Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, stopped by Western last week to launch the new Postsecondary Institutions Strategic Investment Fund, which will provide up to $2 billion, over the next three years, for infrastructure projects at postsecondary institutions “to enhance and modernize research and commercialization facilities.” Federal sources will cover up to half of a project’s eligible costs, leveraging the remaining amount from non-federal partners. Bains also toured the Fraunhofer Project Centre for Composites Research at Western’s Advanced Manufacturing Park.