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University of B.C. researcher Emily Morris is being recognized nationally for her work in linking stigmatized attitudes toward mental illness by medical professionals with a higher risk of psychiatric disorders in patients with a rare genetic condition. “I feel very honoured and privileged to be receiving it,” said the 28-year-old Morris of the Mitacs Award […]

International students account for one out of every 10 undergraduates studying at Canadian universities. Nova Scotia, often referred to as Canada’s education capital, has achieved significant success in attracting international and out-of-province students. My own institution, Saint Mary’s University, has one of highest proportions of international students in the country. Nearly 30 per cent of […]

Mitacs Globalink interns Jiacheng Wu and Jie Shu discuss their research projects and the Mitacs Globalink program on Fairchild TV’s Leisure Talk. 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 Diversification Canada, the Government […]

Mitacs has signed an agreement with the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) to help bring industry and academia together to boost innovation in the region. Support from NRC-IRAP will enable Mitacs to provide more opportunities to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ontario to access university-based researchers to help them […]

Mitacs congratulates the Government of Canada and the Honourable Michelle Rempel, Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification, for launching the Western Innovation (WINN) Initiative. The new initiative will enable small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to access funding to help them take a product from the R&D stage to market, from product testing and technology […]

Mitacs thanks Minister Duchesne and the Government of Quebec for a new $3 million investment that will allow graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to apply their expertise to business-related research challenges. This new funding will enable the FRQ – Mitacs Accelerate Quebec program to offer 600 additional research internships in Quebec for the year 2013-2014. […]

Nearly one-third of postdocs in Canada are ambivalent about or dissatisfied with their experience, a survey finds. For The 2013 Canadian Postdoc Survey, the Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars and Vancouver-based non-profit research organization Mitacs polled 1,830 postdocs at 130 institutions in academia, government and the private sector. Nearly half were dissatisfied with benefits such as […]

“Administrative ambiguity,” “low compensation and benefits,” and “insufficient training” are the three biggest problems facing Canada’s postdocs, according to a report issued on 2 October by the Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars and Mitacs, a nonprofit training and research organization. Presenting answers given by 1830 postdocs at 130 institutions including “universities, hospitals, government laboratories, and […]

Like their peers down south, Canadian postdoctoral students are facing a tough job environment. The results of a new national survey released on Wednesday say they are in “dire need” of more pay, improved benefits, and better career training. Two-thirds of Canadian postdocs earn less than $44,000, many of them without access to health and […]

A new survey of postdoctoral scholars in Canada paints a portrait of early career researchers who are generally satisfied with their research environment but frustrated by their ambiguous employment status, poor compensation and inadequate training. The online survey (PDF), released on Oct. 2, was conducted this past spring by the Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars and Mitacs, a not-for-profit organization […]

A report released today on the status of postdocs in Canada – the most comprehensive of its kind – shows that postdocs have two main concerns: they need to be better prepared for future careers and they want clarity and consistency in their administrative status and compensation at universities. The 2013 Canadian Postdoc Survey: Painting […]

The Mitacs-Accelerate program was created in 1999 to connect graduate-level students with companies interested in having students work with them on business-related research projects. Jointly funded by the federal and provincial governments, last year it organized 1,750 internships, a number it hopes to bring to 2,000 this year. Students take up a business problem or research question […]