The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, or NSERC, has awarded U of S toxicology professor Steven Siciliano $1.65 million to train a new team of graduate students in the environmentally sustainable distribution of fertilizer. The awarded program, titled Sustainable Applied Fertilizer Environment Remediation, or SAFER, will give 29 master’s and 13 PhD students from Western Canada and Europe the opportunity to learn both at home and overseas.