UNB Research
Meet the chair: Dr. Sajjad Dadkhah, Mastercard IoT Research Chair
UNB Research
Posted: April 22, 2025 6:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Innovation & Commercialization , Research , Partnerships
In April 2022, the University of New Brunswick (UNB) and Mastercard announced a new partnership to advance cybersecurity research and training opportunities in the Internet of Things (IoT) sector. Mastercard’s $1.75 million in financial support enabled a number of activities, including scholarships, the creation of a research lab and establishing the Mastercard IoT Research Chair. Dr. Sajjad Dadkhah started as the newest chair in January 2025. We spoke with him about his story, his...
Read the latest annual report from the Office of the Vice President Research
UNB Research
Posted: February 18, 2025 6:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research , Research Services , Accolades , Partnerships , Innovation & Commercialization , Publications
Our 2023-2024 Office of the Vice President Research annual report is now available online. From the vice president research: Last year, my office set out to modernize our annual reporting and bring it in line with other university reports. We took the opportunity to look at the how and why underlying our reporting process. We started with a simple question: How do we measure research? Or, more precisely, how do we measure the impact of our research community and its activities? And how do we...
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...
Meet the scientific director: Dr. Emily Richard, UNB Institute of Population Health
UNB Research
Posted: August 21, 2024 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Partnerships
The University of New Brunswick (UNB) Institute of Population Health (IPH), the university’s most recently established research institute, continues to ramp up its activities with the appointment of a new scientific director. Dr. Emily Richard, associate professor of nursing and associate dean of nursing at UNB’s Moncton site, has been selected as the IPH’s new scientific director. Richard will lead the academic activities of the IPH. She is responsible for facilitating and...
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: Faculty of Science , 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 researcher: Dr. Koumari Mitra, qualitative understandings of homelessness and health care access
UNB Research
Posted: February 3, 2023 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research , Partnerships
What do unhoused populations experience when interacting with the health-care system, and what kind of gaps do they experience? In today's blog post, we speak with Dr. Koumari Mitra, an anthropologist at UNB who is working with a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research team to understand the challenges homelessness poses to health and recovery - and why working across specializations and methodologies is important to impactful research. Who are you? My name is Koumari Mitra, and I am...
Meet the researcher: Dr. Trevor Hanson: Improving rail safety in Canada
UNB Research
Posted: January 24, 2023 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Partnerships , Research
Dr. Trevor Hanson, a professor of civil engineering at the University of New Brunswick, is working with researchers at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) on a Transport Canada project that could help save lives by making grade crossings safer for pedestrians and people who use assistive devices. Having just officially announced this project, we took the opportunity to speak with him about his research and why collaboration is essential for its success. Who are you? My name is Dr....
UNB to continue as NB hub of SPOR Primary Care Research Network, which has received $10 million in renewed federal funding
UNB Research
Posted: December 16, 2022 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research , Partnerships
Thanks to renewed funding, the University of New Brunswick’s (UNB) Centre for Research in Integrated Care (CRIC) will continue to be the New Brunswick node of the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Canadian Primary Care Research Network (CPCRN). The Canadian Institutes of Health Research has provided $10 million in funding over the next five years to the CPRCN. Partner organizations across Canada, including the New Brunswick Health Research Foundation, matched the funding for...
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...
The tales bones tell: uncovering lost voices at the Fortress of Louisbourg
UNB Research
Posted: November 4, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Partnerships , Research
Like so much of settler-colonial history, events at the Fortress of Louisbourg in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia have been documented mainly from the perspective of men in positions of privilege. This means that when we look at the experience of women, especially non-settler women, at Louisbourg, their stories are told through this very particular lens. Dr. Amy Scott is working to change that, giving a voice to those who have been historically silenced, while also protecting their remains from...
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...
COVID-19 modelling: the complex science of simple lines
UNB Research
Posted: October 15, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Partnerships , Research , COVID-19
Four curves in four different colours: No change; reduction of contacts when compared to baseline (October 8, 2021) by 20%; by 40%; by 60%. Many New Brunswickers are likely familiar with this graph, which was shared with media on October 8, 2021. It’s simple enough to understand the immediate implications: reducing our in-person contact will result in fewer hospitalizations, and less strain on our healthcare system. But what goes into creating a graph like this? Dr. Sanjeev Seahra (SS)...
AARMS receives milestone federal funding
UNB Research
Posted: September 22, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Partnerships , Research
Earlier this year, the Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences (AARMS) was awarded approximately $278,000 in new funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). So, what does this mean for UNB and for the region? AARMS is one of four regional institutes that serve the mathematical sciences community in Canada and is currently headed up by University of New Brunswick mathematics professor, Dr. Sanjeev Seahra. Funded through...
Pan-Canadian Network Involving UNB Researchers working to Model COVID-19 Data
UNB Research
Posted: September 17, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Partnerships
Earlier this year, Mathematics for Public Health (MfPH), a pan-Canadian network of multi-disciplinary researchers, announced that the network received $3 million in funding from the federal Emerging Infectious Disease Modelling Initiative. Established by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Initiative pledges $10 million over two years to support researchers who work with public agencies to model the public spread of...
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...
Creating healthier communities in health research
UNB Research
Posted: August 17, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Partnerships
University of New Brunswick researchers are organizing an institution-wide virtual Health Research Conference on August 19th, 2021. The event, co-chaired by Dr. Jon Sensinger, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Dr. Shelley Doucet, professor of nursing and health sciences, will feature presentations from more than 25 UNB research teams, showcasing the diversity of health research inquiry across the university and encouraging awareness and collaboration. “As a field we...
Healthy Seniors Pilot Project: Zoomers for All
UNB Research
Posted: June 7, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Partnerships
Healthy Seniors Pilot Project: Zoomers for All. In February, we announced the five UNB projects funded by the Healthy Seniors Pilot Project (HSPP). We've been working with the research teams to help tell their stories and share insight into their research. Today, we feature Dr. Danielle Bouchard, associate professor in the faculty of kinesiology at UNB, whose Zoomers for All project was awarded $622,044. Who are you? Dr. Danielle Bouchard I am an associate professor in the faculty of...
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 using foot care tool to engage with NB seniors
UNB Research
Posted: May 10, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Partnerships , Research
Healthy Seniors Pilot Project: Mobile Health Seniors’ Network In February, we announced the five UNB projects funded by the Healthy Seniors Pilot Project (HSPP). We've been working with the research teams to help tell their stories and share insight into their research. Today, we feature Dr. Tracey Rickards, associate professor in the faculty of nursing at UNB, whose Mobile Seniors’ Wellness Network: Reaching Rural New Brunswickers research project received more than $1.5 million...
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...
UNB researchers work to improve dementia care and support
UNB Research
Posted: March 29, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Partnerships
Photo (left to right): Dr. Shelley Doucet, Dr. Pamela Jarrett and Dr. Alison Luke. Last month, we announced the five UNB projects funded by the Healthy Seniors Pilot Project (HSPP); since then, we've been working with the research teams to help tell their stories and share insight into their research. Today, we feature Dr. Shelley Doucet, Dr. Pamela Jarrett and Dr. Alison Luke's work examining how primary care providers diagnose and support persons with dementia. The research project,...
Healthy Seniors Pilot Project: Five UNB projects receive funding
UNB Research
Posted: March 29, 2021 6:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Partnerships , Research
In February, we announced the five UNB projects funded by the Healthy Seniors Pilot Project (HSPP). UNB researchers received nearly $6 million in provincial and federal funding for research to support healthy aging for seniors in their homes, communities and care facilities. We've been working with the research teams to help tell their stories and share insight into their research. Learn more about each of these funded projects: Dr. Tracey Rickards, faculty of nursing, received more than...
COVID-19 researchers successfully create antigen production pipeline
UNB Research
Posted: March 26, 2021 8:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Partnerships , 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. Want catch...
UNB research team recognized with best paper award from IBM
UNB Research
Posted: February 26, 2021 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research , Partnerships , Publications , Accolades
Britta Sennewald, a UNB graduate student in computer science, and Dr. Kenneth Kent, professor of computer science, were recognized with the Best Paper award at the 30th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CASCON'20) for their work, Voting for Authorship Attribution Applied to Dark Web Data. The paper was also authored by Rainer Herpers and Marco Hülsmann, both at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (BRSU). Ms. Sennewald previously...
Spotting whales from orbit: new research project will help protect endangered whales using satellite imaging
UNB Research
Posted: February 12, 2021 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research , Partnerships
Image: UNB researchers captured this photo of two humpback whales in the Bay of Fundy during a research trip in 2020. The federal government is investing $5.3 million into smartWhales, a research initiative that will use satellite technology to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale. The initiative includes five projects funded by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and has been organized with the additional collaboration of Transport Canada. One of the...
Investigating 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 ideologies. “Anyone paying attention to the news lately knows that this is an issue that keeps...
Meet 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 science (2008) from the University of Regina.He earned his PhD from UNB in 2017, specializing in...
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...