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Beyond
research and development related to the Voisey’s Bay project,
the Inco Innovation Centre will house innovation activities of a
more general nature. Memorial has a long tradition of innovative
research and development projects. Here are examples of the range
of innovative activity associated with Memorial University.
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 When
news stories harp on the lack of employment opportunities for youth,
students and newer alumni might lose hope of creating a future here.
But Memorial’s Faculty of Business Administration, working
with other divisions of the university, is helping our brightest
thinkers develop their best ideas.
The Chair in Youth-Focused Technological Entrepreneurship, Dr. Bob
Richards, knows from experience how much can be done in Newfoundland
and Labrador. He was (among other things) a teacher, post-secondary
college operator and partner in a successful composting business
before assuming his present position in 1999.
For almost three years he’s been active finding many people
at Memorial who support his vision of developing the bright ideas
of students.
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The
Johnson GEO CENTRE is Newfoundland and Labrador’s “geological
showcase.” The GEO CENTRE is the culmination of four years
of investigation, planning, design and construction. Within
the centre, visitors can discover the incredible geology of
Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as the story of earth’s
formation over 4.5 billion years ago. Located on Signal Hill
Road, the centre may look quite small from the outside, but
the architecture of the GEO CENTRE is unique in that most of
it is built underground.
A memorandum of understanding has been signed with Memorial
University to pursue opportunities for collaborative earth science
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As
technology progresses, its impact is more noticeable in the classroom,
and in home offices, living rooms, and dens far removed from the
campuses of Memorial.
According to figures from the School of Continuing Education, almost
half of Memorial’s distance education course registrants are
not currently living in this province. While a dozen or so of these
may be students spending a semester at Harlow, the vast majority
are residents of other Canadian provinces, particularly Ontario
and Nova Scotia.
Research at the school will identify what programs the distance
students are enrolled in, whether they are graduate or undergraduate
students, and what Memorial can do to attract more of them.
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