Global Regina: U of R robot to benefit offshore oil safety

Mitacs Globalink Research Intern Abhijit Chilukuri from India is working with Professor Mehran Mehrandezh to develop a rope-climbing robot for use in offshore oil and gas safety inspections.

Mitacs Globalink Research Intern Suranjana Samanta is working with Professor Mrinal Mandal at the University of Alberta to develop a tool for faster skin cancer diagnosis.

Mitacs Globalink Research Intern Orchisama Das is working with Professor Mike Smith as part of the University of Calgary’s Ranchlands Noise Investigation Team this summer.

Mitacs Globalink Research Intern Orchisama Das is working with Professor Mike Smith as part of the University of Calgary’s Ranchlands Noise Investigation Team this summer.

If you’ve ever pressed one of the low keys on a piano softly and felt the note hang in the air, then you know what it’s like to hear the Ranchlands hum. The approximately 40 hertz hum has been plaguing residents of the northwest Calgary community since 2008, and nobody can figure out where it’s […]

Mitacs Globalink Research Intern Krissia Quesney Nevarez and her professor, Jeremy Laliberté, talk about their research at Carleton University where she is developing an off-the-shelf drone for crop monitoring.  

An internship program is seeing a 58% increase in the amount of international students coming to Canada. The Mitacs Globalink program helps top performing undergrad students, from all over the world, come to Canadian universities. And 55 students in the program have come to the University of Alberta this summer. CEO of Mitacs, Alejandro Adem […]

Mitacs Globalink Research Intern Jiaqi Gao talks about his research at the University of British Columbia with his supervisor, Professor Bhushan Gopaluni.

Mitacs Globalink research interns Ashutosh Jain and Rajat Hebbar talk about their research at the University of New Brunswick this summer.        

The family farm in Mexico that Krissia Quesney Nevarez calls home never had the luxury of an aerial view that tracks the health of its crops — but it could now. The 22-year-old has been working on a project in Ottawa this summer that uses drone-aided technology to take readings of farmers’ crops, an inexpensive way to […]

Ashutosh Jain is working on something that could change Android phones forever and he chose to do that work right here in Fredericton. The Varanasi, India native has been spending his summer at the University of New Brunswick researching a new way to detect malware on a smart phone and the person behind the malicious […]

Mitacs Globalink Research Intern Shreyas Prakash and his professor, Jose Etcheverry, talk about their research on electric vehicle charging stations at York University.