Wade Hemsworth
The Hamilton Spectator
(May 30, 2009)
Three post-secondary institutions in Hamilton will be receiving more than $60 million in federal and provincial infrastructure funding.
McMaster University is getting $38.5 million, Mohawk College gets $20 million and Redeemer University College gets $3 million. But McMaster and Mohawk will have to find other ways to pay for priority projects that didn't make the cut.
McMaster officially learned yesterday it will get $22 million for its nuclear research facilities, to enhance its ability to produce medical isotopes and to broaden its research and training capabilities. The federal and provincial governments are each putting in $11 million.
The new capacity could allow McMaster's 50-year-old reactor to become a backup supplier of medical isotopes produced at Chalk River, which is now closed for repairs.
It already supplies 60,000 isotopes for prostate cancer treatments a year, and is the only other in Canada that can produce medical isotopes.
The $22 million follows $16.5 million announced Monday toward a centre for spinal cord injury and cancer education and rehab.
Still, the university will have to find other ways to pay for its proposed $60-million family medicine training clinic downtown and a $45-million life sciences building at McMaster Innovation Park.
Mohawk is getting $20 million toward its plans to renovate and expand its Fennell campus. It had asked the federal and provincial infrastructure program for up to 85 per cent of the $84-million budget.
Redeemer's $3 million comes from a federal matching program for private institutions.
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