{"id":4681,"date":"2010-08-30T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T15:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=4681"},"modified":"2010-08-30T10:19:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T15:19:07","slug":"brock-awarded-more-than-700000-in-research-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/08\/brock-awarded-more-than-700000-in-research-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock awarded more than $700,000 in research funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4682\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4682\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4682\" title=\"researchfunding\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/researchfunding.jpg\" alt=\"researchfunding\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MPP Jim Bradley visited Brock on Aug. 27 to announce  $727,012 in research funding and speak with Brock researchers. Shown from left are Physics professor Fereidoon Razavi; Ian Brindle, Vice-President Research; Rick Cheel, Interim Dean of Mathematics and Science, and Bradley.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The province has awarded $727,012 to support five Brock research projects to do with aging, human health and materials science.<\/p>\n<p>The funding, which comes from the Ministry of Research and Innovation, allows Brock researchers to buy the necessary equipment to conduct their work. Estimates show that every dollar invested in research yields more than $7 in economic benefits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s announcement is yet another confirmation of our government\u2019s strong commitment to supporting the research community at Brock University and further bolstering our knowledge-based economy here in Niagara,\u201d said Jim Bradley, St. Catharines MPP and Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services, when he made the funding announcement at Brock on Aug. 27. Bradley also met with several of the researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Brindle, Vice-President Research, said the funding is &#8220;invaluable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResearch that is enabled by this funding will allow our researchers to make huge strides in a wide range of areas that will help improve health and facilitate new discoveries to be made in materials science,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers and their awards include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Catherine Mondloch, professor, Psychology, $170,790 for \u201cThe development of face perception\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Fereidoon Razavi, professor, Physics, $245,850 for \u201cThe Physical Property Management System (PPMS) for research on electronic and magnetic properties of materials and thin films of compounds\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Sidney Segalowitz, professor, Psychology, $35,965 for \u201cNeurovisceral models of mental health and personality\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Ayda Tekok-Kilic, assistant professor, Child and Youth Studies, $125,617 for \u201cAn electrophysiological approach to the developmental trajectories of working memory functions\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Craig Tokuno, assistant professor, Physical Education and Kinesiology, $148,790 for \u201cEstablishment of the Balance and Gait Laboratory to investigate the neural strategies used for postural and locomotor control\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The funding comes from the Ontario Research Fund \u2014 Research Infrastructure Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The province has awarded $727,012 to support five Brock research projects to do with aging, human health and materials science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1,5],"tags":[45,66,81,29,3325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4684,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions\/4684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}