The Harper Government recently announced 166 new Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship recipients and 70 new Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship recipients, a moved that is aimed at developing, attracting and retaining the best young researchers in Canada and from around the world.

The Honourable Ed Holder, Minister of State (Science and Technology), and the Honourable Peter Van Loan, Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, were at the University of Toronto  to announce over $34 million in awards. These prestigious awards will support world-class doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows carrying out leading-edge research in the health sciences, natural sciences and engineering, and social sciences and humanities at universities in Canada or Canadians carrying out research at institutions around the world.

The University of Toronto is host to 26 new Vanier Scholars and 8 new Banting Fellows, including:

• Vanier Scholar Miles Montgomery whose research in engineering sciences focuses on the development of tissues in a lab…