The project will investigate how common distractions, such as cell phone use, impact drivers’ ability to stay attentive and respond appropriately on the road. Using electroencephalography (or EEG) to monitor brain activity, we will look for patterns indicating attention or fatigue during simulated human-vehicle interaction, and classification algorithms will also be used to recognize these […]

The Mitacs Elevate fellowship will support the WaterFutures Project, a collaboration aimed at creating a 3D game to educate the youth and the public on water sustainability using Syilx stewardship principles. Partnering with UBCO, OCCP, and the OBWB, the game will focus on teaching students and their communities about water conservation challenges and responses through […]

Global production and subsequent waste of plastic products, like those in synthetic clothing, has been growing at an exponential rate over the last several decades. Researchers have found polyester microfibers of textile origin throughout the ocean, including the deep ocean and pristine waters of the Arctic Ocean. However, we do not yet know the specific […]

Global production and subsequent waste of plastic products, like those in synthetic clothing, has been growing at an exponential rate over the last several decades. Researchers have found polyester microfibers of textile origin throughout the ocean, including the deep ocean and pristine waters of the Arctic Ocean. However, we do not yet know the specific […]

The term Web of Things (WoT) refers to the concept of integrating resources and interactions involving devices, data, and people on the web. WoT features interactions as first class entities above and beyond traditional web resources and, thus, enabling applications with substantial context awareness, personalization, and automation. Lively is a new open source approach to […]

Stone’s sheep are a genetically distinct subspecies of thinhorn sheep which exist almost entirely in British Columbia (BC), giving BC a global responsibility to manage this unique species. Ungulate nutrition has a direct influence on population dynamics and behaviour, and forage availability and quality in late summer and early fall are increasingly considered key to […]

In partnership with the University of British Columbia, the intern will work with VulcanX, a Canadian energy company, on a project to make hydrogen production cleaner and cheaper. They will help set up a reactor with the capability of producing hydrogen and solid carbon in a continuous process. This setup will be used to evaluate […]

Racism permeates and is upheld by institutions such as healthcare, with deleterious impacts for patients and healthcare workers. Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)–a regional health authority—has more than 29,000 workers providing services to over 1.25 million people. They will be piloting an anti-racism training they created for workers as part of their larger Anti-Racism Action Plan. […]

Toyo Pumps is planning to develop a new generation of pumps with a viewing window in order to evaluate the maintenance timing. However, there are several challenges posed by application of allocating the viewing window that the company product developers must overcome. The University of British Columbia (UBC) has the expertise, equipment, 2D and 3D […]

JUMP Math is an award-winning Canadian charity that believes everyone can be successful at mathematics and envisions a numerate and equitable society for all through mathematics education. The organization provides research-informed and curriculum-aligned resources and training that instill confidence and spark a life-long love of mathematics. As an organization, JUMP Math has 20 years of […]

Our project aims to better understand how cancer research studies, specifically those that test the effectiveness of treatments, can be improved when patients switch treatments during the study. This switch, which happens often in cancer treatments, can make it difficult to tell how effective the original treatment is. Currently, the way researchers combine and analyze […]

Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are considered the gold standard due to their excellent internal validity results and are a vital tool for evidence-informed global health policymaking. However, the external validity, which results from the uniqueness of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in healthcare, culture, and demography, significantly hampers the value of RCTs in these regions. […]