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A passion for math runs deep in Arvind Gupta, the University of B.C.’s new president. His mother was a math professor in India before the family moved to Canada. One of his daughters is a math teacher in Toronto. When he was a boy, his mother gave him math puzzles to solve for fun, a […]

Toronto — Proteocyte Diagnostics Inc. of Toronto announced their collaboration with Mitacs Accelerate to conduct an economic evaluation of its predictive technology for the early detection of oral cancer. “We’ve partnered with Mitacs before with great success,” said Dr. Mario Thomas, Chief Commercialization Officer of Proteocyte Diagnostics. “The intent of this study is to show the value […]

Ottawa — Tunisia and Mitacs, a Canadian not-for-profit research and training organization, signed a letter of intent with a view to working together in promoting research exchanges between the two countries. The agreementwas signed by Tunisian Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and ICT, Tawfik Jelassi and Mitacs interim CEO and Scientific Director, Rob Annan. The […]

Since arriving in Calgary in June, Chinese university student Hao Wang has immersed himself in Canadian culture while helping research new ways for the visually impaired to navigate the world around them. Wang, from Chonqing, was one of 41 international undergraduate students chosen to spend their summer at the University of Calgary as part of […]

Mitacs Accelerate, an innovative internship program, draws on student expertise to help companies develop products and bring them to market faster. Sherbrooke businesses are accelerating their opportunities for growth by tapping into the expertise of local graduate students, thanks to the success of this internship program.   Since 2008, Quebec companies have invested nearly $14 million […]

For Mexican student Paulina Ramirez, summer at the University of Victoria offered many surprises: nearby woodland walks, trips to the beach and clean air by the lungful. These sorts of natural experiences were all very different from 25-year-old Ramirez’s life in Mexico City. But UVic research methods were also a huge revelation for the fourth-year […]

Chau Nguyen thinks of the people in remote Vietnamese villages who must travel half a day by bike, train or bus to get to a doctor because their local clinics don’t even have a nurse. She hopes the work she does this summer, helping University of Saskatchewan researcher Anh Dinh develop a blood pressure monitor […]

From Bogota, Colombia, to Mexico City, to the wineries of the Okanagan, PhD student Camilo Pena has been on a round-the-world research journey. His ambitions led him to Quails’ Gate winery in West Kelowna, where he has immersed himself in the day-to-day activities of the winery to gather information about sustainable viticulture practices in the […]