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Faculty of Social Sciences

NSERC funds social sciences

July 10, 2025

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UVic researchers are recipients of almost $21 million in grants from several Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) programs announced today by Mélanie Joly, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions.

The Faculty of Social Sciences congratulates:

  • Noemie Boulanger-Lapointe, Department of Geography, for her research on, “Berry species in a changing Arctic: spatial distribution and trophic interactions." She is also a one-time NSERC Discovery early-career grant recipient.
  • Stephen Lindsay, Department of Psychology, for his research on “Memory Source Monitoring and Response Bias.” In broad terms, the aim of this research is to describe the determinants of subjective experiences such as remembering, believing, knowing, or seeing. NSERC has funded the Lindsay lab’s research on human memory since 1992.  
  • Tao Wang, Department of Economics, “Nonparametric Quasi-Mode Learning for Massive Data and High-Dimensional Structures;” also received a one-time NSERC Discovery early-career grant.

“This funding for science and engineering projects reflects the wide range of research being led by UVic scholars,” says Fraser Hof, associate vice-president of research at UVic. “From food security in partnership with northern communities to international subatomic physics projects, from health to climate to the mysteries of the universe, our researchers are engaged with the most pressing questions of our time.”

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