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Accelerate | Media Coverage
Globe & Mail - Internships benefit scholars and industry
05 March 2013
Just one of four PhD graduates becomes a professor, which begs the question of how to capitalize on the talents of those not headed for academia.One answer, many believe, is internships at the master...
Accelerate | Media Coverage
Sudbury Mining Solutions Journal - Research assesses heat stress on older miners
01 March 2013
Research carried out by kinesiologist Heather Wright of the University of Ottaw apromises to shed light on the impact of extreme heat on older miners.Commissioned by Vale and funded in part...
Accelerate | Media Coverage
Saanich News - Prying doctors from their pagers
20 February 2013
In the fall of 2010, Ben Moore paced the halls of Victoria General Hospital as an worry-ridden dad whose newborn daughter was suffering complications. He lived outside of the neonatal intensive care...
Accelerate | Media Coverage
Waterloo Record - Program that matches interns to businesses gets funding boost
15 January 2013
KITCHENER - A program that matches graduate student interns to businesses looking to develop new products or improve efficiency has received an $8.4-million funding boost from the Ontario...
Accelerate | Media Coverage
Financial Post online - Funding opportunities for the academic and research sector
09 January 2013
Academic and research institutions are crucial to driving Canada’s innovation economy—that’s why governments across the country offer over 2000 funding programs supporting this...
Media Coverage
Georgia Straight - B.C. government is investing in technology sector
05 December 2012
It is often said that governments don't create jobs—that is the role of the private sector. But governments can indeed support innovators and B.C.'s burgeoning technology sector...
Accelerate | Media Coverage
Vancouver Sun - For some, inventing is easier than selling their idea
24 November 2012
Michael Gilbert is waging a war on bedbugs.And he's winning. The president and chief scientific officer of the British Columbia biotech start-up SemiosBio has figured out how to keep the...
Media Coverage
Halifax Chronicle-Herald: Grads, firms get hand from Mitacs
15 November 2012
WHEN OLGA HRYTSENKO was finishing up her PhD in biology, the Ukraine native began looking for work in her field. But every job that piqued her interest required industry experience.“Every...
Media Coverage
Financial Post - Research organization successfully takes on role of R&D matchmaker
24 October 2012
It’s a common issue—a business is faced with a nagging problem that requires research in order to solve, but doesn’t have the resources or the in-house knowledge to move forward....
Globalink | Media Coverage
GlobalTV BC - Feature story on Mitacs Globalink
01 October 2012
Click on the link below to view the story, with Brian Coxford.
