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Vancouver, B.C. – February 29, 2012 – Mitacs is formalizing the important role that Canada’s universities play in its programs by announcing the creation of an Academic Partnership Strategy.  This new strategy will ensure that university objectives are accurately reflected in Mitacs strategies and that they have the opportunity to explore pilot programs and new […]

  The global population explosion of the past century, unprecedented in human history, poses a thorny tangle of interconnected challenges. With the population expected to reach 9.3 billion by 2050, meeting human needs will require science-based answers to urgent questions about food, energy, water, disease prevention and many other issues. Increasingly, innovation will hinge upon […]

Page: A5, Section: News   A student under the supervision of a Vancouver Island University professor has gained national attention for his work for a sustainable prawn fishery. The focus of Brett Favaro’s studies, made in concert with VIU fisheries and aquaculture professor Stefanie Duff, is to reduce bycatch found in prawn traps to keep the […]

When Mackenzie Gray talks about the way Paul McCartney used a recursive sequence to make the song “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” seem to last forever, you realize that part of the Beatles’ phenomenal success might have sprung from McCartney’s genius as a mathematician. When Roger Kemp draws on a napkin to illustrate that […]