Industrial and academic labs are saving time and money these days, thanks to Adam Metherel’s innovation.  Metherel, a 32-year-old post-doctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo, is receiving an award this week to recognize his work on an innovation that improved the time-consuming and tedious process of measuring fatty acids and cholesterol in food and […]

University of British Columbia researcher Emily Morris is being recognized nationally for her work in linking stigmatized attitudes toward mental illness by medical professionals with a higher risk of psychiatric disorders in patients with a rare genetic condition. “I feel very honoured and privileged to be receiving it,” Morris, 28, said of the Mitacs Award […]

University of B.C. researcher Emily Morris is being recognized nationally for her work in linking stigmatized attitudes toward mental illness by medical professionals with a higher risk of psychiatric disorders in patients with a rare genetic condition. “I feel very honoured and privileged to be receiving it,” said the 28-year-old Morris of the Mitacs Award […]

International students account for one out of every 10 undergraduates studying at Canadian universities. Nova Scotia, often referred to as Canada’s education capital, has achieved significant success in attracting international and out-of-province students. My own institution, Saint Mary’s University, has one of highest proportions of international students in the country. Nearly 30 per cent of […]

Mitacs Globalink interns Jiacheng Wu and Jie Shu discuss their research projects and the Mitacs Globalink program on Fairchild TV’s Leisure Talk. Mitacs would like to thank the following government and international partners, in addition to our full and associate university partners, for their support of Globalink in 2013: Western Economic Diversification Canada, the Government […]

Nearly one-third of postdocs in Canada are ambivalent about or dissatisfied with their experience, a survey finds. For The 2013 Canadian Postdoc Survey, the Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars and Vancouver-based non-profit research organization Mitacs polled 1,830 postdocs at 130 institutions in academia, government and the private sector. Nearly half were dissatisfied with benefits such as […]

“Administrative ambiguity,” “low compensation and benefits,” and “insufficient training” are the three biggest problems facing Canada’s postdocs, according to a report issued on 2 October by the Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars and Mitacs, a nonprofit training and research organization. Presenting answers given by 1830 postdocs at 130 institutions including “universities, hospitals, government laboratories, and […]

Like their peers down south, Canadian postdoctoral students are facing a tough job environment. The results of a new national survey released on Wednesday say they are in “dire need” of more pay, improved benefits, and better career training. Two-thirds of Canadian postdocs earn less than $44,000, many of them without access to health and […]

A new survey of postdoctoral scholars in Canada paints a portrait of early career researchers who are generally satisfied with their research environment but frustrated by their ambiguous employment status, poor compensation and inadequate training. The online survey (PDF), released on Oct. 2, was conducted this past spring by the Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars and Mitacs, a not-for-profit organization […]

The Mitacs-Accelerate program was created in 1999 to connect graduate-level students with companies interested in having students work with them on business-related research projects. Jointly funded by the federal and provincial governments, last year it organized 1,750 internships, a number it hopes to bring to 2,000 this year. Students take up a business problem or research question […]

Thousands of international students who study at Canada’s universities and colleges each year arrive eager to integrate themselves into the country’s culture, but a majority still don’t, putting pressure on schools to provide more help for them to fit in. Some 58 per cent of international students in Canada report having very few or no […]