Success Stories

Project status: ongoing

Early detection of infection is key to reducing spread of COVID-19. The presence of COVID-19 can be detected in wastewater days before people start showing symptoms, providing a potential early warning of where virus outbreaks are occurring. This project will sample wastewater from multiple processing facilities in Durham Region to identify the presence of the novel coronavirus and direct where to focus testing resources.

Winter 2021

The objective of Durham’s Vision Zero Plan is to ultimately eliminate all serious collisions on Regional / Municipal roadways. Distracted driving is one of the major causes of collisions. The goal for this project was to develop a simulation game/tool prototype that examines the impacts of various distracting elements along a typical roadway on driver behaviour, their collision potential, and potential measures to mitigate the adverse impacts.

Winter 2021

The objective of Durham’s Vision Zero Plan is to ultimately eliminate all serious collisions on Regional / Municipal roadways. Speeding is one of the major causes of collisions. The goal for this project was to develop a solution that the Region can apply to eliminating speeding-related collisions.

Fall 2020

What services do people with disabilities have difficulty accessing in Durham? Why do they have difficulty accessing them? Why is there limited feedback from residents around the barriers they face? The purpose of this project was to gather community feedback on what services people with disabilities are unable to access, why they aren’t able to access them, and why more feedback isn’t given about accessing services. This resulted in numerous suggestions for areas of improvement that...

Project status: ongoing

In Canada, some reports estimate that 5.8 million people live in poverty. One of the ways our community in Durham Region is assisting those living in poverty is through the delivery of 20 volunteer tax clinics at local agencies. However, there is a desire to reach more people and to have a deeper understanding of what financial empowerment strategies might actually work to move individuals out of low income. The project has the following main objectives:

• To discover the...