The Banff Centre: Communications

The Globe and Mail — October 20, 2005.   A Banff research station operated by five western Canadian universities will receive $3.6-million from the U.S. and Mexican governments over the next five years. The Banff International Research Station has been involved in breakthroughs in fuel cell technology and mathematical models of the spread of SARS, said Ivar Ekeland, the director of the UBC-based Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, which oversees the station. It’s the first time for $550,000 in Mexican funding, and the American funding has never been in the form of a direct grant, he said. [BIRS is located on the Banff Centre campus]