The project “My UKRainian World” aims to create, pilot test and revise educational video resources for learners and speakers of Ukrainian, whose first or primary language is not Ukrainian. It will attempt to bring Ukrainian language video resources on par with other international languages. The current phase of the project consists of: an analysis of […]

This project will support the New Canadians Health Centre (NCHC) in implementing an internal evaluation to assess its impact on refugee communities. As a health centre that is grounded in five principles, the goal of the project is to assess whether the principles are being upheld, and how they influence refugees experience with healthcare and […]

We tend to think of wildfire as resetting the biological clock back to zero; forest types always come back to whatever was there before it burned. However, new evidence reveals that this is not always the case and fire can also cause changes to forest types. For example, very hot fires can kill seeds stored […]

Purpose Building a Better World by Bridging Skills Gaps – One Gap at a Time to Future-Ready the Workforce Problem More than 85 million jobs could go unfilled by 2030 (KornFerry 2022) because there aren’t enough skilled people. In Canada that’s $50B of unrealized GPD (Deloitte 2022) .

Anthropogenic greenhouse gases and aerosols resulting from the combustion of fossil fuels to power our current energy systems are the leading cause of climate change and pose human health risks, especially in urban areas. Hydrogen proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) electric vehicles offer the opportunity to displace the internal combustion engine from medium- and […]

This project makes an existing Autonomous Truck Mounted Attenuator (ATMA) system fully operational for Canadian harsh weather conditions and develops an augmented perception framework to enhance motion planning of the control system. The primarily focus of ATMA is ensuring the safety of highway workers and transportation infrastructure in work zones. On successfully understanding the existing […]

Patients diagnosed with heart failure often require the implantation of a pacemaker to improve cardiac function, which in turn, improves exercise tolerance and quality of life. Current pacemaker models work at a fixed time interval for a given heart rate (i.e. 1 second between heart beats at 60 beats per minute). However, the body’s natural […]

Approximately one-third of songbird species which migrate to the Canadian boreal forest to breed require older forests for nesting and foraging. In Alberta, older boreal forests are altered by ongoing industrial activity, such as logging; the birds that rely on these habitats are sensitive to this change. Forestry companies are constantly developing and testing new […]

Improving feed efficiency (FE) and meat quality (MQ) are Canadian swine industry priorities that will increase sustainability and competitiveness. It is difficult to improve these traits simultaneously by traditional breeding methods due to limited knowledge of genetic interactions, limitations on animals that can be measured and the high cost of measurement. High throughput genomic technology […]

Improving feed efficiency (FE) and meat quality (MQ) are Canadian swine industry priorities that will increase sustainability and competitiveness. It is difficult to improve these traits simultaneously by traditional breeding methods due to limited knowledge of genetic interactions, limitations on animals that can be measured and the high cost of measurement. High throughput genomic technology […]

$50B of unrealized GDP will occur by 2030 in Canada if the skill gap challenge is not addressed. With the acceleration and uncertainty of a borderless economy, Employers, Educators and Jobseekers will continue to be in constant flux. The greatest cost to Small & Medium Sized Businesses (SMBs) is the hiring, skilling and training of […]

Root rot disease especially Aphanomyces root rot has led to decrease pea acreage in the prairies due to yield losses of up to 70 percent in wet years. Current fungicides are few and have very limited efficacy on the target pathogen, but may negatively affect other living organisms in the environment. Therefore, there is the […]