Scaling up a national program to improve hospital nutrition care in line with the new Canadian malnutrition standard

The Canadian Nutrition Society is Canada’s leading society for nutrition professionals. As a Fellow, I will work with the Canadian Malnutrition Taskforce—CNS’ flagship initiative—to support integration of a new malnutrition care standard in Canadian hospitals. Advancing Malnutrition Care (AMC) was designed to bring best practices from this standard to hospitals across the country. The aim […]

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Reinforcement-GAN for Network Intrusion Detection

Network intrusion detection systems play a crucial role in computer networks defense. However, most of the existing solutions do not take into account the time-evolving component of the attacks. Attackers are constantly changing the intrusion methods which becomes a serious threat and requires the development of adaptive methods that can cope with these modifications. Moreover, […]

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Digital Health Northwestern Ontario 1: Implementing a User Engagement Platform

Electronic Health Records (EHR) are the digital collection of a patient’s health information. EHRs can benefit clinicians, healthcare administrators and patients through the use of information technologies to manage various aspects of healthcare. These investments require sustained efforts to engage a multitude of stakeholders, and allow them to seek opportunities to automate, integrate and digitize […]

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Development of a Social Innovation Franchising Model

Create a Social Innovation Franchising (SIF) model for CMIM CMIM would like to expand their operations regionally and nationally to provide programming to students across all of Canada through what is called social franchising. The social franchising model is defined as using entrepreneurial principles that make up traditional franchising to create, organize and manage a […]

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Summer Analyst – Impact Investing, Acceleration, and Advisory – Western University

The Social Innovation Academy will be working with a network of Mitacs interns to develop national-scale backend infrastructure resources for incubation and acceleration organizations across Canada. These resources may include (but are not limited to): initiatives for advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion; impact measurement frameworks; In addition, interns will provide marketing, research, and financial analysis […]

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The Dramaturgy of Education: Digital and Textual Avenues for Stratford Festival Student Enrichment

The post-doctoral fellow will act as an academic liaison between the Stratford Festival’s Education Department and the University of Waterloo, including contributing to the Games Institute’s joint project on a series of Shakespeare-themed video games and apps, academic support for future Festival artistic endeavours, and development of the Education Department’s distribution materials. The Festival will […]

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Perceptions on opioid prescribing after total joint arthroplasty among surgeons practising in Canada, Japan, and the Netherlands: an interpretive description study

Total hip and knee replacement surgeries are the second and third most common surgical procedures in Canada, respectively. Opioid analgesics are routinely prescribed to manage pain after these procedures, making orthopaedic surgeons the third-highest opioid prescribers in Canada. However, opioids are not typically more effective than alternatives (e.g., NSAIDs) and are associated with addiction, overdose, […]

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Building a ‘youth operating system’: Security, safety, inclusivity, and digital platform possibilities for youth-centred social innovation

The research proposed here will explore core issues, risks, and limitations to direct the design and development of a ‘youth operating system’ (YOS) centred on providing a safe, secure, privacy-preserving, and inclusive multi-featured online environment for youth. Any project that engages youth requires substantive policies, terms and conditions, and platform functionality that ensure its Users […]

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Social Media Marketing to Catalyze Business Development in Sustainability

The intern will be participating in a multifaceted and interdisciplinary project involving a case study on the current commercially avialable low emissions technologies and emerging renewable energy technologies. They will create social media marketing content to spur interest and careers in these sectors by attracting Canada’s brightest young innovators and entrepreneurs. Through partnership with the […]

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Computational Optimal Transport

In the last 30 years, the theory of optimal transportation (OT) has emerged as a fertile field of inquiry, and a diverse tool for exploring applications within and beyond mathematics, in such diverse fields as economics, meteorology, geometry, fluid mechanics and engineering. More recently, thanks to many applications in finance, economics, quantum chemistry, machine learning […]

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Wartime Policy Making and Governance: Ukraine and Canada Higher Education Alliance

Involving some of the smartest students in Ukraine, the research project and partnership will enrich the Master of Global Affairs and Master of Public Policy programs at the Munk School. KSE students will provide Munk community a window into the Ukrainian policymaking process as well as a more general understanding of governance during conflict, Simultaneously, […]

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