Raising the Grade is an innovative after-school program launched last year by the Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada (BGCC) in 35 clubs across Canada. Through the use of online learning tools, mentorship, and the early promise of a scholarship, the program hopes to engage youth at risk of dropping out of high school and […]

Founded in 2020, Nobellum is a female-led ecosystem of leaders from the BIPOC community with a mandate of supporting the start-up of at least 100 Black-owned businesses in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) by 2025. This year, Nobellum is launching the Nobellum Innovator Program, U of T Chapter in collaboration with the University of Toronto […]

Every year in the United States alone, over 30 million surgical incisions are performed, and another 7 million wounds are causes by trauma. Most of those wounds will heal on their own, but nonetheless always lead to scarring no matter what kind of material is used to close the wound. There are a range of […]

The objective of the internship would be to forecast staffing and optimize staffing. Having the right number and type of staff, and making sure they have the optimal mix of skills and training would prevent over expenditure on human resources, and also make sure that services run smoothly as the scale of operations increases

Internship to look into grant and funding for a family medicine clinic in an area with low access to healthcare, low socioeconomic means and large refugee community. Recently, and with much difficulty, the clinic has been able to attract 3 new family physicians, doubling the number of physicians for the community. Between this and process […]

Heat stress is a deadly occupational hazard that is projected to increase in severity with global warming. While upper limits for heat stress designed to protect all workers have been recommended by occupational safety institutes for some time, heat stress continues to compromise health and productivity. The continuing detrimental effects of heat stress may be […]

The proposed project intends to make an evaluation of the Canadian public sector’s use of technology in budget tracking operations. The purpose is to make a recommendation on a technological “future state” to address the discovered shortcomings and to mitigate future operational failures, as well as evaluating the impact of adopting such innovative technology. The […]

The aim of the project is to develop innovative workflows to recover genetic material (DNA & RNA) from human microbiome samples collected in DNA Genotek’s devices. The project will also test novel genome-editing tools (i.e. CRISPR) and their ability to selectively remove human DNA in samples containing high quantities of host background. The project will […]

Carnivores are critical components of ecosystems and changes to carnivore communities can impact entire food webs. Modern North American carnivore communities are sparse compared with those elsewhere, with many of the largest species having gone extinct at the end of the Pleistocene, about 11.7 thousand years ago. Today, many species of carnivore that survived the […]

This project aims to propose a decision support tool for Nucleus Independent Living that optimizes the scheduling of clients visits, the assignment of PSWs to clients, and the routing of the daily visits of each PSW while trying to minimize the traveling distances for the PSWs, the number of different PSWs visiting a client, and […]

Solid-state nanopores—tiny holes in thin glass similar in size to biomolecules like proteins or DNA—are poised to disrupt many essential growth markets, including genomics and proteomics, personalized medicine, point-ofcare diagnostics, and next-generation information storage. While holding great promise as a broadly applicable disruptive technology, solid-state nanopore sensors are individually failure-prone, requiring use of many in […]

Dealing with Cyber Physical Systems, this project takes two directions: First, system engineers at Auxon (our industrial partner) are interested in understanding the reason(s) why the system fails and, more precisely, why its behavior deviates from previously observed one(s), showing anomalies. Furthermore, to help Auxon diagnose the problem, we also provide them with root cause(s) […]