UNB Research
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 for 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 researchers combine history and technology to create a new perspective on urban change.
UNB Research
Posted: November 27, 2023 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research
Two University of New Brunswick (UNB) researchers have teamed up to develop a novel approach to understanding 20th century urbanization. By combining interdisciplinary research methods from social history and geomatics engineering, Dr. Sasha Mullally, a professor of historical studies, and Dr. Yun Zhang, a professor of geodesy and geomatics engineering, along with a team of researchers, are advancing a new way of looking at and understanding the spaces around us: Historical Geospatial Data...
Intersex Awareness Day: Dr. Celeste Orr and Cripping Intersex
UNB Research
Posted: October 26, 2023 6:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Publications
Today, October 26, is National Intersex Awareness Day, a day intended to highlight human rights issues faced by intersex people. In recognition of this day, we're highlighting UNB's Dr. Celeste Orr, assistant professor of sociology and Wendy J. Robbins Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies. Last year, Dr. Orr published Cripping Intersex (2022), in which they explore how interphobia and ableism converge to construct intersex traits as disabled, and how this is linked to a cultural...
Recognizing 2022 Award for Excellence in Research recipient, Dr. Shelley Doucet
UNB Research
Posted: October 4, 2023 6:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Accolades
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. Shelley Doucet is the 2022 recipient of the Award for Excellence in Research. The following is an excerpt from vice-president (Saint John), Dr. Petra Hauf’s comments when she presented Dr. Doucet with the award: Dr. Doucet joined the UNB faculty in 2010 and has...
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,...
This photo of a tiny worm is one to keep an eye on
UNB Research
Posted: September 15, 2023 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Accolades , Faculty of Science , Publications , Research
Natasha Hynes is a graduate student at the University of New Brunswick (UNB), where she is completing her master of science in biology. Hynes is also a finalist in this year’s NSERC Science Exposed contest, an annual contest organized by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and devoted exclusively to images of scientific research, in all fields of study. It is intended to showcase research images and foster interest in science and scientific curiosity. Through...
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...
National conference will attract hundreds of physicists to UNB
UNB Research
Posted: June 16, 2023 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research
The University of New Brunswick’s (UNB) Fredericton campus will soon welcome hundreds of physicists attending the Congress of the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP). They’ll spend five days exchanging ideas and sharing research advances. Members of the public will also have an opportunity to learn something new from one of the leading minds in the field. Dr. Ben Newling, a professor of physics at UNB, chaired the conference’s local organizing committee. “The CAP...
UNB master’s student one of 2023’s top research storytellers in national competition
UNB Research
Posted: May 11, 2023 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Accolades , Research
Zyrene Estallo, a master’s student in education at the University of New Brunswick (UNB), is one of this year’s 25 finalists in the annual Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Storytellers Challenge competition. The Storytellers Challenge “asks postsecondary students to show Canadians, in up to three minutes or 300 words, how social sciences and humanities research is affecting our lives, our world and our future for the better,” and helps increase...
Research shows diverse forests are best for mitigating climate change
UNB Research
Posted: April 26, 2023 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Publications
New research provides strong statistical evidence that forests with a diverse, even mix of tree species offer significant advantages over monoculture forests for carbon sequestration, a crucial element in mitigating climate change. The article, “Tree diversity increases decadal forest soil carbon and nitrogen accrual,” was published in the leading journal Nature. Dr. Anthony Taylor, an associate professor of forest management at the University of New Brunswick, is one of the...
Research indicates warming-induced tree growth may provide climate change relief
UNB Research
Posted: February 10, 2023 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Publications , Research
An increasing number of fires, droughts and insect infestations pose a significant threat to the future of the Canadian boreal forest and to our climate along with it. New research out of the University of New Brunswick (UNB) suggests that increased tree growth, due to warming climates, may offset some of this decline. Warming-induced tree growth may help offset increasing disturbance across the Canadian boreal forest. PhD candidate Jiejie Wang and forestry and environmental management...
From fashion to faculty: How a UNB psychology scholar is creating a safer and healthier world
UNB Research
Posted: February 6, 2023 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research
Dr. Emilie Lacroix is a new faculty member at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) who is using her research to create healthier and more positive outcomes for people suffering from eating disorders. We spoke with her about how she came to study the psychology of eating disorders and what she hopes to contribute with her research. Who are you? My name is Dr. Emilie Lacroix, and I’m an assistant professor of psychology at UNB. I started at UNB in 2021. My research focuses on disordered...
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....
Meet the chair: Dr. Argyri Panezi, CRC in Digital Information Law and Policy
UNB Research
Posted: January 20, 2023 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research
The Government of Canada recently announced new and renewed Canada Research Chairs. Among those is Dr. Argyri Panezi, the new Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Digital Information Law and Policy at UNB. We spoke with her about what brought her to this field, and how technology and law are coming together. Who are you? My name is Argyri Panezi, and I am a legal scholar at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) and Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Digital Information Law and Policy. I am a Greek...
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...
The inaugural UNB Research Celebration Week
UNB Research
Posted: October 3, 2022 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Accolades , Research
Welcome to the inaugural UNB Research Celebration Week! This week is an occasion to shine a special spotlight on the impactful research taking place, and the people who make it happen, at our institution. In my role as vice-president of research, I have the great privilege of hearing about many of our researchers’ accomplishments and supporting their endeavors. To all the researchers here at UNB – faculty, staff and students – offer a heartfelt thank you. Thank you for...
UNB research team’s project seeks to identify how to give children around the globe the best lives possible.
UNB Research
Posted: September 28, 2022 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research
Dr. Ziba Vaghri, an associate professor at the University of New Brunswick (UNB), wants to give the world’s decision-makers the tools they need to protect children and respect their rights through a new project – InspiRights. Working from UNB’s Saint John campus, Dr. Vaghri leads the GlobalChild research program that has established the GlobalChild platform, a child rights monitoring system developed by an international team of experts and under the guidance of the United...
It’s life, but not as we know it? UNB researcher part of NASA-funded project exploring how to detect life on other planets
UNB Research
Posted: August 30, 2022 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Faculty of Science
Dr. Allison Enright is an assistant professor of earth sciences at UNB, but her current research has her staring at the stars. This summer, Dr. Enright is a visiting scholar at Harvard University working on a research question that sounds straight out of science fiction: what might an alien form of life look like, and how would we know if we found it? We spoke with her about the project, her role and what it means to be chosen for a visiting scholarship. Can you tell us about the project that...
Remembering - and celebrating - visionary trailblazers: the inaugural CRCP Robbins-Ollivier Award for Excellence in Equity
UNB Research
Posted: August 3, 2022 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Accolades
Those who knew Dr. Wendy Robbins knew her as a trailblazer and an ardent advocate for equity and human rights. Today, nearly four decades after the start of her career and five years since her death, that spirit and her legacy are being celebrated by a new national award named in her honour. The award will support visionary projects that advance equity in academia, a cause that drove much of Dr. Robbins’ work. Dr. Robbins was a faculty member in English at the University of New...
UNB researcher looking for participants to understand workplace conflict responses of Black women in Canada
UNB Research
Posted: July 6, 2022 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research
Workplace conflicts and negative interactions are a fairly common occurrence for many employees. Many stories shared in the current moment of the so-called ‘Great Resignation’ show some of those most extreme cases, as some individuals are driven to quit the toxic environments in which they find themselves. Workplace interactions aren’t always so severe that they lead to turnover, but negative ones can nevertheless impact the mental health of employees, as well as the overall...
New biochemistry research provides groundbreaking insight for production of key chemotherapy drug
UNB Research
Posted: June 27, 2022 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Faculty of Science , Publications , Category
For decades, vinblastine has been an important medicine in chemotherapy regimens to treat a number of cancers and has helped save countless thousands of lives. In fact, the World Health Organization includes it on their List of Essential Medicines. And yet, in spite of its importance for modern, Western medicine, the world’s commercial supply stems from a single, natural source: the Madagascar periwinkle. “Because vinblastine is highly complex in structure and...
Meet the chair: Dr. Catherine Bigonnesse, CRC in Healthy Aging
UNB Research
Posted: June 2, 2022 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Accolades
The Government of Canada recently announced new and renewed Canada Research Chairs, as well as research infrastructure funding through the Canada Foundation for Innovation's John R. Evans Leaders Fund. Among the new chairs is UNB's Dr. Catherine Bigonnesse, a political scientist working to make sure we take the best care possible of aging Canadians. We spoke with her about how she came to work in this field, and what having the chair means for her research: Who are you? My name is Dr....
Meet the researcher: Dr. Nanwei Wang, mathematics and statistics
UNB Research
Posted: June 1, 2022 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Faculty of Science
UNB's Dr. Nanwei Wang is using complex mathematics in the fight against cancer. But, how do graphs help fight disease? In this Meet the Researcher story, we speak with Dr. Wang about how math and genetics come together in his research to tackle big, complex challenges. Who are you? My name is Dr. Nanwei Wang, and I am a data scientist and assistant professor of mathematics and statistics. I completed my PhD in statistics at York University in 2017, after which I completed a three-year...
Meet the researcher: Dr. Heather Millar, political science
UNB Research
Posted: May 12, 2022 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research
Every day, our institution's social sciences and humanities researchers continue to drive social progress to help make the world a better, safer, healthier, and more equitable place. Here, we shine a light on one of those researchers: Dr. Heather Millar, a political scientist interested in the public policy of, and public response to, energy transitions and generation methods. Who are you? My name is Dr. Heather Millar, and I am an assistant professor of political science at UNB. My journey...
New UNB research may solve 50-year-old black hole mystery
UNB Research
Posted: April 26, 2022 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Accolades , Publications , Category , Research , Faculty of Science
A new paper published by researchers at UNB might create some big shockwaves in the study of black holes. In their research, published in Physics Review Letters 128(12), Dr. Viqar Husain, Jarod Kelly, Robert Santacruz and Dr. Edward Wilson-Ewing describe the creation of a simulation that might just resolve a question that has stumped physicists for five decades: the so-called black hole information paradox. For the benefit of those of us without advanced degrees in quantum physics, we asked...
Meet the researcher: Dr. Sabine LeBel, media arts and culture
UNB Research
Posted: March 16, 2022 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research
The University of New Brunswick (UNB) has built a reputation for attracting highly talented people who generate new research and knowledge that delivers positive impact for the province, the country and the world. Every day, UNB’s social sciences and humanities researchers continue to drive social progress to help make the world a better, safer, healthier, and more equitable place. Here, we shine a light on one of those researchers: Dr. Sabine LeBel, an assistant professor of culture...
UNB researcher recognized for outstanding book
UNB Research
Posted: January 28, 2022 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research , Publications , Accolades
What a way to end the year! In December, UNB’s Dr. Hepzibah Muñoz-Martínez, an associate professor of history and politics at UNB in Saint John, was recognized for her book Uneven Landscapes of Violence: Geographies of Law and Accumulation in Mexico, which was named to the 2021 Choice list of Outstanding Academic Titles. Choice is a publication of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), which is a division of the American Library Association and an important...
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...
Meet the chair: Dr. Julia Woodhall-Melnik, CRC in Resilient Communities
UNB Research
Posted: January 14, 2022 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research , Accolades
Meet the Chair: Dr. Julia Woodhall-Melnik, CRC in Resilient Communities 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. Julia Woodhall-Melnik is the new Canada Research Chair in Resilient Communities, and she’s dedicated to making a positive...
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 researcher receives book, journal awards for groundbreaking work on race and disability
UNB Research
Posted: December 10, 2021 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research , Accolades , Publications
What happens when disability and race intersect? For Dr. Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, it opens a window into an entire area of history previously left to the margins. Dr. Hunt-Kennedy is an associate professor of Caribbean, Atlantic World and Disability history at the University of New Brunswick, and the author of Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean (University of Illinois Press, 2020). She’s also the recipient of the 2021 Disability History Association (DHA)...
Wolastoqey Elder and linguist Dr. Peter Lewis Paul honoured with exhibit
UNB Research
Posted: December 1, 2021 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research
A Wolastoqey Elder and his work are being honoured with a special display in the University of New Brunswick’s Harriet Irving Library (HIL) Research Commons. The late Dr. Peter Lewis Paul (1902-1989), an Elder and linguist from Woodstock First Nation, worked with scholars throughout his life to record and preserve elements of the Wolastoqey language. April Saulis is the UNB student who conceptualized and carried out the project during her summer internship at the HIL’s new...
UNB PhD student wins 2021 NSERC Science Exposed photo contest
UNB Research
Posted: November 22, 2021 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research , Accolades
If you’ve been following our blog for a while, you’ve likely seen Gina Lonati’s photos of whales in the Bay of Fundy. Last week, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) announced her as one of four winners of their 20201 Science Exposed photo contest. She was awarded one of the three Jury Prizes selected by a group of experts in research and culture. The annual contest is organized by NSERC and devoted exclusively to images of scientific research, in...
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...
Exploring the unexplored of the Arctic seabed
UNB Research
Posted: September 21, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research
University of New Brunswick researcher Dr. Ian Church is exploring the never-before-seen depths of the Arctic Ocean, and he wants you to be able to discover this hidden terrain by making his results widely accessible. Dr. Church is a professional engineer and an associate professor of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering who heads up UNB’s Ocean Mapping group. His Arctic Seafloor Mapping Data Processing and Dissemination research project uses specialized technology to map the...
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...
Two UNB engineering faculty members receive American Concrete Institute Foundation awards
UNB Research
Posted: August 18, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Accolades , Research
This spring, two University of New Brunswick engineering faculty members were recognized by the American Concrete Institute (ACI) Foundation. Dr. Michael Thomas, professor of civil engineering, received the Robert E. Philleo Award, and Dr. Ashlee Hossack, adjunct professor at UNB and materials engineer at GEMTEC Consulting Engineers and Scientists Limited, received the Young Member award for Professional Achievement. Dr. Thomas, a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute, was awarded the...
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...
New UNB research program working to save the environment while saving on costs
UNB Research
Posted: August 11, 2021 11:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research
Making contaminated soil and water safe for human use is a complex and expensive process, but University of New Brunswick researcher Dr. Allison Enright is exploring a better way forward. Dr. Enright is an earth scientist and assistant professor in the faculty of science whose research is centered around the development of sensor-based environmental monitoring systems. The unseen complexity of our world: Dr. Enright is intrigued by the complexity of environmental and earth systems. She is...
Unlocking the secrets of the universe -- with lasers
UNB Research
Posted: August 11, 2021 11:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research
Photo: European Space Agency. UNB researcher Dr. Brynle Barrett wants you to be able to know exactly where you are in the world – and answer some of the most fundamental questions of the universe while he does so. Dr. Barrett is an atomic physicist and assistant professor whose research explores cold-atom-based systems that could provide alternatives to GPS, among many other uses. While working in the private sector developing technology for next-generation inertial navigation systems,...
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...
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...
Healthy Seniors Pilot Project: Band-Frail Program
UNB Research
Posted: May 31, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Healthy Seniors Pilot Project: Band-Frail program 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. Martin Sénéchal, associate professor in the faculty of kinesiology at UNB, whose Band-Frail project was awarded $469,645. Who are you? Dr. Martin Sénéchal: I am an associate professor in the...
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...
Healthy Seniors Pilot Project: New Brunswick Brain Health Initiative
UNB Research
Posted: May 17, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research
Healthy Seniors Pilot Project: New Brunswick Brain Health Initiative 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. Chris McGibbon and Dr. Pamela Jarrett's work examining how remotely-delivered physical and cognitive excercise programs can reduce seniors' risk of dementia. Their New Brunswick Brain Health...
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...
Why does spring bring potholes? An engineering researcher fills us in.
UNB Research
Posted: May 6, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research
Potholes. They’re the one spring bloom we all love to hate. But how do they happen, and why are they so hard to prevent? Dr. Xiomara Sanchez, P.Eng, assistant professor in the department of civil engineering at UNB, clears the snow from this topic: What are potholes? Potholes are bowl-shaped depressions in the pavement surface. Roads are made of pavement, of course, but this paved surface is more than the asphalt you see on top. A conventional pavement is composed of four layers of...
Meet the Chair: Dr. Kalikinkar Mandal, NB Power Cybersecurity Research Chair
UNB Research
Posted: April 30, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Accolades
Dr. Kalikinkar Mandal has recently been appointed as the NB Power Cybersecurity Research Chair, supported by $500,000 in funding from NB Power. During his five-year term, his research agenda will focus on minimizing cybersecurity risks and improving privacy in the emerging smart grid realm. Today’s electrical grid was built in the 1890s as a network of power transmission lines serving only to deliver electricity from the powerplant to a home or business. Since then, power grids have...
Researchers share findings on COVID-19's impact on occupational disruption and chronic disease
UNB Research
Posted: April 9, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Publications , COVID-19 , Research
Around the world, researchers across different 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 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 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...
UNB researchers look to special sensors to reduce risk of bioterrorism
UNB Research
Posted: April 6, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , COVID-19 , Publications
University of New Brunswick researchers Connor O’Brien, Kathleen Varty, and Dr. Anna Ignaszak, have published an article in Nature examining the use of specialized sensors to detect highly contagious diseases and biological weapons. With the current global pandemic highlighting the rapid spread and significant impact of disease, the researchers wanted to present a wide array of electrochemical methods and platforms for the detection of the globe's most impactful diseases. The...
UNB researchers share teachers' COVID stories, insight.
UNB Research
Posted: April 1, 2021 7:00:00 AM ADT
Public education reform: addressing equity issues Around the world, researchers across different 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
UNB graduate exploring biodiversity in the Arctic - NOW and for tomorrow
UNB Research
Posted: February 23, 2021 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research
UNB's research community is part of a larger, global community of researchers, innovators and leaders driving positive change. These connections with other specialists in their field are at the heart of knowledge sharing. UNB alumna Kelsey Koerner recently presented on her master's research at the Arctic Change 2020 conference; we asked her to introduce us to her and to her work, and about participating in conferences like this. Who are you? My name is Kelsey Koerner, and I am a...
UNB researcher awarded editor’s choice recognition for quantum gravity article
UNB Research
Posted: February 19, 2021 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research , Publications , Accolades
Banner image: NASA image of the Crab Nebula, which was formed by a star going supernova, that combines data from five different telescopes. Read more about the nebula on NASA's site. Dr. Edward Wilson-Ewing is one of three authors of a paper titled, “Resolving the H0tension with diffusion,” published in General Relativity and Gravitation 53, 7, that recently received the issue’s Editor’s Choice designation from the journal. We asked him to tell us a bit about himself,...
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...
UNB’s Dr. Rongxing Lu named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
UNB Research
Posted: January 13, 2021 7:00:00 AM AST
Category: Accolades , Research
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has awarded the IEEE Fellow distinction to Dr. Rongxing Lu, associate professor of computer science at UNB. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and a significant achievement. The Fellow designation is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number...
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 environment, health and way of life. Returning to the source Pursuing a dream career and inspiring...
A 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 Halifax in 2017, I became aware of just how desperate the North Atlantic right whale situation is...
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...
Involving 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 professors in the faculty of kinesiology at UNB and are co-directors of the CELLAB on the Fredericton...
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...
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...
Congratulations 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, Ecopoetics, and Kierkegaardian Repetition; Olena Gryshchuk, awarded $80,000 for Police officers'...
Global 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 very fertile soil in New Brunswick for developing children’s rights research, particularly...
UNB 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 SBA-16 type silica mesoporous microspheres for water purification,” was published in Acta...
Postdoc 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. Prior to that, he was a Scientist II in the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency of Science,...
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...
Postdoc 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, UNB’s research activities and impact. Postdoctoral fellows come from all over the world to...
“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 especially appealing for space-restricted applications, like mobile devices and data centres, and in...
COVID-19 research: Dr. Lloyd Waugh
UNB Research
Posted: September 1, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
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 of them. Want to read the others? Find the full list of stories here. Dr. Lloyd Waugh (Civil...
COVID-19 research: NB-IRDT
UNB Research
Posted: August 27, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
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 of them. Want to read the others? Find the full list of stories here. New Brunswick Institute for...
COVID-19 research: Dr. Rob Moir
UNB Research
Posted: August 25, 2020 9:00:00 AM ADT
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 of them. Want to read the others? Find the full list of stories here. Dr. Rob Moir (Business, Saint...
COVID-19 research: Dr. Felipe Chibante
UNB Research
Posted: August 20, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
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 of them. Want to read the others? Find the full list of stories here. Dr. Felipe Chibante (Chemical...
COVID-19 research: Occupational disruption and adaptation
UNB Research
Posted: August 18, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
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 of them. Want to read the others? Find the full list of stories here. Dr. Shelley Doucet (Nursing and...
COVID-19 research: Public education reform
UNB Research
Posted: August 13, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
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 of them. Want to read the others? Find the full list of stories here. Dr. Matt Rogers and Dr. Casey...
COVID-19 research: Dr. Sandra Magalhaes
UNB Research
Posted: August 11, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
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 of them. Want to read the others? Find the full list of stories here. Dr. Sandra Magalhaes (Sociology...
COVID-19 research: Dr. Gobinda Saha
UNB Research
Posted: August 6, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
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 of them. Want to read the others? Find the full list of stories here. Dr. Gobinda Saha (Mechanical...
COVID-19 research: Clinical nursing education
UNB Research
Posted: August 4, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
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 them. Want to read the others? Find the full list of stories here. Dr. David Busolo, Dr. Jason...
COVID-19 research: remote breathing therapy
UNB Research
Posted: July 30, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
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 them. Want to read the others? Find the full list of stories here. Dr. Erik Scheme (Electrical...
COVID-19 research: Dr. Hadi Eslami and Dr. Mercy Oyet
UNB Research
Posted: July 27, 2020 8:00:00 AM ADT
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 them. Want to read the others? Find the full list of stories here. Dr. Hadi Eslami and Dr....
COVID-19 research: Antigen production
UNB Research
Posted: July 22, 2020 9:00:00 AM ADT
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 them. Want to read the others? Find the full list of stories here. COVID research: Dr. Shawn...
COVID-19 research: Dr. Anna Ignaszak
UNB Research
Posted: July 21, 2020 7:00:00 AM ADT
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 them. Want to read the others? Find the full list of stories here. Dr. Anna Ignaszak, Chemistry...
Research stories: COVID-19
UNB Research
Posted: July 16, 2020 11:30:00 AM ADT
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 Research Foundation and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. But what’s the story behind each...