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SFU engineers and physicists acquire $15.8 million in federal funding

Simon Fraser University is one of six institutions in British Columbia that received grants from the 2017 Innovation Fund, sponsored by the federal government. Canada’s Foundation for Innovation (CFI), recently awarded five SFU researchers with more than $15.8 million in funding for their research projects. This amount grows to $21.3 million when combined with three other collaboration projects with which SFU is affiliated. The SFU researchers who received the CFI funds are Drs. Carlo Menon, Jeff Sonier, Michael Thewalt, Rodney Vaughan, and Michel Vetterli. From a provincial perspective, BC has acquired $98.4 million in funding from CFI for the 2017…

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