Press Releases
(posted Tuesday September 25 2007, 15:38)
SHARCNET is pleased to announce the results of the Round III competition for SHARCNET Research Chairs. At its meeting on September 14, 2007, the SHARCNET Board of Directors approved the allocation of five new SHARCNET Research Chairs. |
(posted Monday August 27 2007, 13:42)
SHARCNET is issuing a call for proposals for Round VII of SHARCNET’s Research Support Programmes: Fellowships and Dedicated Resources. The deadline for Round VII is September 30, 2007. |
(posted Monday August 27 2007, 13:42)
SHARCNET is pleased to announce the results of the Round VI competition for SHARCNET Fellowships. With over $2.5m in funding requests from 120 applications, this was a particularly competitive round. |
(posted Tuesday June 05 2007, 11:25)
Ground-breaking innovations, from advanced visualization tools to startling computer simulations unraveling the mysteries of the universe are being celebrated at the annual ORION Awards in Toronto. |
(posted Thursday April 05 2007, 08:13)
Some of Canadaâs top schools are collaborating this week in transmitting high-definition video over advanced networks, in an experimental installation spanning three cities and nearly 5,000 kilometres. The Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) joins Concordia University in Montreal and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver to concurrently broadcast a live high-definition video stream for 72 consecutive hours over Canadaâs regional advanced networks, including ORION in Ontario. |
(posted Tuesday March 27 2007, 15:17)
Lindi Wahl’s ability to form mathematical models that predict the evolution of drug resistance in microbes has earned her this year’s Florence Bucke prize. Wahl, a SHARCNET researcher from the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, says her investigations into the probability that a mutation could confer some benefit to a population started with some “beautiful mathematics from the 1920s-30s addressing these sorts of problems.” |
(posted Monday February 19 2007, 10:42)
SHARCNET is issuing a call for proposals for Round VI of SHARCNET’s Research Support Programmes: Fellowships and Dedicated Resources. The deadline for Round VI is March 31, 2007. |
(posted Thursday February 15 2007, 09:38)
UOIT partners with SHARCNET to spearhead deployment of groundbreaking technology for research collaboration. Thanks to its partnership in a leading high-performance computing network, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) is using groundbreaking technology to bring scientists and students from different locations across Ontario together to share important research ideas, and will soon be taking this technology to the classroom to maximize the learning experience for graduate students. |