News Release
Carleton University Maintains First Place in CFI Research Funding
July 05, 2004
(Ottawa) Carleton University has retained its first place ranking among comprehensive universities for the most research funding received to date from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). Some of these projects involve large national and international partnerships including consortiums with other Canadian universities.
"We are very pleased to maintain our number one ranking," says Dr. Feridun Hamdullahpur, Vice-President (Research and International). "This is another sign of our research success story and a symbol of the remarkable research talent that we have at Carleton."
To date, Carleton University has received over $66 million dollars from the CFI which is an independent corporation created in 1997 by the Government of Canada to fund research infrastructure. Carleton beat out the ten other Canadian universities in the comprehensive university category.
In the latest round of CFI funding announcements, Carleton received $1.27 million for five new projects. CFI has approved a total of 58 Carleton-led projects. The most major project was a major new international facility for underground science called SNOLAB. This facility, which will feature the deepest underground laboratory in the world, will transform the already renowned Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) experiment into a permanent, world-class research facility. Carleton is the administrator of this project that will help people better understand the basic nature of our universe and its evolution. As Carleton's David Sinclair, director and principal investigator of SNOLAB points out: "We can only imagine where the results of this research will take us." Construction is expected to be completed by 2007.
Carleton University has seen its sponsored research grow fourfold in the past four years to the tune of $100 million. Earlier this year, the Sprott School of Business won the Institutional Best Overall Research Performance Award from the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada. In August 2003, Carleton University and the University of Arizona signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to pursue joint research projects. This partnership is the largest Canada-U.S. alliance for both schools. In October 2002, Alcatel selected Carleton as its first Canadian Alcatel Global Research Partner. A list of Canada’s top 50 research universities published November 4, 2003 in the National Post puts Carleton third among comprehensive universities in research funding. Carleton now has a total of 19 Canada Research Chairs, six NSERC Research Chairs, and three Endowed Chairs.
More information about the five projects that were funded yesterday is available on-line at www.carleton.ca.
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For more information:
Lin Moody
Media Relations Officer, Carleton University
613-520-2600 ext. 8705
Carleton University Maintains First Place in CFI Research Funding
July 05, 2004
(Ottawa) Carleton University has retained its first place ranking among comprehensive universities for the most research funding received to date from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). Some of these projects involve large national and international partnerships including consortiums with other Canadian universities.
"We are very pleased to maintain our number one ranking," says Dr. Feridun Hamdullahpur, Vice-President (Research and International). "This is another sign of our research success story and a symbol of the remarkable research talent that we have at Carleton."
To date, Carleton University has received over $66 million dollars from the CFI which is an independent corporation created in 1997 by the Government of Canada to fund research infrastructure. Carleton beat out the ten other Canadian universities in the comprehensive university category.
In the latest round of CFI funding announcements, Carleton received $1.27 million for five new projects. CFI has approved a total of 58 Carleton-led projects. The most major project was a major new international facility for underground science called SNOLAB. This facility, which will feature the deepest underground laboratory in the world, will transform the already renowned Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) experiment into a permanent, world-class research facility. Carleton is the administrator of this project that will help people better understand the basic nature of our universe and its evolution. As Carleton's David Sinclair, director and principal investigator of SNOLAB points out: "We can only imagine where the results of this research will take us." Construction is expected to be completed by 2007.
Carleton University has seen its sponsored research grow fourfold in the past four years to the tune of $100 million. Earlier this year, the Sprott School of Business won the Institutional Best Overall Research Performance Award from the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada. In August 2003, Carleton University and the University of Arizona signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to pursue joint research projects. This partnership is the largest Canada-U.S. alliance for both schools. In October 2002, Alcatel selected Carleton as its first Canadian Alcatel Global Research Partner. A list of Canada’s top 50 research universities published November 4, 2003 in the National Post puts Carleton third among comprehensive universities in research funding. Carleton now has a total of 19 Canada Research Chairs, six NSERC Research Chairs, and three Endowed Chairs.
More information about the five projects that were funded yesterday is available on-line at www.carleton.ca.
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For more information:
Lin Moody
Media Relations Officer, Carleton University
613-520-2600 ext. 8705
