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Monthly Archives: June 2011
“Decision-based evidence making” and the future of Canada’s scientific research
It’s official! “Our highest rated Discovery Grant researchers have a higher incidence of working with industry than their colleagues”. Thus spoke NSERC’s president Suzanne Fortier in her reply to the open letter by 331 mathematical scientists, including 27 Canada Research … Continue reading
Posted in R&D Policy
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UBC to incentivize its own to live on the university land
In the next five days, I and a few other UBC governors and senior staff will be visiting NYU, Columbia, Harvard, UCLA, UC-Irvine and Stanford. Just like UBC, these universities are located in areas where housing prices are prohibitive. And … Continue reading
Posted in Board of Governors, UBC Housing Action Plan
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Where is Discovery’s money going?
Treasury Board’s main estimates for 2011-12 were put out this week. On page 219 you will find the estimates for NSERC. Discover grants are scheduled to go up by $2M (less than 0.5% increase) while infrastructure will go down by … Continue reading
Posted in R&D Policy
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A senior scholar reports on S. Fortier’s presentation at the CMS meeting
First there was the open letter to the industry minister by 327 mathematical scientists, including 27 Canada Research Chairs and 35 fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. Then came the public letter by 16 members of the Evaluation Group … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds, R&D Policy
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When leaders disappoint … there is always poetry
“You should have been there to hear and counter the rhetoric about our self-inflicted failures”, one of several disappointed callers said after the presentation of NSERC’s President in Edmonton. Madame Fortier’s take-home message? It was the mathematicians problem: That $700K … Continue reading
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