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annual report 2013 • 2014 i Université de moncton
Research group receives excellence award
The Littoral et vie research group, a group studying life on the coast, has
received an excellence award. The article entitled “Human competences
that facilitate adaptation to climate change: a research in progress”
published in the International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and
Management received the journal’s first excellence award for 2013. The
authors of the article are: Jackie Kerry (research group), Diane Pruneau
(education), Sylvie Blain (education), Joanne Langis (research group),
Pierre-Yves Barbier (education), Marie-Andrée Mallet (research group),
Evgueni Vichnevetski (education), Jimmy Therrien (research group),
Paul Deguire (sciences), Viktor Freiman (education), Mathieu Lang
(education) and Anne-Marie Laroche (engineering). In the research
described in the article, the authors focused on the adaptation
competencies to climate change of two groups of Canadian citizens:
municipal employees and farmers.
The Littoral et vie research group is now also a member of the
Development Solutions Network, a network under the umbrella of the
United Nations.
Language Industry Development Centre
In May 2014, the Government of New Brunswick announced an investment
of $440,000 to help establish a language industry development centre
(DILan). The project, valued at more than $1.7 million over five years,
aims at developing new technologies to support the province’s language
industry. In June 2014, the business partner in the initiative, Transmed,
established offices on the Shippagan campus to be in close proximity to
the researchers.
Canadian Research Chair in Acadian and
Minority Studies
The university was awarded a tier II Canada Research Chair and funding
of $500,000, renewable once. The holder of the chair is Benoit Doyon-
Gosselin who submitted the project entitled “Canadian Research Chair
in Acadian and Minority Studies”. Professor Doyon-Gosselin received an
additional grant of $42,766 from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation’s
Canadian Research Chairs Infrastructure Fund.
