An overview of research funding received by the Faculty of Science
Research statistics
Competitive research funding, research chairs, technology transfer and more – learn about the Faculty of Science’s successes last year.
Funding
Research funding received by the Faculty of Science in 2020-2021
|
Source |
Amount |
Percentage |
|---|---|---|
|
Canada Foundation for Innovation |
$1,869,226 |
5.4% |
|
Tri-council grants (including CRC) |
$17,165,106 |
50.0% |
|
Other external operating |
$3,815,604 |
11.1% |
|
Internal funding |
$3,694,162 |
10.8% |
|
Contracts - Government |
$6,299,908 |
18.4% |
|
Contracts - Industry |
$1,479,644 |
4.3% |
Major funding success stories
Multidisciplinary
Multidisciplinary
Shifting gears to address the COVID-19 pandemic
Faculty of Science professors rose to the challenge.
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Multidisciplinary
The right tool for the job
Faculty of Science researchers successful in securing coveted equipment grants.
Multidisciplinary
Multidisciplinary
Combining expertise from diverse disciplines for innovation and impact
Proposing innovative, interdisciplinary and high-risk/high-reward projects, two of our faculty members led applications that were successful in the Fall 2020 competition.
Success in numbers
16
awards to our researchers
44
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) scholarship recipients
54
Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) scholarship recipients
Research
- 9 invention disclosures
- 18 patents issued
- 14 patent applications filed
- 117 contracts signed
Researchers
- 162 APUO researchers
- 127 Postdoctoral researchers
- 2 new researchers:
-
Rajendhran Rajakumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
-
Carole Yauk, Professor, Department of Biology
-
21
Emeritus Professors
325
PhD students
276
MSc students
Chairs
26 research chair holders
1 new chair
- Carole Yauk - Tier 1 CRC in Genomics and the Environment
Active chairs in 2020/21
- University Research Chair (URC): 10
- Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC): 10
- Tier 2 Canada Research Chair: 6
2 chairs renewed
- Albert Stolow – Tier 1 CRC in Molecular Photonics
- Ebrahim Karimi – Tier 2 CRC in Structured Quantum Waves
Grants
- $34M in grants
- 95% success rate in the 2020/21 NSERC Discovery Grant competition
- 5 new NSERC RTI grants
- 2 NFRF – Exploration grants
- 7 NSERC Alliance COVID-19 Grants
