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Developing and implementing a communications strategy

The communications lead project for Dicerra includes responding to and engaging with stakeholders in healthcare at the executive and ministerial level. Dicerra aims to reduce medical errors and their associated harm and costs. This involves high level discussions with stakeholders to socialize our concept and advance the roll out and adoption of our web and mobile platforms. Additionally, the Communications Lead will assist in producing podcast content for our web application and enhance our social media network/influence. The Communications Lead will work closely with the executive team, particularly the Chief Nursing Officer and CEO for both content creation and stakeholder engagement/communication. They will have access to a variety of tools and will develop skills and experience dealing with IP, product development, human factors (HFACS), management techniques, and strategic communications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Irena Knezevic

Student:

Partner:

Dicerra Safety Systems

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

CivicLabTO 2023 Symposium Internships

CivicLabTO is a collaborative partnership between the City of Toronto and higher-education institutions (HEIs) in the Greater Toronto Area, established in 2021 to facilitate innovative research and dialogue on pressing urban issues affecting communities across the GTA. Among other initiatives, the CivicLabTO partners have committed to a bi-annual learning and networking event that connects key stakeholders to align efforts in support of mutual objectives, and to establish innovative methods of collaboration and communication between the post-secondary education sector and the City of Toronto. The CivicLabTO 2023 Symposium will be held on November 15, co-hosted by Toronto Metropolitan University, Centennial College and the City of Toronto. This project will engage two BSI interns who will contribute to event planning, digital engagement, brand development, and the collection and dissemination of Symposium outcomes. Their ultimate goals will be to help prepare the text of a report that informs the partnership of opportunities to collaborate on solutions to urban problems, and to build on CivicLabTO’s draft design guidelines, and produce event and promotional graphics that engage, inform and inspire. The CivicLabTO partnership is unique in Canada, and offers an interesting new model for collaboration between municipalities and HEIs to solve local challenges. As such, these internships will contribute towards a larger understanding of how city governments across Canada can effectively engage and leverage the insights and capabilities located within regional colleges and universities across the country.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Purnima Tyagi

Student:

Partner:

City of Toronto

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Public administration; Utilities

University:

Centennial College of Applied Arts and Technology

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Plan d’affaire et de mise en marché de la formation BLEU

Le projet de service conseil à l’élaboration du plan d’affaires aidera le Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse à déterminer ses options stratégiques et à élaborer un plan d’affaires pour atteindre l’autonomie ou la rentabilité financière pour la formation BLEU permettant à l’organisation d’atteindre les objectifs suivants :
• Permettre un meilleur accès à la formation pour le réseau provincial.
• Permettre le financement d’un plan de recherche et de développement continue permettant une constante mise à jour et optimisation de la formation.
• Offrir aux partenaires du Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse, notamment les autres réseaux de santé canadien, d’avoir accès à cette formation de qualité.
• Au final, c’est la petite-enfances canadienne-française qui obtiendra les avantages de la formation en nombre le plus grand possible.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Emmanuelle de Verlaine

Student:

Partner:

Reseau santé Nouvelle-Écosse

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Université du Québec en Outaouais

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Thrive Health: Designing a Personal Health Story Visualization Interface

This project aims to develop a user-friendly visualization system for Thrive Health, a digital health solutions company. The visualization interface will be designed to effectively present a person’s health journey. This will be particularly helpful for patients with complex health conditions, as it will enable them to communicate their situation more clearly to their healthcare providers. The interface intends to improve the doctor-patient interaction, making it easier for clinicians to understand patients’ complex medical histories and provide more personalized care.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tamara Munzner

Student:

Partner:

Thrive Health

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Computational reconstruction of protein-protein interaction networks involved in the pathogenesis of Cerebral Cavernous Malformations.

Cerebral Cavernous Malformations (CCM) are brain vascular malformations which occur in one person out of 200. Their consequences are devastating as they provoke epilepsy, stroke and many neurological disorders. CCM develop only in low blood flow venules and not in arteries in which the high flow has a protective effect. Yet, why CCM lesions form only under low flow is still mysterious. This internship fits into a study on the role of unique sensors of blood flow, calcium channels which form pores across the membrane. Our work indicates for the first time that their dysfunction is triggering the formation of CCM. This internship will help unravel the abnormal signalling pathways activated by these channels. Thanks to Gingras lab’s world-renowned expertise in proteomics, the PhD student will reconstruct protein-protein interaction networks from the proteins that he has identified in the vicinity of these channels using in vivo proximity labelling by biotinylation (BioID). This project aims at identifying functional hubs targetable by FDA approved drugs to propose a cure for this disease that is sorely lacking today.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anne-Claude Gingras

Student:

Partner:

Université Grenoble Alpes

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Enhancing the security and reliability of navigation systems

The research project aims to enhance the security and reliability of navigation systems by developing advanced techniques for estimating the vehicle’s position and orientation, even in the presence of sensor attacks. By investigating the impact of potential attacks on sensor data, the project seeks to develop algorithms that can accurately estimate the vehicle’s location and direction, mitigating the effects of compromised sensor information. The results of this research will contribute to the development of robust and secure navigation systems, enhancing their performance in real-world scenarios. By improving the accuracy and resilience of navigation estimation, the project aims to enhance the safety and reliability of autonomous vehicles, drones, and other navigation-dependent systems. This research will ultimately benefit society by making navigation systems more secure, enabling safer and more efficient transportation in the future.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mohammad Pirani

Student:

Partner:

Université Grenoble Alpes

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Understanding Transportation Challenges and Equity in Canada: Mapping Accessibility and Addressing Transportation Poverty

The proposed research project aims to understand to what extent Canadian neighbourhoods vary based on the accessibility of transportation and identify which socially disadvantaged groups of people are most impacted by limited access to transport. The interns will analyze a large dataset released by “Infrastructure Canada and Statistics Canada” which measures how easy it is for people to reach important places like schools, workplaces, grocery stores, healthcare facilities. They will also incorporate sociodemographic data from the Canadian Census. The research will be carried out using data analysis, machine learning, and geographic information systems. The expected outcomes of this project include a developed typology of neighbourhoods based on the accessibility to important destinations, a better understanding of transportation challenges faced by different equity-deserving groups, and suggestions to improve the dataset. The research will benefit policymakers, transportation providers, and communities across Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Steven Farber

Student:

Partner:

National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Transportation (excluding aerospace); Public Service, Policy, and Governance

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Complementarity between JWST and High Resolution Spectroscopy for characterization of Hot Jupiter Atmosphere

Hot Jupiters are giant gaseous planets, which orbit their host stars in a few days to hours. Due to these tight orbits, they are expected to rotate synchronously, ie always present the same face to their star. As a consequence, models predict these worlds to present strong westward winds, redistributing the heat from their permanent daysides to their cold nightsides. While indirect
jmethods have been used to corroborate these predictions, direct measurements of rotation/wind speeds on these objects remain
!elusive. ln this project, we aim to develop a novel method combining existing space and ground based approaches, which should
[allow for the first direct and constraining measurements of rotation and wind speeds in a Hot Jupiter atmosphere.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nicolas Cowan

Student:

Partner:

Université Grenoble Alpes

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Experimental testing of coarse granular materials

One of our research axes concerns the large-scale mechanical characterization of coarse granular materials (CGM). The prime objective of this collaboration is to enhance the database and develop scaling laws for testing CGM on representative small-scaled samples. This effort requires multiscale characterization on a wide range of coarse materials with different lithologies and particle shapes. The collaboration with the Institute of Soil Mechanics and Rock Mechanics (IBF) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, helps to meet this end. IBF disposes one of the largest triaxial cells worldwide that allows testing samples of diameter D=780 mm (Hettler and Vardoulakis, 1984). However, this device has been often used for industrial projects but seldom for research purpose (e.g. Brauns & Reith 2000; Bettzieche & Bieberstein 2009). Therefore, this initiative intends also to resurface this device by taking advantages that it offers to the research community at large, to contribute on coarse materials testing database.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carlos Ovalle Ortega

Student:

Partner:

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Performance of cavity nesting birds breeding onreclaimed mine lands: An individual life-historyapproach

This study will assess the behaviour, physiology, reproduction and survival of individual birds breeding on reclaimed mine tailings and waste rock, and will provide a robust measure of the effectiveness of reclamation efforts on the Highland Valley Copper operating area. By examining a range of life-history traits in two ecologically distinct species, and comparing birds breeding on reclaimed mine lands to those on land that has not historically been exposed to mining operations, we will also be capable of identifying individual measures of quality or reproductive investment that most closely track environmental disturbance. This may become the basis for future cost-effective impact assessments in all industrial sectors engaged in resource extraction, as individual responses to environmental disturbance can provide an “early warning’ of future population declines. It has been argued that effective natural resource management requires the application of evolutionary principles such as selection, variation and gene flow, and this study will position Highland Valley Copper, and Teck Resources Ltd. more generally, at the forefront of this approach in the context of impact assessment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Russell Dawson

Student:

Partner:

Teck Highland Valley Copper Partnership

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Mining

University:

University of Northern British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

What confabulation in aging tells us about the episodic/semantic memory divide

The project investigates the distinction between two main forms of human memory, namely episodic (the experiential contextualized memory for personal past episodes) and semantic (the abstract de-contextualised memory for facts) memory. In line with recent proposals in philosophy, it calls this widely accepted distinction into question and explores a one-system conception of memory. The original angle taken on the issue appeals to the phenomena of semanticization and confabulation in aging, namely the tendency of episodic memories to become more semantic (semanticization), and the tendency of older adults to report more past personal episodes they never experienced (confabulation). On our overall proposal, semanticization and confabulation each cast doubt on the episodic-semantic distinction in their own way.
Three more specific outcomes are expected. 1) Coming to a better understanding of semanticization in light of confabulation and thereby deciding if it favors the one-system view. 2) Exploring the possibility that confabulation, a phenomenon that is most often episodic in format at first sight, is grounded on semantic memory. 3) Developing the view that confabulation is the inverse of semanticization, that is episodicization of semantic memory.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sara Aronowitz

Student:

Partner:

Université Grenoble Alpes

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Travail et santé dans l’agroécologie : cas des maraichers en « bio »

Les enjeux de ce projet de recherche se situent dans les transitions du monde agricole, en lien avec le besoin de répondre à la biodiversité, en réponse à la préservation de la planète, au réchauffement climatique et aux changements de comportements alimentaires des consommateurs. Ces transitions transforment les pratiques des agriculteurs, notamment avec des effets sur leurs conditions de travail et leur santé. Ce projet cible les fermes en agriculture biologique dans le secteur du maraîchage. La recherche-action se déroulera en 3 étapes méthodologiques : 1/ état de la littérature sur les risques relatifs à l’agro-écologie, 2/ caractérisation des contextes des exploitations agricoles avec la recherche de bases de données disponibles et une enquête par entretiens, voire par questionnaires, pour dresser un portrait du secteur au Québec et 3/ un suivi d’une ferme avec une analyse ergonomique sur les risques en SST dans la province de Sherbrooke. L’étude sera supervisée par les 2 co-encadrantes professeures avec des réunions régulières. Le stage, d’une durée de 5 mois, à partir de mars 2024, vise à produire un rapport de recherche visant une meilleure connaissance sur les problématiques posées par ce secteur d’activité. Ce projet d’impulsion d’un partenariat de recherche entre l’Université de Grenoble et l’Université de Sherbrooke pourra permettre de s’engager dans des réponses à appel à projet de recherche ambitieux et international.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marie-Eve Major

Student:

Partner:

Université Grenoble Alpes

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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