AU Researchers Receive NSERC Grants

May 26, 2008

Three Athabasca University researchers have been awarded grants by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).The awards were announced in Victoria on May 21, 2008 by federal Industry Minister Jim Prentice.

Dr. Ken Munyikwa, Dr. Dragan Gasevic and Dr. Oscar Lin will each receive $75,000 from NSERC to continue their research projects at AU. The grants are awarded over a five-year period.

Dr. Munyikwa, who is an Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences, is studying patterns of environmental change in central and northern Alberta over the last 20,000 years, using a technique called luminescence dating. Ken, who has been with AU since January, 2006, has carried out field work in southern Africa, Europe, East Asia and North America.

Dr. Lin is a Professor at the School of Computing and Information Systems. His research is focused on developing adaptive learning technologies for use in modern distributed learning. Oscar has been with AU since 2000. Last November, he was promoted to full professor.

Dr. Gasevic is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing and Information Systems. Dragan’s research is focused on semantic web-enhanced model-driven software engineering with the goal of providing additional tools for software developers while increasing productivity and efficiency. Dragan has been with AU since January, 2007.

“We’re quite excited that the faculty has received these awards from NSERC,” said Rebecca Heartt, Manager of Research Services. “They are a recognition of the very important work being done at AU.”

For more information contact:

John O'Brien

Manager, Media Relations
Email: jobrien@athabascau.ca
Phone: (403) 298-2931

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