Food System Planning in NWO: Building a strategy for comprehensive planning and assessment in Thunder Bay, ON

Food systems are integral to community health and well-being yet face overlapping challenges in Northwestern Ontario. This project begins the process of conducting a comprehensive food system assessment and planning process for the City of Thunder Bay and the surrounding communities through its local food policy council, the Thunder Bay + Area Food Strategy (TBAFS). […]

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New Directions – Opikhiwawin

New Directions is a non profit community organization that provides extensive programming that serves specialized programs for children, youth, adults, and families from all walks of life. They offer a variety of services that range from residential placements, cultural programming, educational services, and more. The New Directions vision statement captures the framework of the organization […]

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Fast quantitative magnetic resonance imaging of the brain using sparsity and low-rank image reconstruction constraints

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI) is increasingly used in research to map the microstructure and composition of the brain non-invasively. In contrast to conventional “weighted” MR imaging, qMRI requires the acquisition of several images with different contrast weightings. The data at each voxel is subsequently fit to a signal equation to extract features of the […]

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Drawing to Inclusion

Drawing to Inclusion is an investigation that will propose a tool/approach to facilitate user’s involvement in the housing design process. AIR studio alongside Design for Inclusion, a research-to-action initiative, are seeking new methods with which to interface people’s lived-experience with the spaces in which they live.

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Geomorphic sensitivity of rivers along the Niagara Escarpment to land-use and climate change: Implications for erosion risk in Hamilton, Ontario

The Niagara Escarpment is a dominant natural feature in southern Ontario and provides the region with exceptional sites of natural beauty including numerous waterfalls and exposed rocky cliffs. There is little data on geomorphic characteristics of rivers along the escarpment and their sensitivity to erosion under future land development and climate change. The proposed project […]

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Cansbridge Fellowship

This project aims to uncover key trends in the education technology industry, examining EdTech companies of various sizes (start-ups to multinational corporations) within the Asia Pacific region. Through this project, the intern will collect data around emerging and established EdTech companies in the fastest-growing EdTech region of the world with the purpose of publishing their […]

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Développement d’un nouveau magnétomètre

Le projet consiste à développer une nouvelle génération de magnétomètre qui mesure les propriétés magnétiques d’un matériau. Cet appareil consiste à faire osciller un échantillon de matériau dans un tube d’une bobine de détection à une autre. Ce présent stage se concentrera d’abord sur le contrôle du mouvement vertical de l’échantillon. Cela implique la conception […]

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Education Assistant at Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society

The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is an organisation that is dedicated to the conservation and preservation of Canada’s wilderness. Through their advocacy they aspire to protect 50% or more of Canada’s wilderness for future generations. Sharing knowledge about the importance of Canada’s wilderness and the challenges that conservation efforts are facing is one […]

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Skills Passport

The Skills Passport project will create a resource hub providing training and support in workplace readiness, EDI, and skills training for students and employers participating in work-integrated learning (WIL) at the University of New Brunswick. Through the creation of a SharePoint site and specific resource modules, this one-stop resource will allow students and employers to […]

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Designing and Implementing a Communication Plan for Purpose Homes

The Purpose Homes Pilot project, an initiative of Purpose Construction, focuses on building affordable 5+ bedroom homes to accommodate larger and blended family models. Purpose Homes also aims to create a zero-barrier pathway to homeownership for low income Indigenous and Newcomer Canadian families. The objective of this Mitacs project is to implement a communications plan […]

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The Gaia Project: Communications and Marketing Coordinator

The Gaia Project (“TGP”) is a New Brunswick-based charitable non-profit with the mission to empower youth to take action on climate change through education. For over 10 years, TGP has been providing in-class support to teachers across New Brunswick and the unceded territory of the Wabanaki peoples by delivering hands-on experiences that ignite student curiosity, […]

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