Business, Tourism, Culture and Rural Development
March 1, 2016

Media Advisory: Minister to Attend Joint Research Funding Announcement

The Honourable Christopher Mitchelmore, Minister of Business, Tourism, Culture and Rural Development and Minister Responsible for the Forestry and Agrifoods Agency, will attend an announcement concerning funding for research tomorrow (Wednesday, March 2). The announcement will take place at 10:00 a.m. in the Alexander Murray (Earth Sciences) Building, Room ER-4065, St. John’s Campus, Memorial University.

Minister Mitchelmore will be joined by Dr. Richard Marceau, vice-president (research), Memorial University; Bardish Chagger, Federal Minister of Small Business and Tourism; Nick Whalen, MP, St. John’s East; and Pamela Moss, Director, Manufacturing, Communications and Technologies, Research Partnership with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

The announcement will begin with a laboratory tour at 9:45 a.m.

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Media contact:

Tansy Mundon
Director of Communications
Department of Business, Tourism, Culture and Rural Development
Forestry and Agrifoods Agency
709-729-4570, 693-1865
tansymundon@gov.nl.ca

2016 03 01                              1:20 p.m.