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Mitacs and the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) have signed an agreement 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 Atlantic Canada to access university-based researchers to help […]

Train accidents – such as the one earlier this month where a runaway train loaded with oil derailed and exploded in Lac-Mégantic – can be devastating. But new technology being studied by a woman from India at the University of British Columbia could make railway accidents less likely to occur. Madhuri Suthar, 21, is in […]

Dr. Arvind Gupta, CEO and Scientific Director of Mitacs, extends his congratulations to the new cabinet ministers appointed today by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.   We look forward to working with the new ministers, including the Hon. James Moore, Minister of Industry, the Hon. Greg Rickford, Minister of State for Science and Technology, the Hon. […]

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For Jorge Peña and Anup Daté, a summer at the University of Victoria provided hands-on training in high-tech research, and a chance to explore a scenic new city. For Canada, it’s a 12-week opportunity to convince the brightest young minds from emerging economies to relocate here. Peña, a 23-year-old biotechnology student from the Monterrey Institute […]

Call it McMaster’s brain gain. This summer, some of the world’s best and brightest young minds are converging on the university as part of a unique program aimed at fostering global partnerships and boosting the school’s profile as an international research destination. “Science is an international endeavour,” said Margaret Fahnestock, a professor in the department […]

Mitacs CEO & Scientific Director, Arvind Gupta, and UBC Globalink student Diego Parra joined host Bill Good in studio to discuss Mitacs Globalink and the need for Canada to recruit the best and brightest international talent.  

For two months, Aritra Sasmal has been immersed in Canadian university life.   He spends 10-hour days at the University of Waterloo campus in the math and computer building where he’s researching the mathematical theory behind the energy of internal waves in bodies of water. He’s studying the importance of these waves that occur beneath […]

Ana Pinson has travelled 2,000 miles looking for answers a fraction of a centimetre wide. Stretched out, the DNA from a human cell is about three metres long, but only about two nanometers (0.0000002 centimetres) wide. Pinson is between her third and fourth years of study on genomic sciences at the National Autonomous University of […]

The Mitacs Globalink program was born with one purpose in mind: to draw the best and brightest minds from around the globe to Canada for research and development studies. Though boasting many prestigious and respected learning institutions, Canada nonetheless lags behind in the race for global talent. “Unfortunately, when the best and brightest in other […]

It all started with a paper about the hidden properties of waves — the kind that some of us will be enjoying at a beach this summer. “This is about internal waves,” said Prof. Kevin Lamb, with the Applied Mathematics Department at the University of Waterloo. “They are waves that are below the surface that […]

It’s being called “a reverse brain drain,” and it’s bringing major opportunities for all involved.   Ana Solis, 20, from Mexico City, is one of the bright young minds visiting Western University this summer to join research projects as part of a special internship program and, for her, it’s a big chance.“I’m very excited about […]