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Ottawa re-invests in Canada Research Chairs at McMaster

Three McMaster professors have had their Canada Research Chairs renewed, a federal research investment totaling nearly $3.7 million. Dr. Jeffrey Weitz, Canada Research Chair in Thrombosis and Pavlos Kanaroglou, Canada Research in Spatial Analysis, were awarded $1.4 million each for their Tier 1 Chairs. Gregory Slater, Canada Research Chair in Environmental Isotope Biogeochemistry, was awarded $500,000 for his Tier 2 Chair. Tier 1 Chairs, tenable for seven years, are for outstanding researchers acknowledged by their peers as world leaders in their field. Tier 2 Chairs, tenable for five years and renewable once, are for exceptional emerging researchers, acknowledged by their peers as having the potential to lead in their field.

Space medicine training programs focus for talk

Training to become a specialist in health care takes years of study and lots of hard work. But imagine if you were assigned to become the crew medical officer aboard a long-duration mission to space. What specialized knowledge would be called for? Would you need to be a doctor? What skills would be required in addition to medical training? Those are just a few of the questions audience members will be asked to consider at Isolated and Alone: Training the Medical Crew Officer for Long-Duration Missions, a free public lecture that will be presented tonight (Tuesday, Feb. 24) as part of a McMaster University seminar series on space medicine.