MONTREAL/July 4, 2002—
Frederick F. Lowy, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University, today welcomed an investment of $925,252 in funding from the Canada Foundation For Innovation that will provide cutting-edge infrastructure support to 5 newly recruited faculty members.
"Today's announcement means Concordia University will boost its research infrastructure which will allow it to better compete as an international leader and in turn, bring benefits to the local community and the region,î said Lucienne Robillard, Member of Parliament for Westmount-Ville-Marie.
ìThe Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) is pleased to support these New Opportunities researchers, which will contribute to the development of world-
class expertise at Concordia University," said Dr. David W. Strangway, President and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
Among the Concordia researchers receiving funding are Brandon Gordon for his work on a distributed computing environment for real-time simulation of mechanical systems- aerospace and automotive applications; Ibrahim Hassan for his research into infrastructure to study novel cooling schemes for "next generation" aircraft engines; and to develop micro-scale power devices; Robert Boushel and Gerald Zavorsky for their work on regulation of blood flow and oxygen transport during exercise, and vascular remodeling with training; Paula Wood-Adams for the laboratory for the physics of advanced materials; and Paul Hastings for research on revealing the physiology and cognition of affective development: Integrated studies of adaptive emotional processes in children.
This major investment into research at Concordia comes at a critical time for the University, which is in the process of constructing a science complex on its Loyola Campus and an integrated engineering, computer science and visual arts complex in downtown Montreal.
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