Dr Ted Sargent

Dr Ted Sargent has been awarded a $10-million Global Research Partnership grant from the King Abdullah University of Saudia Arabia (KAUST), the only Canadian in a group of 12 founding international scientists to receive the awards. Sargent is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and Canada Research Chair in nanotechnology at the Univ of Toronto. At age 34, he is one of the world's leading experts in developing nanotechnology using infrared rays from the sun to generate electricity. He will use the award to develop low-cost, high-performance solar energy technologies. Seeded with an initial $10-billion endowment, KAUST is currently being built in Thuwal near Jeddah and aims to become a global research centre in the areas of resources, energy and environment, biosciences and bioengineering, applied mathematic and computational science and materials science and engineering. Its fundamental organizing units will be interdisciplinary research institutes as opposed to t