MHRC-Mitacs-iA Workplace Mental Health Fellowship

Skilled trades workers could face many challenges like anxiety, stress, discrimination, long working hours and heavy workloads, which can harm their work performance and well-being. Despite the growing diversity in the Canadian skilled trades workforce, women remain underrepresented, particularly in electrical work, while the prevalence of disabilities among these workers is largely unknown. There’s limited […]

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Investigating pathogen prevalence in a geographically isolated community of bumble bees

Bumble bees are threatened worldwide, and among several impacts to their populations are pathogens which impact colony health and success. This is a concern for captive breeding programs aimed at enhancing populations with pathogen-free colonies. In this research we partner with Wildlife Preservation Canada who maintain breeding programs and use a novel method for detecting […]

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Bridging the Gap – Health and Safety Engineering Student Teaching Modules – Stage 2

This project is an undertaking in coordination with Minerva Canada, some of its industry partners and seven Canadian universities which aims to address a gap between industry and the graduates of engineering programs in terms of attitudes, knowledge and applied skills pertaining to health & safety in engineering practice. Upon completion, the project’s end product […]

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Robust Portfolio Optimization

Financial investment is a crucial activity for both institutions and individuals. In particular, the construction of a portfolio of financial assets is at the core of financial investment decision making. Effective portfolio management enables many benefits such as better pensions and funds for education. The essence of portfolio construction is to balance expected returns (i.e. […]

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