President's Report 2017

Learn more about significant developments in 2016-17

Economic asset

More than $1.6 million in federal-provincial funding for Genesis Centre

Investing in infrastructure

Government of Canada invests more than $14 million in Memorial

Schulich Leaders

Two first-year students awarded prestigious scholarships

New awareness

First international indigenous intern named by Labrador Institute

‘Big thrill’

Memorial musicians, engineer elected to Royal Society of Canada

Critical thinkers

$2.1 million federal investment empowers social sciences and humanities researchers

Trudeau’s choice

HSS student named to Prime Minister’s Youth Council

World champs

Enactus Memorial takes home world cup

The gentle giant

Leader, colleague and mentor: Remembering Dr. Richard J. Marceau

New frontiers

Anthropology doctoral student honoured with Vanier scholarship

Thinking big

Federal $4.1-million investment fuels innovation at Battery facility

Symbiotic relationship

Solving the mystery of 570-million-year-old Mistaken Point fossils

Funding financial expertise

Faseruk campaign raises $500,000 for finance chair at business faculty

Unique endeavour

Diving deep into Canada’s first Marine Protected Area

Hidden value

Shrimp waste: From industrial garbage to offshore oil spill cleaner

Pot caught

MI researcher focused on improving fishery – one cod pot at a time

‘World of mystery’

Unusual discovery off N.L.’s coast sparks new ocean research

Global distribution

Urban contaminants making their way up to northern communities, into food chain

Rock star

$1.4 million for new Canada Research Chair

Safe spaces

Ten new gender-inclusive washrooms on campus

Nobel of the North

Dr. Trevor Bell named Artic Inspiration Prize Laureate for ‘Smart’ research

Collaborating on corrosion

Award-winning researcher part of $7.8-million corrosion project

Medical breakthrough

Researcher discovers gene mutation linked to hearing loss in N.L. children

Research pioneers

Composer, chemist named 2016 Terra Nova Young Innovators

Cup champions

Memorial MBA team five-time winners of Global Business Competition

Worms that turned

Research shows first burrowing animals engineered explosion of life

Star candidate

Earth sciences professor in running to become next Canadian astronaut

Warning signs

Preventing stroke with the right test, at the right time

Historic win

Sea-Hawks men’s curling team takes AUS championship

Podium parade

Ten individual Sea-Hawks swimming medals, including five gold

Come From Away

A Q&A with alumnus Romano Di Nillo

Safety at sea

Industrial research chair established at Memorial to improve safety at sea

‘Far-reaching impacts’

Federal funding empowers researchers, brings new equipment

Historic first

MI introduces PhD and master’s programs in fisheries science

Whale on display

One of two blue whale skeletons on display at Royal Ontario Museum

Startup support

Memorial centre to create entrepreneurial ecosystem in N.L.

Landmark achievement

Hundreds of Innu place names for southern and central Labrador awarded legal status

National champions

Sea-Hawks curlers finish perfect season with win over U of A

Urchin-omics

Turning spiny marine organisms into economic opportunities

Open studio, open hearts

Creative partnership forms ‘hive’ of healing for refugee students

‘Masterful job’

Memorial graduate students among top research storytellers in Canada

‘Who’ knew

Doctor Who writer inspired by professor’s swarm robotics research

Trans-Atlantic voyage

Six countries team up to conduct climate change research

Home and abroad

Marine Institute receives $1.5 million for marine, aquaculture and ocean technology projects

The innovators

$4.9 million in federal-provincial funding to accelerate new technologies

West Coast boost

Bonne Bay Marine Station, Grenfell Campus receive $1 million

Donner Prize to Marland

Prestigious national book award for Memorial political scientist

In, with, by and for the North

Labrador Research Forum celebrates creativity and innovation

Winning streak

Enactus Memorial world cup-bound after winning 10th national title

Fostering innovation

New centre aims to build economic resilience through social enterprise

Safety and risk

$1.65 million in federal-provincial funding empowers new engineering research chair

Improving outcomes

Memorial researchers garner $2.8 million in federal funding for health-related studies

Walkability factors

Canada Research Chair receives funding for healthy cities initiative

Virtual expedition

Memorial partners with Dalhousie, NOAA on Gulf of Marine expedition

‘Connotation of respect’

Marital instability results when successful women have partners who don’t pitch in at home, says researcher

Sesquicentennial voyage

Memorial community part of historic Canada 150th marine journey

Sea salt lungs

A nicotine addict’s quest for a new life in Newfoundland and Labrador

Busy as bees

Honeybee hives installed at Grenfell encourage amateur beekeeping

Stronger salmon

$4.4-million boost for aquaculture research led by Memorial

X-rays and environmental archaeology

Funding allows researchers to change the world

Grenfell milestone

Grenfell Campus holds first PhD defence

Understanding fish stocks

MI home to OCI Industrial Research Chair for Fish Stock Assessment

History made

Paradigm Hyperloop places second at international competition with first air-bearing pod