Montreal Gazette: International students study honey bee viruses with Quebec scientists

French engineering student Marie Marbaix is spending this summer in a Université de Montréal laboratory in Saint-Hyacinthe extracting DNA from honey bees, in a bid to understand the role of parasites and viruses on honey bee hive loss. “I’m very interested in virology; it’s a domain I wanted to learn more about, so that maybe […]

Vancouver, BC– Mitacs’s new agreement with Japan’s Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) focuses on research mobility, and will create a strong network that spans from academic institutions to companies and incubators in both Canada and Japan. ATR and Mitacs will explore opportunities to collaborate on multiple fronts. According to the partnership, graduate students and postdoctoral […]

Grenoble, France – Mitacs is partnering with Communauté Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE UGA) to enable French and Canadian students to take part in research internships in the other country through Mitacs programs. The five-year agreement reinforces France-Canada relationships and supports research collaboration and development between the French higher education institution and collaborating Canadian academic institutions. […]

It started with the mass shooting in Las Vegas. That’s when Thompson Rivers University computer science associate professor Andrew Park started to look into creating a system which would help police analyze a location for potential so-called ‘lone wolf’ terrorist attacks. “The idea is, why couldn’t we prevent this kind of terrible attack?” Park tells […]

VANCOUVER—When thousands of people gather for parades, concerts and festivals, they are also vulnerable to unpredictable attacks by terrorists intent on creating the most chaos and destruction, but researchers at a B.C. university say they are developing technology that could help prevent these terror events. Karthik Vedantham and Andrew Park at Thompson Rivers University in […]

Brussels, Belgium – Mitacs’s new agreement with Wallonia-Brussels International will enable PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from Canadian and French-speaking Belgian universities (Wallonia-Brussels Federation) to take part in advanced research projects in the other country. The agreement strengthens the Wallonia-Brussels–Canada relationship, and provides a catalyst for the development of new connections between universities from the Wallonia-Brussels […]

A new medical startup by Dalhousie University Ph.D. graduate Hamed Hanafi plans to use artificial intelligence to treat sleep apnea. The condition causes patients to intermittently stop breathing in their sleep. It’s usually treated with Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, or CPAP, machines that use high levels of air flow to prevent the upper airway from […]

A new medical startup by Dalhousie University Ph.D. graduate Hamed Hanafi plans to use artificial intelligence to treat sleep apnea. The condition causes patients to intermittently stop breathing in their sleep. It’s usually treated with Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, or CPAP, machines that use high levels of air flow to prevent the upper airway from […]

Home to Cirque du Soleil, the National Circus School, TOHU and more, Montreal is at the heart of Quebec’s billion-dollar contemporary circus industry. And for the first two weeks of July, industry members, artists and fans will converge on the city for the annual Montréal complètement cirque festival. Amid this flurry of excitement, Concordia University’s […]

Saint John, NB — The University of New Brunswick’s Marine Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence (MAMCE) welcomes a $1.12 million contribution from Mitacs and Lockheed Martin.   Funding support from Mitacs and Lockheed Martin will help lay the foundation for innovation and entrepreneurship in marine additive manufacturing research in New Brunswick. By leveraging $504,000 from […]

Saskatoon, SK – Mitacs and International Minerals Innovation Institute (IMII) announce a partnership to fund student internships to advance research and development into innovations in the minerals industry.   Mitacs and IMII will support Saskatchewan’s major minerals companies by leveraging funding, connections, and academic research expertise. The partnership will help advance innovations that matter to […]

Ephraim Nowak is hard at work preparing to mass produce his company’s latest development, SkyVU. “It’s a novel cockpit video recorder for small aircraft that are currently not required to use a black box recorder,” said Nowak, CEO of Percept Systems Nowak, a six-year veteran of the Central Okanagan Search and Rescue Team, says the […]