18 international students arrive in Waterloo Region today to begin a summer of learning. The students, from India, China, Brazil and Mexico will be working under the direction of professors at the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. The Vice-President of Research and Policy at Mitacs, Rob Annan, works with the team that reviews […]

Mitacs Globalink Research Interns Adrian Gil and Mónica Arias of Mexico speak about the research they’re doing at the University of Calgary to Global Calgary News. 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 […]

OTTAWA — For civil engineering students in India, hands-on experience is hard to come by. “I assisted my professor in some construction projects which he had, but I didn’t do any research projects as such,” said India native and newly appointed University of Ottawa intern Anupriya, who only goes by one name, Studying at the […]

The University of New Brunswick is one of 32 Canadian institutions that have become benefactors of some of the top young minds in the world. UNB hopped on the two-way knowledge exchange in May as it welcomed four students from India, Mexico and Brazil to its Fredericton and Saint John campuses for a 12-week program […]

Ottawa has been running a series of TV ads for its Canada Job Grant that makes fixing the country’s unemployment problem look easy. An actor dressed as a construction worker says he’s been looking for a job for weeks but doesn’t have the right skills for the work available. How can he get more training, […]

Just one of four PhD graduates becomes a professor, which begs the question of how to capitalize on the talents of those not headed for academia. One answer, many believe, is internships at the master’s, doctoral and postdoctoral level. Such programs give young scholars an early taste of working in industry and help Canadian companies […]

Research carried out by kinesiologist Heather Wright of the University of Ottaw apromises to shed light on the impact of extreme heat on older miners. Commissioned by Vale and funded in part through the Mitacs –Accelerate research internship program, the study may influence guidelines dictating a miner’s exposure to extreme heat, the frequen­cy and number of breaks they […]

In the fall of 2010, Ben Moore paced the halls of Victoria General Hospital as an worry-ridden dad whose newborn daughter was suffering complications. He lived outside of the neonatal intensive care unit for two months, and noticed – as a telecommunications engineer and a guy who owned a smartphone – that communication between patients, […]

KITCHENER – A program that matches graduate student interns to businesses looking to develop new products or improve efficiency has received an $8.4-million funding boost from the Ontario government. The money for the Mitacs Accelerate program will help businesses across the province hire about 1,400 graduate students for four-month internships over the next two years.

Academic and research institutions are crucial to driving Canada’s innovation economy—that’s why governments across the country offer over 2000 funding programs supporting this sector. In Budget 2010, the federal government announced a comprehensive review of support for research and development (R&D) activities in Canada, which resulted in what is often referred to as the Jenkins […]

  It is often said that governments don’t create jobs—that is the role of the private sector. But governments can indeed support innovators and B.C.’s burgeoning technology sector is a prime example. More than 10 years ago, our government began creating an atmosphere, a strong foundation as a jumping-off point for researchers and businesses in […]

Michael Gilbert is waging a war on bedbugs. And he’s winning. The president and chief scientific officer of the British Columbia biotech start-up SemiosBio has figured out how to keep the pesky parasites at bay without resorting to toxic pesticides. SemiosBio uses pheromones, chemicals that insects secrete to communicate with each other – signalling an alarm, an attraction […]