Canadian companies are responsible for nearly half of mining activities worldwide, and mining operations are expanding in Canada. Two critical aspects of mining include treating mine-influenced water and establishing natural ecosystems on previously mined lands. These goals can often be reached simultaneously with constructed wetlands that can reduce elevated parameters from surface water while providing […]

Canada’s fishing and hydropower industries struggle to reduce the harming of fish not used by either industry, known as bycatch or incidental take, and are under increasing regulation to limit these impacts. Working with industrial partners the interns will test acoustic technologies to drive unwanted fish away from capture areas while preserving the desired catch […]

The proposed research program is a planning process that will help to enable the Metlakatla Development Corporation to meaningfully participate in regional development. There are 29 major projects proposed in the traditional territory of the Metlakatla First Nation and these projects will have significant costs and benefits. The current project-based cumulative effects assessment as required […]

STEM programs grew after 2018 in Canada, but only a fraction of graduates worked in a STEM field (CFI, 2022). Less women enter the STEM field and even less in the field are Black women who face challenges finding employment in the industry, leading to a small number pursuing STEM careers, including those STEM careers […]

Hydrogen fuel cell technology plays an important role in reducing our reliance on fossil fuels, helping to meet Canada’s Sustainable Development Goals. Fuel cell performance largely relies on the composition of its catalyst layers, which contain carbon supported nanocatalysts and an ion-conducting polymer. The catalyst layer facilitates generation of electricity from the combination of hydrogen […]

Understanding the performance of metals is related to its structure at many different length scales, from the atomic level all the way up to the macro-sized object. Being able to knit these length scales together for their chemistry, microstructure and defect structure is critical to deisgning new parts for high performance applications, sch as power […]

The Ontario Association of Young Parent Agencies (OAYPA), via Abonia Centre, requested a study to examine 1) available treatment programs available to pregnant and parenting transition aged youth (TAY) and their children, in Ontario; 2) demographics of TAY who access these programs; 3) literature on promising practices for treatment programs for TAY. This study will […]

The Takeda Pharmaceutical Company has recently developed a new drug to reduce the level of RNA processing that takes place within a cell. This project will look at the molecular effects of this drug at different doses in order to obtain an understanding of how cellular biology changes when RNA processing is suppressed with increasing […]

Quantum technology is advancing rapidly, particularly Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) systems. With their increasing accessibility and industry interest, there’s a need to measure their performance, especially in the presence of non-Markovian noise. Currently, error correction methods are in development, and information on Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) performance is scarce. Our research addresses this by […]

Ce projet porte sur l’évaluation de la performance de gestionnaires de fonds de placement. Plus spécifiquement, dans ce projet on cherche à développer des outils qui permettront à la compagnie de déterminer, à partir de données sur ses rendements passés et sur le rendement d’indices de marché appropriés, si un gestionnaire d’actif a été significativement […]

Infectious diseases in animals can cause many problems such as impacting the economy, harming wildlife and the environment, food security, and even making people sick (zoonoses). Because of issues like pollution, climate change, and agricultural intensification, we expect these diseases to happen more often and to be worse over time. So, it is very important […]

We appear to be at the beginning of a revolution in the development of new technologies based on quantum science. Over the past several years, Canada has become a world leader in quantum information research and in the development of these emerging quantum technologies. Quantum computers that are based on optical architectures include some of […]