A win for Canadian research: Ottawa boosts funding for graduate students, research grants

The federal government announced a historic funding increase to support the robust research and innovation ecosystem at McMaster and other universities, as well as significant boosts for early-career Canadian scholars, and Indigenous research.

Federal ministers and MPs visited McMaster Friday afternoon to share the welcome news of $1.8 billion in new funding for Canada’s three core federal granting agencies — the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

Minister of International Development Ahmed Hussen told McMaster researchers and students, “Today’s announcement is a win for Canadian research.”

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