The 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.”

In 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.

Ken 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.

This 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.

For 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.

As 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.

Laise Barbosa gets a glimmer in her eye when she reflects on her research at Simon Fraser University this summer.

"Investing in philosophy has produced a tremendous enhancement of the outcomes of our work.”

"With these new, shorter tests that are easier to administer, family doctors will have access to a quick snapshot of what a patient’s mental or cognitive health is like, allowing them to provide support and get into prevention a lot earlier.”

Daniela Tuchel, a Master’s graduate from the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University, was the recipient of the 2014 Mitacs Master’s Award for Outstanding Innovation.