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Co-Owner/Director

RagnaRock Northern Brewing Company Ltd. is a 5-barrel craft brewery in St. Anthony, Newfoundland, that opened in November 2019 with three owners just before the start of the pandemic. The craft beer scene in NL is growing in popularity and with an increase in demand for our product, RagnaRock is getting ready for a busy tourism season. The pandemic impacted every aspect of our operations and this summer, we plan to re-launch our business with a fresh take on all our products and events that we offer. As part of this, a crucial component of this position is assessing our digital marketing strategy and creating a new one for us or helping us pivot our current one.

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Faculty Supervisor:

William Newell

Student:

Partner:

RagnaRock Northern Brewing Company

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Next-generation preclinical development andassessment of engraftment efficiency of Sernova’s Cell Pouch System™ in clinical islet transplantation

This fellowship will develop next generation Cell Pouch™ technology, through testing novel animal study (anti-cell death agents, insulin-producing mouse stem cells and islet health (metabolic engraftment efficiency) in parallel to a safety and efficacy (Phase I/II) clinical study of the Cell Pouch™ in Type 1 diabetic in which an in vitro measure of islet health will be correlated to in vivo graft function. The Cell Pouch System™ is a patented non-degradable polymer medical device which unobtrusively fits under the skin, rapidly incorporating with tissue and small blood vessels to form a natural environment for the long-term survival of therapeutic cells including insulin-producing islets to provide a tight feedback system allowing insulin release for glucose control in diabetes. The scalable Cell Pouch™ has undergone successful initial animal studies, initial concept testing and has been manufactured for small and large animal and human clinical evaluation. This fellowship will continue testing new generations of the Cell Pouch™, which will ultimately improve the efficacy of clinical islet transplantation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

James Shapiro

Student:

Partner:

Sernova Corp

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Elevate

Fed the same way? Exploring the influence of breastfeeding, weaning and childhood diet on the sex ratio of Medieval Tuscany (Italy)

In my doctoral research project, I will analyse infant and childhood feeding practices from three different medieval Italian sites (11th-14th centuries AD). These collections are housed at the University of Pisa where I propose to do my field work. The aim of my research is to test the hypothesis that gendered feeding patterns existed, which contributed to the shortage of women in medieval Europe that historical and archaeological records seem to support. The analysis of breastfeeding and weaning patterns will be conducted using incremental sampling of tooth dentine, a recent technique that cuts a tooth in to multiple samples (increments), where each increment corresponds to a specific developmental period during childhood. Each of these increment will then be analysed to determine the ratios of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes, which can be used to infer diet. The fluctuations of these values allows us to detect feeding strategies and their duration. My doctoral research, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Pisa, will contribute to a better understanding of medieval infant feeding practices and their role in the reported unbalanced sex ratio in medieval Italy and the rest of Europe.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tracy Prowse

Student:

Partner:

University of Pisa

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Good Food Club Programming Assistant Coordinator

The West Broadway Good Food Club (GFC) was born from the recognition that food security and adequate access to nutritious, affordable, and delicious food is not only a major social determinant of health, but also a fundamental human need. Since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic, the GFC has had to pivot some of their services, and has been forced to contend with some unprecedented challenges. The two projects I will be working on with support from the GFC team—the West Broadway Farmer’s Market and the GFC’s Virtual Garden Party—will ensure that this valuable organization can continue to serve their community in a safe, efficient, and thoughtful manner. The West Broadway Farmer’s Market builds strong networks of social and organizational relationships between both program employees, volunteers, and community members; facilitates the pick-up and delivery of fresh, healthful foods to community members; raises public awareness of the benefits of GFC membership to a wider audience of potential members; and ensures public safety is a priority as the covid-19 pandemic situation shifts and/or evolves. The Virtual Garden Party program delivers free gardening kits and capacity building virtual programming to community members on a variety of subjects from basic first-aid to cooking and

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shauna MacKinnon

Student:

Partner:

West Broadway Community Organization

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Winnipeg

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Product quality development for a corrosion performance prediction software through implementing innovative real-time corrosion data analysis

The developed software product by the qualiTEAS team requires more data to train machine learning-based algorithms. The general objective of this project is to improve the final product of the qualiTEAS team through implementing the innovative design of experiment techniques. The current project will help the qualiTEAS team overcome current challenges and barriers towards improving the final product by characterizing the time-resolved corrosion response.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ali Nasiri

Student:

Partner:

qualiTEAS Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Development of test strips for early identification of buddy maple syrup

Near the end of every maple syrup harvest season, the syrup can acquire an unpalatable off-flavour called ?buddy?. Buddy flavor cannot be detected in the maple sap prior to processing into syrup, often resulting in loss of income, and unnecessary cost in materials to produce the syrup. This proposal seeks to develop a low-cost field test to be used by maple syrup producers for the detection of compounds that are linked to the development of the buddy flavor. This will be accomplished by developing special receptors, known as aptamers, for these compounds. These aptamers will be incorporated into a lateral flow assay (dipstick test) that would allow for quick identification of the compounds in sap. The development of inexpensive on-site tests that can be used by maple syrup producers to determine if the sap should be processed or not, represents a direct economic benefit to this industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Maria DeRosa;David Miller;Justin Renaud

Student:

Partner:

Ontario Maple Syrup Producers Association

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of acquisition and control interface for novel deployable optics-enabled hyperspectral imager for satellite based remote sensing

Remote sensing of Earth using hyperspectral imaging satellites has become an area of key interest for civilian end-use applications in areas like agriculture, forestry management, flood risk assessment, minerology, and environmental monitoring. The aim of this project is to research and develop a hyperspectral camera payload for a CubeSat constellation. The success of this project and subsequent satellite deployments will bring a new generation of data-driven solutions to Canada’s agricultural industry with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, managing soil health, improving carbon sequestration, reducing water usage, and increasing agricultural yield.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jayshri Sabarinathan

Student:

Partner:

LightSail

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Accelerate

ArtsJunktion Environmental Impact Study & ReCreation Station Development

ArtsJunktion MB Inc. is a Winnipeg based charitable organization who inspires creativity through their take-what-you-need, pay-what-you-can materials depot and creation workspace that supports accessibility and diversity. ArtsJunktion is dedicated to environmental consciousness and reducing landfill waste by focusing on community awareness programing and repurposing materials received from local community members, businesses, and organizations. Late last year, ArtsJunktion acquired two pieces of equipment from Precious Plastics – a shredder and an injector. This equipment will allow for the creation of multi-use products from single use plastics that are not accepted by recycling programs. Being the only organization in Manitoba and one of a few in Canada that have this equipment, ArtsJunktion is blazing a trail with their new ReCreation Station. This internship project looks to develop a standard operating procedure manual and materials to educate the community on this new creative equipment and assist in further development of the ReCreation Station department. As ArtsJucktion is an environmentally aware organization and desires to reduce landfill waste, this internship project will also look at the impact that the organization is having on diverting materials.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shauna MacKinnon

Student:

Partner:

ArtsJunktion

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation; Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Winnipeg

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Chemical diversity in the gut microbiota of pregnant and lactating women from Antioquia-Colombia: Nutritional metabolomics for biomarker discovery

To date, gut microbiome populations have been associated only with not beneficial choline metabolism, like those related to trimethylamine N-oxide formation. But in this research, it is hypothesized that other mechanisms must be involved in the fates of free choline released from dietary sources. To explore these microbial communities associated to beneficial choline metabolism rendering acetylcholine, betaine, and phosphatidylcholine, with the goal of using this knowledge to combat undernutrition problems during pregnancy and lactation, where choline plays an essential role. This project aims to make the first approach towards the ecological and chemical characterization of the gut microbiota of mothers from Antioquia, Colombia. We propose to apply state-of-the-art metabolomic technologies and data analysis tools developed in the Dr. Britz-Mckibin lab in order to identify a panel of stool derived metabolite signatures associated with a beneficial choline metabolism. This work will discover novel biomarkers for assessing adequate choline intake and maternal and childhood nutritional status. Furthermore, this study aims to determine if there may be a possibility of gut microbiome’s modulation towards the distribution of taxonomic groups that benefit choline metabolism in women during pregnancy and lactation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philip Britz-McKibbin

Student:

Partner:

Universidad EAFIT

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Solar Open Access Resource: SOAR – Snow and PV system reliability

There is a large interest in the more accurate snow loss estimates for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems as large-scale deployments move into northern latitudes. There have been many studies on different types of PV systems and different types of modules. Preliminary results show bifacial modules may clear snow faster than monofacial PV. This study will start with a literature review of all losses (and gains) from snow on PV. It will complete an in-depth analysis of snow losses to provide guidance for PV system installers in the north. The results will be presented to the PV technical community in a freely accessible knowledge base.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joshua Pearce

Student:

Partner:

Heliolytics Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Accelerate

Development of polymer modified ATR-FTIR sensing platform for anions relevant to soil health

Soil moisture is a critical parameter in precision agriculture, which requires timely adjustments in the soil water resource management. Optimization of fertilizer and seed placement only result in producing improved yield if soil moisture is sufficient. Conventional soil monitoring techniques allows one-time soil sampling which are returned
to the laboratory for soil fertility assessments and these assessments used to inform precision agriculture adjustments. State of art soil moisture sensors assesses soil properties such as electrical resistance, dielectric constant, or interaction with neutrons as proxy for the moisture content. The accuracy of these sensors is questionable since the measured property and soil moisture may vary depending on various environmental factors such as soil type, temperature, and salinity. Soil salinity and sodicity management is another key part of soil water resource management. Increases in sodium or potassium contents lead to decreases in soil structure, impeding drainage and reducing crop yield. Reliable soil sensors with high temporal fidelity are necessary to optimize irrigation amounts and timing for precision farming.
This project proposes to develop polymer-based receptors that are selective to ions responsible to salinity in soil. ATR-IR spectroscopy is an ideal technique to characterise polymeric films.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ian Burgess

Student:

Partner:

LiORA

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Environmental Science and Technology; Agriculture and Food; Advanced Manufacturing

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Analysis of Renewable Ammonia Production and Transmission across the Atlantic Ocean

We will explore a low-carbon hydrogen pathway, i.e., renewable power-to-ammonia (P2A) production and distribution to connect the hydrogen economy between Canada and Germany. Ammonia is a commodity for fertilizer with mature production and distribution infrastructure. However, careful analyses are required to evaluate its potential as a hydrogen carrier for energy and trade. A combined techno-economic assessment (TEA) and life-cycle analysis (LCA) will be conducted to evaluate the levelized cost of ammonia and its associated life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emission. Various renewable ammonia production, storage, transmission and distribution technologies will be compared using a performance matrix. The results of the project will facilitate the decision-making process for different stakeholders in a hydrogen economy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

XiaoYu Wu

Student:

Partner:

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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