At 87 years old, Patricia Bayley is not your typical doctoral degree student. But even if she has many more decades of life experience, Bayley is demonstrating there is a place for her, and for others, at Ontario Tech University to pursue a lifelong adventure in education.

Ontario Tech’s powerful upward research trajectory continues after Canada’s research funding Tri-agencies announced new grants valued at nearly $4.5 million for 32 new projects across multiple research disciplines being led by dozens of the university’s faculty experts.