Global Saskatoon News Hour: Program attracts young international researchers to Saskatoon

From Bogota, Colombia, to Mexico City, to the wineries of the Okanagan, PhD student Camilo Pena has been on a round-the-world research journey. His ambitions led him to Quails’ Gate winery in West Kelowna, where he has immersed himself in the day-to-day activities of the winery to gather information about sustainable viticulture practices in the […]

This is Mexican student Adrian Aleman’s second trip to Canada. But he has spent the greater half of it working on a research project at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of New Brunswick. Aleman, a fourth-year science student, is developing a digital game that will allow researchers to better understand how the […]

The way the brain operates fascinates Abigail Mendoza. “The weird thing is, it makes us work but we don’t know exactly how it works,” Mendoza said. The 23-year-old biomedical engineering student from Mexico is at the University of Alberta, looking at brain imaging to determine if there is any difference between male and female brains. […]

THE CHALLENGE Sean Clark, founder and CEO of Canadian online footwear retailer ShoeMe.ca, had several figurative doors slammed in his face by brand-named footwear distributors and traditional retailers when he first started out. “They believed Internet equals discount and a horrendous retail experience,” he says. Big-brand retailers weren’t interested in selling their wares through ShoeMe’s e-commerce […]

Calgary Herald Startup of the Week: July 12, 2014 This week we talked to Stephen Dwyer, Jamie Yuen and Nicolas Olmedo, founders of Copperstone Technologies. Copperstone develops small, low-cost devices that measure equipment location and other important variables such as temperature, vibration and environmental conditions to help companies understand whether their equipment is working properly […]

Vancouver, BC – Mitacs, a national, not-for-profit  training and research organization, announced a set of strategic partnerships to fund the creation and training of four Business Development Specialist roles, based at University of British Columbia – Okanagan, University of Calgary, Carleton University and Western University, all with the mandate to advance key industry-academia research partnerships. […]