Canada Recruits Top U.S. Academics from Harvard and MIT Amid Policy Shifts
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s administration is offering substantial funding to attract leading researchers and faculty from Harvard, MIT, and other elite American universities. The recruitment drive aims to bolster Canada’s academic and scientific sectors amid growing uncertainty in U.S. higher education policy.
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Canada Hires U.S. Scholars From Harvard and Other Top Universities
A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.
By Vjosa Isai
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Canada has awarded 64 global scholars with C$504 million (US$362 million) in funding to relocate their work to Canadian universities and advance projects in areas such as health and artificial intelligence. Some 48 of the researchers were poached from the US, including from elite institutions such as Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The other 16 researchers are coming from 12 other countries, including the UK, Germany, China and Japan. “While certain countries...
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