Sault Ste. Marie's Algoma University recently celebrated the groundbreaking for its Biosciences and Technology Convergence Centre, after receiving federal and provincial funding totalling $16 million through the Knowledge Infrastructure Program and Ontario's 2009 Budget. The new centre will bring together teaching, research and commercial activities in a dynamic atmosphere to foster innovation and growth in the biosciences, computer games technology and health informatics research. Along with teaching and faculty research labs, established enterprises like the internationally recognized Sault Ste Marie Innovation Centre will anchor the facility. Another tenant will be the newly-launched Algoma Games for Health, a design studio bringing computer games technology to the delivery of health care and rehabilitation services.

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