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December 2016Working under the academic supervision of UBC professor Barbara Weber, Mahboubeh’s research is exploring how a philosophical inquiry approach to drug education could promote health and reduce harm associated with substance use. - 0
November 2016The research revealed that both external and internal factors played important roles in the implementation of data analytics in soccer clubs. - 0
May 2016My initial estimate of this “water footprint” showed that 1,900 litres of water were required every year to grow one kilogram of soybean in Southern Amazonia. However, this estimate was based on a crop modeling exercise with assumptions that don’t reflect the realities of producing in the tropics. - 0
May 2016When Rowan Cockett was completing a Bachelor of Science in applied and environmental geology at the University of Calgary in 2010, he noticed that his fellow students were struggling to deal with the immense amounts of geological data they were asked to interpret. - 0
May 2016“Mitacs was the first organization to believe in us... Without Mitacs’ support, I believe that we could not have gotten to the stage that we are, with BrainShield almost ready to hit the market and revolutionize the concept of helmet protection.” - 0
May 2016Rohit had come to Canada in 2012 to pursue an MBA focused on entrepreneurship at the University of Victoria. During his program, he undertook a Mitacs Accelerate internship with Limespot, a small e-commerce start-up with five employees, a far cry from his experience at Blackberry. - 0
April 2016“Mitacs was critical to me connecting with Triton, and the skills that I picked up during my internship led to my job at the company, giving me the ability to secure the contracts on my own... And from there, I founded my company.” - 0
March 2016I benefited greatly from this arrangement, as it allowed me to connect with other scholars and archivists at various French institutions. - 0
October 2015In discussions with my supervisor, I learned about the deep cultural histories of the Himalayan region, and aimed to bring together my interest in visual anthropology with a field-based ethnographic study of a social phenomenon. - 0
September 2015I collaborated with two of Dr. Zhang's senior undergrads, who have been working on similar problems. Their resulting thesis proposal has been selected as one of the key undergraduate projects at NWPU. - 0
August 2015Laise Barbosa gets a glimmer in her eye when she reflects on her research at Simon Fraser University this summer. - 0
July 2015After getting his Master’s degree, Yang Liu left his native China in 2011 to attend the University of British Columbia, one of the best universities in Canada, where he is working on his thesis.
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