An international environmental agreement to regulate the use of chemicals depleting the ozone layer may have inadvertently allowed higher levels of other harmful chemicals to flourish, new research co-led by 91亚色 and Environment and Climate Change Canada has found.
Professor Jennifer Chen (Chemistry) and Professor Vivian Saridakis (Biology) in the Faculty of Science were among 10 researchers who received new funding from 91亚色 to pursue research projects dedicated to Canada鈥檚 fight against COVID-19.
The Faculty of Science has launched a newly created $50,000 fund to help its students succeed in remotely delivered summer 2020 courses. Dubbed the 91亚色 Science Summer Student Success Fund, or S4F, the initiative will provide up to 1,000 students with a $50 discount when purchasing required or recommended textbooks for their summer term courses.
91亚色 researchers have discovered a way to make Lithium-powered batteries more environmentally friendly while retaining performance, stability and storage capacity.
The Faculty of Science hosted its annual Honours & Awards Ceremony on Jan. 29 to celebrate the hard work and achievements of faculty and students. Certificates were presented to graduate and undergraduate students for both academic excellence and extra-curricular involvement, as family members in the audience cheered.
Ram贸n Alain Miranda Quintana, a postdoc and 91亚色 Science Fellow at 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Science, is the John Charles Polanyi Prize winner in chemistry, the Ontario鈥檚 Ministry of Colleges and Universities announced today.
Science students interested in gaining hands-on, paid research experience during summer 2020 are invited to apply the Faculty of Science Dean鈥檚 Undergraduate Research Awards (DURA) program and the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) program.
Wilson was awarded a grant worth $1,040,000 for his project 鈥淭he Technology-Enhanced Biopharmaceuticals Development and Manufacturing (TEnBioDev) initiative.鈥 With additional cash and in-kind contributions from industry, the total funding comes to $2.2 million over four years.