CBC Fredericton: Mitacs Globalink at the University of New Brunswick

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 […]

Mitacs Globalink Research Interns Vinetha Jagadeesan and Dhanush Dineshan are contributing to research at Dalhousie University with professors Sean Myles and Adam Donaldson.

Mitacs Globalink Research Intern Vinetha Jagadeesan is contributing to genome mapping research at Dalhousie University’s Apple Biodiversity Collection in Kentville, Nova Scotia, with Professor Sean Myles.

Vancouver, BC – At the Australian Canadian Economic Leadership forum yesterday, Universities Australia (UA) and Mitacs, a Canadian not-for-profit research and training organization, signed an agreement that will allow Australian undergraduate students to participate in an elite research internship program in Canada for the first time. Mitacs’ Globalink Research Internships is a competitive initiative already available to […]

Montreal, QC — Among two thousand entries, three Mitacs partners stood out at the annual Quebec Entrepreneurship Contest. The competition’s mission is to inspire entrepreneurship in order to build a proud, innovative, committed, and prosperous Quebec. Entrepreneurship is a key driver in our economy, contributing to job creation, productivity growth, and the ability to commercialize high-quality […]