In an announcement made today by Greg Rickford, minister of state (science and technology), the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) will provide $63 million to support 250 research projects at 37 universities across the country. Nearly $1.9 million of the total will be invested in 15 projects at the University of Guelph. The investment is in "support of cutting-edge research equipment, laboratories and tools that researchers need to make tomorrow's breakthroughs and to improve the lives of Canadians".

Congratulations to the two recipients of the Department of Physics:

• Professor Vladimir Ladizhansky was awarded $124, 091 for advanced equipment for Solid State NMR studies of biomedically important membrane proteins.
• Professor Alexandros Gezerlis was awarded $123, 846 for a high-performance computing facility for theoretical nuclear physics.