The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), Makes a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Strategic Projects Grants (SPG) Announcement at the University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario
January 20, 2011

The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), announced funding for universities across Canada that will help increase research and training in areas that could strongly influence Canada's economy, society or environment in the next ten years.

Left to right: Feridun Hamdullahpur, President, University of Waterloo; Stephen Woodworth, Member of Parliament for Kitchener Centre; Janet Walden, Vice-President of Research Partnerships Programs, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC); the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology); and Strategic Projects Grants (SPG) recipients of the University of Waterloo: En-Hui Yang, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Boxin Zhao, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering.

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Source: Rainer Leipscher, The Canadian Press Images