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It can take days to determine whether the insect is carrying Lyme disease. Indumathi Prakash is a student helping develop the tech, and joins us to explain. By Anne-Marie Mediwake  Interview with Indumathi Prakash of Harvard University. She is an undergraduate student working with Queen’s University to develop a device that will be able to […]

By Brittany Henriques “We have to think of a new interaction between the pilot and the cockpit,” said Master’s student Arthur Bevier on developing technology that could help resolve issues with touchscreens in aircrafts. Brittany Henriques reports. Watch here…

By Julianne Hazelwood Indumathi Prakash, a fourth-year molecular and cellular biology student at Harvard is part of the Mitacs Globalink internship program. She will be at Queen’s University in September designing a faster way to detect lyme in ticks. Listen here…

Whitehorse, YT — Research funding has been extended for another year to support Yukon’s understanding of the social, cultural, economic, environmental, and health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Mitacs student internship program, which also supports innovation-related research that will benefit the Yukon economy, was launched last year through a partnership between Mitacs, the Government of […]

By Roxanne Egan-Elliott A University of Victoria lab is working on developing an affordable, accessible and effective test to detect arsenic in drinking water, with the help of a researcher in the U.S. Read more…

Program will support businesses and not-for-profit organizations while providing work-integrated learning opportunities for students and postdocs Vancouver, BC – Mitacs is pleased to announce that, for the second year in a row, the Business Strategy Internship (BSI) program is connecting students from academic institutions across the country with businesses as the post-COVID-19 economic recovery begins in earnest. The BSI program […]

By Kelly Cutrara Kelly talks to Harvard undergrad Indumathi Prakash about her work with Queen’s University on a rapid test to detect Lyme disease in ticks. Listen here…

By Kiernan Green This 12th year of the Mitacs Globalink internship sees Fulbright Canada scholar and Georgia Institute of Technology chemical engineer Andrea Green assisting the University of Victoria in the development of arsenic-water detectors that are compatible with cell phones. Read more…

Vancouver, BC — The Kids Brain Health Network (KBHN) and Mitacs launch the second year of collaborative research awards to support children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and their families across Canada. College, undergraduate, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows from all disciplines are invited to participate in the 2021 KBHN-Mitacs awards competition. The KBHN-Mitacs awards support collaborative research between KBHN, a non-academic partner, and an intern.  The call for research proposals includes 10 internship […]

By Mia Rabson Ms. Prakash, 21, is working with a Queen’s University professor, although virtually, on a rapid test that will diagnose the bacterium that causes Lyme disease in ticks in just a few hours. Read more…

New agreement strengthens connections and promotes research exchange opportunities for graduate students and postdocs Vancouver, BC — Today, Mitacs and IC-IMPACTS (the India-Canada Centre for Innovative Multidisciplinary Partnerships to Accelerate Community Transformation and Sustainability) have signed a three-year agreement to support research collaborations in sectors of mutual interest, including integrated water management, safe and sustainable […]

Queen’s researchers building rapid testing device for Lyme disease By Alan Neal We talk to two researchers who want to shrink the time it takes to detect Lyme disease in ticks. Listen here…