NSERC announces $71 million more for students, researchers

Research Grants

• $20.4 million will be injected immediately through a 10 per cent increase to all Research Grants. NSERC is asking grantholders to use the new funds to raise stipends, train more students and fellows, and create a better environment for research training (for example, by improving student access to conferences or field trips). Effective April 1, 1998, the maximum postgraduate student stipend payable from an NSERC grant increased from $15,000 to $16,500; the minimum payment to a postdoctoral fellow rose to $25,000, and the maximum payment to the fellows was eliminated. Professors should review the amounts they are paying and determine, in negotiation with their graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, when and by how much stipends will be increased. NSERC will ask grantholders to describe how their new funding has contributed to training when they apply for their next grant.

• $2 million will be spent on the 1998 Equipment Grants competition to support equipment judged meritorious but not funded immediately following the competition due to insufficient funds.

Scholarships and Fellowships

• Stipend levels and number of awards for all core scholarship and fellowship programs have been increased effective April 1, 1998. A table is given in the full NSERC announcement.

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