Canada Research Chairs Program National Announcement - Spring 2013 List of Recipients Total: 120 Chairs Total amount funded: $90,600,000 Alberta Provincial Total: $5,800,000 Recipient University Chair Title Agency Tier Amount Type Higginbottom, Gina MA University of Alberta Canada Research Chair in Ethnicity and Health CIHR Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal Pavlich, George C University of Alberta Canada Research Chair in Social Theory, Culture and Law SSHRC Tier 1 $1,400,000 New Tang, Tian University of Alberta Canada Research Chair in Nano-Biomolecular Hybrid Materials NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal University Total: $2,400,000 Recipient University Chair Title Agency Tier Amount Type Goodarzi, Aaron A University of Calgary Canada Research Chair in Genome Damage and Instability Disease CIHR Tier 2 $500,000 New Hayashi, Masaki University of Calgary Canada Research Chair in Physical Hydrology NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal Marshall, Deborah University of Calgary Canada Research Chair in Health Services and Systems Research CIHR Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal McKay, Derek M University of Calgary Canada Research Chair in Intestinal Immunophysiology in Health and Disease CIHR Tier 1 $1,400,000 Renewal University Total: $2,900,000 Recipient University Chair Title Agency Tier Amount Type Spencer, Locke D University of Lethbridge Canada Research Chair in Experimental Astrophysics NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 New University Total: $500,000 British Columbia Provincial Total: $8,800,000 Recipient University Chair Title Agency Tier Amount Type Bernstein, Daniel M Kwantlen Polytechnic University Canada Research Chair in Lifespan Cognition SSHRC Tier 2 $500,000 New University Total: $500,000 Recipient University Chair Title Agency Tier Amount Type Veletsianos, George Royal Roads University Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Technology SSHRC Tier 2 $500,000 New University Total: $500,000 Recipient University Chair Title Agency Tier Amount Type Branda, Neil R Simon Fraser University Canada Research Chair in Materials Science NSERC Tier 1 $1,400,000 Renewal Dulvy, Nicholas Simon Fraser University Canada Research Chair in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal Kohfeld, Karen Simon Fraser University Canada Research Chair in Climate, Resources and Global Change NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal Waddell, Charlotte Simon Fraser University Canada Research Chair in Children's Health Policy CIHR Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal University Total: $2,900,000 Recipient University Chair Title Agency Tier Amount Type Armstrong, Jeannette C The University of British Columbia Canada Research Chair in Okanagan Indigenous Knowledge and Philosophy SSHRC Tier 2 $500,000 New Cohen Freue, Gabriela V The University of British Columbia Canada Research Chair in Statistical Genomics CIHR Tier 2 $500,000 New Harder, Ken W The University of British Columbia Canada Research Chair in Host-pathogen and Tumour Biology CIHR Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal Justice, Daniel H. The University of British Columbia Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture SSHRC Tier 2 $500,000 New Lightfoot, Sheryl The University of British Columbia Canada Research Chair in Global Indigenous Rights and Politics SSHRC Tier 2 $500,000 New Rieseberg, Loren The University of British Columbia Canada Research Chair in Plant Evolutionary Genomics NSERC Tier 1 $1,400,000 Renewal Takahata, Kenichi The University of British Columbia Canada Research Chair in Advanced Micro/Nanofabrication and MEMS NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal Vilarino-Guell, Carles The University of British Columbia Canada Research Chair in Molecular Characterization of Neurological Diseases CIHR Tier 2 $500,000 New University Total: $4,900,000 Manitoba Provincial Total: $5,700,000 Recipient University Chair Title Agency Tier Amount Type Wiebe, Christopher University of Winnipeg Canada Research Chair in Quantum Materials Discovery NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 New University Total: $500,000 Recipient University Chair Title Agency Tier Amount Type Brydon, Diana University of Manitoba Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies SSHRC Tier 1 $1,400,000 Renewal Cariou, Warren University of Manitoba Canada Research Chair in Narrative, Community and Indigenous Cultures SSHRC Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal Driedger, S Michelle University of Manitoba Canada Research Chair in Environment and Health Risk Communication CIHR Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal Hatch, Grant M University of Manitoba Canada Research Chair in Molecular Cardiolipin Metabolism CIHR Tier 1 $1,400,000 Renewal Mahmud, Salaheddin University of Manitoba Canada Research Chair in Pharmaco-Epidemiology and Vaccine Evaluation CIHR Tier 2 $1,400,000 New University Total: $5,200,000 Nova Scotia Provincial Total: $4,300,000 Recipient University Chair Title Agency Tier Amount Type Sparling, Heather L Cape Breton University Canada Research Chair in Musical Traditions SSHRC Tier 2 $500,000 New University Total: $500,000 Recipient University Chair Title Agency Tier Amount Type Drummond, James JRD Dalhousie University Canada Research Chair in Remote Sounding of Atmospheres NSERC Tier 1 $1,400,000 Renewal Matwin, Stan Dalhousie University Canada Research Chair in Visual Text Analytics NSERC Tier 1 $1,400,000 New Welch, Gregory C Dalhousie University Canada Research Chair in Organic Functional Materials NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 New University Total: $3,300,000 Recipient University Chair Title Agency Tier Amount Type Thibeault, Jimmy Université Sainte-Anne Canada Research Chair in Acadian and French studies SSHRC Tier 2 $500,000 New University Total: $500,000 Ontario Provincial Total: $37,300,000 Recipient University Chair Title Agency Tier Amount Type Cheung, Stephen S Brock University Canada Research Chair in Environmental Ergonomics NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal Conway, Janet Brock University Canada Research Chair in Social Justice SSHRC Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal University Total: $1,000,000 Recipient University Chair Title Agency Tier Amount Type Ellery, Alex Carleton University Canada Research Chair in Space Robotics and Space Technology NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal Thomson, Rowan M Carleton University Canada Research Chair in Radiotherapy Physics NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 New University Total: $1,000,000 Recipient University Chair Title Agency Tier Amount Type Sameshima, Pauline Lakehead University Canada Research Chair in Arts Integrated Studies SSHRC Tier 2 $500,000 New University Total: $500,000 Recipient University Chair Title Agency Tier Amount Type Basiliko, Nathan Laurentian University Canada Research Chair in Environmental Microbiology NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 New University Total: $500,000 Recipient University Chair Title Agency Tier Amount Type Connelly, Catherine McMaster University Canada Research Chair in Organizational Behaviour SSHRC Tier 2 $500,000 New Magarvey, Nathan A McMaster University Canada Research Chair in Natural Product Drug Discovery CIHR Tier 2 $500,000 New Markle-Reid, Maureen F McMaster University Canada Research Chair in Aging, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion Interventions CIHR Tier 2 $500,000 New Nikolova, Natalia K McMaster University Canada Research Chair in High-frequency Electromagnetics NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal University Total: $2,000,000 Recipient University Chair Title Agency Tier Amount Type Chow, Joseph Y.J. Ryerson University Canada Research Chair in Transportation Systems Engineering NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 New Krishnan, Sridhar Ryerson University Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Signal Analysis NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal Yang, Victor XD Ryerson University Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal University Total: $1,500,000 Recipient University Chair Title Agency Tier Amount Type Bansal, Pratima Western University Canada Research Chair in Business Sustainability SSHRC Tier 1 $1,400,000 New Cao, Jiguo Western University Canada Research Chair in Biostatistics and Environmetrics NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 New Lagugné-Labarthet, François R Western University Canada Research Chair in Nanomaterials and Photonics NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal Sun, Xueliang Andy Western University Canada Research Chair in Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal Thind, Amardeep S Western University Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research CIHR Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal Wang, Xianbin Western University Canada Research Chair in Wireless Security NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal University Total: $3,900,000 Recipient University Chair Title Agency Tier Amount Type Chazan, May Trent University Canada Research Chair in Feminist and Gender Studies SSHRC Tier 2 $500,000 New Guéguen, Céline Trent University Canada Research Chair in Aquatic Sciences and Biogeochemistry NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal University Total: $1,000,000 Recipient University Chair Title Agency Tier Amount Type Berg, Aaron University of Guelph Canada Research Chair in Hydrology and Remote Sensing NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 New Dunfield, Kari KE University of Guelph Canada Research Chair in Environmental Microbiology of Agro-ecosystems NSERC Tier 2 $500,000 New Parker, Linda A University of Guelph Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Neuroscience NSERC Tier 1 $1,400,000 Renewal University Total: $2,400,000 Recipient University Chair Title Agency Tier Amount Type Lippel, Katherine H. University of Ottawa Canada Research Chair in Occupational Health and Safety Law SSHRC Tier 1 $1,400,000 Renewal Scassa, Teresa University of Ottawa Canada Research Chair in Information Law SSHRC Tier 2 $500,000 Renewal University