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

A group of people in lab coats are looking at a computer monitor, while a person seated is speaking.
Ministers Ahmed Hussen, Filomena Tassi and Gary Anandasangaree at the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster, with students, Professor Eric Brown and McMaster President David Farrar. The ministers announced increased support for core research funding agencies, Indigenous research, and for master’s, doctoral and postdoctoral scholars across the country. (Photos by Georgia Kirkos, McMaster University)

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.”

Read more at Daily News.

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