Massey granted $7.8m in research funds
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Fri Sep 24 2010 12:00:00 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time)
Massey granted $7.8m in research funds
Friday, 24 September 2010, 10:38 am
Press Release: Massey University
Massey granted $7.8m in research funds
Eleven Massey University research projects have received Marsden funding totally $7.8 million, representing 13 per cent of the total $60 million allocated among 13 organisations this year.
Two awards are for "fast-start" projects and nine are for standard projects over the next three years. A project led by Professor Gaven Martin was extended for another two years, with new funding of $600,000.
Acting Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Robert Anderson says the announcement maintains the University’s sustained success. “Our academic staff are at the forefront of research in New Zealand,” Professor Anderson says. “The diversity of projects is a testament to the University’s breadth of academic research and shows we are finding new areas for research.”
The Marsden Fund, administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand on behalf of the Government, supports projects in sciences, technology, engineering and maths, social sciences and humanities. It is extremely competitive, with just 252 of the 1089 preliminary proposals received asked to submit a full proposal and 102 getting final approval, a success rate of 9.5 per cent.
Marsden Fund Council chairman Professor Peter Hunter said it was encouraging to see such a high standard of proposals coming through in all areas. “The Marsden Fund supports investigator-driven fundamental research, and plays an essential role in building a healthier, socially more cohesive and economically stronger nation.”
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The Massey projects are:
Dr Andrew Sutherland-Smith – Stretching protein springs: How do cells respond to force? ($870,000).
Professor Barry Scott – Symbiotic synchrony: metabolic co-regulation in a plant-fungal symbiosis ($900,000).
Dr Austen Ganley – A spanner in the works: role of the ribosomal DNA repeats in chromosome missegregation ($860,000).
Dr Justin O’Sullivan – Moving genes in genome structure and memory ($845,000).
Professor Marti Anderson – New robust solutions to the multivariate Behrens-Fisher problem ($530,341).
Professor Paul Rainey – Unraveling the principles of genetic evolution ($870,000).
Professor David Penny – From genomics to properties of the last Eukaryote common ancestor ($785,728).
Dr Steven Matthews – Oxides on the inside: A step change in high temperature oxidation resistant materials technology ($300,000).
Dr Shane Telfer – Creating nothing out of something: A route to ultraporous metal-organic frameworks ($780,000)
Dr Nigel Parsons – Race, place and biopolitics: Zionism, Palestine and population management in the 21st century ($256,000).
Associate Professor Karen Witten – Multi storey living with kids in mind: contraints and opportunities for children's mobility and development in the context of competing discourses of safety and independence ($805,000).
ENDS
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