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The crunchy, puffed product made from yellow peas and bread crumbs in the lab at the University of Manitoba by research student Maria Arzamendi. Arzamendi said the crunchy puffed product, that has the distinct taste of a legume, could one day replace the bags of empty carb snacks currently lining supermarket shelves. “We know the […]

For the majority of students, the summer months mean a break from studies and a chance to recuperate from the stress of the previous school year. But for 45 international students, this summer was a chance to turn research projects into economy boosting innovations. As a part of the Mitacs Globalink program, the group of […]

VANCOUVER—While traditional methods for detecting salmonella are labour-intensive and time-consuming, a new and ever-so-small device can now identify the potentially deadly bacteria within minutes. Following several outbreaks across Canada this year, University of British Columbia researchers say the “user-friendly” tool is overdue and there’s a “real potential” to benefit both consumers, and companies. “Salmonella is […]

Vancouver, BC—Mitacs and the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES) signed an agreement this week to provide research internship opportunities for graduate students in Canada and Brazil through CAPES’s Program for Institutional Internationalization (CAPES-PrInt) and Mitacs’s international research program. The initiative promotes Canada and Brazil as destinations for research opportunities, […]

Globalink interns Maria Arzamendi and Luis Garibay are at the University of Manitoba this summer contributing to research projects in the food and health sectors.

Tucked in a lab at the University of Manitoba is a group of students cooking up a new snack. They’re using leftover bread crumbs from a local baker combined with yellow peas to craft a healthy snack mimicking Cheetos.  “We like the puffy snacks so we are trying to get a snack people we know […]

Mitacs CEO Alejandro Adem, Globalink intern Roshan Mishra, and UBC master’s student Claire Preston talk about the development of a first-of-its-kind soft, artificial skin for robots.  

Globalink intern Roshan Mishra talks to CBC’s Stephen Quinn about his Globalink Research internship at UBC.  

Globalink intern Roshan Mishra is spending the summer at UBC to help develop a first-of-its-kind soft, artificial skin that can sense touch and pressure and even detect when something — such as a finger — is approaching. 

With a background in printing technology and engineering, Globalink intern Roshan Mishra is helping to develop a first-of-its-kind soft, artificial skin that can sense touch and pressure and even detect when something — such as a finger — is approaching. The team’s ultimate goal is to take the discovery from the lab to mass production […]

VANCOUVER—Robots can walk, dance and open doors, but engineers are still trying to design flexible sensors that would allow humanoids to pass the ultimate test — holding an egg without cracking it.  Engineers at Dr. John Madden’s research group at the University of British Columbia are developing artificial-skin technology that could be the first to […]

Vancouver, BC — The school year may be coming to a close, but a group of grade 10 and 11 Vancouver students who are participating in a one-of-a-kind pilot project are already thinking about the changes they can make to nip mental illness in the bud once school resumes in the fall. The project, called […]