Floods are an increasing threat worldwide causing widespread destruction, loss of life, economic damages and social impacts. Contributing factors include population density growth in urban areas and increasing impervious areas which disrupts the natural hydrological cycle. Accurate flood risk assessments are therefore required to help cities and institutions to better prepare inhabitants to the occurrence […]

The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition would like to expand the demographic reach of our organization in order to better represent the Lake Simcoe community. The people who care about Lake Simcoe are a diverse set. There is a need to broaden our tent by making our messaging more appealing to more demographics. Those include fishing […]

The project will focus on developing expansion strategies as Doggy Bathroom enters the European market and hosts pop up shops throughout North America. The project will focus on creating business development strategies to aid with the rollout of these projects. The main goal of the company is to continue growing the brand awareness throughout North […]

Parkdick Enterprises Ltd. (PDI) under its RYDE brand, will be launching an E-Bike micro-mobility sharing program on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, which is set to launch in Spring 2022. The link to the project details and launch is located here: https://www.manitoulincycling.com/e-bikes/. This will be our inaugural project which uses E-Bikes and docking station technology, where riders […]

Fog, by definition, occurs when visibility is lower than 1 km. The initiation, development and decay of fog can involve many physical processes and reliable modelling and accurate prediction of occurrence, vertical distribution and visibility limitations are an ongoing challenge. Wood Environmental & Infrastructure (Wood), provide offshore fog forecasts for oil platforms over the Grand […]

The interns in this project will use their skills in researching parts and products that can be used to achieve the subprojects that we set out to create on the micro-mobility car. In some areas the students may use the machine shop and equipment found in the engineering building on York University campus to create […]

Penrose Partners is a blockchain startup firm that provides transactional, educational, and corporate consulting/material production services to businesses, institutional investors, and disruptive tech companies in the blockchain space. We are the trusted advisor that bridges the gap between businesses with great ideas, and blockchain adoption.

The project consists of two independent segments. The first part, to be managed by PhD student Yoonseok Jwa, aims to develop and evaluate new photogrammetric computer vision algorithms for detecting and identifying POAs and insulator types attached to power lines (PL). The expected benefit to the partner can be summarized as: (a) Efficiency- automatic detection […]

We are well aware of the impact heart disease has in thalassemia patients. This impacts upon patients quality of life, and ultimately that death due to heart failure is an all too common event. We now understand much about the complexity of the heart, its structure and how it functions. This has also allowed researchers […]

“Transnational Alliances: Staging Hemispheric Performance Festivals in a Post-Pandemic World” examines the potential of co-creation and collaboration among artists, activists, and researchers from across the Americas in the context of re-emerging festivals—a context in which scholars and artists are grappling with the impact of the COVID crisis on performance as well as the environmental impact […]

OWN Innovation advises clients on legal and business strategies for high-growth Canadian technology companies. OWN is experiencing a significant challenge in dealing with the rapidly changing IP position of a client in the financial technology sector. From May-August 2022, the intern will assist OWN Innovation in building and/or implementing an IP strategy for this growing […]

Steroid drugs and creatine are treatments for muscle weakness in people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Steroid drugs can also cause problems like weakening mitochondria which are the energy producing parts of muscle cells. Duchenne also makes it harder for mitochondria to use creatine for energy. This means that both treatments may not be doing the […]