Issue 82
Contents
1) News from the VP of Research
a) Will the Olympics affect the application deadline for the Open Operating Grant competition?

By Zach Miners Posted January 28, 2010

College is often termed the best years of your life. Now, recent trends suggest that it is also becoming pretty green. A growing number of colleges and universities are seeking ways to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, many with energy-efficient facilities and construction projects. A wind turbine at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, for example, provides 33 percent of campus electricity and saves more than $250,000 annually in utility costs.

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OTTAWA, Canada, Jan. 14, 2010 – GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE (NYSE: GE), unveiled today a study estimating that renewing a Canadian federal financial incentive that has now allocated virtually all of its funding for wind energy projects would more than pay for itself through tax revenues from the projects’ income, vendors’ profits and individual workers’ wages.  The study estimated that injecting an additional $1.5 billion CDN into Canada’s ecoENERGY for Renewable Power program could spawn 5.2 gigawatts of new wind projects and carry a net present value benefit to Canada’s governments of $287 million CDN.

By Pays to Live Green · January 13, 2010 · Filed Under Government 

California is proposing  statewide green building standards, the first of its kind throughout the country.  These new standards would require green practices to be implemented when building new homes, schools and other commercial buildings.

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By Josh Dehaas | January 20th, 2010 | 1:59 pm
Filed Under: Featured • News • Top Stories
Tags: Student Directed Seminars • University of British Columbia

A program at UBC lets students design courses

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The Genome BC Technology Development Initiatives Fund (TDIF) is a pilot program from Genome BC launched on April 3, 2009, aimed at supporting early stage technology development of biomedical devices.  The program is a partnership between Genome BC and its Technology Development Platform
 
Total funding for TDIF from Genome BC is $200,000 and awards are expected to be between $10,000 and $50,000.  Proposals will be considered with reference to the possibility of commercialization on a timescale of approximately two years after completion of the project.
 

Competition Number:
09M243    

Job Title:
Industry Services Manager

Job Status:
Temp FT  

Opening Date:
Jan 11, 2010