Mitacs Accelerate, an innovative internship program, draws on student expertise to help companies develop products and bring them to market faster. Sherbrooke businesses are accelerating their opportunities for growth by tapping into the expertise of local graduate students, thanks to the success of this internship program.   Since 2008, Quebec companies have invested nearly $14 million […]

For Mexican student Paulina Ramirez, summer at the University of Victoria offered many surprises: nearby woodland walks, trips to the beach and clean air by the lungful. These sorts of natural experiences were all very different from 25-year-old Ramirez’s life in Mexico City. But UVic research methods were also a huge revelation for the fourth-year […]

Chau Nguyen thinks of the people in remote Vietnamese villages who must travel half a day by bike, train or bus to get to a doctor because their local clinics don’t even have a nurse. She hopes the work she does this summer, helping University of Saskatchewan researcher Anh Dinh develop a blood pressure monitor […]

From Bogota, Colombia, to Mexico City, to the wineries of the Okanagan, PhD student Camilo Pena has been on a round-the-world research journey. His ambitions led him to Quails’ Gate winery in West Kelowna, where he has immersed himself in the day-to-day activities of the winery to gather information about sustainable viticulture practices in the […]

This is Mexican student Adrian Aleman’s second trip to Canada. But he has spent the greater half of it working on a research project at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of New Brunswick. Aleman, a fourth-year science student, is developing a digital game that will allow researchers to better understand how the […]

The way the brain operates fascinates Abigail Mendoza. “The weird thing is, it makes us work but we don’t know exactly how it works,” Mendoza said. The 23-year-old biomedical engineering student from Mexico is at the University of Alberta, looking at brain imaging to determine if there is any difference between male and female brains. […]

THE CHALLENGE Sean Clark, founder and CEO of Canadian online footwear retailer ShoeMe.ca, had several figurative doors slammed in his face by brand-named footwear distributors and traditional retailers when he first started out. “They believed Internet equals discount and a horrendous retail experience,” he says. Big-brand retailers weren’t interested in selling their wares through ShoeMe’s e-commerce […]