How can we continue to transform Canadian research? Look to the new generation

Labs across Canada are humming with young people who are optimistic and motivated to create a future they want.

The potential of the new generation of researchers hasn’t been lost on policy makers, like Prime Minister and Minister of Youth Justin Trudeau and Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan, pictured in September at the announcement of researcher Mona Nemer as the government's new chief scientist, writes Roseann O’Reilly Runte. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ROSEANN O’REILLY RUNTE

November 22, 2017

Earlier this fall, during one of the worst hurricane seasons on record, a group of graduate students was testing the resilience of roofs in full-force winds at Western University’s Insurance Research Lab for Better Homes. It’s unlikely they’d call themselves lifesavers, but their work will lea...

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