UNB Research
New leadership for the Canadian Rivers Institute: Dr. Michelle Gray appointed director in July.
Minal Abhange & UNB Research
Posted: December 17, 2020 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research
Earlier this year, Dr. Michelle Gray officially assumed the role of director of the Canadian Rivers Institute, a network of 31 scientists at 14 institutions across Canada and internationally housed here at UNB.For nearly two decades, CRI has been conducting significant research that supports our ability to make informed, evidenced-based decisions about the waterways that are so critical to our...
Read the full postA whale of a tale: UNB researchers explore new ways of measuring whale health
UNB Research
Posted: December 2, 2020 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research
Image: UNB is here… in the Bay of Fundy: UNB researchers captured this photo of two humpback whales in the Bay of Fundy during a research trip in 2020. Graduate student Gina Lonati followed whales to UNB’s Saint John campus; now, she’s following them with drones to better understand the relationship between body temperature and health. “While attending a conference in...
Read the full postInvestigating hateful ideologies and extremism in the Canadian Armed Forces
UNB Research
Posted: November 24, 2020 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research, Partnerships
University of New Brunswick researcher, Dr. David Hofmann, and Ontario Tech University researcher, Dr. Barbara Perry, have been granted $750,000 in April to investigate hateful ideologies and extremism within the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) over the next three years. From this understanding, they will provide recommendations and insight to CAF leadership to help address these concerning...
Read the full postInvolving the community in health research projects
UNB Research
Posted: November 20, 2020 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research
Dr. Danielle Bouchard is adamant that any research she does needs to be meaningful to her participants. “Knowledge transfer is significant to me,” she explains. “I love to see the results of research projects reach the community so people can have a better lifestyle because we have proven the benefits.” Dr. Bouchard and Dr. Martin Sénéchal are associate...
Read the full postOCRC 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...
Read the full postMeet the Chair: Dr. Kurt Samways, Parks Canada Research Chair in Aquatic Restoration.
UNB Research
Posted: November 5, 2020 12:45:00 PM AST
Category: Research, Partnerships
Today, we officially announced Dr. Kurt Samways as the first-ever Parks Canada Research Chair. Focusing on aquatic restoration and Atlantic salmon recovery, Dr. Samways will be conducting research work in five national parks through 2024. You can read more about this story here.Originally from Regina, SK, Dr. Samways moved to Atlantic Canada after obtaining his bachelor of science and master of...
Read the full postCongratulations to this year's SSHRC doctoral awards recipients!
UNB Research
Posted: November 2, 2020 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research, Accolades
Today, The Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced this year’s SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship recipients. Among the 540 recipients across Canada are seven UNB PhD students: Auralia Brooke, awarded $80,000 for Youth Narratives of Isolation, Belonging and Resistance in New Brunswick Schools; Mary Germaine, awarded $80,000 for Crisis, Crisis: Climate,...
Read the full postGlobal health researcher brings child health expertise and international experience to UNB
UNB Research
Posted: October 20, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research
Dr. Ziba Vaghri has journeyed the world researching and advocating for children’s health, development and rights. Now, Dr. Vaghri is bringing that passion and expertise to the University of New Brunswick. She was recently appointed as a Senior Research Associate in the department of psychology on UNB’s Saint John campus.“UNB offers a unique opportunity for this work. There is...
Read the full postUNB graduate wins award for journal article along his journey to clean the world's water
UNB Research
Posted: October 14, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Publications, Accolades, Research
UNB alumnus Ogbogu Kalu has been awarded a 2019 Acta Student Award valued at $2,000 for a paper authored as a graduate student at UNB. Mr. Kalu completed a bachelor of engineering at UNB in 2016, and his master of science in engineering in 2018. He currently works for Michelin in Bridgewater, N.S.Mr. Kalu’s paper, “A novel approach to the sol-gel synthesis of titanium dioxide-coated...
Read the full postPostdoc Appreciation Week: September 21-25 - CIC
UNB Research
Posted: September 25, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research
To cap off postdoc appreciation week, The Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC)’s director, Dr. Ali Ghorbani, shared three profiles with us of some of the outstanding and successful postdoc fellows he supervises at the CIC. Dr. Duc-Phong Le Dr. Duc-Phong Le is working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC), University of New Brunswick, Canada....
Read the full postUNB'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...
Read the full postPostdoc Appreciation Week: September 21-25
UNB Research
Posted: September 23, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research
While we’re convinced that every week is a good week to celebrate UNB’s postdoctoral fellows, this week is the one where we join our Canadian and global colleagues in drawing special attention to these scholars. In the early 2000s, the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at UNB moved to the Office of the Vice-President (Research), reflecting their important role in, and connection to,...
Read the full post“Hey Google… What’s an ODIN-II Partial Mapper for Yosys?”
UNB Research
Posted: September 15, 2020 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research, Accolades
University of New Brunswick researcher Dr. Kenneth Kent has been awarded funding from Google that will be used to help create new tools for designing special computer chips. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are a special type of computer chip that can be reconfigured after manufacturing to create different functionality. The flexibility and reconfigurability of these chips makes them...
Read the full postCOVID-19 research: Dr. Lloyd Waugh
UNB Research
Posted: September 1, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research, COVID-19
Around the world, researchers across all fields and disciplines are working to address 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 month, we announced 13 new, funded COVID-19 research projects; here’s a little more about the expertise, the passion and the capacity behind one...
Read the full postCOVID-19 research: NB-IRDT
UNB Research
Posted: August 27, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research, COVID-19
Around the world, researchers across all fields and disciplines are working to address 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 month, we announced 13 new, funded COVID-19 research projects; here’s a little more about the expertise, the passion and the capacity behind one...
Read the full postCOVID-19 research: Dr. Rob Moir
UNB Research
Posted: August 25, 2020 9:00:00 AM ADT
Category: COVID-19, Research
Around the world, researchers across all fields and disciplines are working to address 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 month, we announced 13 new, funded COVID-19 research projects; here’s a little more about the expertise, the passion and the capacity behind one...
Read the full postCOVID-19 research: Dr. Felipe Chibante
UNB Research
Posted: August 20, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research, COVID-19
Around the world, researchers across all fields and disciplines are working to address 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 month, we announced 13 new, funded COVID-19 research projects; here’s a little more about the expertise, the passion and the capacity behind one...
Read the full postCOVID-19 research: Occupational disruption and adaptation
UNB Research
Posted: August 18, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research, COVID-19
Around the world, researchers across all fields and disciplines are working to address 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 month, we announced 13 new, funded COVID-19 research projects; here’s a little more about the expertise, the passion and the capacity behind one...
Read the full postCOVID-19 research: Public education reform
UNB Research
Posted: August 13, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: COVID-19, Research
Around the world, researchers across all fields and disciplines are working to address 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 month, we announced 13 new, funded COVID-19 research projects; here’s a little more about the expertise, the passion and the capacity behind one...
Read the full postCOVID-19 research: Dr. Sandra Magalhaes
UNB Research
Posted: August 11, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research, COVID-19
Around the world, researchers across all fields and disciplines are working to address 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 month, we announced 13 new, funded COVID-19 research projects; here’s a little more about the expertise, the passion and the capacity behind one...
Read the full postCOVID-19 research: Dr. Gobinda Saha
UNB Research
Posted: August 6, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: COVID-19, Research
Around the world, researchers across all fields and disciplines are working to address 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 month, we announced 13 new, funded COVID-19 research projects; here’s a little more about the expertise, the passion and the capacity behind one...
Read the full postCOVID-19 research: Clinical nursing education
UNB Research
Posted: August 4, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research, COVID-19
Around the world, researchers across all fields and disciplines are working to address the challenges, issues and implications of the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic. Here at UNB, our own research community is part of that global movement. We recently announced 13 new, funded COVID-19 research projects; here’s a little more about the expertise, the passion and the capacity behind one of...
Read the full postCOVID-19 research: remote breathing therapy
UNB Research
Posted: July 30, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: COVID-19, Research
Around the world, researchers across all fields and disciplines are working to address the challenges, issues and implications of the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic. Here at UNB, our own research community is part of that global movement. We recently announced 13 new, funded COVID-19 research projects; here’s a little more about the expertise, the passion and the capacity behind...
Read the full postCOVID-19 research: Dr. Hadi Eslami and Dr. Mercy Oyet
UNB Research
Posted: July 27, 2020 8:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research, COVID-19
Around the world, researchers across all fields and disciplines are working to address the challenges, issues and implications of the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic. Here at UNB, our own research community is part of that global movement. We recently announced 13 new, funded COVID-19 research projects; here’s a little more about the expertise, the passion and the capacity behind...
Read the full postCOVID-19 research: Antigen production
UNB Research
Posted: July 22, 2020 9:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research, COVID-19
Around the world, researchers across all fields and disciplines are working to address the challenges, issues and implications of the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic. Here at UNB, our own research community is part of that global movement. We recently announced 13 new, funded COVID-19 research projects; here’s a little more about the expertise, the passion and the capacity behind one of...
Read the full postCOVID-19 research: Dr. Anna Ignaszak
UNB Research
Posted: July 21, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: COVID-19, Research
Around the world, researchers across all fields and disciplines are working to address the challenges, issues and implications of the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic. Here at UNB, our own research community is part of that global movement. We recently announced 13 new, funded COVID-19 research projects; here’s a little more about the expertise, the passion and the capacity behind one of...
Read the full postResearch stories: COVID-19
UNB Research
Posted: July 16, 2020 11:30:00 AM ADT
Category: COVID-19, Research
Around the world, researchers across all fields and disciplines are working to address the challenges, issues and implications of the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic. Here at UNB, our own research community is part of that global movement. We recently announced more than $400,000 in grants for 13 projects jointly funded by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, the New Brunswick Health...
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