- 0May 2020When a radio repeater fails, police and fire fighters can’t communicate. Factories stop. To reduce outages, a multidisciplinary research team combines Industrial Internet of Things, data science, and artificial intelligence.
- 0October 2019On the heels of news that global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are soaring to record-breaking levels not seen in 800,000 years, Calgary-based SeeO2 Energy is working to reverse the trend.
- 0September 2019For Professor Martin Ordonez’s team at the UBC Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering who work in power electronics and conversion, one of the ways of being ahead is developing clean energy through research in renewable electric vehicles (EV) and power storage.
- 0December 2018Research is essential in the natural products space, where consumers need evidence that products are effective and safe. But for a small company, doing research isn’t simple.
- 0September 2017“The Mitacs program offered us an opportunity to get support for our project as well as the tools, resources, and people we needed to advance our technology,”
- 0June 2017Hamed Hanafi is a busy researcher these days. During the week, the Dalhousie University postdoc is interning with a Halifax-based medical company through a Mitacs Accelerate research project. During the evenings and weekends, he’s pursuing a personal goal of becoming an entrepreneur and getting a passion project off the ground.
- 0October 2016“I don’t think I realized I was an entrepreneur at first,” says Jeremy Koenig, founder of Halifax-based genomics start-up, Athletigen. “But then as I got more experience, I started to realize how my background in research could be an asset to me in founding a company — so I did just that.”
- 0June 2016This summer, Brazil is at the centre of a worldwide epidemic of Zika virus, a mosquito-borne illness now confirmed to be a cause of microcephaly (underdeveloped brains) in newborns.
- 1January 2016Hugo Vihvelin, a master’s student in the School of Biomedical Engineering at Dalhousie University is one of two recipients of the 2015 Mitacs Master's Award for Outstanding Innovation.
- 0October 2015But while the Halifax-based startup had worked-out the mechanical design of its brace, its team knew they needed people with expertise in body movement and rehabilitation to test it. That’s where Mitacs Accelerate came in.
- 0July 2015She hadn’t considered going abroad as part of her education, but discovering the Globalink Research Internship online prompted a change of heart.
- 0April 2015“Mitacs gives us access to really good people, as well as to equipment and infrastructure at universities that we — as a small company — could never think of getting otherwise.”