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Dr. Frank Rudzicz built a robot five years ago. It was five feet tall, and it had a bulky white case, like an early iPod. It followed Alzheimer’s disease and dementia patients around their home, and instructed them to do basic tasks. But it couldn’t listen to them. Fixing that limitation was the idea behind […]

Amy Bender discusses her research with Canada’s women’s eight Olympic rowing team at the University of Calgary’s Centre for Sleep and Human Performance, funded by Mitacs and Own the Podium.

Amy Bender, a University of Calgary postdoctoral fellow, discusses her research with Canada’s women’s eight Olympic rowing team funded by Mitacs and Own the Podium.  

Not many people get excited about sound quite like Pranav Venuprasad does. The 21-year-old is currently working on a unique project at the University of Victoria to develop an audio system that creates a concert hall experience through headphones. “The thing about audio projects is finally you get a working product that you can showcase. […]

Amy Bender, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calgary’s Centre for Sleep and Human Performance, describes her research with Canada’s Women’s Olympic Rowing Team. The research is supported by Own the Podium and Mitacs, a national, non-profit research and training organization.    

London, ON and Calgary, AB – You snooze, you win. That’s the belief of the Canadian women’s eight rowing team, whose members have been taking action to improve their sleep as a winning strategy to bring home the gold at the Rio Olympics next month. From sporting blue light-blocking glasses and shutting off electronic devices […]

Vancouver, BC — Mitacs announced the appointment of Diane Gray as the chair of the organization’s board of directors. Gray replaces outgoing chair Brad Bennett, who was in the position since 2011. Bennett served on the Mitacs board of directors and as its chair since 2011. He is the president of McIntosh Properties, a real […]

A national organization is pairing international students with Halifax researchers this summer in an effort to bolster the economy and form global connections. Every year, the not-for-profit organization Mitacs brings in 565 students representing a global alphabet of countries — from Australia, Brazil, China and beyond. It’s an all-expenses paid, 12-week work-cation made possible by […]

Victoria, BC – Today, Parliamentary Secretary for Science, Terry Beech, announced the recipients of Round 5 funding under Genome Canada’s Genomic Applications Partnership Program (GAPP), which includes three Mitacs projects: Dr. Christoph Borchers, University of Victoria, and Dr. Gerald Batist, McGill University, are working with AstraZeneca to validate new technology that will help healthcare professionals […]

The IWK Health Centre is getting a jump start on creating accessible programs for parents of children with developmental delays and disruptive behaviour disorders, thanks to an international internship program. Brazilian university student, Lisandra Oliveira, 24 is trading in the sunny beaches of Brazil for a cramped, dark office at the Halifax children’s hospital in […]

Montreal, QC — Mitacs, a national non-profit research and training organization, and the Quebec Metro High Tech Park have partnered to provide research internships and training opportunities to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at Quebec universities. The new initiative connects university researchers with businesses within the High Tech Park — a Quebec City-based community of more […]

This column is part of Globe Careers’ Leadership Lab series, where executives and experts share their views and advice about leadership and management.  Peruse recent headlines on the subject of botched business and it begins to sound as though failure is actually a requirement for success: Failure is Good. Why Success Always Starts With Failure. How to be […]