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Mitacs announces year-end highlights for fiscal year 2014

Vancouver, BC – Mitacs Inc., a national, not-for-profit organization that designs and delivers unique research and training programs, announced its year-end highlights today for the year ending, April 1, 2013–March 31, 2014. Program highlights 2,240 Mitacs Accelerate internships, including a three-year, multi-university project, between the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Carleton University and […]

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Mitacs congratulates Dr. B. Mario Pinto on his appointment as President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Mitacs welcomes the appointment of Dr. B. Mario Pinto as the next president of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). “We congratulate Dr. Pinto as he takes on the presidency at NSERC. His accomplishments in practical research along with his experience in innovation leadership will ensure the council continues its mandate […]

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New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal: Researchers at UNB taking giant steps in linking robotics with human body

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 […]

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Canadian Light Source partners with Mitacs

Saskatoon, S.K., – The Canadian Light Source synchrotron has signed a memorandum of understanding with Mitacs, a national, not-for-profit organization that brings together academia, industry and the public sector, to develop cutting edge tools and technologies vital to Canada’s knowledge-based economy. “We hope that this partnership will facilitate access to synchrotron research capacity for industry-academic […]

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Government of New Brunswick to invest in research and development through Mitacs

Bringing together industry and academia, the Government of New Brunswick is investing $297,500 into two Mitacs programs for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The funding supports industrial research and development (R&D) internships for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The funding enables 35 collaborative research and development projects through the Mitacs Accelerate research internship program and the Mitacs […]

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Globe and Mail: See the World. But see Canada too

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”, […]

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Maclean’s.ca: When PhDs realize they won’t be professors

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 […]

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Mitacs and Sorbonne Universités join forces to support two-way student mobility between Canada and Sorbonne Universités

Vancouver, B.C., – Mitacs and Sorbonne Universités formalized a partnership today that will support two-way international research opportunities for graduate researchers at Canadian universities and Sorbonne Universités in France. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between Mitacs, a Canadian research network that connects university-based researchers with businesses, companies, not-for-profits and government, and Sorbonne Universités, […]

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Study of Mitacs program outcomes reveals significant skills development, job creation, and retention of highly qualified personnel in Canada

Vancouver, BC – Results from a longitudinal survey released this week by Mitacs Inc. demonstrate that Mitacs Accelerate benefits Canadian research and development as well as individual participants.  Mitacs Accelerate pairs graduate students from Canadian universities with companies across Canada for research internships. Former Mitacs Accelerate participants overwhelmingly report improved academic experience and skills development, as […]

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