BY Judi Pattison, School of Graduate Studies
Seven McMaster graduate and postdoctoral researchers have received Canada's most prestigious awards for their work in medicine, science, engineering, social sciences and humanities.
Political Science PhD candidate Kelsey Leonard has been awarded the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, worth $70,000 a year for up to two years. Leonard will build on her doctoral research by looking at defining water justice for Indigenous peoples in the face of climate change.
Six doctoral students have been awarded the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. Each will receive $50,000 a year, for up to three years.
