- 0August 2023#MitacsImpact: In partnership with Université de Montréal and Mitacs, Congolese student helps develop Bioxy Plus, a breakthrough disinfectant effective against Escherichia coli K12
- 0September 2022Dagoberto Torres García is putting his DNA extraction and PCR testing skills to use in Quebec this summer by helping to identify leafhoppers carrying harmful pathogens responsible for spreading disease affecting berry fields worldwide
- 0September 2021Top student from India and Mitacs Globalink intern, Hina Tomar, is helping a team at Université de Moncton to get to the root of the weed management problem on Canadian farms by designing smart agricultural drones.
- 0June 2021To address fresh food access barriers faced by Nisga’a Nation members living in Prince Rupert, BC, Ecotrust Canada’s North Coast Innovation Lab (NCIL) and Gitmaxmak’ay Nisga’a Society designed a unique initiative that reflects community needs and values.
- 0December 2020Multidisciplinary team led by University of Winnipeg researchers develops robotic system that automatically generates and labels large datasets of prairie crop plants and weeds to unlock innovation in food production
- 0June 2020Research team from the University of Guelph is helping an Ontario-based company to provide a health care solution, innovate, and diversify their business by turning UV technology for cleaning fresh produce into a mask decontaminant.
- 0March 2020The process of metabolic engineering extracts the genes responsible for cannabinoid production from cannabis plants and inserts them into algae, creating a type of cannabis surrogacy in algae.
- 0October 2019‘Buddy’ is no friend to maple syrup producers, costing the industry millions of dollars each year across eastern North America.
- 0March 2019Mitacs supports USask team developing unique harness to help save injured horses
- 0February 2018As Canada’s fourth largest crop, barley is an important part of the national agricultural landscape. It’s a key component in beer production, which generates 5.8 billion in the economy, and much of it is exported to international markets. Nine out of 10 barley farmers rely on exports for a significant part of their income.
- 0November 2017Sometimes the seeds of a great career in engineering lie in a project studying seeds themselves — or the technology that helps farmers plant them.
- 0October 2017Mitacs intern Oldooz Pooyanfar, a graduate student from Simon Fraser University’s School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering, is working on a ‘smart’ system that monitors the health of honey bees and their hives.