Calgary Herald: Researchers develop app to record Ranchlands hum

If you’ve ever pressed one of the low keys on a piano softly and felt the note hang in the air, then you know what it’s like to hear the Ranchlands hum. The approximately 40 hertz hum has been plaguing residents of the northwest Calgary community since 2008, and nobody can figure out where it’s […]

Mitacs Globalink Research Intern Krissia Quesney Nevarez and her professor, Jeremy Laliberté, talk about their research at Carleton University where she is developing an off-the-shelf drone for crop monitoring.  

An internship program is seeing a 58% increase in the amount of international students coming to Canada. The Mitacs Globalink program helps top performing undergrad students, from all over the world, come to Canadian universities. And 55 students in the program have come to the University of Alberta this summer. CEO of Mitacs, Alejandro Adem […]

Mitacs Globalink Research Intern Jiaqi Gao talks about his research at the University of British Columbia with his supervisor, Professor Bhushan Gopaluni.

Mitacs Globalink research interns Ashutosh Jain and Rajat Hebbar talk about their research at the University of New Brunswick this summer.        

The family farm in Mexico that Krissia Quesney Nevarez calls home never had the luxury of an aerial view that tracks the health of its crops — but it could now. The 22-year-old has been working on a project in Ottawa this summer that uses drone-aided technology to take readings of farmers’ crops, an inexpensive way to […]

Ashutosh Jain is working on something that could change Android phones forever and he chose to do that work right here in Fredericton. The Varanasi, India native has been spending his summer at the University of New Brunswick researching a new way to detect malware on a smart phone and the person behind the malicious […]

Mitacs Globalink Research Intern Shreyas Prakash and his professor, Jose Etcheverry, talk about their research on electric vehicle charging stations at York University.    

Toronto, ON – Mitacs CEO and Scientific Director Alejandro Adem was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Hispanic Canadians, last night by the Hispanic Business Alliance. The ninth annual awards recognized influential Hispanic Canadians based major achievements, awards, education, entrepreneurship, and community support.  Other winners were from Alberta and Ontario and represented a […]

She had never seen an apple tree before or experienced temperatures as cold.  Coming to Nova Scotia from south India in late May, Mitacs Globalink Exchange student Vinetha Jagadeesan had never been abroad before and, having not brought a jacket, found the temperatures downright frigid. “I’ve never experienced that kind of cold before,” she said. […]

On paper, Vinetha Jagadeesan and Dalhousie University professor Sean Myles are unlikely collaborators on a project to develop new varieties of apples. Jagadeesan, 20, is a computer science undergraduate student from southern India who is spending 12 weeks this summer as an intern at a high-tech apple orchard in Kentville. Before setting foot in Canada […]

Vancouver, BC — AGE-WELL, Canada’s technology and aging Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE), and Mitacs, a national non-profit research and training organization, will jointly support research and development  of assistive technologies for Canadian seniors and their caregivers. This partnership will provide Canadian companies access to AGE-WELL researchers and their expertise to support the development […]