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Watching Erin Freeland Ballantyne receive the Public Policy Forum’s Emerging Leader award last month, it occurred to me how much is being overlooked in all of the soul-searching about the potential enrichment of a university education. Canada wants its citizens to be players in the global community, so it needs to graduate “students without boundaries”, […]

Jennifer Polk was a few years into her Ph.D. in history at the University of Toronto when she attended a departmental meeting and heard that 50 per cent of the school’s graduates were getting tenure-track professor jobs. “They were patting themselves on the back,” she says. “I was sitting there horrified.” She realized she needed […]

Vancouver, B.C., – Mitacs and Sorbonne Universités formalized a partnership today that will support two-way international research opportunities for graduate researchers at Canadian universities and Sorbonne Universités in France. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between Mitacs, a Canadian research network that connects university-based researchers with businesses, companies, not-for-profits and government, and Sorbonne Universités, […]

Vancouver, BC – Results from a longitudinal survey released this week by Mitacs Inc. demonstrate that Mitacs Accelerate benefits Canadian research and development as well as individual participants.  Mitacs Accelerate pairs graduate students from Canadian universities with companies across Canada for research internships. Former Mitacs Accelerate participants overwhelmingly report improved academic experience and skills development, as […]

Vancouver, BC – The Honourable Michelle Rempel, Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification, will welcome more than 500 participants to the Western Innovation Forum on April 16–17, 2014, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Hosted in collaboration with Mitacs and the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI), this two-day event brings together innovators from […]

Saskatoon, SK. –  Saskatchewan’s International Minerals Innovation Institute (IMII), the national research and training organization Mitacs, and University of Saskatchewan are partnering on a novel research and training initiative through an investment valued at more than $600,000. The Mitacs Industry Executive in Residence—Minerals (MIER-Minerals) will identify and create new research initiatives that will lead to […]

Mitacs was saddened to learn of the passing of former Finance Minister and longstanding public servant, Jim Flaherty. “Mr. Flaherty leaves behind an impressive record of bringing policies that made Canada stronger economically, socially and culturally,” said Dr. Arvind Gupta, Mitacs CEO and Scientific Director. “He managed the country’s finances during turbulent economic times and […]

The Mitacs Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Robert Annan as interim chief executive officer (CEO) and scientific director of Mitacs, effective July 1, 2014. Dr. Annan will replace Dr. Arvind Gupta, current CEO and scientific director, who will move to his new role as the 13th president and vice chancellor of the University of […]

Saskatchewan’s Education Ministry is investing a total of $365,000 into research internships for graduate and international students through the non-profit, national Mitacs program. An amount of $225,000 will go to 30 research and development internships for Saskatchewan graduate and post doctoral students, while $140,000 will fund 20 international research opportunities for international students and Saskatchewan […]

The Government of Saskatchewan is investing $365,000 in student research opportunities through Mitacs programs. The funding includes $225,000 for graduate research and development internships in Saskatchewan through Mitacs Accelerate, and $140,000 for graduate and senior undergraduate international research opportunities though Mitacs Globalink. CKRM AM Regina covers the story:  

The Government of Saskatchewan is investing $365,000 in student research opportunities through Mitacs programs. The funding includes $225,000 for graduate research and development internships in Saskatchewan through Mitacs Accelerate, and $140,000 for graduate and senior undergraduate international research opportunities though Mitacs Globalink. “Facilitating innovation and research excellence, with an eye to international competitiveness, is the […]

UBC’s next president, Arvind Gupta, still remembers the plane trip that brought him from the Indian state of Punjab to North America as a five-year-old boy in the late 1960s. His father, a chemist, had come a year earlier on a visiting professorship to Wayne State University in Detroit. In an interview in his office […]