Posts Tagged: media
CBC News’ “The National” Features Granata Decision Systems
Amanda Lang interviews U of T prof and co-founder Craig Boutilier in segment on innovative start-ups and Canada’s future
Following an appearance on the CBC’s “Lang and O’Leary Exchange” on November 28, MaRS Innovation UTEST company, Granata Decision Systems, appeared on CBC news “The National.” The segment included an interview with Amanda Lang.
Watch Boutilier's interview with Lang for "The National" on CBC's website.
Founded by Craig Boutilier and Tyler Lu, Granata Decision Systems is one of the first six companies incubated through the UTEST program for early-stage technologies, ...
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ClevrU Corp. acquires NewMindsets Inc. to transform online education market
Deal strengthens competitiveness of online learning platform for global mobile learners
WATERLOO, ON, Canada (April 23, 2013) — ClevrU Corporation today announced that it has acquired NewMindsets Inc., a company founded on online pedagogy researched and developed by two Schulich School of Business professors that has provided leading-edge educational content and services to over 10,000 Schulich students at York University over the past decade.
Through the acquisition, ClevrU will fully integrate NewMindsets’ proven e-teaching pedagogy in leadership, researched and developed by Professors ...
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Crowdmark’s grading software featured in EdSurge
Exam pain is not limited to students, notes Tony Wan of EdSurge in his profile of UTEST start-up company, Crowdmark.
The article, "Crowdmark Lends a Helping Hand with Handwritten Assessments: How one savvy professor is scaling human grading capabilities for handwritten responses" appeared Mar. 17, 2013.
Here's an excerpt:
James Colliander, a Professor Mathematics at the University of Toronto, knew this pain all too well. As a grader for the 2011 Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge, he and a team of volunteers had to deal ...
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MI’s Elizabeth Monier-Williams to speak at TedxWaterlooWomen December 1
Elizabeth Monier-Williams, MaRS Innovation's marketing and communications manager, is giving a Tedx talk at the TedxWaterlooWomen event in Waterloo, Ontario, on December 1.
Read the Kitchener-Waterloo Record's summary story and their curated highlights from the event's social chatter on Storify.
The event, hosted by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), will include a live stream of talks from the second annual TedxWomen conference in Washington, D.C., along with talks by local speakers, including Monier-Williams, for the Waterloo audience.
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Shotlst CEO featured in Globe article on future of tech in education
Matt Ratto, assistant professor in the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information and co-inventor and CEO of Shotlst, a UTEST company, was featured in the Globe and Mail on October 22 in an article by Nick Rockel on how emerging technology will change the education experience.
Here's an excerpt:
Asked what the technological tools in university classrooms will look and feel like by 2020, Matt Ratto admits he’s no futurist. But the assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information is ...
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Hossein Rahnama, CEO of Flybits, on CBC’s Lang & O’Leary Exchange
Hossein Rahnama, CEO of Flybits, a MaRS Innovation spin-off company, appeared on CBC's Lang and O'Leary Exchange on August 24, 2012.
Watch Rahnama's interview on CBC's Media Player. The interview begins at the 13:40 mark and runs to 19:30.
Rahnama, who is also a professor at Ryerson University and and research director at Ryerson's Digital Media Zone, was recently named to the MIT Technology Review’s prestigious 35 Inventors Under 35 list for 2012 along with fellow MaRS Innovation inventor Joyce Poon.
He describes his ...
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Los Angeles Times covers Dr. Gregory Czarnota’s cancer therapy technology
The Los Angeles Times featured Dr. Gregory Czarnota's research in their Science Now section on July 10, 2012, which reports on discoveries from the world of science and medicine (update: the article is no longer available online).
Czarnota, a researcher at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, is working with MaRS Innovation to license his patented technology: radiosensitization of tumour cells using a combination of microbubbles and targeted, high-intensity, focused ultrasound. (more…)
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Business Without Borders features Encycle Therapeutics, Raphael Hofstein
Encycle Therapeutics, a MaRS Innovation spin-off company, was featured by Business Without Borders' High Tech section in a Q&A profile with MI's President and CEO, Raphael Hofstein.
Here's an excerpt:
Business Without Borders (BWB): What makes Encycle’s technology so promising?
Raphael Hofstein (RH): Proteins are made of smaller units called peptides, usually existing as linear chains. If they get into the bloodstream, they get degraded rapidly by enzymes and they find it very difficult to get into cells of the body. What we want ...
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Vice-President Joel Liederman to participate in Financial Post’s live chat on Canadian commercialization challenges
Joel Liederman, MaRS Innovation's vice-president of Business Development and Physical Sciences, is participating in a live chat on the Financial Post's website.
The chat will take place on June 28, 2012 at 2 pm.
Topic: Why Canada can't do anything with its big ideas
When it comes to academic research and the development or discovery of new concepts or product models, there are few countries in the world that can hold a candle to Canada. (more…)
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Montreal’s La Presse covers life science research funding project among MI, CQDM, OCE and OBI
This week, MaRS Innovation (MI) announced a new partnership agreement with The Québec Consortium for Drug Discovery (CQDM), the Ontario Brain Institute (OBI) and Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) to launch the Québec/Ontario CQDM Funding Program.
The funding program will support collaborative life science research projects between the two provinces that seek to develop new tools for biopharmaceutical research. (more…)
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