Additional research is required to fully understand the effects of Capsaicinoids, a supplement that contains the active ingredient in hot peppers. Previous studies have demonstrated its ability to reduce appetite and weight. However, there is lacking information regarding the effects of this supplement on cardiovascular health and exercise performance. The intern will be responsible for […]

The proposed research project will investigate the challenges facing Canadian healthcare workers who currently work either fully or partially from home – and examine the effect that these challenges have on their engagement, job satisfaction, well-being, and intentions to stay at versus leave their current job. To do this, our research interns will conduct interviews […]

mRNA vaccine technologies came to the forefront of public health during the recent global pandemic and this technology also has great potential for other therapeutic approaches. These vaccine platforms require that the mRNA be encapsulated by fat molecules into structures called “lipid nanoparticles”, and the specific chemical formulations of the mRNA and fats determine the […]

This project aims to enhance smart farming by improving the scalability and accuracy of two commercial products, SWAT CAM and SWAT MAPS, owned by Croptimistic Technologies Inc. These products are used for precision mapping on over three million acres of land across four countries. The project will utilize machine learning to identify crop parameters such […]

The proposed project will aim to improve traditional farming practices where seed and fertilizer are applied uniformly throughout a field without taking soil variability into account. Variable rate applications have shown the potential to help farmers save money while increasing the quality of their crop and minimizing environmental impacts. This research will help the Prince […]

CreativePEI will undertake an internship to modernize and improve internal systems and processes such as HR admin, finance management, banking, data security, which will allow better processes and create more time for delivering on core mandate. These solutions will be shared and mapped to other local sector group NFPs.

A software development project to modernize the internal infrastructure of the company across 3 different streams of work: build infrastructure, release pipelines and content management solutions. The company will benefit from this work by streamlining internal processes that are both error prone and manual in their nature, through the adoption and development of modern technologies […]

The proposed research aims to evaluate different processing techniques to ensure sugar kelp’s safety and stability as a biofertilizer for potato production. And nutrient contents of the processed kelp will be determined, and plot-scale experiments will be conducted to grow potatoes under exclusive and in-combination application of processed sugar kelp with synthetic fertilizers for 2-years. […]

The Brackley Bay Oyster Company is a family-owned, boutique oyster packing and shipping facility. We ship wholesale to domestic markets, we have a federal CFIA license to allow us to ship internationally, and also have a retail location at our packing facility, which has been in operation for 3 years. After seeing the success of […]

Civonus Inc. is developing an internet based, transparent, asynchronous policy-making process for governments, public institutions, and civil society organizations/consultants who advise governments on policy issues, to use to improve their policy-making process. It is curated to produce deeply engaging, consensual, sustainable, equitable, inclusive, strategic, evidence informed policy-making. This project is to develop, in stages, MVP, […]