AU students receive Alberta Innovates Awards

April 03, 2013

Athabasca University extends its warmest congratulations to:

Giovanni Farias EdD(DE), Supervisor: Dr. Mohamed Ally
Charles Bernard MSc(IS). Supervisor: Dr. Sabine Graf
Michael Procter MSc(IS), Co-supervisors: Dr. Oscar Lin and Dr. Bob Heller
Cheng-Hsin Msc(IS), Supervisor: Dr. Maiga Chang

for being awarded the Alberta Innovates -Technology Futures award. All are focusing on research in the area of Information and Communications Technology (ICT). The Master's students have been awarded $10,000/year for two years. The Doctoral student has been awarded $15,000/year for four years. It was a competitive pool of applications with more applications than last year. This is the second year that AU has been given the opportunity to offer this award. Depending upon the amount of funding received from AI-TF a second call for applications may occur later this year.

The award is to support academically superior graduate students leading to a master's or doctoral degree. The scholarship is designed to enable these promising students to succeed in areas of scientific research which are strategically important to Alberta. These areas are: Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Nanotechnology, and Omics (Omics consists of: Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, Transcriptomics and Regulomics) in and of themselves or additionally which support the areas of Health, Bio-industries, Energy, and Environment (Alberta Innovates- Technology Futures).

 

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