- 0May 2016“My internship shed light on several needed improvements in the quality of haptic rendering. I realized there was an opportunity to create a business based on this.”
- 0May 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.”
- 0May 2016“The business skills I obtained from Mitacs Step made significant contributions to my success. I believe that it’s important to have career-enhancing skills, not simply technical skills.”
- 0May 2016“I wasn’t one of those people who started university with plans to launch a company,” said Jamie Yuen. “But the success of our Mitacs internship and our partnership with BMI made starting Copperstone Technologies in 2014 the logical next step.”
- 0April 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.”
- 0April 2016The opportunity to apply research in a professional environment while getting paid for it is a coveted commodity for graduate students.
- 0March 2016I benefited greatly from this arrangement, as it allowed me to connect with other scholars and archivists at various French institutions.
- 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.
- 1January 2016Pamela Ovadje, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of Windsor is the recipient of the Mitacs Postdoctoral Award for Outstanding Innovation.
- 1January 2016George Conidis, a PhD student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at York University is the recipient of the Mitacs PhD Award for Outstanding Innovation.
- 0January 2016Alberto Solis Serrano, from Mexico’s Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León is the recipient of the Mitacs Undergraduate Award for Outstanding Innovation.
- 0December 2015Canada is the land of opportunities! Academic researchers here work on immensely interesting projects and welcome students from around the globe to contribute.