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Achievements and Awards

Cambrian College Granted $200,000 for Environmental Applied Research Projects

In June 2010, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) awarded Cambrian College a grant of $200,000 to undertake three applied research projects over two years in the areas of environmental monitoring and impact assessment and energy systems technologies.

Cambrian was one of 12 colleges from across Canada to receive funding under NSERC’s Community and College Innovation Program, which is a collaboration between NSERC, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada that supports colleges in their research and development initiatives with the broader goal of fostering partnerships between industry and postsecondary institutions.

For full details, see Current Projects or read the media release.

PocketSnips collaboration receives Award of Excellence

Joyce Helmer and Dr. Lorraine Carter accepted an Award of Excellence from the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE) on April 30 in Banff, Alberta on behalf of a collaboration that includes the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM), Cambrian College, Laurentian University School of Nursing and Laurentian University Instructional Media Centre, and the Sudbury Regional Hospital. The award, presented for excellence in the use of educational technology and instructional design, recognizes the partners in an initiative called PocketSnips. The goal of the PocketSnips project is development of clinical teaching tools accessible through Professional Digital Assistants (PDAs) and desktop computers. PocketSnips are short videos that provide instruction relative to different health-related procedures. The videos are accompanied by text-based auxiliary information. The learner audience for the project includes medical students, residents, nursing students, and other allied health professional.

Program develops research expertise

Sudbury’s Joyce Helmer was one of 40 international indigenous scholars selected to attend the recent, inaugural Indigenous Summer Research Institute at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. By the summer of 2009, this one-of-a-kind program will qualify indigenous scholars representing 23 tribes and indigenous groups from Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, to lead health research for indigenous people.

The three-year course was developed through a United States-Canada partnership to address the lack of indigenous expertise in research methods. The goal is to increase the number of Aboriginal health professionals and remedy health inequities within indigenous communities. The primary partners are Canada’s First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, the U.S. Indian Health Service, Johns Hopkins Centre for American Indian Health and the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta.