Two York researchers among Canada's top 20
 

Doug Crawford,  Named One of Canada's top 20 Young Investigators in the Sciences, Social Sciences, and Engineering.

 
                                           The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR) has recognized York's
                                      Doug Crawford and Eric Hessels among Canada's top 20 researchers, aged 40
                                      and under, working in science and engineering.
                                            They will receive the Young Explorers Prize, created to mark the institute's
                                      20th anniversary, June 14-17 2002 in Victoria, BC.
                                           As Young Explorers, they will be encouraged to share their excitement for
                                      their research with other Canadians, especially highschool and university
                                      students.
                                           Crawford is a pioneer in hand-eye coordination. He is Canada Research
                                      Chair (CRC) in Neuroscience at York, and involved in projects that explore how
                                      the brain translates visual perception into physical movement as part of the
                                      York Centre for Vision Research and the Canadian Institutes of Health
                                      Research (CIHR) Group for Action and Perception. In addition to the CRC and
                                      CIHR awards, he won an Ontario Premier's Research Excellence Award in
                                      2000.
                                           Hessels is recognized internationally as a leader in precision atomic
                                      physics measurements. The physics and astronomy professor is Canada
                                      Research Chair in Atomic Physics.
                                           Crawford and Hessels were chosen from about 300 candidates, each of
                                      whom had won at least three research awards over the past five years. Six
                                      judges, three from the United States and three from the United Kingdom,
                                      selected the 20 finalists.
                                           CIAR was founded in 1982 to enable top researchers in Canada to
                                      collaborate with each other and their international peers. The government- and
                                      privately-funded institute, based in Toronto, supports the work of 200
                                      researchers here and around the world.

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