As society moves further into the technological era, people expect information at their fingertips as quickly as possible. New research by downtown Toronto resident and University of Toronto postdoctoral fellow Ricardo Jota promises to make the digital world even faster. Jota and his team have come up with a way to cut down on the […]

Pragya Chawla spent her summer analyzing data from the Planck Telescope as part of an internship in Dr. Locke Spencer’s research lab at the University of Lethbridge. Her work has earned her a Mitacs Undergraduate Award for Outstanding Innovation. “I am delighted that she was selected out of all the Canadian-based Mitacs students,” said Spencer, […]

Rafael Falcon was the recipient of the NRC-IRAP Award for Commercialization at the 4th annual Mitacs Awards on November 18th, 2014.

Daniela Tuchel won the 2014 Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation- Masters for her research examining Chinese immigrant’s experiences of Canada in partnership with the Asia Pacific Foundation.

Rafael Falcon was the recipient of the NRC-IRAP Award for Commercialization at the 4th annual Mitacs Awards on November 18th, 2014.

Trojan Technologies, which has been working with researchers to improve water treatment, has been presented with the Mitacs Award for Exceptional Leadership. The London-based company is a world leader in water treatment, including ultraviolent disinfection and filtration, to deal with common microbial contamination issues in drinking water and wastewater. The inaugural award was presented by […]

London-based Trojan Technologies has received an award for exceptional leadership. The award —presented in Ottawa on Nov. 18 by London West MP Ed Holder, Minister of State (Science and Technology) — recognizes Trojan’s collaboration with researchers across the country to help advance the company’s innovative UV disinfection systems. The systems are used to treat common […]

Canada’s borders are safer thanks to the groundbreaking work of an up-and-coming Ottawa researcher who is being recognized for his contributions to developing a first-of-its-kind innovation that is helping aerial surveillance missions in Canada operate more efficiently and accurately. Rafael Falcon, who graduated with a PhD from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science […]

A University of Ottawa PhD graduate who spearheaded the development of unique mission planning software the Department of National Defence purchased to secure Canada’s borders will be given a special award Tuesday. Rafael Falcon spent two years as an intern at Mitacs working on the technology called Risk Management Framework (RMF), which he says is […]

A passion for math runs deep in Arvind Gupta, the University of B.C.’s new president. His mother was a math professor in India before the family moved to Canada. One of his daughters is a math teacher in Toronto. When he was a boy, his mother gave him math puzzles to solve for fun, a […]

Since arriving in Calgary in June, Chinese university student Hao Wang has immersed himself in Canadian culture while helping research new ways for the visually impaired to navigate the world around them. Wang, from Chonqing, was one of 41 international undergraduate students chosen to spend their summer at the University of Calgary as part of […]