ChemE Professor Wins 2014 Syncrude Canada Innovation Award

Research Office

2014-15 Connaught Program Application Deadlines

Connaught Summer Institute – deadline: October 1, 2014
Normally, one new award (up to $50,000) will be made to bring together international graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and other scholars in order to foster rich interdivisional collaboration and creative new methods for research and innovation.

Connaught Cross-Divisional/Cross-Cultural Seminars – deadline: October 1, 2014
Approximately $150,000 for one award to interconnect fields of research in comparative historical and cultural sources in order to explore diverse societies. The seminars will draw on the wide-ranging expertise of the University of Toronto’s faculty and the rich cosmopolitan nature of the city of Toronto.

Connaught Innovation Award – deadlines: (NOI) September 15, 2014; (Full Proposal) October 15, 2014
Approximately $750,000 allocated in 2014-15 for awards of up to $100,000 to accelerate the development of promising technology and promote commercialization and/or knowledge transfer.

Connaught Global Challenge Award – deadlines: (LOI) October 15, 2014; (Full Proposal) April 1, 2015
Approximately $1M to support one award that encompasses an International Symposium, a Distinguished Visiting Scholar and a Research Cluster. The successful proposal will bring together the University’s leading researchers from multiple disciplines with innovators and thought leaders from other sectors to heighten the University’s contribution to important issues facing society.

Connaught New Researcher Award – deadline: December 1, 2014
Up to $1,000,000 will be awarded in the 2014-15 academic year to help new tenure stream faculty members establish competitive research programs. A majority of the available funds will be allocated to awards of up to $10,000; and the remaining funds will be allocated to top-up a limited number of these awards to a maximum of $35,000. Top-up funding will be provided to the highest ranked proposals that also identify a specific need for the additional funding.

McLean Award– deadline: January 15, 2015
One $100,000 award annually to support an emerging research leader conducting basic research in physics, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, engineering sciences, and the theory and methods of statistics.

Full program details and application materials can be found on the Connaught website.
Questions may be addressed to connaught.secretariat@utoronto.ca or 416-978-3211.

Publications

Structural and Functional Characterization of DUF1471 Domains of Salmonella Proteins SrfN, YdgH/SssB, and YahO
Eletsky, A; Michalska, K; Houliston, S; Zhang, Q; Daily, MD; Xu, XH; Cui, H; Yee, A; Lemak, A; Wu, B; Garcia, M; Burnet, MC; Meyer, KM; Aryal, UK; Sanchez, O; Ansong, C; Xiao, R; Acton, TB; Adkins, JN; Montelione, GT; Joachimiak, A; Arrowsmith, CH; Savchenko, A; Szyperski, T; Cort, JR
PLOS ONE, 9 (7):10.1371/journal.pone.0101787 JUL 10 2014

Metabolic Modelling of Spatial Heterogeneity of Biofilms in Microbial Fuel Cells Reveals Substrate Limitations in Electrical Current Generation
Jayasinghe N, Franks A, Nevin KP, Mahadevan R.
Biotechnol J. 2014 Aug 12. Doi: 10.1002/biot.201400068. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 25113946

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September 1, 2014 - Labour Day: The university will be closed.

September 3, 2014 - ChemE Undergraduate Orientation