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Two young Nova Scotia researchers are getting help from businesses to turn their smart ideas into better health care and better products. Olga Hrytsenko and Marek Lipczak, both completing post-doctoral fellowships at Dalhousie University, are the first Nova Scotia recipients of the Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship program. Mitacs brings business and top researchers together to […]

  Vancouver, BC – March 21, 2013 – Mitacs commends the Government of Canada for new investments in skills training including $13M over two years for Mitacs Globalink, an international internship program. This new funding will enable an expansion of Mitacs Globalink and provide international research internships in countries around the world to Canadian undergraduate […]

OTTAWA, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – March 20, 2013) – The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry, and the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), today announced the appointment of new members to the Science, Technology and Innovation Council (STIC). “Science, Technology and Innovation Council members are highly accomplished and respected Canadians,” said Minister Paradis. […]

Waterloo, Ontario – The Southern Ontario Water Consortium (SOWC) and Mitacs, a national non-profit research organization, have announced a Memorandum of Understanding to open strategic partnership opportunities between Ontario’s innovative water companies and local, highly-trained university graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. This agreement builds on the programs available through Mitacs, which connect high-calibre researchers with […]

Just one of four PhD graduates becomes a professor, which begs the question of how to capitalize on the talents of those not headed for academia. One answer, many believe, is internships at the master’s, doctoral and postdoctoral level. Such programs give young scholars an early taste of working in industry and help Canadian companies […]

Vancouver, B.C. – March 5, 2013 – Mitacs congratulates Dr. Suzanne Fortier, current President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, for being selected as the 17th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University in Montreal. “In appointing Dr. Fortier, McGill is ensured a tireless advocate for research and innovation, not to mention undergraduate and […]

Research carried out by kinesiologist Heather Wright of the University of Ottaw apromises to shed light on the impact of extreme heat on older miners. Commissioned by Vale and funded in part through the Mitacs –Accelerate research internship program, the study may influence guidelines dictating a miner’s exposure to extreme heat, the frequen­cy and number of breaks they […]

In the fall of 2010, Ben Moore paced the halls of Victoria General Hospital as an worry-ridden dad whose newborn daughter was suffering complications. He lived outside of the neonatal intensive care unit for two months, and noticed – as a telecommunications engineer and a guy who owned a smartphone – that communication between patients, […]

Vancouver, British Columbia, January 21, 2013—The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), visited Vancouver’s Recon Instruments today, where he announced a $35-million investment by the Harper Government in Mitacs, a national, not-for-profit research organization. The funding, which is part of Economic Action Plan 2012, supports industrial research and development (R&D) internships for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. “Collaboration […]

KITCHENER – A program that matches graduate student interns to businesses looking to develop new products or improve efficiency has received an $8.4-million funding boost from the Ontario government. The money for the Mitacs Accelerate program will help businesses across the province hire about 1,400 graduate students for four-month internships over the next two years.

Ontario is helping to connect graduate students with internship opportunities to grow the province’s knowledge-based economy and create new jobs. The government is extending support to the Mitacs Accelerate program, which connects graduate students and post-doctoral fellows with applied research opportunities at companies across Ontario. This will help provide about 1,400 four-month internships to Ontario […]

Academic and research institutions are crucial to driving Canada’s innovation economy—that’s why governments across the country offer over 2000 funding programs supporting this sector. In Budget 2010, the federal government announced a comprehensive review of support for research and development (R&D) activities in Canada, which resulted in what is often referred to as the Jenkins […]