{"id":3514,"date":"2016-06-28T23:37:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T23:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=3514"},"modified":"2016-07-05T19:06:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T19:06:54","slug":"undergraduate-research-excellence-awards-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2016\/06\/28\/undergraduate-research-excellence-awards-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Research Excellence Awards 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 2016, UFV presented 25 students with awards totalling over $19,000 and celebrated many other prestigious student research achievements.<\/p>\n

The Faculty of Science would like to congratulate all of this year’s recipients. The following Science students were recognized for their accomplishments:<\/p>\n

NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA)<\/h3>\n

\"James<\/a>Gaganjeet Mahil, Biology<\/strong><\/em>
\n Faculty Researcher: Lucy Lee<\/em><\/p>\n

Harsh Sidhu, Biology<\/strong><\/em>
\n Faculty Researcher: Lucy Lee<\/em><\/p>\n

Abigail Sherwood Chemistry<\/strong><\/em>
\n Faculty Researcher: Noham Weinberg<\/em><\/p>\n

Jordan Bryce, Geography & the Environment<\/strong><\/em>
\n Faculty Researcher: Olav Lian<\/em><\/p>\n

Travis Gingerich, Geography & the Environment<\/strong><\/em>
\n Faculty Researcher: Olav Lian<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"James,<\/a>Award<\/strong>: AVP Research, Engagement & Graduate Studies $200<\/em>
\nVivienne Beard, Biology<\/strong><\/em>
\nAnnotation of contig10 of the 3L chromosome of Drosophila elegans<\/em>
\nFaculty Supervisor: James Bedard<\/em><\/p>\n

Award<\/strong>: Dean, College of Arts $150<\/em>
\nAudrey Faber, Geography & the Environment<\/strong><\/em>
\nInvestigation into the possible effects of agriculture on the <\/em>geochemistry of Willband Creek in Abbotsford, BC, Canada<\/em>
\nFaculty Supervisor: Steven Marsh<\/em><\/p>\n

Award<\/strong>: Dean, Faculty Science $150<\/em>
\n\"27789793196_6616597f20_z\"<\/a>Richelle Acreman & Katherine Flach, Biology<\/em><\/strong>
\nA reference atlas of thyroid histology of Pseudacris<\/em>
\nFaculty Supervisor: Allan Arndt<\/em><\/p>\n

Scholarship<\/strong>: Hakai Fellowship (2 Years) | $46,000<\/em>
\nJordan Bryce, Geography & the Environment<\/strong> <\/em>
\nFaculty Researcher: Olav Lian<\/em><\/p>\n

Industry Liaison Research Award $350 each<\/em>
\nJessica Davies, Raymond Nguyen, Aidan O\u2019Reilly, Physics
\n<\/strong>Faculty Supervisor: Lin Long<\/em>
\nProgram Head: Jeff Chizma<\/em><\/p>\n

\"27546136280_0e5895b0be_z\"<\/a>Faculty of Science Award $1,000<\/em>
\nAneet Bains, Biology<\/strong><\/em>
\nFaculty Supervisor: James Bedard<\/em>
\nProgram Head: Allan Arndt<\/em><\/p>\n

Faculty of Science Award $1,000<\/em>
\nMiranda Louwerse, Chemistry<\/strong><\/em>
\nFaculty Supervisor: Noham Weinberg<\/em>
\nProgram Head: David Fenske<\/em><\/p>\n

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Awards Program “Growing Connections Inspiration<\/a>”<\/p>\n

View slideshow of the 2016 student research projects<\/a><\/p>\n

Photos from the awards dinner [HERE<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Looking for more information on the Undergraduate Research Excellence Awards please see [HERE<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May 2016, UFV presented 25 students with awards totalling over $19,000 and celebrated many other prestigious student research achievements. The Faculty of Science would like to congratulate all of this year’s recipients. The following Science students were recognized for their accomplishments: NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) Gaganjeet Mahil, Biology Faculty Researcher: Lucy Lee Harsh … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":3526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,66,3,7,20,21,170,5,58,9,6],"tags":[25,38,185],"class_list":["post-3514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-centre-for-environmental-sustainability","category-chemistry","category-deans-office","category-engineering","category-events","category-events-newsletter","category-mathstats","category-news","category-physical-geography","category-physics","tag-awards","tag-student-research","tag-usra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3540,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions\/3540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}