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Glen Tibbits, 604.291.3658, glen_tibbits@sfu.ca
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Glen Tibbits, 604.291.3658, glen_tibbits@sfu.ca
Carol Thorbes, Media & PR, 604.291.3035, cthorbes@sfu.ca
October 24, 2003
With the appointment of five new Canada Research Chairs at Simon Fraser University, the federally funded research capacity building program has filled more than half of the 38 chairs allocated to SFU. The five new chairs are among 118 recently appointed at 37 universities across Canada, putting the Canada Research Chair program at the halfway mark in achieving its goal of establishing 2,000 university chairs nationally by 2005.
Jonathan Kesselman, a taxation and income security policy analyst from the University of British Columbia will take up a senior chair in public finance in SFU’s department of economics. His work covers the design of tax systems and income transfers, the inter-relations between the two and the finance of social insurance.
Francis Jeffrey Pelletier, a professor of philosophy and computing science for 20 years, comes from the University of Alberta. As a senior chair in cognitive science in SFU’s philosophy department, he will investigate the nature of inference from a number of different perspectives. An inference occurs when a new piece of information is generated from already-existing background information.
Cenk Sahinalp originally from Turkey, was a founding member of the Centre for Computational Genomics and an adjunct professor at the department of genetics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. A junior chair appointment in computational genomics in SFU’s school of computing science, Cenk will investigate the genomic causes of a number of diseases, including birth defects such as spina bifida.
James Taylor comes from Iowa State University in the United States to take up a junior chair in environmental history in SFU’s history department. He will examine a mix of bottom-feeding and midwater-feeding fisheries, both coastal and offshore, to map out the range of social, economic and technological challenges that confronted North American fisheries managers in the last century.
SFU kinesiology professor Glen Tibbits has been awarded a senior chair in molecular cardiac physiology. Tibbits is trying to improve scientists’ understanding of the molecular mechanisms that regulate cardiac contractility and the way in which the heart responds to different environmental stimuli.
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Website: Canada Research Chair program, http://www.chairs.gc.ca/
Glen Tibbits, http://www.sfu.ca/~tibbits/
Jonathan Kesselman, a taxation and income security policy analyst from the University of British Columbia will take up a senior chair in public finance in SFU’s department of economics. His work covers the design of tax systems and income transfers, the inter-relations between the two and the finance of social insurance.
Francis Jeffrey Pelletier, a professor of philosophy and computing science for 20 years, comes from the University of Alberta. As a senior chair in cognitive science in SFU’s philosophy department, he will investigate the nature of inference from a number of different perspectives. An inference occurs when a new piece of information is generated from already-existing background information.
Cenk Sahinalp originally from Turkey, was a founding member of the Centre for Computational Genomics and an adjunct professor at the department of genetics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. A junior chair appointment in computational genomics in SFU’s school of computing science, Cenk will investigate the genomic causes of a number of diseases, including birth defects such as spina bifida.
James Taylor comes from Iowa State University in the United States to take up a junior chair in environmental history in SFU’s history department. He will examine a mix of bottom-feeding and midwater-feeding fisheries, both coastal and offshore, to map out the range of social, economic and technological challenges that confronted North American fisheries managers in the last century.
SFU kinesiology professor Glen Tibbits has been awarded a senior chair in molecular cardiac physiology. Tibbits is trying to improve scientists’ understanding of the molecular mechanisms that regulate cardiac contractility and the way in which the heart responds to different environmental stimuli.
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electronic photo of Tibbits available
Website: Canada Research Chair program, http://www.chairs.gc.ca/
Glen Tibbits, http://www.sfu.ca/~tibbits/