The Water Institute welcomed Grant Murphy as its Industrial Liaison Officer in May 2013. For over 25 years, Grant has been involved in many aspects of the public utility and municipal sectors, having worked with Peterborough Utilities, Toronto Hydro and the Scarborough Public Utilities Commission.
The Water Institute is pleased to financially support the development of workshops or small symposia that enhance interdisciplinary water research, facilitate university-government-private sector partnerships and build knowledge and capacity to address emerging water management issues.
The Water Institute’s third call for workshop proposals closed in November 2012 with seven strong applications received. The Water Institute is pleased to announce support for the following workshops during 2013:
Nearly 25 outstanding applications from across four faculties were received for the two Golder Associates Graduate Scholarships and the ARCADIS Graduate Scholarship that were offered by the Water Institute. Each of these scholarships in water research is valued at $5,000. The highly competitive field yielded the following scholarship recipients:
The 2013 Golder Associates Graduate Scholarships in Water
Lillian Knopf, MSc candidate, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology
The Great Lakes Futures Project is begining the student recruitment period for phase two of the Great Lakes Futures Project, the development of alternate future scenarios. Graduate students from universities in the Great Lakes region are invited to apply in this competitive process to research and prepare synthesis papers from January to April 2013 on a specific scenario for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin.
