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Vancouver, BC — Professor Emeritus Jo-ann Archibald, Q’um Q’um Xiiem an educational scholar and member of the Mitacs Research Council, has been appointed Officer of the Order of Canada. One of the highest honours in Canada, the Order of Canada is presented to people who make extraordinary contributions to society. Professor Emeritus Archibald, a visionary […]

Anaconda Mining, CNA collaborate, NL partnership aims to reach hard-to-get gold deposits and lead mining innovation. Developing a means of obtaining gold from a streambed has been difficult. This undeveloped access to the gold deposit at Deer Cove on the Baie Verte Peninsula has been bandied about since 1986. A new partnership announced on Tuesday […]

Guelph, ON — Genomics research produces dramatic breakthroughs in science, transforming our understanding of the living world. Increasingly, the findings address important challenges and develop innovative solutions in human health and across diverse sectors of the economy. The federal Minister of Science and Sport, the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, announced the results of three recent Genome Canada funding […]

Winnipeg, MB — In recognition of Forough Khadem, PhD, a Mitacs employee and renowned scientist who died in the Flight PS752 crash in Tehran on January 8, 2020, Mitacs and the University of Manitoba have partnered to develop a scholarship in her honour. The Dr. Forough Khadem Scholarship has been set up through the University […]

Buddy sap … the dreaded burnt Tootsie Roll taste and smell that marks the end of the maple syrup season. Maple syrup producers in the Algoma region dread its arrival each year, because, if undetected, it can result in an unsaleable batch of maple syrup. Researchers are now investigating the exact chemical compound that makes […]

Vancouver, BC — Student innovators taking part in international leadership projects now have access to a suite of professional skills training programs thanks to a new partnership signed by Mitacs and EQWIP HUBs. Mitacs Training is now offered to EQWIP HUBs participants before departure for their international volunteer experiences. The online courses help students to build business and […]

Scientists are using high-tech to identify and locate the gauntlet of threats facing wild salmon, particularly in the fresh water environment. Fewer than 10 per cent of juvenile salmon even make it out of the river to live their adult lives, according to research from Scott Hinch’s lab at UBC. Young researchers there are combining tiny […]

Paul Addo, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calgary, recently won a Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation for his work developing a CO2 conversion technology in partnership with ATCO.  

Dalhousie University PhD student Lyna Kamintsky recently won a Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation in recognition of her work with Emagix to diagnose brain bleeding injuries.

The numbers floating around Scott Hinch’s mind are daunting, if not impossible, to fathom. Infrastructure costs that veer into seven digits. Thousands of kilometres of water. Tens of millions of fish. A forestry professor with the University of B.C.’s Forest and Conservation Sciences department, Hinch is responsible for heading up first-of-its-kind research into salmon tracking […]

Barring something unforeseen, Tuesday night was one to remember for Lyna Kamintsky, who was born in Russia, raised in Israel, and now calls Halifax home. A doctoral student in medical neuroscience at Dalhousie University, she was in Ottawa to receive the award for Outstanding Innovation at the PhD level, awarded by Mitacs, a not-for-profit organization that […]

Liquefied natural gas has been called a “bridge” fuel that will help countries meet climate change objectives, because it is a lower-carbon alternative to coal for power generation. But further out, as governments move to free their economies from fossil fuels entirely – 2050 being one of the target dates – even natural gas could […]