Calgary Herald: Compelling Calgarians: Douglas Kondro

Six years ago, Douglas Kondro designed a unique prosthetic for an abandoned rooster that had lost its toes to frostbite. That would be a major life accomplishment for any 20-year-old. But the University of Calgary PhD student in Biomedical Engineering in Graduate Studies, now 26, is receiving new acclaim, this time for his work scaling […]

  Vancouver, BC — The Mitacs Board of Directors announced today the appointment of John Hepburn, PhD, as its new Chief Executive Officer and Scientific Director. Currently the Vice-President of Research and Partnerships at CIFAR (formerly the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research), Hepburn will assume his new role on February 18, 2020. With an extensive […]

Toronto, ON — Colleges Ontario and Mitacs will collaborate on awarding up to 200 internships to college students in 2020 on applied research projects. This research will stimulate economic growth throughout the province, particularly in rural and northern communities. It will also provide new work-integrated learning opportunities to full-time college students throughout the province. One recent example […]

Vancouver, BC Mitacs is pleased to welcome Marie-Hélène Labrie to its board of directors. Ms. Labrie brings a breadth and depth of experience to the Mitacs board, with an extensive background in Canadian government relations, as well as in public communications and marketing in technology companies. Ms. Labrie joins the Board of Directors to oversee Mitacs’s […]

A UVic graduate student has been setting traps to harvest pictures of animals instead of their skins, to demonstrate how animals shift their behaviour when humans disturb their habitat. Sandra Frey completed her work for a master’s degree at the University of Victoria in 2018, using image data collected by cameras in the Rocky Mountains […]

Sounds fishy, but it’s not. A professor at the University of Québec at Trois-Rivières has been recognized for her part in helping to identify a natural, viable and cost-effective way that could reduce the price level of cannabinoids by growing THC and CBD inside microscopic algae. For that, Isabel Desgagné-Penix has received the Mitacs Award for Exceptional […]

Ottawa, ON Six researchers, a leading professor, a spin-off company, and a humanitarian-response company are receiving recognition for their game-changing achievements in Canadian research. Their innovations include developing a less costly and more environmentally friendly way to produce cannabinoids, launching a leading-edge breast imaging device that provides high-resolution images at a lower radiation dose, advancing […]

Stereotypes about teen parents prevent them from finding secure housing and isolate them from the community supports they need to thrive, a new Edmonton study suggests.  But a unique, made-in-Edmonton housing program for pregnant teens, teen moms and their children is proving that a little extra support — including counselling and parenting classes — can […]

Melissa Tremblay received the Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation — Indigenous for her involvement with the Successful Families Program, which provides supportive housing for teen parents and their children in Edmonton. “The goal is to work with teen families to build on their strengths and empower them towards independence and to reach their goals, whatever […]

A Lakehead University postdoctoral fellow has been nationally recognized for his innovative “breakthrough” technology in breast cancer detection. At a Nov. 26 ceremony in Ottawa, Thunder Bay’s Oleksandr Bubon received an outstanding commercialization award from Mitacs, a not-for-profit organization that promotes innovation by solving business challenges through academic research. While studying under Canada Research Chair, Professor and Senior […]

THUNDER BAY — His development of a low-dose radiation breast imaging device has won recognition for Lakehead University researcher Oleksandr Bubon. Bubon will receive an award Tuesday in Ottawa from Mitacs, a national not-for-profit organization that’s supported research projects and delivered training programs since 1999. It’s funded by the federal government and provincial governments, and works with more […]

HALIFAX, N.S. — Boring is best when it comes to cigarette packaging, a Halifax researcher has concluded. Mohammed Al-Hamdani worked with 50 smokers using eye-tracking technology and tests that measured the motivation to smoke. He found that plain cigarette packaging not only increases attention to health warnings for all smokers, it also deters some smokers’ desire […]