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Celebrating Graduate Research

Help us celebrate your graduate students’ research, scholarship and creative activity! Introduced to broaden awareness of Master’s and doctoral-level research, and to provide opportunities to clearly communicate their work to lay audiences, Inspiring Minds is a new, non-competitive showcase of graduate research – in 150 or fewer words.

Learn more about Inspiring Minds

Dates and Deadlines

May 31

June 10

June 14

June 16

June 23

June 30

Western Strategic Support for Tri-Council Success deadline

Environment Canada Climate Action and Awareness Fund deadline

Canadian Medical Hall of Fame 2021 nomination deadline

Western Humanitarian Award submission deadline

WORLDiscoveries Innovation Ambassadors Speaker Series

Radboud-Western Fund application deadline

Killam Prize nomination deadline

Steacie Prize nomination deadline

How BrainsCAN is Impacting Neuroscience

Internal Grants:
One-Year Extensions

In collaboration with Research Finance, Western Research will be continuing our practice of providing extensions for certain internal grants in light of COVID-19-related delays to research. To improve efficiencies and reduce workload, automatic 1-year extensions will be provided for applicable internal grants (detailed below) with end dates between April 30, 2021 and December 31, 2021.

Applicable internal awards:

Western Research Catalyst Grants (competition cycles 1 & 2)
Western Strategic Support (all programs)
New International Research Networks
SSHRC Explore & Exchange
GRF residual awards (e.g., NSERC and SSHRC residual funds)

Formal extension requests to Western Research Internal Grants are not required for awards that fall into the applicable categories. Specific inquiries should be directed to Western Research at intgrant@uwo.ca. PIs are responsible for ensuring any applicable certifications are kept up to date.

Tri-Agency Launches Interdisciplinary Peer Review Committee

SSHRC, CIHR and NSERC are launching a one-year pilot of a Tri-Agency Interdisciplinary Peer Review Committee.

This committee builds on recommendations set out in the Fundamental Science Review and provides an option for researchers working in interdisciplinary research to direct their application to a committee with expertise from across the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, engineering, and health sciences. Individuals applying for SSHRC Insight Grants, CIHR Project Grants, and NSERC Discovery Horizons Grants will be eligible to be reviewed by this new interdisciplinary peer review committee.

WORLDiscoveries Launches Monthly Speaker Series

In partnership with the Western Morissette Institute for Entrepreneurship and Ivey Business School, the Innovation Ambassadors speaker series provides an opportunity to see what research and innovations are emerging from various areas across the university.

See what your colleagues are working on and how you can engage in the innovation ecosystem here at Western and in the local community.

The speaker series will feature faculty members from across campus and special guest panelists from industry.

The first event is on June 23, at 12 p.m.

BrainsCAN's
EDI Action Plan

After extensive listening and consulting, BrainsCAN has developed several initiatives and best practices that promote equity, diversity, and inclusion across all areas

Read the plan

New Acting Executive Director, Research Parks

Join Western Research in welcoming, and thanking, Katherine Albion who has agreed to serve as Acting Executive Director of Western Research Parks for a six-month period, effective Monday, May 3, 2021.

Katherine currently serves as Executive Director of the Western Sarnia-Lambton Research Park, providing new opportunities for research, commercialization, and innovation at the Research Park and in the Sarnia-Lambton region. Katherine will maintain this portfolio in addition to her new duties.

Western Research would like to recognize and express thanks to Paul Paolatto for his long-time leadership of our Parks. We wish him well in his new position as Chief Operating Officer of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry.

2021 Hellmuth Prize Recipients

Congratulations to Tima Bansal and Dr. Amit Garg, who have been awarded the 2021 Hellmuth Prizes for Achievement in Research, Western’s highest distinction for sustained excellence in research.

An Ivey Business School Professor of General Management, Sustainability and Strategy, Bansal has helped establish the field of business sustainability internationally.

Garg – a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry – has improved the lives of thousands of patients with kidney dysfunction.

2021 Petro-Canada Young Innovators Award Recipients

Congratulations to Kelly Anderson and Emma Duerden, the 2021 recipients of the Petro Canada Young Innovators Awards for Western and Robarts, respectively.

The Petro-Canada program provides two awards to new researchers at Western and Robarts to recognize, promote and support innovative and impactful research projects.

Anderson, an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, is creating a data platform to assess mental health in diverse Canadian populations, while Duerden, an Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology from the Faculty of Education and an Associate Scientist at Robarts, is developing sensitive non-invasive imaging tools to assess the impact of prenatal stress on placental function and its downstream effects in children.

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