The application for the 2022 Tyler Lewis Clean Energy Research Foundation $10,000 grant is now live. To learn more about the grant and to download and application, please visit this link.
We have some exciting news about the 2022 Ride For Clean Energy you participated in last week. Thanks to your hard work and dedication, we would like to announce that this year’s ride was the biggest fundraiser for the Tyler Clean Energy Research Foundation to date!The total raised for the 2022 Ride For Clean Energy is… $26,426.69 Thank you all…
Registration for the final Ride For Clean Energy is now open! For the past 10 years, the Ride for Clean Energy has been by far the most important means of replenishing grant funds. This year’s Ride will be a hybrid event, with both on-site and remote options available to riders. Since this is the 10th and final event, it is especially important for it to…
With the start of a new year, the Foundation would like to celebrate the achievements of the 2021 TLCERF recipients and recognise the work their accomplished over their funding period. Like 2020, this past year has certainly been a challenging time. But despite the various interruptions due to COVID-19, it was a productive year for our three TLCERF grant recipients.…
Once again in 2021, graduate students have been finding was to adjust their research plans and modify their work to accommodate more remote work or hybrid schedules. While navigating this ‘new normal’ has undoubtedly not been easy, this did not affect the caliber of this year’s grant applications. This year saw a high number of applications submitted, giving Foundation’s grant…
It’s been a little over a week since the 2021 Ride For Clean Energy. Since the ride, our organizers have been hard at work tallying the fundraising totals, and as with all years, we are blown away! With a total of 56 registered riders, the total for the 9th annual Ride For Clean Energy is… $17,486.69! Thank you everyone for…
As is tradition each year at the Ride for Clean Energy, the newest Tyler Lewis Clean Energy Research Foundation grant winners and their research is highlighted. The scientific poster summarising the important research being funded by the grant is traditionally on display at the Ride’s after party. Like last year, since the Ride is taking a virtual format again this…
It is with heavy hearts that the Foundation announces the passing of Professor John R. Grace, on May 26th, 2021. Dr. Grace was a professor emeritus in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of British Columbia, and a founding grant advisor of the Tyler Lewis Clean Energy Research Foundation. Professor Grace was Tyler’s graduate supervisor and…
With the Foundation’s exponential growth since its inception, there has been a steady increase in grant applications each year. With this increasing number of applications, the Foundation’s grant advisory board has continued to do an outstanding job of reviewing and identifying the top applicants each year. In order to keep up with this growth, however, two new grant advisors have…
To kick off 2021, we are spotlighting a former TLCERF grant awardee, Matthieu Boudreau, who was the successfully chosen candidate in 2016. Matthieu was a mechanical engineering PhD student at the Université Laval, where he also received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, researching a clean and renewable technology for energy extraction from river or tidal currents. Matthieu also spent a…