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Mitacs Board Member Announced as Next Lieutenant Governor of Alberta

Vancouver, BC – Yesterday, Lois Mitchell was named as Alberta’s next Lieutenant Governor. Lois is a dedicated and recognized business person, volunteer, and a community leader in Alberta. Of her many roles, she has provided direction to Mitacs as a director since 2013. In a federal news release, the Prime Minister describes Lois as “an exceptional Canadian […]

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Mitacs Entrepreneurs recognized for their contributions to solar energy, coastal engineering, nutrition, and gaming

Calgary, AB – Four up-and-coming Mitacs entrepreneurs received recognition for their groundbreaking industry contributions with the launch of the Mitacs Entrepreneur Awards, awarded on May 12, 2015, in Calgary. For the first time, Mitacs celebrated start-up companies founded by outstanding alumni—former interns, postdoctoral fellows and workshop participants—who have gone on to be independent business owners and […]

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Mitacs professor wins two Grammys

Vancouver, BC – McGill Associate Professor Richard King was the recent recipient of two Grammys at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards. King’s work was recognized in two categories: Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, for Bass & Mandolin, and Best Engineered Album, Classical, for Adams, John: City Noir. King is currently collaborating with a Mitacs Accelerate intern on […]

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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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SNAP Kitchener Waterloo – Up-and-Coming Waterloo Researcher Receives Award for Commercialization

An up-and-coming Waterloo researcher has been presented with a prestigious award recognizing his outstanding achievement of accelerating the time-consuming and tedious process of measuring fatty acid and cholesterol content in food and tissue samples, a necessary step required to comply with mandated food labelling regulations in Canada. Adam Metherel, a 32-year-old Kinesiology student at the […]

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SNAP Halifax – Up-and-Coming Halifax Researcher Receives Award for Outstanding Innovation

An up-and-coming Halifax researcher has been presented with a prestigious award recognizing his outstanding innovation of creating a miniature, low-cost, high-resolution ultrasound probe that is helping to advance important clinical research. Andre Bezanson, a 26-year-old PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at Dalhousie University, was awarded the Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation – PhD following a […]

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Troy Media – Canada losing out for foreign students

Just prior to the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards being held in Toronto last summer, Indo-Canadian journalist and reporter Faiz Jamil prepared an essay for CBC online focusing on the awareness that contemporary Indians have of Canada – even with us hosting the IIFA awards. Jamil sums it up: “We simply don’t register.” “Not […]

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