Calgary Herald Startup of the Week: July 12, 2014 This week we talked to Stephen Dwyer, Jamie Yuen and Nicolas Olmedo, founders of Copperstone Technologies. Copperstone develops small, low-cost devices that measure equipment location and other important variables such as temperature, vibration and environmental conditions to help companies understand whether their equipment is working properly […]

A locally written how-to book for musicians and other artists has been made into an interactive app. The New Rockstar Philosophy app has multimedia features that include sharing capabilities, original images of music industry icons by a local artist and video interviews with bands. “We believe we’re on the front edge of having experimented in […]

Researchers studying technology that could one day help people with degenerative diseases walk with greater ease and prevent injury to soldiers carrying heavy gear are about to get some help. Quebec City-based B-Temia is opening the world’s first Centre for Research in Dermoskeletics on the University of New Brunswick’s Fredericton campus. As part of the […]

Watching Erin Freeland Ballantyne receive the Public Policy Forum’s Emerging Leader award last month, it occurred to me how much is being overlooked in all of the soul-searching about the potential enrichment of a university education. Canada wants its citizens to be players in the global community, so it needs to graduate “students without boundaries”, […]

Jennifer Polk was a few years into her Ph.D. in history at the University of Toronto when she attended a departmental meeting and heard that 50 per cent of the school’s graduates were getting tenure-track professor jobs. “They were patting themselves on the back,” she says. “I was sitting there horrified.” She realized she needed […]

The Government of Saskatchewan is investing $365,000 in student research opportunities through Mitacs programs. The funding includes $225,000 for graduate research and development internships in Saskatchewan through Mitacs Accelerate, and $140,000 for graduate and senior undergraduate international research opportunities though Mitacs Globalink. CKRM AM Regina covers the story: