NSERC Alliance Grant supports UNB industrial research partnership in scaffolding
UNB Research
Posted: March 30, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Innovation & Commercialization , Partnerships
Dr. Zhen Lei, a researcher at the University of New Brunswick, has been awarded $29,700 in funding for a collaborative research and development project to leverage digital technologies to improve construction project management. Dr. Lei is an assistant professor in the department of civil engineering, the OSCO Research Chair in Off-site Construction and scientific director of the Off-site Construction Research Centre (OCRC) at the University of New Brunswick. “This project allows us to...
Where are they now? COVID-19 researchers update us on their progress
UNB Research
Posted: March 26, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Innovation & Commercialization , Research , COVID-19
Around the world, researchers across all fields and disciplines continue to work on addressing the challenges, issues and implications of the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic. Here at UNB, our own research community is part of that global movement.Last year, we introduced you to 13 new, funded COVID-19 research projects and their teams; now, with a full year of pandemic life behind us, we’re checking in to see what they’re working on and what they’ve accomplished. Dr. Anna...
OCRC innovation director Brandon Searle featured on podcast
UNB Research
Posted: November 19, 2020 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Innovation & Commercialization , Research
Each episode of Philosophie Group’s Fail Faster podcast series features a different leader in innovation technologies from around the world. Recently, our own Off-site Construction Research Centre (OCRC) Innovation Director, Brandon Searle, was invited to join them as an invited guest. In episode 79, “Who Will Build What’s Next,” Mr. Searle discusses how the OCRC uses new technologies to lead innovation in the construction sector, some of their recent projects and the...
UNB's MAMCE partners to support community innovation.
UNB Research
Posted: September 24, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Innovation & Commercialization , Partnerships , Research
UNB’s Marine Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence (MAMCE) has partnered with Economic Development Greater Saint John (EDGSJ), with funding from ACOA, to help companies explore the value of 3D metal printing-based additive manufacturing. Through the Additive Manufacturing Innovation Challenge, Atlantic Canadian companies will be able to access expertise and funds to prototype innovative products, techniques and designs. “Advanced Manufacturing is a growing area of excellence...