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Engineering - chemical / biological

Development of Prophylactic Therapy to Reduce COVID-19 Infections

Working with Avicanna Inc., a Canadian biopharmaceutical company with advanced natural cannabinoid solutions, we will develop an easy-to-use preventative treatment, in the form of a mouthwash and/or throat gargle product, for both clinical and at-home use. A critical step of the infection is when the virus enters human host cells, which is enabled by the interaction between the spike protein on the surface of the viral particle and the Angiotensin I Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor on the surface of human cells. To understand this fundamental mechanisms of action, we will use specialized assays, chemical analysis, and 3D tissue models. Being able to hire an intern will enable us to identify and find the optimum levels of cannabinoids (and terpenes) that interfere with the formation of the S-ACE2 complex, to inform the manufacturing process, in order to help develop our novel approach to prevent and treat COIVID-19 infections.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kingsley Donkor;John Church

Student:

Iran Ocaña-Rios

Partner:

Avicanna Inc

Discipline:

Physics / Astronomy

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Thompson Rivers University

Program:

Accelerate

Fall Self-Recovery Lift Assist to Reduce Exposure to COVID-19 Among Seniors in Assisted Living & Long-term Care by Enabling Independent Living

More than one in five seniors aged 65 and over will fall at least once a year, many of them repeatedly. Fortunately, most of these falls don’t result in major injuries but often the fall victims are unable to get back up on their own and require assistance from someone. For those that live alone or whose partners are unable to assist them, they need to either call for Emergency Medical Services or call on a friend or neighbour to help. Falls are one of the leading causes for admission to assisted living and long-term care facilities where we have seen the devastating impacts from COVID-19. This project seeks to design an affordable, in-home portable assistive device to allow seniors or those with mobility limitations to recover from falls themselves where there is no resulting injury and remain living independently.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Clifton Johnston;Glen Hougan

Student:

Liam Gillies Maaskant

Partner:

Axtion Independence Mobility Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Determining how to create and measure engaging cultural learning through experiential digital media

Education has been undergoing a major shift in recent years. With the rise of social media, handheld devices, and the internet itself, schools have been encouraged to adapt to these developments. One aspect of these movements that has not been given as much attention in education, is that of video games. Many video games today have links with various social issues and historical topics, yet they are not often present in social science classrooms. Even when video games are used, finding the balance between educational components and entertaining elements in video games created for learning purposes can be difficult. The overall goal of this project is to find ways to create a product that is both educational and entertaining, in order to offer it to the mass market.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alex Stewart

Student:

Evan Burry

Partner:

Stormy Shore Studios

Discipline:

Resources and environmental management

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Navigating the COVID crisis: reimaging business models and reporting mechanisms to enhance the resiliency and sustainability of small and medium sized enterprises

The COVID-19 crisis has caused severe disruption in the supply chain, reduced demand for goods and services, prompted a dramatic decline in GDP, caused high levels of unemployment, and undermined consumer confidence. The calamity has exposed vulnerabilities in the current paradigm of management thinking and business operational structures. Small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are among the most vulnerable especially when compared to larger corporations. SMEs require novel strategies to help them respond, pivot and survive the economic disruption caused by COVID-19. Key priorities to support the transition to include new supply chain models, technology sharing, strategic decision-making tools, and reporting frameworks. While the immediate need is to help mitigate and stabilize the economy and employment, in the longer-term businesses need to integrate a resiliency approach as a core tenet of business strategy to protect against future economic shocks.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jeffrey Wilson

Student:

Amr ElAlfy

Partner:

SmallFood

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Using Communications Theory to Enhance Indigenous Employee Recruitment and Retention on Vancouver Island

Charla Huber wants to identify how employers can better support Indigenous employees. Many companies have identified they want to increase the number of Indigenous employees, but little success has been found. Charla will receive guidance from Indigenous Elders and leaders across British Columbia to understand the differences in how Indigenous people communicate and how their cultural values impact their role as an employee. Once identified, Charla will look at standard workplace systems and organizational design such as job interviews and find ways to tweak them to be more welcoming and supportive of Indigenous and non-Indigenous employees. This research will demonstrate to employers how common practices are filtering out good employees rather than filtering them in.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jennifer Walinga

Student:

Charla Huber

Partner:

M’akola Development Services

Discipline:

Cultural studies

Sector:

University:

Royal Roads University

Program:

Accelerate

Developing and Validating a Robust Sample Preparation, Separation and Quantitation Method for Pesticide Residues in Cannabis

Mandatory reporting limits established by Health Canada for pesticide testing in cannabis are typically lower than those published in various U.S. states. Because dried cannabis leaves and flowers generate many co-extractives that can negatively impact testing results, a simple and cost-effective sample preparation and analytical method needs to be developed to meet the demanding testing requirements in Canada. In this proposal, we will develop a robust sample preparation and clean-up procedure based on comparative research work and optimization of conditions and steps utilizing a combination of more basic procedures to extract 96 pesticides listed by Health Canada. Also, we will develop instrument methods to allow low level analysis of pesticides with good recovery in complex cannabis matrices.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Simon Rondeau-Gagné;Zhifeng Ding

Student:

Gage T Mason

Partner:

Cannalabs Sciences

Discipline:

Biochemistry / Molecular biology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Life Cycle Sustainability Analysis of Modular Indoor Micro-farms

Current agricultural production practices place enormous burdens on the earth’s ecosystems and are creating challenges to meet future food security goals given growing populations and mounting pressure to limit resource use and environmental impacts. In Canada especially, the short growing season and cold climate limit vegetable production and create reliance on indoor food production or imports. To provide consistent, year-round access to leafy greens, herbs, and micro-greens, modgarden© proposes small, modular gardening units which users can monitor and adjust for ideal growing conditions remotely via an app. The aim of this research is to investigate and quantify environmental impacts, economic feasibility, and social impacts following a life cycle approach. In this way, areas of improvement will be identified, allowing the partner organization to effectively focus their improvement initiatives and achieve their goal of sustainably-oriented operations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Goretty Dias;Christine Moresoli;Trevor Charles

Student:

Gayathri Valappil

Partner:

Modgarden

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Arctic Research Foundation UX/UI searchable database

The Arctic Research Foundation (ARF) is a private, non-profit organization creating a scientific infrastructure for the Canadian Arctic. Over the years, it has generated and collected a huge volume of big data. These valuable big data need to be managed. In response, we design an effective database to (a) integrate these big data (which may be of a wide variety of data types, formats, etc.) from different sources, (b) manage them, (c) catalogue the data, (d) extract useful information from the data, and (e) make the data accessible to researchers and public. By doing so, we centralize these disparate raw data collected by ARF vessels, mobile labs, and equipment from across the Arctic into a universally readable and easily searchable database. Moreover, we add an easily understandable, highly usable user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) elements so that the resulting searchable database can be easily accessible.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ralph Dueck;Reynard Dela Torre;Carson Leung

Student:

Salweyar Patel;Patience Ngcobo;Hongming Li;Chong Li;Jing Xiao;Anifat Olawoyin

Partner:

Arctic Research Foundation

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Material and Structural Performance of Nano-Carbon Based Ultra-High-Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete

This research aims to thoroughly evaluate a new revolutionary generation of advanced cementitious materials: CNF-UHPFRC. It is composed of several phases that target to assess this competitive material at several levels and optimize it. One of its important and distinctive aspects is to tailor its constituents, correspondingly price, for each specific application, while maintaining the outstanding mechanical strength.
Another important aspect is the material behaviour at the structural level. This will be assessed by adopting the UHPFRC material in a new seismic strengthening profile. The strengthening will be applied to an RC circular column. Promising results and superior member’s performance are expected, as well making a print in the world of material and strengthening applications.
The conducted research in all of its aspects will be able to comprehensively determine the weakness and strength points of this material, in order to address them in future research. The partner organization as a result will be able to promote this product confidently in the Canadian and international markets.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Raafat El-Hacha

Student:

Marwa Ibrahim;Adel Al-Ekkawi;Benjamin Forrest

Partner:

ceEntek

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Success story ‘Cabot Link’ – Can luxury tourism development, and the inclusion of non-academic learning activities as a travel experience, help economically neglected regions in Nova Scotia to prosper?

This Research is an inspirational case study, addressing Nova Scotia’s challenged Tourism Industry, by investigating in an unprecedented tourism development in Cape Breton: The Cabot Links in Inverness Nova Scotia. Discovering the process in detail may inform and inspire, but also prevent similar projects from future delays such as those that beset one of the now recognized top links golf courses in the world. The study will be performed through review of literature and media reports, conducted interviews with key constituents and follow government documentation. New and novel projects, which are needed to help to expand Nova Scotia’s tourism industry, will want to learn from the findings of this research.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ellen Farrell

Student:

Huschang Pourian

Partner:

Cape Breton Schoolhouse Luxury Learning and Development Inc.

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Saint Mary's University

Program:

Inclusion of Genetic Information to Better Inform Coffee Choices

Coffee is one of the world’s most popular beverages due to the delivery of caffeine and diverse flavours. The genetics of how caffeine is processed in the human body is fairly well understood. With the decrease in cost and increase in popularity of consumer genetics, we are interested in learning how modern genetic analysis techniques can benefit the choice of caffeine and flavour for coffee consumers. We plan to look at candidate genes that relate to caffeine clearance rates within volunteers, then deliver blends of coffee customized to individual volunteers’ caffeine tolerances and preferences. Additionally, the genetics of flavour perception, and taste associated genes are fairly well known. Based on candidate taste genes, will also test which blends of coffee are preferred based on flavour perception with respect to bitter taste genes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marc Ekker

Student:

Michael Kalyn

Partner:

Beverage Genetics

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Predict and Recommend Conditioning Programs for Coaches and Athletes

The development of a unique and innovative fitness training software application. The application will be designed for coaches and athletes and will be able to make personalized training programs for athletes, based on their sport, position and individual strengths and weaknesses. Whilst participating in the project OlyUp Technologies will make new business relationships with stakeholders in a variety of industries and expertise, which they can leverage to make their products and operations better.

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Faculty Supervisor:

James Hughes

Student:

Mbongeni Ndlovu

Partner:

OlyUp Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

St. Francis Xavier University

Program:

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