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May 2010
CAMH connects to ORION
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is joining ORION and GTAnet, connecting to the global networked innovation community. "A must for any organization involved in research collaborations, connecting to ORION means researchers can collaborate more effectively and work with partners and colleagues across the country and around the world," says Phil Baker, ORION President and CEO. CAMH is Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, combining clinical care, research, education, policy development and health promotion to help transform the lives of people affected by mental illness and addiction. Its Research Program is among the world's top five in addiction and mental health. Read the release at wwworion.on.ca/recent-releases.html.. Learn more about CAMH at www.camh.net.
CANARIE $2M call for proposals
CANARIE Inc. this week announced a $2 million Call for Proposals under its Infrastructure Extension Program (IEP) to connect to the CANARIE network and experience the advanced network capabilities of Canada's research and innovation community and bolster national and international collaboration. Research and educational organizations are eligible to submit an application which would demonstrate how a connection to the high speed network - generally through the provincial research networks - would enhance their research, innovation or education activities. Applications will be received on an ongoing basis with the first cut-off date as August 13, 2010. Learn more at www.canarie.ca.
ORION welcomes new research tower at SickKids
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) recently broke ground on its new 21-storey Research & Learning Tower, which will be the new home of SickKids Research Institute, one of North America's largest hospital-based research institutes. ORION member SickKids' new tower will be able to rely on global research collaboration connectivity thanks to ORION connectivity. Designed to encourage interdisciplinary, collaborative research by locating its 2,000 researchers and staff working on related issues in close proximity to one another, the tower is intended to become a magnet for scientists and clinician-scientists from around the world. It is slated to be completed by 2013. Read more at www.sickkidsfoundation.com.
HPCVL researchers achieve breakthrough computations
A team of researchers at Carleton University, using HPCVL high performance computing resources have completed the first ever complete scan of the human proteome (the complete set of proteins produced by a species). Using HPCVL's Sun Microsystems T5140 cluster of supercomputers, researchers were able to complete their computations in only a few months, instead of years. The software, developed by the Carleton research team led by Dr. Frank Dehne, was optimized to scale up to 6,400 concurrent computational threads, one of the largest calculations performed in Canada to date. This knowledge will be essential for understanding human cell behaviour and helpful for understanding the impact of certain disease-causing viruses such as HIV. "Through optimization of the code through interactions with HPCVL User Support and access to the 6,400 concurrent threads, the project went from a projected finish time of 30 years to eight weeks," said Dr. Kenneth Edgecombe, HPCVL Executive Director. Read more at www.hpcvl.org.
NOSM, U of T collaborate to provide enhanced medical training
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) and the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine recently signed a collaboration agreement to work together in areas such as undergraduate medical education electives and selectives, postgraduate medical education residency programs, aboriginal health, medical radiation sciences, continuing education and professional development, simulation in education and research, and research in primary health care and cancer. "We have very good videoconferencing and webcasting, so we can share our lectures with NOSM," said Prof. Catharine Whiteside, Dean of the U of T Faculty of Medicine. "In fact, we are about to open our satellite in Mississauga in 2011 and will employ videoconferencing technology to connect students at St. George and Mississauga." According to Whiteside, the collaboration is ideal since "we can offer opportunities in Toronto that would not have been available for trainees at NOSM, such as emergency and risk obstetrical care, and what NOSM can offer us is practice experience in rural communities." Read more at www.news.utoronto.ca.
York, OCAD researchers developing next generation of data analysis and visualization tools
The Centre for Innovation in Information Visualization and Data-Driven Design (CIV-DDD), led by York University in partnership with the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), promises to develop the next generation of data discovery, design, and visualization techniques by developing new computational tools, representational strategies, and interfaces. The $11.5 million five-year project brings together a unique multidisciplinary team of over 50 researchers from York, OCAD, the University of Toronto, 14 industry partners, and significant international collaborators. John Tsotsos, Canada Research Chair in Computational Vision and Distinguished Research Professor of Vision Science at York, is the project's principal investigator. Sara Diamond, visualization design researcher and president of the Ontario College of Art & Design, will lead OCAD's team of 12 researchers. Ontario s Ministry of Research and Innovation has provided over $3.8 million in funding through the Ontario Research Fund-Research Excellence Program; industry partners will contribute over $3.6 million, with the remaining $4.1 million coming from the project's institutional partners. Read more at www.yorku.ca/media.
ORION at Discovery 2010
Visit ORION at its booth at the Ontario Centres of Excellence's Discovery 2010 conference at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, May 17-18. Drop by to say hello, ask about the new and exciting services ORION is working on and stay for an O3 demo. Many ORION-member institutions are also exhibiting at the event. Discovery is an innovation and commercialization trade show event where business leaders, investors and researchers can connect and share leading-edge ideas that are driving Ontario's innovation economy. Learn more at www.ocediscovery.com.
First O3 case study published
ORION recently published the first case study of its O3 Collaboration service for researchers and educators. The case study focuses on how ResearchImpact, a service-oriented program designed to connect university research with research users across Canada, uses O3 to stay connected to its community members at different institutions across the country. The O3 service appealed particularly to ResearchImpact because of the breadth of tools and resources available in the platform, as well as the hands-on guidance of the O3 community manager to coach ResearchImpact on how to best leverage the tools available. Read the case study at www.orion.on.ca/pdf/O3casestudyPRINT.pdf.
People News
Dr. Gilles G. Patry, University of Ottawa professor of civil engineering and former President and Vice-Chancellor from 2001 to 2008, was recently appointed President and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), succeeding Dr. Eliot A. Phillipson, who steps down on June 30. Anastasios (Tas) Venetsanopoulos steps down from his position as the first ever Vice-President, Research and Innovation at Ryerson University on June 30 to return to research and teaching in the department of electrical engineering. Carla Cassidy has been appointed Interim Vice-President, Research and Innovation. York University recently appointed Janusz Kozinski as Dean of the Faculty of Science & Engineering, effective July 1. Dr. Steven Liss, the University of Guelph 's Associate Vice-President (Research Services), was recently appointed Vice-Principal (Research) at Queen's University, effective September 1. Richard Katz is stepping down from his post of vice president of EDUCAUSE, effective July 1.
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