Hosted by 91亚色 President and Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri and Vice-President Research and Innovation Robert Hach茅, and Celia Haig-Brown, associate vice-president research, who officiated as event MC, the University celebrated the outstanding research achievements of several 91亚色 researchers, students and postdoctoral fellows.

Above: The researchers honoured at the 91亚色 U Research Leaders celebration

Above: 91亚色 President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri

Researchers and students were recognized for achievements that ranged from being appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada to being the lead for a Partnership Grant award by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada to being appointed a Canada Research Chair to being the lead on a large scale research grant from the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada and more. This year鈥檚 Research Leaders event was dedicated in memory of Lassonde School of Engineering Professor Nick Cercone, who was posthumously recognized for his research achievements.

鈥淓very year for the past four years we have gathered at this event to recognize research excellence and success across the University 鈥� and each year it becomes clearer that 91亚色 researchers are taking their place among the world鈥檚 leading scholars and experts,鈥� said Shoukri. 鈥淭he work of our scholars actively enriches the atmosphere of learning at 91亚色, and is at the heart of our efforts to train the next generation of thought leaders.鈥�

Shoukri introduced the keynote speaker, Pat Horgan, Vice-President Manufacturing, Development & Operations at IBM Canada.听 Horgan spoke about the tremendous impact of 91亚色 research and the importance of industry-academic collaborations in the broader community, highlighting 91亚色鈥檚 research partnerships with IBM Canada.

Above: 91亚色 Vice-President Research & Innovation Robert Hach茅, Distinguished Research Professor Bridget Stutchbury, who is the recipient of the 2016 President鈥檚 Research Excellence Award, Professor Rebecca Pillai Riddell, who is the recipient of the 2016 President's Emerging Research Leadership Award, with 91亚色 President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri

鈥淭oday marks our fourth annual 91亚色 Research Leaders celebration,鈥� noted Hach茅 in his remarks. 鈥淲e plan to continue growing the tradition 鈥� the celebration of our research and scholarly accomplishments 鈥� and the valuable contribution that research, scholarship and creative activity at 91亚色 is making to society.鈥�

Haig-Brown noted each research leader鈥檚 individual accomplishments as they were presented with gifts by Shoukri and Hach茅. The list of researchers, postdoctoral fellows and students who were honoured is as follows:

Stacey Allison-Cassin, Associate Librarian, Reference Department, Scott Library

Alidad Amirfazli, Interim Chair and Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering

Kristin Andrews, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Uzo Anucha, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Ali Asgary, Associate Professor, School of Administrative Studies, Disaster & Emergency Management, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Peter Backx, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Biology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science

Jacob Beck, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Benjamin L. Berger, Associate Dean (Students) and Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School

Sampa Bhadra, Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science

Margaret Boittin, Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School

Deborah Britzman, Distinguished Research Professor, Faculty of Education

Annie Bunting, Associate Professor, Department of Social Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Rosemary Coombe, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication & Culture, Department of Anthropology & Department of Social Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Michael Daly, Associate Professor, Department of Earth & Space Science & Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering

Paul Delaney, Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics & Astronomy and Director, Division of Science, Faculty of Science

Mario DiPaolantonio, Associate Professor, Faculty of Educaiton

James Elder, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering and Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health

Samantha Fashler, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health

Seth Feldman, Professor, Department of Cinema & Media Arts, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design

Book prize winner FES Professor Sheila Colla (centre) with Pat Horgan, Vice-President, Manufacturing, Development & Operations, IBM Canada and 91亚色 Vice-President Research & Innovation Robert Hach茅

Stephen Gaetz, Professor, Faculty of Education

Kathleen Gould-Lundy, Department of Professional Learning, Faculty of Education

Jinthana Haritaworn, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies

Jane Heffernan, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Faculty of Science

Jimmy Huang, Professor and Director, School of Information Technology, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Demian Ifa, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science

Lesley Jacobs, Professor, Department of Social Science and the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Ray Jayawardhana, Dean and Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science

Jennifer Jenson, Professor, Faculty of Education

Hui Jiang, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering

Jolin Joseph, Teaching Assistant, Department of Gender, Feminist & Women鈥檚 Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Mark Jurdjevic, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History, Glendon College

Stanislav Kirschbaum, Professor and Chair, Department of International Studies, Glendon College

Fuyuki Kurasawa, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and 91亚色 Research Chair in Global Digital Citizenship

Christopher Kyriakides, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Research in Race and Racialization

Richard Last, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Regina Lee, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Earth & Space Science & Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering

Barry Lever, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science

Mary Elizabeth Luka, Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts & Technology, School of Arts, Media, Performance & Design

Kyo Maclear, Education Program, Faculty of Graduate Studies

Heath MacMillan, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science

Tom McElroy, CSA/ABB/NSERC Industrial Research Chair and Professor of Atmospheric Remote Sounding, Department of Earth & Space Science & Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering

Susan McGrath, Professor, School of Social Work, Lassonde School of Engineering

Deborah McGregor, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School and Faculty of Environmental Studies and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Environmental Science

Scott Menary, Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science

Sushanta Mitra, Associate Vice-President Research and Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering

Haideh Moghissi, Professor, Department of Equity Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Lewis Molot, Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies

Noa Nahmias, History Program, Faculty of Graduate Studies

Norio Ota, Associate Lecturer, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Debra Pepler, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health

Marie-Christine Pioffet, Professor, Department of French Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Emanuel Rosonina, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science

Adrian Shubert, Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Gunho Sohn, Associate Professor, Department of Earth & Space Science & Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering

Paul Sych, Associate Professor, Department of Design, School of Arts, Media, Performance & Design

Salvatore Totino, Course Director, Faculty of Education

John Tsotsos, Distinguished Research Professor, Canada Research Chair in Computational Vision, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering

Sean Tulin, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science and Canada Research Chair in Particle Physics and Cosmology

Doug Van Nort, Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre and Department of Digital Media, School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design and Canada Research Chair in Digital Performance

Christopher Vanden Berg, Political Science Program, Faculty of Graduate Studies

Peter Victor, Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies

Leah F. Vosko, Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Gender & Work

Graham Wakefield, Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Art & Art History, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design and Canada Research Chair in Interactive Information Visualization

Derek Wilson, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science

Thilo Womelsdorf, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science

Jianhong Wu, Professor Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Faculty of Science and Canada Research Chair in Industrial & Applied Mathematics

Gerald Young, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Glendon College

Dessi Zaharieva, School of Kinesiology & Health Science, Faculty of Health

Amro Zayed, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science

Book Prizes and Awards

Bonnell, J. (2014). Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto鈥檚 Don River Valley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Colla, Shiela, Williams, P., Thorp, R. & Richardson, L. (2014). Bumble Bees of North America: An Identification Guide. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Cothran, B. (2014). Remembering the Modoc War: Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Gilbert, J. (2014). Sexuality in school: The limits of education. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Hoffmann, R. (2014). An Environmental History of Medieval Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Jenkins, W. (2013). Between Raid and Rebellion: The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867-1916. Montreal: McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press.

McGriffin, E. (2014). Subduction Zone. St. Johns: Pedlar Press.

Smardon, B. (2014). Asleep at the Switch: The Political Economy of Federal Research and Development Policy since 1960. Montreal: McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press.

The winners of the Undergraduate Research Fair, held earlier in the day in Scott Library, were also recognized at the Research Leaders event. University Librarian Joy Kirchner spoke about their achievements and highlighted the importance of undergraduate research.

Undergraduate Research Fair students pose for a group portrait at the 91亚色 U Research Leaders event

Dean and Associate Vice-President Graduate in the Faculty of Graduate Studies Barbara Crow followed Davidson and highlighted graduate student research at 91亚色. 听Her remarks were presented in front of a slideshow of various students鈥� achievements.

Shoukri presented Distinguished Research Professor Bridget Stutchbury, Faculty of Science, with the 2016 President鈥檚 Research Excellence Award and Professor Rebecca Pillai Riddell, Faculty of Health, and 91亚色 Research Chair in Pain and Mental Health, with the 2016 President鈥檚 Emerging Research Leadership Award.

Stutchbury was honoured with the 2016 President鈥檚 Research Excellence Award for her significant contributions to outstanding research on the ecology, behaviour and conservation of birds.

Pillai Riddell was recognized with the 2016 President鈥檚 Emerging Research Leadership Award for establishing the first norms for the development of acute pain behaviours in healthy infants, within the context of primary caregivers through her (the Opportunities to Understand Childhood Hurt [OUCH]) Lab at 91亚色.

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鈥淭he President鈥檚 Research Awards recognize the outstanding scholarly contributions that researchers make to their fields,鈥� said 91亚色 President and Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri. 鈥淣ot only are Professors Stutchbury and Pillai Riddell exceptional research leaders at 91亚色, but their research is making an impact at national and international levels.鈥�

Bridget Stutchbury

As the recipient of the 2016 President鈥檚 Research Excellence Award, Stutchbury has made significant contributions to outstanding research on the ecology, behaviour and conservation of birds. She studies the migratory behaviour of birds through the use of miniature tracking devices that are mounted on the backs of birds and then retrieved a year later after migration. Tracking the start-to-finish migration of individual songbirds for the first time has allowed her to map the complex connections between breeding and wintering sites and to link population declines to climate change, tropical deforestation and potential other threats. She has contributed to over 100 peer-reviewed scholarly publications with more than 5000 citations, including her most notable research paper published in 2009 in the prestigious scientific journal, Science.听

Her scientific and scholarly accomplishments have been acknowledged by a Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Ecology and Conservation Biology (2002 to 2012). In 2007, her book Silence of the Songbirds, was nominated for a Governor General鈥檚 Award in non-fiction and inspired the 2015 award-winning documentary The Messenger.

鈥淚鈥檓 very proud that my research has been selected to showcase 91亚色鈥檚 diverse research culture. My colleagues provide an incredibly supportive and exciting environment in which to take chances and be innovative,鈥� said Stutchbury.

As the recipient of the President鈥檚 Emerging Research Leadership Award, Pillai Riddell听has established the first norms for the development of acute pain behaviours in healthy infants, within the context of primary caregivers through her (the Opportunities to Understand Childhood Hurt [OUCH] Lab at 91亚色. Internationally, the OUCH cohort is known to be the largest and most in-depth longitudinal study on healthy infants in pain to date.

Her program of research has been built on millions of dollars on funding from federal and provincial granting agencies. She has contributed to more than 60 peer-reviewed publications, 21 chapters/books, 26 invited talks, 38 peer-reviewed national/international symposia and 138 posters. Her research has attracted stellar graduate students from across the country and all six of her students currently hold Canada Graduate Scholarships from either the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) or the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Among her international accomplishments, she was a clinical research lead on the 2015 Clinical Practice Guidelines for Immunizations published by the Canadian Medical Association Journal with recent endorsements by the World Health Organization. Alongside this research activity, she has also held a number of leadership positions across departmental, faculty, and university committees. This includes her current chairship of 91亚色 Senate鈥檚 Academic Policy, Planning, and Research Committee.

Rebecca Pillai Riddell

鈥淚 am extremely grateful to have been enabled to grow my program of research in such a nurturing environment. I look forward to continuing to support 91亚色鈥檚 research intensification efforts both at home and abroad, 鈥漵aid Pillai Riddell.

The 91亚色 President鈥檚 Research Excellence Award recognizes senior established, full-time, active faculty members at the rank of professor, with distinguished scholarly achievements who have had a notable impact on their field(s) and made a substantial contribution to advancing the University鈥檚 international reputation for research excellence while significantly and positively contributing to one or more aspects of the 91亚色 community鈥檚 intellectual life.

The 91亚色 President鈥檚 Emerging Research Leadership Award recognizes full-time faculty members within 10 years of their first academic appointment, who have had a notable impact on their field(s) and made a substantial contribution to advancing the University鈥檚 international reputation for research excellence while significantly and positively contributing to one or more aspects of the 91亚色 community鈥檚 intellectual life.

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Six 91亚色 graduate students have received scholarship supplements to conduct some of their research abroad through the Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements (MSFSS).

Doctoral students Lauren Fournier (English), Kyle Gibson (Environmental Studies), Gdalit-Aviella Neuman (Dance Studies), and Laura Pin (Political Science), and Master's students Cara Goldberg (Critical Disability Studies) and Brittany Rosenbloom (Psychology) have all been awarded up to $6,000 for their research.

"Beginning this summer, with the assistance of a Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement award I will be traveling to Israel as a Visiting Research Fellow at Hebrew University's Rothberg International School," said听Neuman, a second-year PhD student in Dance Studies. "I am investigating a dance which was choreographed by the late Yehudit Arnon, (Israel鈥檚) Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company鈥檚 founder, in 1946 in a camp for child holocaust survivors run by Hashomer Hatzair Zionist Youth Movement just outside of Budapest. Her research is titled 鈥淔rom Victimized to Victorious: Re-Imagining Identities through Dance.鈥�

鈥淭his research [will help] demonstrate the power of an embodied experience in the transmission of ideas," she said.

Rosenbloom is a second-year Master's student in the Clinical Psychology Program under the supervision of Professor Joel Katz, Canada Research Chair in Health Psychology. Her research focuses on the mechanisms involved in the development of paediatric post-surgical chronic pain. With the support of the MSFSS, she will be conducting a project titled, "Utilizing patient- and family-centered care principles to develop a perioperative psychosocial intervention targeting pain and quality of life." This project will take place in Seattle during the summer months under her host supervisor, .

Fournier, a third-year PhD student in English received her award supplement to travel to Cardiff University in Wales. Her research proposal is titled "Theorizing hysterical voices: vocal performance and the death drive in contemporary feminist cultural production."

Gibson, fourth-year PhD student in Environmental Studies, will travel to Seoul National University in South Korea. His research proposal is titled "Food Regimes, Ecology, and the South Korean 'Miracle'."

Goldberg, second-year Master's student in Critical Disability Studies, will travel to Rice University in Houston, Texas. Her research proposal is titled "The 'Right' Touch: Negotiating (Non-Apparent) Impairments With/In Embodied Interactions."

And Pin, who is a fourth-year PhD student in Political Science, received her award supplement to travel to the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research proposal is titled "Participatory Budgeting in Canada and the United States: Neoliberalism, Governmentality and Democracy."

All applicants forwarded by 91亚色 to the Tri-Council (CIHR, SSHRC and NSERC) were successful. The two Master's and four doctoral students, already holders of major national scholarships, were awarded the additional funds to support building global linkages and international networks through the pursuit of exceptional research experiences abroad.

By accessing international scientific research and training, MSFSS recipients will contribute to strengthening the potential for collaboration between Canadian universities and affiliated research institutions and universities, or other research institutions outside of Canada.

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91亚色鈥檚 Knowledge听 Mobilization (KMb) Unit, a national leader with an international reputation for connecting research and researchers to maximize the impact of their findings on society, is celebrating 10 years of service.

Since it was founded in February 2006, the KMb Unit has created significant impacts by helping to secure more than $42.9 million in federal research funding and $1.14 million in funding from community partners. It has engaged 323 faculty members and 167 graduate students from across the University in KMb activities, it has hosted 636 information sessions and created 422 brokering opportunities.

鈥淭hroughout the years, 91亚色鈥檚 award-winning Knowledge Mobilization Unit has helped to strengthen the relationship between research, policy and practice on a global scale,鈥� said Robert Hach茅, 91亚色鈥檚 vice-president research & innovation.

The KMb Unit has been sought out to provide input into organizations in the United States, the United Kingdom (UK), Australia, New Zealand, Columbia and Argentina.听 鈥淲e are delighted to be celebrating 10 years of service and look forward to advancing social innovation through engaged scholarship,鈥� said Hach茅.

The work of the KMb Unit assisted the Youth Emergency Shelter of Peterborough in creating a new life skills mentoring program. It has helped 91亚色 research inform the cooling policies for the City of Toronto during extreme heat alerts. It has also helped develop the Toronto Weather Wise Committee and the United Way 91亚色 Region create a new funding stream called Strength Investments that are helping to build civic muscle in 91亚色 Region. Based on a connection made by the KMb Unit, 91亚色 research helped the Regional Municipality of 91亚色 expand their immigrant settlement services by investing over $20 million, creating 86 jobs and delivering more than 48,000 services over a five-year period.

91亚色鈥檚 KMb Unit has enjoyed other successes. In 2012, 91亚色鈥檚 Knowledge Mobilization Unit听received the from the European-based听听(KEN). A year later, David Phipps, executive director, research and听 innovation services, which includes 91亚色鈥檚 KMb Unit, was named the most influential knowledge broker in Canada, according to a report by Knowledge Mobilization Works, a consulting and training company based in Ottawa. Currently, the KMb Unit is collaborating with colleagues from the UK on a project that will develop capacity for university-based knowledge mobilization professionals.

91亚色 is also a founding member of a pan-Canadian network of 12 universities committed to maximizing the impact of academic research for the social, economic, environmental and health benefits of Canadians. RIR is committed to developing institutional capacities to support knowledge mobilization by developing and sharing knowledge mobilization best practices, services and tools.

Since 2012, the KMb Unit has partnered with NeuroDevNet, a Canadian (NCE), which is dedicated to understanding brain development and to helping children and their families overcome the challenges of neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and cerebral palsy, to maximize the social and economic impacts of NeuroDevNet鈥檚 investments in research and training.

Founded in February 2006, the unit provides a suite of activities that enhances the two-way connection between researchers and research users. The KMb Unit听employs knowledge brokers who connect research and people to maximize the social, economic and environmental impacts of research. It is dedicated to and and .

For more information, contact , manager, knowledge mobilization, or visit or follow @researchimpact on Twitter.

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In a study published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology, the researchers found people鈥檚 behaviours changed when news of an epidemic was widely published in the media.

Researchers looked at the A/H1N1 influenza pandemic of 2009, as well as the number and duration of news stories from popular Chinese websites compared with hospital visits in the city of Xi鈥檃n in the Shaanxi province of China.

鈥淢odeling and statistical analysis clearly shows that massive media coverage contributed to the reduction of the number of newly reported cases,鈥� says co-author 91亚色 Professor Jianhong Wu, director of the 91亚色 Institute for Health Research.

The study also found it worked the opposite way, and fewer hospital notifications of infected cases resulted in a dwindling of media stories.

In addition, the longer the epidemic was covered in media during some critical periods, the more it raised public awareness. This helped change people鈥檚 behaviour, such as avoiding contact with others, and resulted in fewer new infections.

鈥淭he findings point to the importance of media in curbing the spread of disease in an epidemic,鈥� says Professor Sandra Gabriele, a co-author from 91亚色鈥檚 School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design. 鈥淭he success of any comprehensive prevention and control strategy of the emerging infectious diseases relies on the confidence 鈥� and action 鈥� of the public in the strategy, and media plays a substantial role in building this confidence.鈥�

Continued media coverage in an epidemic could be key to reducing the number of people infected.

As the study鈥檚 corresponding author, Professor Sanyi Tang of Shaanxi Normal University in China says regarding the 2009 A/H1N1 outbreak, 鈥淚n order to help reduce the accumulated number of new notifications, the media should have been more persistent in their reporting of number of infections, hospitalizations and deaths. In addition, news reports needed to be timely and continue for longer periods.鈥�

A study published in the journal Scientific Reports by Nature also looked at the role of media and found 鈥渢hat media coverage significantly delayed the epidemic's peak and decreased the severity of the outbreak.鈥�

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The network of centres increases the opportunity for students and faculty to apply GIS software for research and learning, as well as collaborate with researchers from the seven existing centres located in Canada.

鈥淎nalyzing the issues our world faces today through a GIS lens is a far better approach than existing methods,鈥� said Alex Miller, president, Esri Canada. 鈥淥ur GIS Centres of Excellence will expand the use of location-based data and analytics beyond geography to other fields such as engineering, computer science, business and medicine.鈥�

Students at 91亚色鈥檚 Lassonde School of Engineering will benefit from the new centre through experiential learning using the ArcGIS platform. The centre will support innovative research that is expected to be presented in the classroom as a new source of knowledge for students.

Costas Armenakis

鈥淭his partnership is a great opportunity for our students and faculty to get involved in using geographic technology to develop methods and applications in the emerging areas of location-based information and wireless communications,鈥� said Costas Armenakis, associate professor, Geomatics Engineering, 91亚色. 鈥淭he centre will help our students develop valuable entrepreneurial skills and create new products and services for spatial data management and analysis. As well, it will promote teaching excellence and collaboration with the other GIS Centres of Excellence.鈥�

The centre will also provide access to scholarships, conferences and competitions for students. To enhance further their GIS skills, students from member centres can participate in an annual app development challenge that focuses on the use of open government data and Esri technology.

About the Esri Canada GIS Centres of Excellence in Higher Education

Launched in 2014, the initiative is aimed at encouraging innovation in GIS research and promoting teaching excellence in spatial data management and analysis in higher education across Canada. The centres will also increase the opportunity for inter-institutional collaboration across the country and help expand spatial thinking and GIS software use beyond the traditional field of geography. To learn more about the initiative and participating institutions, visit .

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