This project will explore how extractive industries, such as offshore oil and gas, have affected the Maria Joaquina Quilombola community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Using participatory methods, such as community workshops and mapping, the study will document how the community has experienced social cumulative effects. The project seeks to enhance understanding and evaluation of […]

This project will explore how balance-based physical activities such as tai-chi, yoga, dance, and martial arts may help protect memory, thinking, mobility, and overall brain health as people age. Although many studies show that lifestyle habits can support healthy aging, much less is known about how different countries measure brain and cognitive health in older […]

The Smooth Detector project addresses the urgent problem of multimodal misinformation, fake news that combines misleading text and manipulated images, which spreads rapidly across social media and overwhelms small news organizations, fact-checkers, and public health agencies that lack the resources to combat it effectively. Smooth Detector analyzes posts across multiple formats simultaneously, identifying subtle inconsistencies […]

GenAI-Counselor is an AI-powered genetic counseling assistant developed by Ebovir Biotechnologie Inc. to bridge the gap between complex genetic test results and patient understanding. By combining domain-specific knowledge bases (e.g., ACMG, ClinVar, GeneReviews), report parsing, personalized patient modeling, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and large language models (LLMs), the system delivers clear, clinically grounded explanations of genetic […]

This research project focuses on improving wireless communication systems by studying and optimizing new technologies called Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS). These surfaces can control how wireless signals travel, helping expand coverage and improve connection quality in urban and rural areas. A special type of RIS, known as STAR-RIS (Simultaneously Transmitting and Reflecting), allows signals to […]

The parental rights movement, which gained traction in the 1930s (largely in reaction to child labour reforms), has long resisted progressive reform. By the 1990s, the movement found renewed momentum amid heated debates over charter schools, further embedding the rhetoric of government overreach, privatization, and ethnonationalism into its public messaging4. Although considerable scholarship was produced […]

Tasiutigiit Association is a non-profit organization which started in the early 1990s to address the overrepresentation of Indigenous children in the child welfare system. It is evident that support for cross-cultural families is needed, including cultural competency/allyship programming and opportunities for the children to remain connected to their communities of origin. This year, Tasiutigiit was […]

The main focus of this project is to explore the use of drama and theatre techniques in organizational and management contexts to support transformational learning and enhance professional practice. Through case studies from different cultural backgrounds, the research will examine how applied theatre, as an embodied exploration, facilitates the transformation of organizational knowledge from tacit […]

Ce projet vise à développer une plateforme conversationnelle permettant d’interroger des données structurées dans Power BI à l’aide du langage naturel. L’objectif est de simplifier l’accès aux données financières et de gestion de l’entreprise, actuellement statiques et difficiles à exploiter sans expertise technique. L’innovation repose sur deux composantes principales : – Un back-end capable de […]

Precision medicine is showing great promise in the fight against cancer. One of the major hurdles is how to best target cancer cells for destruction while sparing normal ones because both share many of the same attributes or “targets”. However, when cancer grows, tumors create a microenvironment around them, the TME or tumor microenvironment. The […]

Un-crewed Air Vehicles (UAVs) have many applications in different sectors, such as security, surveying, and logistics. However, the flight autonomy of the UAVs is a key factor that can limit their mission potential. Shearwater Aerospace is a Canadian company based in Montreal that develops autonomous operating software based on artificial intelligence, Smart Flight, for professional […]

The major objectives of this research are to derive the ultimate performance limits of a communication system using Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS), trying to reach those ultimate limits through the optimization of elements of the RIS and their configuration, evaluating the performance of physically realizable RIS based systems given practical limitations, and trying to alleviate […]