The Daily Courier: Young Kelowna entrepreneur receives award

A Kelowna entrepreneur is receiving an award today for an aviation invention inspired by the fatal plane crash that killed former Alberta premier Jim Prentice. Ephraim Nowak, 26, has invented a first-of-its-kind lightweight cockpit video recorder that can serve as a cost-effective flight data monitoring solution for small aircraft. He will be honoured today in […]

Halifax, NS – Five outstanding, up-and-coming entrepreneurs will soon be announced as the 2019 Mitacs Entrepreneur Awards winners thanks to industry leaders from across Canada sharing their entrepreneurial insights. The judges bring a wealth of experience in start-ups, investment, research and development, and business innovation to the selection process. The awards, to be held May 28 […]

A made-in-Manitoba product is paving the way for safer travels in rural areas. Local researchers have come up with a way to change the makeup of unpaved roads, while also cutting back on the environmental impact. “The dust is such a problem. It coats vegetation. It’s a problem for farmers. It obscures the vision of […]

When the prehistoric Assiniboine River — the one that actually filled its present valley walls — slammed into Lake Agassiz 13,000 years ago on the east side of Brandon, it carried massive amounts of sediment. The sediments were gravel, sand, silt and clay but gravel was heaviest so it fell first, creating an enormous gravel […]

U of S marketing master’s student Stephanie Pankiw studies positive feminist messages in jewelry ads. Showing real women in everyday settings rather than using professional models is key for jewelry advertising that can empower women, a University of Saskatchewan researcher has found. Marketing master’s student Stephanie Pankiw has been working with Regina-based jewelry company Hillberg […]

Regina, SK – Mitacs research interns shared their work in a brilliant display of talent at the Saskatchewan Legislature. Their projects represented a broad array of Saskatchewan industry sectors including agriculture, mining, manufacturing, protein extraction, advanced engineering technologies, luxury retail, and veterinary medicine. The Mitacs interns approach Saskatchewan business challenges from their own research areas […]

“You can imagine the amount of frustration when you go to a foreign country and people there speak a language that you don’t understand.” Thanks to a partnership between the University of Regina and the Regina Public Library (RPL), Arabic-speaking refugees and recent immigrants now have another way to improve their English skills. A pilot project […]

U of S biomedical engineering student Samantha Steinke is working with veterinary assistant professor Dr. Julia Montgomery and the Saskatoon-based firm RMD Engineering Inc. to develop and test a lift and harness to better support horses while injured limbs heal. Samantha Steinke knows what it’s like to lose a horse to injury. Hers had to […]

Vancouver, BC — Dr. Michael Hawes, CEO of Fulbright Canada, and Dr. Alejandro Adem, CEO of Mitacs, are pleased to announce the Fulbright Canada – Mitacs Globalink Research program to support student mobility and educational exchange between Canada and the United States of America. This partnership will leverage Mitacs’s expertise in supporting research-based innovation and […]

Montreal, QC—Mitacs is partnering with Ericsson on their Global Artificial Intelligence Accelerator (GAIA) in Montreal, a hub focusing on research and development in artificial intelligence and machine learning. The site will be connected to three others in a global network spanning India, Sweden, and the United States (California). Over the next three years, Mitacs and […]

They’re known as a “magic mineral” because of their many applications and a University of Northern British Columbia graduate student may have found a new one. Lon Kerr’s work involves modifying natural zeolites to make anti-bacterial agents.He’s taken a sample from the International Zeolite’s Bromley Creek Quarry in British Columbia, washed it with deionized water, […]

  London, England, UK Mitacs’s new agreement with Universities UK International (UUKi) will enable UK undergraduate students to take part in research internships in Canada for the first time thanks to the Mitacs Globalink internship program and the support of UUKi. The agreement strengthens UK-Canada relationships and provides a catalyst for the development of new […]