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Geophysical Prospecting for Antimony (and Chromite) in the Southern Quesnel Terrane, British Columbia, Canada

Antimony is classified as a strategic element due to its high relevance for many military and technical applications, e.g. its use in fire suppressants and lead-acid batteries. Canada has currently no operational mine to produce antimony and about 90% of the world production originates from China and east Asia. This project will develop a geophysical prospecting program to explore for antimony, which has been discovered in samples taken from the industry partner’s mineral claim in the southern Quesnel terrane, northwest of Kelowna, British Columbia. At least four different geophysical techniques will be employed to explore a hydrothermally altered shear zone for antimony mineralization as well as a granodiorite intrusion which is associated to serpentinization and resulting chromite deposits. This project is innovative as both commodities do not exhibit very distinct geophysical parameters, but must be identified through associated minerals and foremost the location of specific geological structures.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alexander Braun;Gema Ribeiro Olivo

Student:

Partner:

Redline Minerals Inc

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Natural Resources; Mining; Technology

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Identification of Risk Analysis Tools in Institutional Mining Investment

The risks related to Tailing Storage Facilities (TSF) failure are increasingly manifesting as financially material and impactful. My goal during this Globalink funded project is to identify the current tools that institutional mining investors are using to evaluate risk exposure associated with TSF. The overarching objective is to identify whether tailings dam safety is considered and accounted for in current mining investment decisions. This project will have a goal of completing qualitative interviews to develop a database of TSF risk criteria that mining investors are currently using when evaluating the financial risk of an operation. Using the database and a literature review of TSF ‘best safety practices’, a gap analysis of the current tools used in the mining investment community will be completed. I have identified two aspects from my research that would benefit most through the Globalink Research Award. First, in order to assess the current evaluation tools that mining investors use to quantify TSF risks, I would profoundly benefit from the Columbia Water Center’s experience with private investment decision-making. Second, both Dr. Kunz, from UBC, and Dr. Lall, from Columbia, have extensive knowledge about risk. TBC

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nadja Kunz

Student:

Partner:

Columbia University

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Evolution of Photolyase DNA Repair Function in Vertebrates

The research in the Foulkes Lab is focused on the regulation of circadian rhythms and environmental effects on specific gene products. The project I will be contributing to aims to investigate the role of environment, specifically light, on the evolution of cryptochromes and photolyases. Photolyases are proteins that are involved in repairing DNA, and the proper functioning of photoreceptors and circadian clocks in the body. Using blind cavefish and medaka as a model, the group examines the loss of function mutations that have occurred in the species’ DNA over the course of millions of years living in perpetual darkness, and the implications of these mutations on the ability to repair DNA damage and manage the circadian clock. The goal of this project is to establish connections between the circadian clock and photolyase as well as develop an original method to identify non-light dependent DNA repair function under extreme conditions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alison Duncan

Student:

Partner:

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Investigation of forest legacy-based soil rehabilitation techniques for mine reclamation

The August 2014 tailings dam breach at the Mount Polley Mine, BC severely disturbed downstream forest ecosystems through erosion and tailings deposition. The impacted area presents an opportunity to research using ecosystem legacies (ecosystem components that survive a disturbance) to rehabilitate disturbed areas. A field trial at Mount Polley is testing seedling establishment and soil food web recolonization using three soil legacy reclamation methods: transplants of forest soil into seedling planting holes; spatial belowground connection with the undisturbed forest; and bringing forest floor buried by tailings to the surface. Greenhouse experiments are investigating the volume of soil to transplant, the role of the soil biological community in soil transplants, and the potential for seedlings to regenerate soil legacies, promoting growth of the next generation of trees. This study aims to develop new ecosystem-based reclamation techniques to be applied at Mount Polley and across the mining industry, with the potential to improve reclamation practices.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Suzanne Simard

Student:

Partner:

Mount Polley Mining Corporation (Likely, BC)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Mining

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Storying Access: Reconciling the Effects of Betterment Discourses in Southern Ontario’s Early 20th Century Domestic Science Education – Year two

Building on my recent archival research, my Mitacs project explores the ways early 20th century discourses of betterment and progress, such as eugenics, in southern Ontario were unevenly entwined within rural domestic science educational institutions and connected to cultural histories and legacies of colonialism that diminished and disappeared young women who did not fit the normative middle-class lives of white, able-bodied women who studied, taught, and led in the field of domestic science. Combining recent studies in history, education, feminism, postcolonialism, and performance ethnography in a collaborative, Indigenous research model of decolonization (Smith 2013), I will assemble a team of disability, Black activist, and Indigenous artist-researchers to join me in collaboratively curating two accessible, multi-media exhibitions that address and disrupt local histories and legacies of betterment. The exhibitions will advance non-normative vitality and social justice. Accessible curatorial practices will be developed with support from Dr. Rice, her Re•Vision Centre and Bodies in Translation SSHRC Partnership teams, and 10C. One of the exhibitions will be mounted at10C, where passersby are invited to share ideas and stories. Accessibility workshops and conversation evenings at 10C will be a springboard for “Streetside Stories,” publications, future research, and attracting social finance investment to 10C.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carla Rice

Student:

Partner:

10C Shared Space;University of Guelph

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Elevate

Storying Access: Reconciling the Effects of Betterment Discourses in Southern Ontario’s Early 20th Century Domestic Science Education

Building on my recent archival research, my Mitacs project explores the ways early 20th century discourses of betterment and progress, such as eugenics, in southern Ontario were unevenly entwined within rural domestic science educational institutions and connected to cultural histories and legacies of colonialism that diminished and disappeared young women who did not fit the normative middle-class lives of white, able-bodied women who studied, taught, and led in the field of domestic science. Combining recent studies in history, education, feminism, postcolonialism, and performance ethnography in a collaborative, Indigenous research model of decolonization (Smith 2013), I will assemble a team of disability, Black activist, and Indigenous artist-researchers to join me in collaboratively curating two accessible, multi-media exhibitions that address and disrupt local histories and legacies of betterment. The exhibitions will advance non-normative vitality and social justice. Accessible curatorial practices will be developed with support from Dr. Rice, her Re•Vision Centre and Bodies in Translation SSHRC Partnership teams, and 10C. One of the exhibitions will be mounted at10C, where passersby are invited to share ideas and stories. Accessibility workshops and conversation evenings at 10C will be a springboard for “Streetside Stories,” publications, future research, and attracting social finance investment to 10C.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carla Rice

Student:

Partner:

10C Shared Space;University of Guelph

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Elevate

Evaluation of a home transfer pole during assisted sit-to-stand in older adults with mobility limitations

Mobility in the home is a difficult task for older adults with mobility limitations and is associated with a risk of injury from falling. However, it is a requisite for maintaining independence. A number of assistive technologies have been developed to help a number of different activities of daily living, one in specific is the transfer pole – a vertically oriented pole that pressure fits between ceiling and floor and helps the user stand-up. Three common configurations include a single vertical pole, a single pole with a horizontal grab-bar, and two vertical poles. The purpose of this study is to 1) determine the best configuration based on biomechanical and balance testing on older adults with mobility limitations and 2) optimize the design of the transfer pole to support forces safely and conform to the home environment. The anticipated benefit for Toronto Rehab is the capacity to recommend the safest transfer…….

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alex Mihailidis

Student:

Partner:

University of Toronto

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture; Education

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Development of Artificial Intelligence Powered Technologies in Computational Pathology to Enable Automated Slide Screening in Whole Slide Imaging – Year two

Advances in Whole Slide Imaging (WSI) and Machine Learning (ML) open new opportunities to create innovative solutions in healthcare and in particular digital pathology to increase efficiencies, reduce cost and most importantly improve patient care. This project envisions the creation of new automated ML tools including the design of a custom Convolution Neural Network (CNN) architecture for whole slide imaging in digital pathology. The custom CNN will be trained to learn different representations of histology tissues so that it can separate healthy from diseased tissues. A substantial database of labeled healthy tissue will be used to assess the performance of the proposed solution. A limited validation of the engineering prototype developed through this project will take place at St. Michael’s hospital in Toronto. The technologies developed through this project have the potential to be integrated in an automated screening process in pathology to improve pathologist time efficiencies and reduce errors in diagnosis of disease. The outcome of this research will be of great benefit to the industrial partner since it serves as a pilot project for developing an advanced, data-driven, digital pathology solution that complements its current line of pathology scanners.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Konstantinos N Plataniotis

Student:

Partner:

Huron Digital Pathology;University of Toronto

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Elevate

Development of Artificial Intelligence Powered Technologies in Computational Pathology to Enable Automated Slide Screening in Whole Slide Imaging

Advances in Whole Slide Imaging (WSI) and Machine Learning (ML) open new opportunities to create innovative solutions in healthcare and in particular digital pathology to increase efficiencies, reduce cost and most importantly improve patient care. This project envisions the creation of new automated ML tools including the design of a custom Convolution Neural Network (CNN) architecture for whole slide imaging in digital pathology. The custom CNN will be trained to learn different representations of histology tissues so that it can separate healthy from diseased tissues. A substantial database of labeled healthy tissue will be used to assess the performance of the proposed solution. A limited validation of the engineering prototype developed through this project will take place at St. Michael’s hospital in Toronto. The technologies developed through this project have the potential to be integrated in an automated screening process in pathology to improve pathologist time efficiencies and reduce errors in diagnosis of disease. The outcome of this research will be of great benefit to the industrial partner since it serves as a pilot project for developing an advanced, data-driven, digital pathology solution that complements its current line of pathology scanners.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Konstantinos N Plataniotis

Student:

Partner:

Huron Digital Pathology;University of Toronto

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Elevate

Long-Term Prevention of Catheter Infections Using Chemical Coatings – Year two

Urinary tract infections caused by indwelling catheters (CAUTIs) employed for the treatment of urinary flow are very common. Almost 100 million of these devices are sold on an annual basis with around 25% of these being marketed in the USA. In addition to the cost of catheters and their insertion, hospital treatment of CAUITs runs into the hundreds of millions of dollars every year. The infections are caused by adherence of bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas and Staphylococcus aureus with attendant formation of a biofilm to the surface of polymeric materials used for fabrication of the device. Left untreated, these infections can lead to death. Over several years many attempts have been made to produce anti-microbial surfaces to prevent bacterial adhesion with very limited success. The present MITACS application for funding is designed to build on dramatic preliminary results achieved with regard to the complete prevention of bacterial adhesion via use of ultra-thin surface modification of polymers conventionally used for catheter fabrication. This sub-nanometer modification reduces adherence and biofilm formation by over 90%, and is highly stable to conventional sterilization protocols.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Benjamin Hatton

Student:

Partner:

Econous Systems Inc;University of Toronto

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Elevate

Spaces, People, Things: Entanglements within Congregate Living

This project explores how one congregate living environment in Edmonton Alberta supports their residents through the use of the material environment including designed spaces and objects created by architectural and interior designers. The web of person-environment relationships and interactions that is complicated, dynamic, messy, and riddled with shifting agency is unpacked revealing how humans depend on things, things depend on things, and things depend on humans. This project takes on theory and practice by conducting research that is directly applied to the renovation, operation and programming of the congregate living complex studied. In sum, this project is informed by and contributes to scholarly research on material culture, architectural and interior design; directly impacts the re-visioning, re-design and re-programming of one congregate living environment; and develops essential in-depth case study research to inform design practitioners in the future.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Megan Strickfaden

Student:

Partner:

Canterbury Foundation

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Long-Term Prevention of Catheter Infections Using Chemical Coatings

Urinary tract infections caused by indwelling catheters (CAUTIs) employed for the treatment of urinary flow are very common. Almost 100 million of these devices are sold on an annual basis with around 25% of these being marketed in the USA. In addition to the cost of catheters and their insertion, hospital treatment of CAUITs runs into the hundreds of millions of dollars every year. The infections are caused by adherence of bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas and Staphylococcus aureus with attendant formation of a biofilm to the surface of polymeric materials used for fabrication of the device. Left untreated, these infections can lead to death. Over several years many attempts have been made to produce anti-microbial surfaces to prevent bacterial adhesion with very limited success. The present MITACS application for funding is designed to build on dramatic preliminary results achieved with regard to the complete prevention of bacterial adhesion via use of ultra-thin surface modification of polymers conventionally used for catheter fabrication. This sub-nanometer modification reduces adherence and biofilm formation by over 90%, and is highly stable to conventional sterilization protocols.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Benjamin Hatton

Student:

Partner:

Econous Systems Inc;University of Toronto

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Elevate

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