Windsor Star: 3D video game technology, University of Windsor research to help Ford improve assembly line design

The technology behind the movie Avatar and your favourite video game characters is coming to Ford Motor Company assembly lines. In the new year University of Windsor researchers expect to have Ford workers in Oakville wearing special gloves and gear with 36 sensors to record their movements and find ways to make assembly lines safer. The two-year, $170,000 collaborative […]

Ottawa, ON — Mitacs, a national not-for-profit research and training organization, announces the recipients of the Canadian Science Policy Fellowship, a new pilot program that fosters relationships between government decision makers and academic researchers to help support policy challenges facing Canada. The Canadian Science Policy Fellowship sees accomplished PhD holders inform policy development, implementation, and/or evaluation […]

An app called MyHealthyGut is helping celiac disease suffers and those with a gluten intolerance manage their symptoms. Mitacs Researcher Dr. Justine Dowd explains how the app works. Justine’s research was supported by Mitacs Accelerate.

Ford Motor Co. is turning to a research team at the University of Windsor to look at improving how efficiently workers build cars on the assembly line. The team is led by Joel Cort, a professor at the university. Cort and his team are working on a project involving computer simulations and video game technology to map […]

Professor Joel Cort and Postdoctoral Fellow Ji Xiaoxu partnered with Ford Motors to study ergonomics on the assembly line, with support from Mitacs Accelerate.

Montreal, QC — Mitacs’ Vice-President of Business Development, Josette-Renée Landry, was named to the Institutes Advisory Board (IAB) for Health Innovation for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The IAB for Health Innovation is one of five IABs introduced this summer to present advice to the CIHR’s institutes. It will advise on accelerating discovery, development, evaluation, […]

It was almost three years ago Jocelyn Holland found out she had full-blown celiac disease, so she scoured the dark crevices of the internet looking for any information about it. Holland, is one of many celiacs who felt overwhelmed looking for information about the autoimmune disease – that is, until My Healthy Gut was available […]

Ottawa, ON — Mitacs, a national non-profit research and training organization, announces a new pilot program, the Canadian Science Policy Fellowship, which sees PhD holders from all disciplines inform policy development, implementation, and/or evaluation in the Government of Canada’s departments and agencies. In partnership with the University of Ottawa’s Institute for Science, Society and Policy and […]

Montreal, QC — Mitacs partner Sigma Energy Storage was honoured last week at a ceremony in Montreal as the Canadian winner of the 2016 National Energy Globe Award. More than 170 countries participate in the National Energy Globe Awards, making it one of the world’s largest environmental prizes. The awards recognize projects that conserve resources or […]

Halifax, NS — Nova Scotia students will have more opportunity to further their studies in China, thanks to new scholarships. The Government and Mitacs, a national not-for-profit research and training organization, will fund five, $5,000 scholarships each year for the next three years. Premier Stephen McNeil announced the scholarships today, Sept. 12, while in Shandong […]

Vancouver, BC — Mitacs, a not-for-profit research and training organization in Canada, announced the winning entries in its annual photo contest, which documents the research experiences of its Globalink research internship program participants. Six photographs were chosen as winners in two categories. My research: Interns shared their Globalink research. First place Piyush Rai analyzed how […]

Brad Bennett recently ended his five-year tenure as Mitacs’ board chair. Having steered the organization through several key milestones and achievements, Brad possesses a particular insight into Mitacs’ success and unique position in Canada. In 2004, Brad was entering a six-year term on the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) board of governors.  Later that year, […]