Seeking Nobel Winners, Canada Begins Global Hunt for Top Researchers

by E Wayne Ross on September 15, 2008

The Chronicle: Seeking Nobel Winners, Canada Begins Global Hunt for Top Researchers

Canada has set up a new program to attract 20 of the world’s brightest researchers by next fall. The program, known as the Canada Excellence Research Chairs, will endow each chair with 10 million Canadian dollars, or about $9.3-million, over seven years to set up what a government news release called “ambitious research programs” at Canadian universities.

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