- 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.
- 0May 2016“By collaborating with other businesses and customers at the local level who share my values, I hope to develop locally-oriented solutions to food security. I see cooperation as key to establishing a local food industry that rivals the global industrial food system.”
- 0April 2016Innovation, whether researcher, technology, or social, is widely viewed as being “gender blind” or “gender neutral,” places where male and female do not matter. But according to Sarah, this is the first misconception we need to confront.
- 0November 2015The collaboration helped Renée to find a renewed sense of purpose: “Partnering with Decode through Mitacs Accelerate re-energized my research. Putting myself out there to try something different has led me to an interesting tangent that’s now leading me into the next step of my career.”
- 0October 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.
- 0September 2015Ken developed an algorithm that can accurately predict the risk of a chat message in a computationally efficient manner. His algorithm was able to identify a number of spelling variants of blacklisted words and evasive patterns that had previously gone undetected by human moderators.
- 0September 2015This summer, Ingrid has been working with the Global Special Interest Group on Early Identification and Intervention in Autism at McGill University’s Department of Psychiatry.
- 0August 2015For Chinese research intern Shuheng Zhu, the city of Winnipeg, Canada is providing a special glimpse into the complexities of public transportation planning on a much smaller scale.
- 0August 2015As a law student at Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Mexico, Wendy has learned much about the profound differences between nations regarding access to basic resources, issues of discrimination, and justice for human rights violations.
- 0August 2015Laise Barbosa gets a glimmer in her eye when she reflects on her research at Simon Fraser University this summer.
- 0July 2015She hadn’t considered going abroad as part of her education, but discovering the Globalink Research Internship online prompted a change of heart.
- 0June 2015“I want to thank Mitacs, CAPES, my professors in Brazil, and especially Dr. Fitzpatrick, my host professor, for helping me have this important experience.”