Category: Funding

Dr. Schutz selected for first Faculty of Humanities Research Time Stipend (RTS) award

As part of the Faculty’s Research Incentive Program, the Faculty of Humanities Dean’s Office awarded 3 units of course release.  These awards were based on a combination of grant acquisition and strong productivity for the stage in their career.  The award will provide additional funds to hire a session instructor for one 3 unit course during the 2014-15, allowing Dr. Schutz more time to focus on the lab’s research regarding amplitude envelope.

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Fiona Manning receives the Queen Elizabeth Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology

FionaFiona Manning received $15,000 from the Queen Elizabeth Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology for the 2012-2013 academic year. This scholarship is awarded annually to a student who exhibits overall academic excellence, research ability, excellent communication skills and interpersonal and leadership abilities. Congratulations Fiona! QE

 

Arts Research Board (ARB) grant for “Surveying the sounds used in auditory perception research”

This $5,244 award to Dr. Schutz assisted our ongoing efforts to survey the types of sounds used in auditory research. This extended the lab’s previous survey work, complementing our ongoing experimental study of amplitude envelope’s role in perceptual tasks such as sensory integration, associative memory, and the choice of duration judgment strategies. For more information see our ARB funding page listing each of the lab’s awards from this agency. Survey

The MAPLE Lab receives funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI).

Dr. Schutz received $154,213 in funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) – Ontario Research Fund – Research Infrastructure (ORF-RI) Program. This sum added to the federal funding from the CFI totals $424,933 in contributions to the MAPLE Lab. This award supplied the sound booths, computers and testing equipment (button boxes, tapping pads, etc.) renovations costs, and a variety of percussion instruments including a 5.0 octave marimba, vibraphone, electronic marimba (MalletKat), electronic drumset, and piano. Additionally, it provided significant support for the extensive renovations involved in setting up a research facility with the School of the Arts.

Ted McMeekin announces $4.6 million investment by the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, through its Ontario Research Fund Research Infrastructure Program, to support 14 projects, representing a range of disciplines at McMaster University. Photo by Ron Scheffler for McMaster University.

Matthew Poon is awarded a second Undergraduate Student Research Award

NSERC  Piano major and MAPLE Lab student Matthew Poon received an Undergraduate Student Research Award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) to cover sixteen weeks of full-time research in the summer of 2012 ($5,625). He used this award to continue his research on the differences in pitch height, dynamics and articulation rate of major and minor pre-composed musical pieces from across different time periods.  For more information about this project see here.

 

McMaster ARB funds Research and Conference travel

Dr. Schutz has been awarded two McMaster ARB grants for the lab: (1)the research grant ($6,695) providing funding to continue and expand the lab’s work on acoustic cues for communicating emotion in music and (2) The conference travel award ($825) helped to offset costs related to Dr. Schutz’s presentation at PASIC 2011 on the uses technology in percussion related research. Read more about these projects on our ARB funding page discussing each of the lab’s ARB awards. Happy sad music note

 

Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation recognizes Dr. Schutz with the Early Researcher Award ($140,000)

Dr. Schutz received Ontario’s Early Research Award, a prize for faculty within the first 10 years of their research careers. This $140,000 award will support graduate and undergraduate students in the lab working under his supervision.

Dr. Schutz is McMaster’s first Humanities faculty member to receive this award. This will provide crucial funding to help build his research team and secure future grants to enhance the lab’s productivity.

McMaster University’s three Early Researcher Award recipients (Joanna Wilson, Gianni Parise, and Michael Schutz) along with MPP Sophia Aggelonitis and Dr. Mo Elbestawi.

Matthew Poon wins NSERC USRA funding for music cognition research

Matthew Poon

Undergraduate student Matthew Poon received an Undergraduate Student Research Award from the faculty of Humanities to cover fifteen weeks of full-time research in the summer of 2011 ($6,000). He will use this award to continue his research on the differences in pitch height and articulation rate of major and minor precomposed musical pieces.  Click here for more information on this project.