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An innovative, ground-breaking telescope named Dragonfly is about to undergo a major transformation thanks to nearly $2-million in support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).
The Dragonfly Telephoto Array is a unique telescope designed to observe astronomical phenomenon such as extremely faint galaxies and the dark filaments of gas associated with many of them.
Dragonfly is the brainchild of
Roberto Abraham, a professor of astronomy and chair of the David A. Dunlap department of astronomy and astrophysics in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts & Science, and Pieter Van Dokkum, a professor of astronomy at Yale University.
Canada’s medical community is uncertain of the risks or benefits of medications taken by more than 75 percent of pregnant women, and a Montreal researcher is leading a study on
SHERBROOKE, QUE. The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) is injecting more than $28 million into three research projects at the University of Sherbrooke to acquire specialized equipment needed to advance the work of the researchers leading these projects. One of them, led by Rejean Fontaine from the Faculty of Engineering, focuses on the use of artificial intelligence in everyday actions. Current technologies rely on the transfer of an astronomical amount of data across the Internet and cloud computing. Professor Fontaine s project seeks to distribute artificial intelligence in small objects to reduce the huge ecological footprint generated by data transmission. The research team will design microsystems capable of processing data locally and networking them, in particular through the acquisition of equipment to manufacture and network thousands of sensors.
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UBC experts team up to tackle air pollution with network of sensors
Air pollution is an urgent problem linked to as many as nine million deaths per year worldwide and 14,000 annually in Canada, primarily from related heart and lung diseases. A group of UBC experts are determined to mount a rapid response through research.
The team, known as Rapid Air Improvement Network (RAIN), is planning to use a network of air quality sensors, mobile monitoring and sophisticated analysis instruments to locate and study air pollutants with the detail needed to support fast, effective interventions.
They plan to install an air quality sensor network on the UBC campus this summer, to leverage the university’s traffic, population and operations data which can be quickly tuned to improve air quality. The project will also outfit a mobile monitoring station that will be used further afield, including communities affected by wildfires and other areas in urgent need.