Four top university students from countries like India, China, Brazil and Mexico are working in research labs at the University of Lethbridge this summer during a three-month internship through a program called Globalink. Mariel Rodriguez, a student at UNAM, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, has been in Lethbridge since May working in Claudia Gonzalez’ […]

Mitacs Globalink student Mariel Rodriguez featured on CTV Lethbridge, discussing her research project on how the human mind perceives the hand. 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 of […]

Mitacs Director International, Laura Wood, joins Mitacs Globalink interns Megha Tak, Mariana Guimaraes and Mariana Boeira to discuss their research projects and the Mitacs Globalink program on CTV’s Canada AM. 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 […]

EDMONTON – Brazilian student Henrique Vieira has been in Edmonton for just a few months, but already he’s designed about 50 different storylines for an educational video game for high school students. Vieira is one of more than 250 undergraduate students coming to Canada from India, China, Brazil and Mexico as part of the Mitacs […]

Train accidents – such as the one earlier this month where a runaway train loaded with oil derailed and exploded in Lac-Mégantic – can be devastating. But new technology being studied by a woman from India at the University of British Columbia could make railway accidents less likely to occur. Madhuri Suthar, 21, is in […]

For Jorge Peña and Anup Daté, a summer at the University of Victoria provided hands-on training in high-tech research, and a chance to explore a scenic new city. For Canada, it’s a 12-week opportunity to convince the brightest young minds from emerging economies to relocate here. Peña, a 23-year-old biotechnology student from the Monterrey Institute […]

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Mitacs CEO & Scientific Director, Arvind Gupta, and UBC Globalink student Diego Parra joined host Bill Good in studio to discuss Mitacs Globalink and the need for Canada to recruit the best and brightest international talent.  

Call it McMaster’s brain gain. This summer, some of the world’s best and brightest young minds are converging on the university as part of a unique program aimed at fostering global partnerships and boosting the school’s profile as an international research destination. “Science is an international endeavour,” said Margaret Fahnestock, a professor in the department […]

For two months, Aritra Sasmal has been immersed in Canadian university life.   He spends 10-hour days at the University of Waterloo campus in the math and computer building where he’s researching the mathematical theory behind the energy of internal waves in bodies of water. He’s studying the importance of these waves that occur beneath […]

Ana Pinson has travelled 2,000 miles looking for answers a fraction of a centimetre wide. Stretched out, the DNA from a human cell is about three metres long, but only about two nanometers (0.0000002 centimetres) wide. Pinson is between her third and fourth years of study on genomic sciences at the National Autonomous University of […]

The Mitacs Globalink program was born with one purpose in mind: to draw the best and brightest minds from around the globe to Canada for research and development studies. Though boasting many prestigious and respected learning institutions, Canada nonetheless lags behind in the race for global talent. “Unfortunately, when the best and brightest in other […]