2010 Graduate Student Research Competition Results

2010 Graduate Student Research Competition Results

 

The Office of Research and the Office of Graduate Studies are pleased to congratulate the following graduate students, who received the awards below at the 2010 Graduate Student Research Competition on Friday, February 26:

ORAL PRESENTATION

First Place
Recipient: Bradley Doff, M.E.S. Northern Environments and Cultures
Supervisor: Dr. Todd Randall
Presented: Maximizing Urban Tree Benefits: A Case Study Making the Link Between Urban Forests and Community Sustainability

Second Place
Recipient: Brian Adams, M.Sc. Chemistry
Supervisor: Dr. Aicheng Chen
Presented: Study of Pd-containing Nanomaterials for the Hydrogen Economy

Third Place
Recipient: Peter Kennedy, M.A. English
Supervisor: Dr. Douglas Hayes
Presented: Origins of Arthurian Literature

POSTER PRESENTATION

First Place
Recipient: Ling Zhang, PhD Biotechnology
Supervisors: Dr. Rui Wang and Dr. G. Yang
Presented: Glucose Repress Cysthathione Gamma-lyase Expression in Insulin-secreting Beta Cells

Second Place
Recipient: Shannon Costigan, PhD Biotechnology
Supervisor: Dr. David Law
Presented: Gene Expression Responses in the Liver of Fathead Minnows Exposed to Pulp and Paper Mill Effluents

Third Place
Recipient: Lesley Kingsmill, M.E.S. Northern Environments and Cultures
Supervisor: Dr. Matthew Boyd
Presented: Middle Holocene Archaeology and Paleoenvironments of the Thunder Bay Region, Lake Superior Basin

ABORIGINAL-THEME ORAL PRESENTATION

First Place
Recipient: Rawnda Abraham, M.Ed. Education (Specialization In Women's Studies)
Supervisor: Dr. Connie Russell
Presented: Nam-bii-go-nini Ojibwe Language Revitalization Strategy: Families Learning Our Language At Home

Second Place
Recipient: Lisa Jodoin, M.A. English (Specialization in Women's Studies)
Supervisor: Dr. Scott Pound
Presented: When the Creative Meets the Critical: Writing a Métis Gothic Novella

ABORIGINAL-THEME POSTER PRESENTATION

First Place (only one prize for this category)
Recipient: Cassia Sanzida Baten, PhD Forest Sciences
Supervisor: Dr. Reino Pulkki
Presented: Does Wood Biomass Based Heating System Benefit Aboriginal Communities? A Case Study From Grassy Narrows First Nation, Northwestern Ontario

Congratulations to all the winners!