This research aims to understand Indigenous children’s academic attitudes during the pivotal transition to off-reserve schooling after grade six. It uniquely acknowledges educators’ vital role as unconventional mental health providers within Indigenous communities. By exploring stereotypes and attitudes, it bridges the gap between academia and community mental health providers, recognizing education’s potential in addressing mental […]

We have completed a research project titled COVID-19 Pandemic and Psycho-Social and Occupational Wellbeing of Frontline Healthcare Workers in BC, funded in 2021 through the Michael Smith Health Research BC, which is British Columbia’s health research agency. This project helped us to collect data from 400 frontline workers from BC. Using a unique combination of […]

CdZnTe (CZT) semiconductor crystals are used as X-ray detectors in state-of-the-art medical CT scanners. These devices are sensitive to individual X-ray photons and enable tissue selective X-ray imaging with reduced radiation dose to the patient. The CZT detectors function by converting absorbed X-rays into electrical signals that are subsequently analyzed by a computer to make […]

The “Partnerships Empowering Canadian Innovation” project, conducted under the Mitacs Business Strategy Internship program in collaboration with The Cansbridge Fellowship, aims to equip interns with the mindset and skillset necessary for success in the innovation economy. The project enables interns to identify strategic partnership opportunities with innovation organizations through industry-specific research, networking, and outreach. Throughout […]

In response to the escalating demand for clean tech and energy-efficient structures, our project focuses on revolutionizing building data processing for swift decarbonization planning. We tackle the challenge by parsing diverse data from mixed media documents and fine-tuning pre-trained large language models (LLMs) for optimal data query accuracy. Our approach integrates text parsing, tokenization, and […]

This study focuses on the Pacific herring in the Strait of Georgia, which has seen a significant reduction in its range since the 1980s, without a clear cause. This contraction is concerning due to the herring’s importance to species like the Chinook salmon, which rely on herring as a food source. The research aims to […]

Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) is an important ally in the fight against climate change that can facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy. In partnership with the Civic Innovation Lab Society, this project will study the deployment of carbon capture technology in buildings in the City of Burnaby, with a focus on hard-to-decarbonize […]

This project isto develop a new website which will provide an infrastructure for non-profit admission. The admission professionals will be using this websites to conduct the interviews, in terms of providing them with the guiding question. The use of check boxes and other visual tools, such as radio buttons, text boxes, etc. will help provide […]

This internship is designed to analyse the impact of high frequency offenders (HFO) on the criminal justice system in British Columbia. Research indicates that HFOs have a substantial impact on police reported offences, the court system and the corrections system. Through a partnership with the Ministry of Justice of British Columbia and Sierra Systems, an […]

The proposed research project at Tabor Lake, led by a dedicated intern, focuses on transforming the overgrown aquatic weeds in the lake into a valuable resource. These weeds, currently a nuisance, will be converted into organic compost through innovative and eco-friendly methods. This compost can then be used to enrich soil, supporting agriculture and gardening. […]

The general objective of this project is to comprehensively investigate the oil adsorption performance of a novel polymer sponge sorbent and understand how the new sorbent and its combination with other technologies can be used for oil spill response. With the increasing need and interests from marine oil spill response organizations for novel technologies that […]

The overarching project involves designing, testing and evaluating a platform that uses AI and data-driven approaches to improve recruitment, adherence, engagement and monitoring of clinical trials. The specific projects to be undertaken by the interns involve 1) identifying evidence-based behaviour-change techniques that will then be programmed into an AI-driven adherence assistant and evaluated and 2) […]