Applied Research

By Gordon Pitts – The Globe and Mail | Link to original article Gerry Pond worked 38 years for New Brunswick’s phone company, rising to the president’s office and to paycheques of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. But a decade after leaving, he figures that as an investor, he has ma...

By Polly Leger – Telegraph Journal | link to original article Digital technology promised a paperless world, but what about a world run by paper batteries? University of New Brunswick researcher Adam Dyker has partnered with a Fredericton startup, KnowCharge, to create exactly that: a paper ba...

By Yvon Gagnon – Times & Transcriptj | link to original article University researchers working on projects ranging from cancer tumour imaging agents to advanced Java-based software tools for electronic devices are going to have help this summer in the form of research assistants thanks to...

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) today announced $550,000 in funding to support 58 student research assistants at the province’s universities. Working with one of the Foundation’s funded applied researchers, each student will earn wages while they learn valuable experience in the l...

By Jennifer Campbell – Telegraph Journal | link to original article Tired of washing the chemicals off your lettuce with the same vigour as you clean your dirty gym clothes? A New Brunswick company is hoping to change that. In response to a growing demand for safe pesticides, two Mount Allison...