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.    

She had never seen an apple tree before or experienced temperatures as cold.  Coming to Nova Scotia from south India in late May, Mitacs Globalink Exchange student Vinetha Jagadeesan had never been abroad before and, having not brought a jacket, found the temperatures downright frigid. “I’ve never experienced that kind of cold before,” she said. […]

On paper, Vinetha Jagadeesan and Dalhousie University professor Sean Myles are unlikely collaborators on a project to develop new varieties of apples. Jagadeesan, 20, is a computer science undergraduate student from southern India who is spending 12 weeks this summer as an intern at a high-tech apple orchard in Kentville. Before setting foot in Canada […]

Mitacs Globalink Research Interns Vinetha Jagadeesan and Dhanush Dineshan are contributing to research at Dalhousie University with professors Sean Myles and Adam Donaldson.

Mitacs Globalink Research Intern Vinetha Jagadeesan is contributing to genome mapping research at Dalhousie University’s Apple Biodiversity Collection in Kentville, Nova Scotia, with Professor Sean Myles.

University of Alberta graduate students Neesha Desai and Kit Chen were recipients of the third place, $10,000, Mitacs Entrepreneur Award for their innovative educational technology company, Alieo Games.

Daniel Munro is a doctor of political philosophy from MIT, but says he’s “almost” never asked to write a report on Aristotle for work. That’s because, like 80 to 90 per cent of PhDs in Canada, Munro works outside academia. There are 208,480 PhDs in Canada with more than 6,000 joining the ranks of “doctor” […]