Minister announces research funding
Industry and innovation minister Trevor Taylor visited Memorial on May 14 to announce over $5 million for research projects at the university under the province’s Industrial Research and Innovation Fund (IRIF).
Dr. Eddy Campbell, Memorial’s acting president, hosted a tour for the minister and his officials which included a visit to the 3-D Landmark Visualization Laboratory in the Earth Sciences building.
Minister Taylor meets some of the researchers who will receive funding from the IRIF program. (L-R: Dr. Ann Dorward, Memorial’s Canada Research Chair in Molecular Signaling in Human Health and Disease; Minister Taylor, Acting President Campbell, Dr. Paul Snelgrove, Memorial’s Canada Research Chair in Boreal and Cold Ocean Systems; Dr. Chris Loomis, Memorial’s vice-president (research)