- 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.
- 0August 2019Canada’s law enforcement agencies can soon be on the lookout for ‘lone wolf’ terrorists at public events using an unexpectedly useful tool: computers.
- 0April 2019Celebrating 1,500 interns in 2018 and 20 years together— UBC-Mitacs partnership continues to drive innovation and improve lives
- 0March 2019Mitacs supports USask team developing unique harness to help save injured horses
- 0May 2018A New Brunswick biotech start-up is working to keep your food fresh using a revolutionary compound made from an ingredient you might find in your fridge.
- 1June 2017Asha Srinivasan, co-founder of Boost Environmental Systems, is a recipient of the Mitacs Global Impact Entrepreneur Award.
- 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.”
- 0May 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.
- 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“During my internship, I became very comfortable speaking to businesses and explaining the benefits of my expertise. I learned about the kinds of things industry was interested in and how my research could address them.” she said. “It gave me the boost of confidence that I needed.”