The Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation (ORCF) is currently undergoing a strategic planning process. · A few challenges facing the ORCF in light of COVID-19 are: o Decline in donations o Cancellation of events and related revenue To help the ORCF adapt to the new economic reality created by COVID-19, we will develop a post-pandemic economic […]

Through the guidance and direction of ImmigrantsCan, as well as my academic advisor, I will be tasked with improving the company’s overall marketing. This includes identifying a new target market for the company’s services, and carrying out a new plan in order to reach those markets. I will use tools such as digital marketing in […]

Hatch is a student-led service center and incubator program that is supported by CUSA (Carleton University Students’ Association). Hatch is seeking to expand the programs, services, and resources it offers to cater to the increasing number of students with an interest in entrepreneurship/business, an idea for a business or start-up, and those with a current […]

Hatch is a student-led service center supported by CUSA (Carleton University Students’ Association). In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Hatch has moved all its program online and hopes to expand the programs, services and resources it offers to students with an interest in entrepreneurship/ business. My internship in Hatch will assist Hatch further develop its […]

The overall goal is to create a scalable system to increase sales digitally. As a result of COVID, the company has been forced to putting all their efforts into online interactions with their B2B and B2C customers. The key responsibilities for the intern will be working with the social media team in its daily activities […]

The multi-billion dollar fashion industry has a problem: many of the high-performance fabrics used in everything from haute couture to athletic wear have their origins in the petroleum industry, and so are neither sustainably produced nor environmentally friendly. This means that there is a considerable market gap in sustainable textiles, which are in increasing demand […]

The Arctic is entering a digital age where web-based media acts as one of the main drivers behind ideologies and action, both in the north and beyond. In order to ensure that Arctic stories are driven by Arctic creators, northern youth are searching for opportunities to enter this journalistic space. To support their mission, the […]

In the modern world people want fast access to the right data at the right time. The facilitator of this data transmission and interconnection is the internet. People are sending and receiving data through their different devices. In this so called ubiquitous era service providers are moving from in shop servers to cloud environments and […]

While promoting the destruction of the majority of tumour cells, chemotherapy treatment in cancer patients also permits chemo-resistant, senescent tumour cells to survive. Such senescent cells can live off dead tumour cells during and after chemotherapy. They can then form new tumours, resulting in disease progression. We have recently observed that chemotherapy treatment also induces […]

Les amphibiens sont la classe animale la plus en danger d’extinction, notamment à cause de maladies émergentes qui se propagent sur tous les continents, en partie à cause du commerce exotique des espèces. Il semble cependant que les bactéries vivant à la surface de leur peau (le microbiome cutané) leur confèrent une certaine résistance face […]

Ribosome biosynthesis is one of the most multifaceted and energy-demanding processes in biology. It involves over 250 factors that transiently associate with the nascent pre-ribosome in a well-orchestrated manner. Importantly, increased ribosome biogenesis has a critical role in cancer initiation and progression. Owing to the advances in cryo-electron microscopy, this pathway’s detailed mechanism started to […]

In light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, contact tracing has been found an effective measure to mitigate the spread of the corresponding SARS-CoV-2 virus. The aim of contact tracing is to identify, notify and potentially quarantine persons who have been in close contact with infected individuals, thereby breaking the chain of infections. Next to manual […]