For Mexican student Paulina Ramirez, summer at the University of Victoria offered many surprises: nearby woodland walks, trips to the beach and clean air by the lungful. These sorts of natural experiences were all very different from 25-year-old Ramirez’s life in Mexico City. But UVic research methods were also a huge revelation for the fourth-year […]

Chau Nguyen thinks of the people in remote Vietnamese villages who must travel half a day by bike, train or bus to get to a doctor because their local clinics don’t even have a nurse. She hopes the work she does this summer, helping University of Saskatchewan researcher Anh Dinh develop a blood pressure monitor […]

From Bogota, Colombia, to Mexico City, to the wineries of the Okanagan, PhD student Camilo Pena has been on a round-the-world research journey. His ambitions led him to Quails’ Gate winery in West Kelowna, where he has immersed himself in the day-to-day activities of the winery to gather information about sustainable viticulture practices in the […]

This is Mexican student Adrian Aleman’s second trip to Canada. But he has spent the greater half of it working on a research project at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of New Brunswick. Aleman, a fourth-year science student, is developing a digital game that will allow researchers to better understand how the […]

The way the brain operates fascinates Abigail Mendoza. “The weird thing is, it makes us work but we don’t know exactly how it works,” Mendoza said. The 23-year-old biomedical engineering student from Mexico is at the University of Alberta, looking at brain imaging to determine if there is any difference between male and female brains. […]

THE CHALLENGE Sean Clark, founder and CEO of Canadian online footwear retailer ShoeMe.ca, had several figurative doors slammed in his face by brand-named footwear distributors and traditional retailers when he first started out. “They believed Internet equals discount and a horrendous retail experience,” he says. Big-brand retailers weren’t interested in selling their wares through ShoeMe’s e-commerce […]

Calgary Herald Startup of the Week: July 12, 2014 This week we talked to Stephen Dwyer, Jamie Yuen and Nicolas Olmedo, founders of Copperstone Technologies. Copperstone develops small, low-cost devices that measure equipment location and other important variables such as temperature, vibration and environmental conditions to help companies understand whether their equipment is working properly […]