March 2024 News and Events

Here are the CRMR news and events for March 2024! Enjoy your reading.

For a detailed list of news and upcoming events, please refer to the main page of the CRMR website, as well as our social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter) and the CRMR Youtube Channel!

CRMR’s events

• April 4, 2024- 1:30 pm. Jiloul Abdessamad’s thesis defense! Details here!
• March 23 and 24, 2024. The CRMR was present at the 2024 Forest Expo with a dedicated stand! Details here!
• March 25, 2024. CRMR winter 2024 baking contest! Details here!

Important dates – Financing, Awards and Congresses

• April 5, 2024. Deadline to submit applications for the Chisholm Award for Innovation in Forestry. Details here!
• May 7, 2024. Deadline for pre-applications to the « Partnership Research Program on Greenhouse Gas Reduction – Launch of the Ecofiscal Component ». Details here!
• September 26, 2024. Deadline for the call for proposals « A new program for research activities in the Innovation Zone – Energy Transition Valley ». Details here!

Achievements and successes

• Congratulations to Véronic Landry, winner of the FFGG « Supervision Award»! Details here!
• Congratulations to Pierre Blanchet on being awarded a new Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Buildings! More details!
• Congratulations to Véronic Landry and Pierre Blanchet, who have been awarded a major grant of $3.4 millions from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)! Details here!
• Congratulations to Alex Mary who received the Honorable Mention in the « 2024 TRFA Excellence in Thermoset Polymer Research competition »! Details here!
• Zahra Hosseini wins the $5,000 CRMR Winter 2024 Support Scholarship! Details here!
• Congratulations to Alex Mary and Vahideh Akbari for winning prizes in the final of Laval University’s « Three Minute Thesis competition»! Details here!
• Congratulations to Laurence Boudreault, recipient of the Climate Action Scholarship! Details here!
• Congratulations to Baptiste Giorgio, recipient of the Climate Action Scholarship! Details here!
• Congratulations to Alex Mary and Vahideh Akbari for winning prizes in the « Three minute thesis » faculty competition – 2024 edition! Details here!
• Congratulations to Luciana Gondim de Almeida Guimaraes on her successful PhD defense! Details here!
• Congratulations to Alex Mary for being awarded the Catherine Lalonde Memorial Scholarship for Wood Research! Details here!

Learning and know-how!

• Conference by Vicky Vaskelis, Co-President and General Manager of the RéUTILisONs Virtual Sorting Center « Preventing and reducing the end-of-life impacts of office furniture! » – See the content!
• Review the Laval University final of the 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition!

Read on!

Articles published in peer-reviewed research journals

• Canuel, C.-M., Thiffault, É., Thiffault, N. (2024). Post-harvest regeneration is driven by ecological factors rather than wood procurement intensity in eastern Canadian forests. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research. cpae008. https://doi-org.acces.bibl.ulaval.ca/10…/forestry/cpae008.
• Parot, M., Rodrigue, D., Stevanovic, T. (2024). Effect of Iron Chloride Addition on Softwood Lignin Nano-Fiber Stabilization and Carbonization. Polymers 2024, 16(6), 814. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym16060814.
• Cardona, L., Couillard, P-L., Achim, A. (2024). Lower wood stiffness in old growth than in post-cut and post-fire stands indicates forest structure structure is a key driver of wood properties in black spruce. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2023-0199.

Popular and other articles

• Forestry research notice concerning work carried out by Alex Mary: Valorization of local resources into wood adhesives.

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