Hamilton Spectator – Mac program targets top talent; School part of effort to attract and retain world’s best researchers

Call it McMaster’s brain gain. This summer, some of the world’s best and brightest young minds are converging on the university as part of a unique program aimed at fostering global partnerships and boosting the school’s profile as an international research destination. “Science is an international endeavour,” said Margaret Fahnestock, a professor in the department […]

For two months, Aritra Sasmal has been immersed in Canadian university life.   He spends 10-hour days at the University of Waterloo campus in the math and computer building where he’s researching the mathematical theory behind the energy of internal waves in bodies of water. He’s studying the importance of these waves that occur beneath […]

Ana Pinson has travelled 2,000 miles looking for answers a fraction of a centimetre wide. Stretched out, the DNA from a human cell is about three metres long, but only about two nanometers (0.0000002 centimetres) wide. Pinson is between her third and fourth years of study on genomic sciences at the National Autonomous University of […]

The Mitacs Globalink program was born with one purpose in mind: to draw the best and brightest minds from around the globe to Canada for research and development studies. Though boasting many prestigious and respected learning institutions, Canada nonetheless lags behind in the race for global talent. “Unfortunately, when the best and brightest in other […]

It’s being called “a reverse brain drain,” and it’s bringing major opportunities for all involved.   Ana Solis, 20, from Mexico City, is one of the bright young minds visiting Western University this summer to join research projects as part of a special internship program and, for her, it’s a big chance.“I’m very excited about […]

It all started with a paper about the hidden properties of waves — the kind that some of us will be enjoying at a beach this summer. “This is about internal waves,” said Prof. Kevin Lamb, with the Applied Mathematics Department at the University of Waterloo. “They are waves that are below the surface that […]

Dan Pihlainen, host of Ottawa’s Sunday Morning Blend on CFRA 580, interviews University of Ottawa professor Dan Palermo and Globalink Research Intern Anupriya, from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.

Mitacs Globalink intern Luis Arvizu from Mexico speaks about the research he is doing at Queen’s University to CKWS – TV. Mitacs would like to thank the following government and international partners, in addition to our full and associate university partners, for their support of Globalink in 2013: Western Economic Diversification Canada, the Government of […]

Click here to read the article, about a Mitacs-Accelerate internship with University of New Brunswick Engineering masters student, Rohan Bandekar

KINGSTON – Canada is looking to boost its research output to compete on an international scale, and Queen’s University is playing its part. Out of 5,000 applicants worldwide, 280 students were chosen to participate in a 12-week internship conducting research at 35 Canadian universities — nine of which have been placed at Queen’s. The placement is known […]

18 international students arrive in Waterloo Region today to begin a summer of learning. The students, from India, China, Brazil and Mexico will be working under the direction of professors at the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. The Vice-President of Research and Policy at Mitacs, Rob Annan, works with the team that reviews […]

Mitacs Globalink Research Interns Adrian Gil and Mónica Arias of Mexico speak about the research they’re doing at the University of Calgary to Global Calgary News. Mitacs would like to thank the following government and international partners, in addition to our full and associate university partners, for their support of Globalink in 2013: Western Economic […]