The intern Samuel Valman will work with Professors André St-Hilaire and Normand Bergeron at IRNS to develop a system to monitor river water discharge using satellite earth observation. The method developed will focus on measuring discharge during the melt water season of rivers in Quebec. This meltwater period is traditionally the most difficult period to […]

Transition to a circular economy (CE) can lower emissions from the built environment by reducing material consumption and waste generation. Because of this, CE policies and adoption of CE practices are increasingly being seen across the globe. This project assesses the current state of transition to a CE in the Canadian and UK built environments, […]

La transition énergétique et le développement de nouvelles politiques en faveur du recyclage des matériaux dans les pays du Nord impliquent de nouveaux modèles de commerce des matériaux. En particulier, les régions qui importent des matériaux vierges pourraient passer au recyclage local, réduisant ainsi leurs importations. Ce remodelage initial des échanges de matériaux pourrait inciter […]

Corridor Interactive requires a digital marketing intern seeking direct experience with all aspects of creating company awareness, branding and customer lead generation. This position will benefit from working with an experienced marketing team plus have the opportunity of direct ownership of programs during their term. Candidates will be expected to bring their specific knowledge of […]

Using the principle of the serious leisure pursuit information studies framework, this ethnographic research project explores set-up approaches to bullet journaling. By exploring the materiality of the bullet journal, and how journaling hobbyists create and maintain their social worlds, this research project seeks to improve understanding on the sub-cultures in journaling communities. Through this, it […]

Drugs act by binding to a target protein. Determining the three-dimensional shape the complex between a drug and a protein is challenging, particularly when the protein spans the membrane separating the interior and exterior of a cell. Cryo-electron microscopy allows these structures to be measured experimentally, but often the resolution is too low to aid […]

The barber-pole worm (Haemonchus contortus) is a parasitic worm of sheep, goats and cattle common in both UK and Canada. Infection of the barber-worm causes reduction in animal growth and milk production in addition to general poor health and high risk of death, costing millions from production losses annually in Canada and the UK. Symptoms […]

My project proposes to analyze representations of the built environment in William McFarlane Notman’s photographs of the Royal Tour of Canada in 1901. Held at the McCord Museum in Montreal, the photographs picture the tour taken by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) across Canada on […]

Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (CBSR) Association is partnering with the CBSR Education Foundation to deliver a Sustainable Procurement Fellowship (SPF) program. The SPF program aims to educate and empower corporate sustainability professionals to deliver on corporate sustainability goals through improvements and integration of sustainable procurement practices. Carbon mitigation, circularity, and sustainable information technology (IT) […]

This research proposal will focus on identifying supplementary topics that will provide enriched learning opportunities for the Junior Achievement Dollars with Sense (DwS) middle school curriculum. The key areas to be investigated will include fundamentals of consumer credit cards, public stock market basics, and banks and banking. These areas are introduced in the Dollars with […]

Ce projet MITACS vise à exporter et à adapter l’approche pédagogique et scientifique de l’Université des jeux(nes) musiciens (UJM), laboratoire vivant situé à la Faculté de musique de l’Université Laval, au sein du campus Sobral de l’Université Fédérale du Ceara (UFC), état situé dans le nord-est du Brésil. La création de l’UJM/UFC-Sobral (Universidade de jogos(jovens) […]

La transition à l’âge adulte qui s’échelonne typiquement de 16 à 25 ans présente un ensemble de défi pour les jeunes adultes. Parmi les grands changements qui s’opèrent lors de cette période, on compte la transition école-travail, qui marque, comme son nom l’indique, la fin de la scolarité et l’entrée sur le marché de l’emploi. […]