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March 21, 2003
A leading American writer on HIV/AIDS and an award winning doctoral graduate of Simon Fraser University are the university’s latest Canada Research Chair appointees. Cynthia Patton, who specializes in developing new multi-disciplinary approaches to health-related social science research, will take up her associate professorship in sociology at SFU, this May. A pioneer in a new field called the social study of medicine, Patton is coming from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She will hold a Tier two (junior level, $100,000 annually for five years) Canada Research Chair in Community, Culture and Health.
Eldon Emberly, a 1999 doctoral graduate in physics at SFU, is returning from a postdoctoral fellowship at Rockefeller University in New York, New York. The recipient of two premier national doctoral prizes, Emberly is already internationally known for his pioneering research in understanding molecular electronics at the nanoscale from a theoretical perspective. Nanotechnology involves fabricating devices and systems out of single molecules. Emberly will be an assistant professor in physics and take up his Tier two Canada Research Chair in Materials and Structural Biology at SFU in the fall or January 2004.
Fourteen federally funded Canada Research Chairs have now been filled at SFU. Their total value is $15.1 million. Many come with federally funded Canada Foundation for Innovation infrastructure grants, which now total $1.5 million to SFU. The latest is Patton’s at $120,000.
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Contact
Eldon Emberly, 212.327.8138, eemberly@edsc.rockefeller.edu
Cynthia Patton, 604.266.4613, ck_patton@hotmail.com
Eldon Emberly, a 1999 doctoral graduate in physics at SFU, is returning from a postdoctoral fellowship at Rockefeller University in New York, New York. The recipient of two premier national doctoral prizes, Emberly is already internationally known for his pioneering research in understanding molecular electronics at the nanoscale from a theoretical perspective. Nanotechnology involves fabricating devices and systems out of single molecules. Emberly will be an assistant professor in physics and take up his Tier two Canada Research Chair in Materials and Structural Biology at SFU in the fall or January 2004.
Fourteen federally funded Canada Research Chairs have now been filled at SFU. Their total value is $15.1 million. Many come with federally funded Canada Foundation for Innovation infrastructure grants, which now total $1.5 million to SFU. The latest is Patton’s at $120,000.
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Contact
Eldon Emberly, 212.327.8138, eemberly@edsc.rockefeller.edu
Cynthia Patton, 604.266.4613, ck_patton@hotmail.com