Nearly one-third of postdocs in Canada are ambivalent about or dissatisfied with their experience, a survey finds. For The 2013 Canadian Postdoc Survey, the Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars and Vancouver-based non-profit research organization Mitacs polled 1,830 postdocs at 130 institutions in academia, government and the private sector. Nearly half were dissatisfied with benefits such as […]

“Administrative ambiguity,” “low compensation and benefits,” and “insufficient training” are the three biggest problems facing Canada’s postdocs, according to a report issued on 2 October by the Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars and Mitacs, a nonprofit training and research organization. Presenting answers given by 1830 postdocs at 130 institutions including “universities, hospitals, government laboratories, and […]

Like their peers down south, Canadian postdoctoral students are facing a tough job environment. The results of a new national survey released on Wednesday say they are in “dire need” of more pay, improved benefits, and better career training. Two-thirds of Canadian postdocs earn less than $44,000, many of them without access to health and […]

A new survey of postdoctoral scholars in Canada paints a portrait of early career researchers who are generally satisfied with their research environment but frustrated by their ambiguous employment status, poor compensation and inadequate training. The online survey (PDF), released on Oct. 2, was conducted this past spring by the Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars and Mitacs, a not-for-profit organization […]

The Mitacs-Accelerate program was created in 1999 to connect graduate-level students with companies interested in having students work with them on business-related research projects. Jointly funded by the federal and provincial governments, last year it organized 1,750 internships, a number it hopes to bring to 2,000 this year. Students take up a business problem or research question […]

Thousands of international students who study at Canada’s universities and colleges each year arrive eager to integrate themselves into the country’s culture, but a majority still don’t, putting pressure on schools to provide more help for them to fit in. Some 58 per cent of international students in Canada report having very few or no […]

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Four top university students from countries like India, China, Brazil and Mexico are working in research labs at the University of Lethbridge this summer during a three-month internship through a program called Globalink. Mariel Rodriguez, a student at UNAM, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, has been in Lethbridge since May working in Claudia Gonzalez’ […]

Mitacs Globalink student Mariel Rodriguez featured on CTV Lethbridge, discussing her research project on how the human mind perceives the hand. Mitacs would like to thank the following government and international partners, in addition to our full and associate university partners, for their support of Globalink in 2013: Western Economic Diversification Canada, the Government of […]

Mitacs Director International, Laura Wood, joins Mitacs Globalink interns Megha Tak, Mariana Guimaraes and Mariana Boeira to discuss their research projects and the Mitacs Globalink program on CTV’s Canada AM. Mitacs would like to thank the following government and international partners, in addition to our full and associate university partners, for their support of Globalink […]

EDMONTON – Brazilian student Henrique Vieira has been in Edmonton for just a few months, but already he’s designed about 50 different storylines for an educational video game for high school students. Vieira is one of more than 250 undergraduate students coming to Canada from India, China, Brazil and Mexico as part of the Mitacs […]

Train accidents – such as the one earlier this month where a runaway train loaded with oil derailed and exploded in Lac-Mégantic – can be devastating. But new technology being studied by a woman from India at the University of British Columbia could make railway accidents less likely to occur. Madhuri Suthar, 21, is in […]