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By Dan Brown A just-launched three-year research project — which involves Western University professor Laura Misener — aims to put parasports on the map in a way they haven’t been before. And it comes as the 2020 Summer Paralympics are set to kick off in Tokyo on Aug. 24. Read more…

The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games get underway next week- but some Canadian researchers are calling for the parasport movement to become more inclusive. By Mark Connolly Interview with Western University professor Laura Misener on her research into inclusivity in parasports.  Listen here… 

The Indigenous Pathways initiative helps Indigenous businesses and not-for-profit organizations to access funding and resources Vancouver, BC – Mitacs is once again offering special funding to help empower Indigenous innovation in Canada. Through the Indigenous Pathways initiative, eligible organizations will only contribute 25 percent of the cost of projects that have an Indigenous partner organization […]

Agreement strengthens international research collaborations by creating exchange opportunities for PhD students and postdoctoral fellows Vancouver, BC — Mitacs and Germany’s GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research are delighted to launch a formal partnership to support German and Canadian doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows at host-country research institutions. GSI Darmstadt becomes the third Helmholtz centre after Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) to partner with Mitacs.   The Mitacs-GSI exchange mobility program will […]

It can take days to determine whether the insect is carrying Lyme disease. Indumathi Prakash is a student helping develop the tech, and joins us to explain. By Anne-Marie Mediwake  Interview with Indumathi Prakash of Harvard University. She is an undergraduate student working with Queen’s University to develop a device that will be able to […]

By Brittany Henriques “We have to think of a new interaction between the pilot and the cockpit,” said Master’s student Arthur Bevier on developing technology that could help resolve issues with touchscreens in aircrafts. Brittany Henriques reports. Watch here…

By Julianne Hazelwood Indumathi Prakash, a fourth-year molecular and cellular biology student at Harvard is part of the Mitacs Globalink internship program. She will be at Queen’s University in September designing a faster way to detect lyme in ticks. Listen here…

Whitehorse, YT — Research funding has been extended for another year to support Yukon’s understanding of the social, cultural, economic, environmental, and health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Mitacs student internship program, which also supports innovation-related research that will benefit the Yukon economy, was launched last year through a partnership between Mitacs, the Government of […]

By Roxanne Egan-Elliott A University of Victoria lab is working on developing an affordable, accessible and effective test to detect arsenic in drinking water, with the help of a researcher in the U.S. Read more…

Program will support businesses and not-for-profit organizations while providing work-integrated learning opportunities for students and postdocs Vancouver, BC – Mitacs is pleased to announce that, for the second year in a row, the Business Strategy Internship (BSI) program is connecting students from academic institutions across the country with businesses as the post-COVID-19 economic recovery begins in earnest.  The BSI program […]

By Kelly Cutrara Kelly talks to Harvard undergrad Indumathi Prakash about her work with Queen’s University on a rapid test to detect Lyme disease in ticks. Listen here…

By Kiernan Green This 12th year of the Mitacs Globalink internship sees Fulbright Canada scholar and Georgia Institute of Technology chemical engineer Andrea Green assisting the University of Victoria in the development of arsenic-water detectors that are compatible with cell phones. Read more…