Sisters among Applied Health Sciences students celebrated for Brock success – The Brock News - Brock University

Over the past year, researchers across the Faculty of Applied Science secured $97.5 million in research funding from Canadian and international partners, bringing the faculty’s five-year average to approximately $100 million annually. This sustained financial stability provides a strong foundation for researchers to think big, take bold risks and develop workable solutions to some of society’s most pressing global challenges. The newly released 2025/26 Applied Science Research Report highlights how collaborative nursing, architecture, landscape architecture, planning and engineering initiatives across UBC’s Vancouver and Okanagan campuses are generating tangible economic impacts and helping to guide national and provincial priorities. “I see the role of our Faculty as turning knowledge into possibility—driving innovation, strengthening productivity and building Canada’s future prosperity.” – Dr.

Ari Schulman: Tony, I’ve spent the past year trying to make sense of what the Trump administration’s agenda is for science. It’s a tough job, because you hear two very different stories coming from the admin. One story is about restoring gold-standard science, restoring trust in science, solving the replication crisis, fueling cutting-edge research, and doing more to free scientists from needless grant paperwork and support them early in their careers. It’s a lofty story, practically a love letter to science. One of the narrators of this story writes in City Journal that “we should be working toward tapping the energy at the heart of the sun and hanging our achievements in the balance of the stars.”

Congratulations to Zoya Abbasi and Jaden Saïd, winners of the 2026 Applied Mathematics, Modeling and Computational Science (AMMCS) prizes at this year’s AMMCS International conference. AMMCS aims to promote interdisciplinary research and collaboration involving mathematical and computational sciences within a larger international community, and highlight recent advances in applied mathematics, modeling and computational science. The interdisciplinary international conference started in 2011 and was hosted in Waterloo this year.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher Isaiah Santistevan led the development of three-dimensional simulations exploring how a nuclear device could deflect or disrupt an asteroid threatening Earth. Credit: Blaise Douros/LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers are developing three-dimensional simulations to examine how a nuclear device could be used to deflect or potentially disrupt an asteroid threatening Earth.