VANCOUVER – Thirty-one University of B.C. professors have been appointed as Canada Research Chairs, an honour that has earned the school a $27.2-million boost.

Meanwhile, Simon Fraser University is boasting seven new chairs and $6.2 million in federal investment.

The B.C. scholars were announced Tuesday morning by Minister of Science Kristy Duncan, and they comprise more than a 10th of the 305 chairs appointed across the country this winter.

Eighteen of UBC’s chairs are new, while 13 are renewed. In all, the university has 187 chairs, and SFU has 35.

“Programs like this are critical for attracting some of the brightest minds to our institutions and building research opportunities,” UBC interim president Martha Piper said in a press release.

The new chairs include Zachary Hudson, an assistant chemistry professor and now the Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Chemistry. Hudson works with organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and hopes to use the lighting technology to create thin, flexible and inexpensive light sources that use less energy than other sources.

SFU’s new Canada Research Chairs include:

Kelley Lee, Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance

John McDonald, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience

Marlene Moretti, Canada Research Chair in Youth Clinical Psychological Science

Jiguo Cao, Canada Research Chair in Data Science

Roger Linington, Canada Research Chair in Chemical Biology

Stephanie Simmons, Canada Research Chair in Quantum Nanoelectronics

David Sivak, Canada Research Chair in Nonequilibrium Statistical Biophysics

UBC’s new Canada Research Chairs include:

Samuel Aparicio, Canada Research Chair in Molecular Oncology, Faculty of Medicine

Maureen Ashe, Canada Research Chair in Community Mobility, Faculty of Medicine

Lori Brotto, Canada Research Chair in Women’s Sexual Health, Faculty of Medicine

Victoria Bungay, Canada Research Chair in Gender, Equity and Community Engagement, Faculty of Applied Science

Simone Castellarin, Canada Research Chair in Viticulture and Plant Genomics, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Andrea Damascelli, Canada Research Chair in Electronic Structure of Quantum Materials, Faculty of Science

Janice Eng, Canada Research Chair in Neurological Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine

Zachary Hudson, Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Chemistry, Faculty of Science

Dr. David Huntsman, Canada Research Chair in Molecular and Genomic Pathology, Faculty of Medicine

Patrick Keeling, Canada Research Chair in Microbial Diversity and Evolution, Faculty of Science

Philipp Lange, Canada Research Chair in Translational and Applied Genomics of Pediatric Malignancy, Faculty of Medicine

Guofang Li, Canada Research Chair in Transnational/Global Perspectives on Language and Literacy Education of Children and Youth, Faculty of Education

Mark MacLachlan, Canada Research Chair in Supramolecular Materials, Faculty of Science

Sara Mostafavi, Canada Research Chair in Computational Biology, Faculties of Science and Medicine

Lisa Osborne, Canada Research Chair in Host-Microbiome Interactions, Faculty of Science

Eli Puterman, Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity and Health, Faculty of Education

Mark Schmidt, Canada Research Chair Machine Learning, Faculty of Science

Francesco Trebbi, Canada Research Chair in Economics, Faculty of Arts

UBC’s renewed Canada Research Chairs include:

Jehannine Austin, Canada Research Chair in Translational Psychiatric Genetics, Faculty of Medicine

Karen Bakker, Canada Research Chair in Political Ecology, Faculty of Arts

Sarah Burke, Canada Research Chair in Nanoscience, Faculty of Science

Hadi Dowlatabadi, Canada Research Chair in Integrated-Assessment Modelling and Global Change, Faculty of Science

Charles Haynes, Canada Research Chair in Interfacial Biotechnology, Faculty of Applied Science

Liisa Holsti, Canada Research Chair in Neonatal Health and Development, Faculty of Medicine

Carla Hudson Kam, Canada Research Chair in Language Acquisition, Faculty of Arts

Yvonne Lamers, Canada Research Chair in Human Nutrition and Vitamin Metabolism, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Jamie Peck, Canada Research Chair in Urban and Regional Political Economy, Faculty of Arts

Edwin Perkins, Canada Research Chair in Probability, Faculty of Science

Barbara Pesut, Canada Research Chair in Health, Ethics and Diversity, Faculty of Health and Social Development at UBC’s Okanagan campus

Helen Tremlett, Canada Research Chair in Neuroepidemiology and Multiple Sclerosis, Faculty of Medicine

Annalee Yassi, Canada Research Chair in Global Health and Capacity Building, Faculty of Medicine