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Youth Action Initiative: Needs Assessment & Outcome Evaluation Research

Youth-facing service providers in Waterloo Region have historically faced challenges when engaging marginalized youth. Through the Youth Action Initiative (YAI), Community Justice Initiatives (CJI) in partnership with the Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council (WRCPC) aim to address barriers to equity and engagement for youth in Waterloo Region, particularly for youth who have been historically and continue to be disenfranchised, such as Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC). Two objectives of the YAI are to complete a needs assessment and outcome evaluation research studies. This information will further inform the Waterloo Region Youth Engagement Strategy and guide future youth mandated services offered by CJI, the WRCPC, and other community-based organizations. Overall, this research will communicate the social and economic outcomes youth experience by participating in the YAI.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bree Akesson

Student:

Partner:

Community Justice Initiatives;Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Control

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public administration

University:

Wilfrid Laurier University

Program:

Accelerate

Catalyser l’innovation en Outaouais, une recherche multisectorielle sur les pratiques d’innovation issues de la pandémie causée par la COVID-19

La pandémie mondiale causée par le COVID-19 a entraîné plusieurs problématiques pour un grand nombre de secteurs industriels. Afin de faire face à ces problématiques, des innovations sectorielles ont vu le jour. Ces innovations perdureront au-delà de la pandémie et pourront permettre l’élaboration de pratiques innovantes au sein de divers secteurs. Cette recherche vise l’identification de ces innovations et pratiques innovantes pour les secteurs suivants en Outaouais : culture, tourisme, agroalimentaire, technologie et foresterie.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Julie Bérubé

Student:

Partner:

Centre de recherche en technologies langagières

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec en Outaouais

Program:

Accelerate

Connective Intelligence Analytics

Connective Intelligence is a niche professional services firm which specializes in organizational growth, innovation and transformation. While Connective Intelligence has been in business for over 20 years, it’s in a new phase of growth driven by two (2) recent successful product innovations which now require digital innovation and data analytics to further accelerate growth with clients, globally. The first is the Organizational Growth Indicator (OGI) – a proven tool which quantitatively assesses an organization’s ability to grow revenues and change, adaptively. The second is the Growth Leadership Indicator (GLI) which is a tool that assesses a leader’s effectiveness at leading growth and transformation within their organizations. Both of these tools are critical in an era of accelerated change and disruption which makes sustained organizational success and survival more challenging.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nicole Haggerty

Student:

Partner:

Connective Intelligence

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Élaboration d’une stratégie de développement logiciel pour l’interface utilisateur d’une plateforme Web intelligente

Le projet a pour Object l’élaboration d’une stratégie de développement logiciel pour l’interface utilisateur d’une plateforme Web intelligente.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Foutse Khomh

Student:

Partner:

ContinuumRD inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Development of selective cannabinoid treatments for neuroinflammation

Inflammation of the brain is a symptom of many different types of brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, depression, stroke, and traumatic brain injury. If left untreated, the inflammation can become a chronic problem that causes further damage to the brain. Different types of cannabinoids are a promising source of potential treatments to dampen inflammation in the central nervous system without the side effects that accompany other anti-inflammatory drugs. Panag Pharma Inc. is a Halifax based biotechnology company that specializes in the development of cannabinoid-based formulations to reduce inflammation and pain. This partnership between Panag Pharma Inc. and Dalhousie University will produce new information about cannabinoid drugs that will help to develop new treatments for brain inflammation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eileen Denovan-Wright

Student:

Partner:

Panag Pharma Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Preclinical optimization of safety and duration of cold plasma against cancer

The goal of this research is to reduce the risks of recurrence and the treatment side effects for breast cancer patients by combining a new cold plasma technology to the standard of care (surgery and radiotherapy). Cold plasma generates locally specific reactive oxygen species that can kill cancer cells. It could be delivered directly in the tumor bed after the removal of the tumor, to kill remaining cancer cells and therefore improve local control. This project has the potential to enable a Canadian technology, which was invented at McGill University, to become a new adjuvant therapy, alone or in combination with radiotherapy, to help reduce the risks of breast cancer recurrence. This project will perform the last preclinical tests required to provide evidence that this technology has the potential to become a clinically relevant tool.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philip Wong

Student:

Partner:

Nexplasmagen

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Information system for SCA

The goal of this project is to build an information system to help SCA(Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association) improve the information flow between itself and cattle producers, make information more accessible for cattle producers and automate some of the procedure SCA currently has to do manually. Examples include sale reporting via web services and cow tracking via mobile devices. In order to do so, the database of SCA needs to be redesigned and three mobile applications need to be developed. A more effective information system helps SCA to increase its productivity, reduce the chance of error and have better understanding of the beef market

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ralph Deters

Student:

Partner:

Saskatchewan Cattlemen's Association;SAKINA Information Sciences

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Agriculture; Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Ongoing Development of Energy-Economy Climate Policy Models

The overall objective for this project is to support the research of one master’s student who would help advance the methods for modelling energy-climate policies, a field in which EMRG in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at SFU is one of the leading research units in the country and in which Navius Research Incorporated is the leading Canadian consulting firm, providing support to governments and other stakeholders in the development and assessment of energy and climate policy. The project focuses on modeling assumptions and features needed to best model Direct Air Capture as part of Canada’s achievement of its “net-neutral by 2050” climate target.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Jaccard

Student:

Partner:

Navius Research

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Creating Communities Through Art: a study of community-led arts education in Katarokwi/Kingston

Through archival research and oral history interviews, this collaborative project will trace the past and present of
community-led and socially engaged arts education in the Katarokwi/Kingston. Working with the Tett Centre for
Creativity and Learning, a dynamic arts hub in the region, as well as several of its tenant organizations, including
Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre and the Kingston Arts Council, our interdisciplinary team will document, analyze,
and raise awareness of the roles that artmaking and art education have played in facilitating social engagement
and understanding within and across Katarokwi/Kingston’s diverse communities. Our research will be presented
in linked exhibitions at the Tett Centre and the Union Gallery at Queen’s University in 2022. Both exhibitions will be
free and open to the public.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jen Kennedy;Carina Magazzeni

Student:

Partner:

Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

The impact of leader modeling fallibility on learning and failure correction in health-science sector

Innovation in health-science companies goes hand in hand with uncertainties that may lead to product failures. Failures may offer opportunities to learn valuable lessons to improve organizational practices. However, firms may fail to learn because business leaders may regard these failures as threats to their personal reputation and professional image and try to justify these failures or blame them on others. We posit that leader modeling fallibility (LMF) is one of the critical factors to understanding the role played by CEOs in firms’ response to product failures, including failure correction. LMF refers to business leaders openly acknowledging and discussing errors they made at work. In this project, using secondary data on product recalls from the medical industry in North America, we aim to understand the consequences of LMF at the firm level and explore the mechanisms through which CEOs’ LMF influences firm product failure correction speed. To our partner organization, this project will have lasting impact by contributing to its capacity building for learning, leadership, risk management, and professional growth.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Natalie Bin Zhao

Student:

Partner:

CICTAN Health Group Corp.

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Enhancing foreign speech sound learning through transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation

Adults often struggle to learn new languages since their brains are not as plastic as those of children. The vagus nerve is the longest nerve in the human body, and its activity affects a variety of brain areas involved in attention, memory, and perception. By non-invasively stimulating the vagus nerve during language training, it may be possible to increase brain plasticity and accelerate language learning in adults. This project aims to determine whether vagus nerve stimulation with a customized earbud can enhance adults’ learning of new speech sounds. If this is the case, vagus nerve stimulation could provide an inexpensive and effective way to make language learning more efficient, which would have many benefits in today’s multicultural and interconnected world.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shari Baum;Meghan Clayards

Student:

Partner:

Revai

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Finance and Insurance; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Assessments of cortical responses to non-invasive brain stimulation

The proposed research project will aim to measure the reliability of changes in brain activity induced by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). rTMS is a non-invasive therapy that has been used to evoke changes in local and network-level brain activity in various clinical populations, including stroke and depression. The proposed project will test rTMS effectiveness and reproducibility using both neurophysiological (electroencephalography) as well as functional/behavioural outcomes. Different rTMS protocols will be tested to determine those that are most effective and reliable. Ultimately, by assessing the intra-individual variability of various rTMS protocols, this research will help improve clinical use of rTMS, making it more targeted to each individual.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chris McNeil

Student:

Partner:

Harvard University

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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