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 […]

A locally written how-to book for musicians and other artists has been made into an interactive app. The New Rockstar Philosophy app has multimedia features that include sharing capabilities, original images of music industry icons by a local artist and video interviews with bands. “We believe we’re on the front edge of having experimented in […]

Researchers studying technology that could one day help people with degenerative diseases walk with greater ease and prevent injury to soldiers carrying heavy gear are about to get some help. Quebec City-based B-Temia is opening the world’s first Centre for Research in Dermoskeletics on the University of New Brunswick’s Fredericton campus. As part of the […]

Watching Erin Freeland Ballantyne receive the Public Policy Forum’s Emerging Leader award last month, it occurred to me how much is being overlooked in all of the soul-searching about the potential enrichment of a university education. Canada wants its citizens to be players in the global community, so it needs to graduate “students without boundaries”, […]

Jennifer Polk was a few years into her Ph.D. in history at the University of Toronto when she attended a departmental meeting and heard that 50 per cent of the school’s graduates were getting tenure-track professor jobs. “They were patting themselves on the back,” she says. “I was sitting there horrified.” She realized she needed […]

The Government of Saskatchewan is investing $365,000 in student research opportunities through Mitacs programs. The funding includes $225,000 for graduate research and development internships in Saskatchewan through Mitacs Accelerate, and $140,000 for graduate and senior undergraduate international research opportunities though Mitacs Globalink. CKRM AM Regina covers the story:  

Saskatchewan’s Education Ministry is investing a total of $365,000 into research internships for graduate and international students through the non-profit, national Mitacs program. An amount of $225,000 will go to 30 research and development internships for Saskatchewan graduate and post doctoral students, while $140,000 will fund 20 international research opportunities for international students and Saskatchewan […]

UBC’s next president, Arvind Gupta, still remembers the plane trip that brought him from the Indian state of Punjab to North America as a five-year-old boy in the late 1960s. His father, a chemist, had come a year earlier on a visiting professorship to Wayne State University in Detroit. In an interview in his office […]

A computer science professor with a reputation for putting students in jobs, partnering with industry, and attracting government funding in fiscally conservative times will be the University of B.C.’s new president. When Arvind Gupta steps into his role as UBC’s 13th president on July 1, he will take over a university from outgoing president Stephen […]

The University of British Columbia’s next president will be Arvind Gupta. Current president Stephen Toope is leaving June 30 to become director of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs. Gupta is now chief executive officer of Mitacs, a national not-for-profit organization that strives to make Canada more innovative and that is headquartered […]

The University of British Columbia, one of Canada’s largest universities, has found its new president on campus in computer-science professor Arvind Gupta. The expert on science and innovation policy was named the 13th president of UBC Tuesday morning in a ceremony that was twice disrupted by chanting animal-rights protesters. Dr. Gupta later said he relished […]

India and Canada have inked a Letter of Intent (LOI) to collaborate on research exchanges to increase student mobility between the two countries. The agreement was formalised by Mitacs CEO Arvind Gupta and Additional Secretary Amita Sharma, representing the Ministry of Human Resource Development. “This LOI represents the start of a long and fruitful collaboration […]