December 5, 2024

PhD student Tianxu Wang received the highest award in our department - Josephine Mitchell Research Prize, valued at $15,000. It is extremely honorable for Tianxu to receive this most competitive award in her third year of PhD study.

November 27, 2024

Prof. Hao Wang was interviewed by the SMB Newsletter for the article “The SMB Annual Meeting to be held at the University of Alberta and my career path”.

October 9-10, 2024

Prof. Hao Wang was interviewed by CityNews Edmonton (broadcast on TV news), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (broadcast on TV news), 630/880 CHED (Global CHQT, broadcast on live radio), Edmonton Journal, and Gail Bergman, SIAM Exploring PR: Toronto's Leading Public Relations Firm.

August 27, 2024

2025 Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting will be held at the University of Alberta in Edmonton during July 13-18, 2025.

June 28, 2024

Dr. Pablo Venegas Garcia received the Faculty of Science Dissertation Award.

June 23, 2024

ILMEE has been awarded two Mitacs Business Strategy Internships for $50,000 funded ÁCARA Climate and Mitacs.

May 15, 2024

Prof. Hao Wang has been awarded the CAIMS-SCMAI Research Prize in 2024 (one award per year in Canada).

May 14, 2024

Dr. Esha Saha has been awarded the Grant Notley Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship (awarded to one excellent postdoc each year in Canada for all areas).

April 30, 2024

Our former member Prof. Jude Dzevela Kong has been awarded a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto.

March 26, 2024

Prof. Hao Wang has been awarded an ACA grant for the project "Using neural networks and satellite imagery to find early warning signals of, and uncover land use patterns associated with, cyanobacterial blooms".

March 22, 2024

"Transition through partnerships for sustainable diets: Food Procurement, Placement, and Possibilities" is funded by SSHRC PDG and Mitacs Accelerate with $200K for two years.

Prof. Hao Wang is a co-applicant.

February 12, 2024

Dr. Christopher M. Heggerud will be a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba from July 2025.

January 29, 2024

The Common Ground Canada Network: Building Relationship for Just and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Transitions is funded by the NSERC-SSHRC Sustainable agriculture research initiative with $2 million for five years.

Prof. Hao Wang is a co-applicant.

January 4, 2024

A PIMS Research Network: The Maud Menten Institute for the Life Sciences is funded by PIMS with $450K for three years.

Prof. Hao Wang is a co-applicant as the leader at UofA and will also lead a working group in the network.

September 19th, 2023

Prof. Jude Dzevela Kong has been promoted to be tenured at York University.

Prof. Jude Dzevela Kong will move to the University of Toronto as a tenure-track faculty member.

September 1st, 2023

Dr. Yurij Salmaniw has recently received two awards:

Anton Alexander Cseuz Gold Medal in Mathematics ($15,000),

Faculty of Science Dissertation Award.

April 27th, 2023

Prof. Hao Wang has been awarded Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Biosciences starting from April 1st, 2023.

April 17th, 2023

Our MDP program has been awarded $320,000 from the provincial government.

March 31st, 2023

Our former member Prof. Jude Dzevela Kong received the President's Emerging Research Leadership Award at York University.

March 30th, 2023

Prof. Hao Wang has been awarded an ACA grant for the project "Modelling Future Cyanobacterial Blooms and Cyanotoxin Concentrations in Fish, with Implications for Management".

March 29th, 2023

Prof. Hao Wang has been awarded $1.4 million for three years (with an automatic extension for the fourth year) as the PI of the project "Predicting Methane Emissions from Alberta Oil Sands Territories Using a Holistic Model and Monitoring System" by NSERC.

Co-PIs: Prof. Jude Dzevela Kong (York University), Profs. Keith Tierney and Jay Newby (University of Alberta)

Partners: Alberta Environment and Parks, Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, and The South African Consortium of Air Quality Monitoring

March 10th, 2023

LONG COVID WEB is launched with $20 million funded by Government of Canada:

A network supporting and conducting research into the Post-COVID Condition (PCC)

Prof. Hao Wang is a co-applicant.

February 9th, 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Christopher Heggerud and Dr. Yurij Salmaniw for winning NSERC postdoc awards!

Dr. Christopher Heggerud has been a postdoc at The University of California - Davis since October 2021.

Dr. Yurij Salmaniw will be a postdoc at The University of Oxford from July 2023.

September 7th, 2022

Our former member Prof. Jude Dzevela Kong received a $7.25 million grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) to build network and use AI and big data in fight against infectious diseases.