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An innovative new program that provides financial support, mentorship and networking to Black and Indigenous PhD students has been chosen to represent the University of Waterloo in a federal competition for bold and potentially game-changing projects to address persistent systemic barriers in the research ecosystem and academia.

Three University of Waterloo researchers were among the 391 individual nominated PIs awarded funding through Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Project Grants Program.

This is part of a $325-million total investment by the Government of Canada in support of 405 project grants and 2 bridge grants.  

Waterloo recipients of funding through the 2022 Spring Project Grant competition are:

The Federal government has awarded $2.1 million in funding over three years for a search-and-rescue project led by Lili Liu, Waterloo public health researcher and Dean of the Faculty of Health.

NSERC recently announced the 2022 competition results, an investment of more than $506 million. University of Waterloo researchers were awarded 166 grants through NSERC's Discovery Grant Program-Individual, Research Tools and Instruments Grant Program, and Discovery Launch Supplements.

Four professors at the Waterloo School of Architecture are involved in an unprecedented research partnership to increase the equity, social value and sustainability of the built environment.

University of Waterloo researchers have been awarded more than $4.4 million in funding by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), to support research that addresses environmental inequality, economic sustainability and Indigenous language revitalization.

A step toward “helping older adults stay active, connected, and safe,” the 2022 theme of Senior’s month in the Province of Ontario

A University of Waterloo researcher has received half a million dollars from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to provide needed support to older adults impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eight University of Waterloo researchers have received Early Researcher Awards worth $1.12 million. The program, administered through the province of Ontario, assists recently appointed researchers to build their research teams. 

Each researcher will receive $140,000 over five years plus an additional $50,000 from the University. They are:

Engineering

Professor Liping Fu, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo, was awarded over $90,000 from the Rail Safety Improvement Program, infrastructure, technology and research (RSIP-ITR) funding, Transport Canada, for his work on the development of GradeX Cost-Bene

Two University of Waterloo researchers were awarded funding through the Government of Canada’s Canada Research Chairs (CRC) Program.