ACCELERATING RESEARCH AT KPU

As Canada’s only polytechnic university, KPU undertakes impactful applied research, innovation, and scholarly endeavours across its five campuses and multiple partnered sites. Faculty, staff, and students collaborate with industry, community, government, and academic partners to discover answers to lingering questions, and innovate to solve difficult problems.

Since 2018, we have tripled the number of our research chairs. Thanks to a major donation from the Dr. Sherman Jen Education Foundation, we have now inaugurated The Sherman Jen Research Chair in NextGeneration Design held by Stephanie Philips, and The Sherman Jen Research Chair in Applied Genomics, held by Paul Adams.

Starting this academic year, a major $1 million Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada grant will enable Wilson School of Design students, guided by their educators, to engage with partners on sustainable design research projects and create real-world impact.

Significant funding from various donors and sponsors has enabled the Institute for Sustainable Food Systems at KPU contribute to reconciliation by partnering with Indigenous communities tackle food security challenges in a sustainable way.

The university has further supported an ongoing transformation of KPU’s research enterprise and innovation ecosystems. Specifically, it has endowed $4 million to invest in research endeavours and is committed to increasing the levels of activity, funding, and intensity of research and scholarship.

We remain grateful to our partners, donors, and sponsors for their support of impactful discovery and innovation at KPU.