Research Internships at Mitacs!

Mitacs Accelerate Updates

Mitacs is pleased to share a few updates about Mitacs Accelerate! Accelerate supports collaborative research internships between students, faculty members, and non-academic partners.

  • Undergraduate students are now eligible again for Mitacs projects.
  • SME companies (less than 500 employees) and NFP are eligible to SME discount (while quantities last). With this discount the contribution of the first 4-6 months per student is only $3,750.
  • Eligible partner organizations include companies, not-for-profit organizations. Municipalities and hospitals are now eligible partners again in 2021. Mitacs | Hospital
  • Industrial Postdoctoral fellowship is back. This programs offers funding of up to $60k per year with a $30k contribution from the partner (or $25k contribution with the SME discount applied).
  • If projects involve non-academic partners or students that self-identify as Indigenous, then the program offer 3:1 matching! (partner contributes only 25%) Mitacs | Indigenous Call
  • Applications are accepted any time, reviewed in 6-8 weeks, and have >95% success rate as always.

    Mitacs representatives are available to support – looking forward to discussing research partnership opportunities with you.

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Indigeneity (EDI.I) Spotlight

Eckelbarger, M., Rice, S. L., Osano, A., Peng, J., Ullah, H., & Rhee, S. Y. (2021). Recognizing pioneering Black plant scientists in our schools and society. Trends in Plant Science.

This article highlights the achievements of four pioneering Black plant scientists to raise awareness of the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in science. Their stories come alive at Historically Black Colleges and Universities through exhibits of science and art and classroom activities (https://www.plantcellatlas.org/pca-art-exhibit.html).

*If you have an article, book or resource you would like to share and have highlighted, please send citation and links to Anisha Sandhu (anisha.sandhu@alumni.ubc.ca)

regenBC Conference

September 27- 29
6:00 – 8:00pm

The Province is hosting a virtual regenerative agriculture and agritech conference: regenBC. Join us to hear from experts and learn how combining regenerative agriculture and agritech can help farmers, food security and the environment.

regenBC will feature keynotes each night, followed by simultaneous streams of deeper-dive talks and panels.

View the agenda or register here.

UBC CAS Student Directed Seminar

Introduction to CAS (Critical Animal Studies) will explore how systems of oppression which marginalize humans are intertwined with those that harm nonhuman animals. The literature, research and theoretical frameworks which ground this seminar are those of CAS scholars whose work is rooted in the connection between theory and practice, with an unapologetic emphasis on nonhuman animal liberation from human exploitation. Students in the seminar will choose a topic within CAS which most interests them and lead a lecture and group discussion with their fellow classmates, write reflections on readings, engage in peer review of assignments and write a research paper or complete a creative project. In class we will explore how critical animal studies is connected with and informed by racism, settler colonialism, disability, feminism, domestication, cisheteronormativity, capitalism, media studies, veganism, and grassroots activism.

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