NSERC announces $535 million in new grants

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) has awarded $535 million to professors, young researchers and undergraduate students at 75 institutions across Canada. The awards include $398 million in grants to approximately 3,000 researchers under NSERC's bedrock Discovery Grants Program (DSP), $110 million to support 2,600 graduates students and 250 post-doctoral fellows and $15.6 million to 3,470 undergraduate students. More than 64% of the total went to 15 universities which received $343.3 million, led by the Univ of Toronto with $42.8 million. The DSP also included additional funding for Discover Accelerator supplements, a new initiative designed to boost productivity at critical junctures in researchers' careers....