Carbon Management Canada has announced a call for proposals for its third round of research funding.

This call emphasizes research that has the potential to have major impact on greenhouse gas emissions from the upstream fossil fuel industry and from large stationary emitters. CMC expects to allocate around $10 million to this call.

Deadline for the Compulsory Letter of Intent is : December 9, 2011.

For more information, visit Carbon Management Canada.

On June 14 TRU reached out to industry with an event that brought together representatives from Highland Valley Copper, TRU researchers, students and funding agencies. Presentations from Highland Valley Copper focused on operational details designed to give researchers an overview of the challenges faced in the production of copper. A presentation by NSERC gave details of some funding that is available for industry/researcher partnership projects.

If you have an idea for a research/industry partnership project, contact Lincoln Smith in the Research Office.

TRU Office of the AVP RGS extends our congratulations to Drs. Karl Larsen, Lauchlan Fraser and Mila Kwiatkowska on their receipt of the prestigious NSERC Discovery Grants.

The Vancouver Foundation has announced a revised granting program for Health and Medical Education/Research. Community-based Health Research grants support initiatives that will ensure British Columbians are involved in advancing the health equity of their own communities. These new research grants will allow researchers and non-profits to collectively undertake relevant research at the community level. Visit the Vancouver Foundation website for more details.

Institutions everywhere are feeling the challenge of making their research and its benefits public. Earlier this year the TRU Office of Research Innovation and Graduate Studies challenged our Journalism students to try their hands at writing about research with the new TRU Research Journalism Award.

Several students entered, and with much deliberation we are proud to announce the following winners:

2011 Research Journalist of the Year: Jason Perry
First Runner Up: Duncan McGregor
Second Runner Up: Anna Geary

Each winner will receive a stipend for the future publication of their stories, and Perry will receive a gift card from Bookies to contribute to next year’s book costs. You can read the winning stories here.

The Council for Undergraduate Research has released its latest newsletter, addressing issues around the recognition of undergraduate research mentorship in the tenure and promotion process.

The newsletter can be found here:
http://cur.networkats.com/members_online/members/cur_issues.asp

You will need a username and password to access this. If you are not a member,  you should be! TRU has an enhanced institutional membership which means every faculty member, staff member and student is eligible for a free membership in the Council for Undergraduate Research. Find details for joining on the TRU RIGS website.

The Tri-Councils (SSHRC, NSERC and CIHR) have announced that starting September 2011, they will harmonize policies associated with support for students and trainees paid through grants. Through this harmonization effort, specific minima or maxima pertaining to stipends paid from grants will no longer ben in effect. The Tri-Agency Financial Administration Guide will no longer stipulate the value of stipends that can be paid from grants, and the agencies will remove the restriction on providing supplements from grants (”top ups”) to award holders.

From September 2011 forward, stipend and top-up amounts will be governed by TRU policy. Please contact the research office for more details.

After losing its major funder, the Michael Smith Foundation, BCEOHRN has announced that it has re-formed as a society with start-up funding from UVic, SFU, UBC, UNBC and CIHR.

Some of the mandates of the society are to work on sustaining the Grey Literature Database and planning the 2011 BCEOHRN Conference. Members who would like more information or are interested in participating should visit the BCEOHRN website.

WorkSafeBC is dedicated to the vision of workers and workplaces safe and secure from injury, illness and disease. In order to achieve this goal, WorkSafeBC, together with its partners, must encourage and support the development and use of the best scientific evidence on issues that workers, employers and the organizations themselves face in seeking to prevent injury and illness, to return injured workers to health and to work, and to provide fair compensation.

To this end, WorkSafeBC offers research grants under its program FOCUS ON TOMORROW. Under its category INNOVATION AT WORK, for which this Request for Proposals (RFP) is specifically issued, grants are made available to a broad group of applicants (including professional researchers, workplace parties, unions, employer organizations, and educators) and are intended to support the development of new knowledge and/or practical problem-solving at the workplace level.

The Request for Proposals contains further details on the eligibility criteria, research priorities, and terms and conditions of funding.

The TRU Research Office wants to know. Contact us with your research accomplishments and those of your graduate and undergraduate students so that we can share them with the campus community!