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Mitacs announces winning entries to annual photo contest

Vancouver, BC — Mitacs, a not-for-profit research and training organization in Canada, announced the winning entries in its annual photo contest, which documents the research experiences of its Globalink research internship program participants. Six photographs were chosen as winners in two categories. My research: Interns shared their Globalink research. First place Piyush Rai analyzed how […]

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Brad Bennett, Mitacs’ former chair, reflects on five years of inspiring innovation

Brad Bennett recently ended his five-year tenure as Mitacs’ board chair. Having steered the organization through several key milestones and achievements, Brad possesses a particular insight into Mitacs’ success and unique position in Canada. In 2004, Brad was entering a six-year term on the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) board of governors.  Later that year, […]

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Gut Health 101: First-of-its-kind app clears up gluten-free misconceptions, brings much-needed support to celiac disease sufferers

Calgary, Alberta – Dr. Justine Dowd, a Mitacs researcher at the University of Calgary, has a strong gut feeling — and it’s a healthy one. For more than a year, Dowd has been working alongside Registered Dietitian Desiree Nielsen and WholeLife HealthTech CEO Darlene Higbee Clarkin to launch ‘My Healthy Gut,’ a first-of-its-kind app for […]

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Halifax gets summer boost from world’s brightest young minds

Halifax, NS — Tourism in Halifax is getting a boost this summer with the infusion of 19 Mitacs Globalink interns — some of the brightest young minds in the world. They’re helping to bolster the economy by spending time in local labs, focused on helping Halifax researchers make ground-breaking discoveries and form global connections in a […]

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Internships pair mathematics researchers with organizations to solve R&D challenges in Quebec and Ontario

Montreal, QC — The Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) and Mitacs, a national not-for-profit research and training organization, have partnered to see graduate and postdoctoral researchers solve challenges in collaboration with businesses and not-for-profit organizations using applications of mathematical sciences. The partnership will provide companies and organizations with access to top mathematical scientists from Quebec […]

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Mitacs announces year-end highlights for fiscal 2015–16

Vancouver, BC – Mitacs, a national non-profit research and training organization, announced its year-end highlights today for the year ending March 31, 2016. Last year, Mitacs delivered 3,785 collaborative research internships with universities and industry, trained close to 5,800 students and postdocs, and facilitated 967 international research collaborations, representing $67.9 million in funding toward innovation […]

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