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Comparing Historical and Contemporary Elements of Jasal (Suicide) in South Korea

South Korea has relatively high rates of suicide, making suicide a contemporary social issue that merits study. Korea has a long history of colonial violence, as well as decades of rapid modernization and social change. I believe the concept of suicide, and broader concepts of health for that matter, should be mapped throughout Korea’s unfortunate and ever-changing history to undercover cultural meanings. Understanding how suicide has changed over time in Korea will provide an interesting and useful analysis on the concept itself, as well as finding elements that should be a part of understandings today. My preliminary research will consist of analyzing historical documents from colonial times, mapping suicide through time, while considering how suicide is understood and addressed in Korea today. With the help of the knowledgeable faculty and archives at Yonsei, I expect to be able to effectively map the meanings of suicide in Korea, past and present. I intend for this study to contribute ideas to more effective suicide prevention efforts, as well as mental health counselling.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robin Oakley

Student:

Partner:

Yonsei University;Seoul National University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Géochimie de résidus non magnétiques de la mine Lac Tio

À la mine Lac Tio (Québec), exploitée par Rio Tinto Fer et Titane (RTFT), les rejets miniers génèrent parfois du nickel au-delà des seuils permis dans les eaux de drainage. Alors que RTFT prévoit de retraiter des rejets existants pour en extraire leur valeur économique résiduelle, il est nécessaire d’évaluer de quelle manière le nouveau rejet issu du retraitement pourrait libérer du nickel. Pour ce faire, diverses caractérisations géochimiques et minéralogiques seront effectuées. Des essais de prédiction de la qualité de l’eau seront réalisés avec et sans l’ajout d’un produit chimique inhibant la rétention des métaux. Cela permettra de planifier adéquatement la gestion environnementale de ce rejet et de mieux tenir compte de sa capacité à retenir les métaux. Les stagiaires auront l’occasion d’acquérir une expérience de travail en laboratoire enrichissante en plus d’interagir avec des scientifiques de l’industrie et d’en apprendre davantage sur la gestion des rejets miniers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Benoit Plante;Thomas Pabst

Student:

Partner:

Rio Tinto Fer et Titane inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Mining; Sustainability & the Environment; Environmental Science and Technology

University:

Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Program:

Accelerate

Ditch Labs Inc.

Ditch Labs est une entreprise de technologie médicale incubée au Centech à Montréal. Fondée en 2019 par deux jeunes entrepreneurs en série, l’entreprise développe un inhalateur de nicotine médical pour aider 1,3 milliards de personnes à se débarrasser de leur dépendance à la nicotine. Fidèle à son plan de développement, Ditch bénéficie actuellement d’un support financier du Centech et d’organismes gouvernementaux et paragouvernementaux. Ainsi, l’entreprise a pu développer un prototype fonctionnel de sa technologie et peut maintenant passer à la prochaine étape de son développement, les tests critiques en laboratoires. L’entreprise travaille actuellement à préparer sa première ronde de financement en capital privé d’ici l’automne 2020 qui permettra en grande partie d’élaborer des tests en laboratoire avec des chercheurs de différentes universités canadiennes. Ditch a donc décidé d’engager un stagiaire pour l’aider dans la préparation et l’exécution de sa stratégie de financement à court terme.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sylvain Perron

Student:

Partner:

Ditch

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Other

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Understanding Stress Signaling in Childhood Cancers: reactive oxidant species (ROS) signaling pathways

The Sorensen laboratory-based Childhood Cancer Research Program is specifically focused on elucidating the genetic and biological determinants of the metastatic process in childhood cancer.
Metastatic disease remains the single most dominant driver of adverse outcome in most childhood cancers, particularly in childhood sarcomas. There are two basic strategies in the program for
studying metastatic disease in childhood cancers. The first is to focus on cell stress signaling. Emerging evidence indicates that adaptation to prototypical forms of cell stress plays a major role in
tumor cell selection and metastasis

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Faculty Supervisor:

Poul Sorensen

Student:

Partner:

Team Finn Foundation;BC Cancer Agency

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Coopérative Au-Pied-du-Mont-Ham

Le projet vise à établir une nouvelle stratégie pour l’organisation. Les objectifs sont les suivants:
1) analyser le contexte stratégique de l’organisation (PESTEL, 5+1);
2) définir un nouveau plan d’affaires (analyse de marché, identifier des groupes d’acheteurs potentiels ayant des ambitions alignées avec celles de la coopérative, plan de communication et marketing, plan de financement; et
3) déterminer la nouvelle structure organisationnelle pour assurer la réussite de la nouvelle stratégie.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sylvain Perron

Student:

Partner:

Coopérative Au Pied du Mont-Ham

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Calixa Technologies Inc.

Calixa Technologies est une jeune entreprise montréalaise utilisant l’intelligence artificielle pour améliorer la découvrabilité des produits de mode, de beauté et de style de vie. Magasiner ce type de produits présente souvent de nombreux points de friction, notamment passer de longues heures à faire défiler de nombreux articles pour ne finalement obtenir que des résultats de recherche peu pertinents. À l’aide d’algorithmes d’apprentissage automatique et de vision par ordinateur, Calixa génère des flux d’achat dynamiques, contextuels et personnalisés, favorisant des résultats plus adaptés à chaque acheteur. En réponse à l’impact important de la Covid-19 sur le commerce de détail, Calixa a rapidement lancé sa propre plateforme d’achat axée sur la découverte de marques indépendantes, démocratisant ainsi l’accès à une technologie critique pour le commerce de détail moderne. Pour ce projet, le stagiaire serait appelé à supporter le lancement de la plateforme dans une capacité de gestionnaire de projet. Le candidat serait responsable coordonner avec les commerces participants pour l’intégration de leur inventaire, l’affichage de produits, déterminer les besoins et les priorités des clients, planifier les besoins du projet, travailler en lien étroit avec la gestionnaire marketing, assurer les livrables et le succès des commerces participants.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sylvain Perron

Student:

Partner:

Calixa Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Business Strategy Analyst

This internship will be beneficial to our organization as well as to Canadians. In essence, our service helps Canadian lawyers who are being negatively impacted by COVID-19 transition to working remotely. Corvum also provides them with a platform that allows them to be more efficient and reclaim lost time. This allows them to generate more revenue and hire additional staff, thus creating jobs for Canadians. By adapting our product we will increase the value we provide to our clients, as well as the number of customers going through the sales and onboarding pipelines. By doing this we are indirectly creating more job opportunities in our customers firm’s as well as our own company. By growing our business, we will be able to implement new innovative features that are currently on our product roadmap, and help grow new intellectual property in Canada

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andrew Gemino

Student:

Partner:

Corvum

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Stability Testing for Cannabis Products

Understanding the stability profile of a product, whether a consumer packaged good or a pharmaceutical drug product, is key to ensuring the consumer has a safe and effective product. In the pharmaceutical realm, the internationally accepted approach to stability testing is codified within the International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH) Guidance: Q1A(R2) (Stability Testing of New Drug Substances and Products) and Q1B (Stability Testing: Photostability Testing of New Drug Substances and Products). Even within the Canadian Cannabis Regulations with regards to Expiry Dating, there is the requirement to have data to demonstrate that the potency is maintained within the proscribed range of label claim and microbial and chemical contaminant limits remain with release specification requirements.
The results of this research project will enhance future stability protocols and design better formulations and/or container closures, a deeper understanding of degradation pathways and appropriate stability indicating assays would be beneficial. The body of scientific literature in this area is limited due to the regulatory restrictions that have existed with regards to cannabis and its derivatives, and this study will contribute to building that body of literature.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Barbara Allen;Kari Kramp

Student:

Partner:

Medipharm Labs

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Loyalist College

Program:

Accelerate

COVID-19 Infection and Epithelial Cell Markers

Covid-19 has emerged as a major health concern in 2020, with a mortality rate of 11%. Covid-19 is due to a new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which enters the human body through a receptor called ACE-2 in the airway. Asthmatics are usually at increased risk for viral infections, which exacerbated their asthma symptoms, however early clinical studies suggest that asthma is not a main risk factor for developing Covid-19, and that asthmatics taking inhaled steroids possibly have less of the ACE-2 receptor in their airways. We will compare the level of the ACE-2 receptor and inflammatory cells in the upper and lower airways of asthmatics and healthy controls. We will also compare the levels of ACE-2 receptor and inflammatory cells in patients with Covid-19 confirmed infection (asthmatics and non-asthmatics) to a hospitalized group without Covid-19 infection, and examine if inflammatory cells which drive asthma protect against developing Covid-19 disease. This will increase our understanding of the role of the ACE-2 receptor and inflammatory cells in asthmatics, and their role in the development of Covid-19 disease.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gail Gauvreau

Student:

Partner:

AstraZeneca Canada Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Investigation of IL-5R? expression on ILC2 as a target for Benralizumab

A newly identified group of cells termed type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) have been discovered in the past decade. Increasing evidence supports the view that ILC2s play a central role in driving the cellular changes in the airways of asthmatic subjects. ILC2s are increased in severe asthmatics with uncontrolled inflammation despite being on the highest doses of accepted therapies like oral and inhaled steroids. Finding pathways that control ILC2s may provide additional therapies to control severe asthma. We have previously detected a receptor on the surface of ILC2 termed IL-5Ralpha (CD125) and this study aims to confirm the presence of this receptor on ILC2s and understand the biology of this receptor, specifically factors that up-regulate expression levels. In addition, using in vitro culture experiments, we will investigate the effect of a drug that targets and removes cells that express this receptor, namely Benralizumab on ILC2s.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Roma Sehmi

Student:

Partner:

AstraZeneca Canada Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Data Management/Learning Development

The project to be conducted is to help improve Hawkins and Co’s internal systems by creating a streamlined process for retrieving data allowing communication and accuracy to be more effective and efficient. Currently, the company can find it difficult to gather data effectively, especially having to work from home due to COVID. This project will ensure our client communications are conducted with increased consistency and ensure compliance. This project will also include an internal training system upgrade to ensure staff can continue with necessary internal training without needed to physically be in the office. There will be a focus on developing training materials to be utilized by staff that can be easily accessed via an e-learning platform.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Peter Savoni

Student:

Partner:

Hawkins and Co. Accounting

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Mely.ai

Les activités prévues lors de ce projet serve à poursuivre et conclure ceux qui ont été effectués lors du premier projet. L’ensemble du projet s’établie sur un plan annuel puisque le but principal est de générer des leads potentiels (Inbound) tout en établissant l’image de la compagnie qui doit être reconnue au grand publique. La première phase du projet consistait à effectuer une recherche avancée quant aux marchés et son environnement. J’ai également établi un processus de génération des leads en agrandissant la communauté sur les réseaux sociaux. Puis en restructurant des aspects de l’organisme afin de mieux représenter son image et sa proposition de valeur. En autre, à travers son site web. Nous avons également déterminé lors de cette phase que les États-Unis est une démographie très intéressante pour notre produit et que nous devons développer nos efforts sur ce marché. La suite du projet consiste à effectuer notre plan et augmenter ses chances de succès en évaluant et en s’adaptant constamment à notre marché.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sylvain Perron

Student:

Partner:

Mely.ai Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Business Strategy Internship