{"id":8506,"date":"2019-04-16T19:05:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T19:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=8506"},"modified":"2019-04-16T19:06:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T19:06:11","slug":"science-students-shine-at-ufvs-2019-student-research-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2019\/04\/16\/science-students-shine-at-ufvs-2019-student-research-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Science students shine at UFV&#8217;s 2019 Student Research Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Student Research Day was held on March 26th with 14 microlecture presentations and a record number of 95 posters!<\/p>\n<p>The event included a two-minute micro-lecture challenge, where students shared the results of their research in a fast-pace format, followed by a poster fair and research awards. The Faculty of Science had a great showing of students and their research projects!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ziOWH18kRnQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>PRESIDENT AWARD $200<br \/>\n<strong>Daniel Driedger &#8211; Chemistry<br \/>\n<\/strong>Supervisor: Cory Beshara<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>\u201cA Convenient and Rapid Synthesis of Difluoroalkyl Ethers from Thionoesters using Silver (I) Fluoride&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>PROVOST &amp; VICE PRESIDENT, STUDENTS $200<br \/>\n<strong>Harinder Sahota &#8211; Biology<br \/>\n<\/strong>Supervisor: Stephen Thomas<br \/>\n\u201cWater Quality Testing Using Polymerase Chain Reaction&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AVP, RESEARCH, ENGAGEMENT &amp; GRADUATE STUDIES $200<br \/>\n<strong>Samim Azami, Kyla Woelk, Daniel Driedger and Daylan Pritchard &#8211; Chemistry<br \/>\n<\/strong>Supervisor: Noahm Weinberg&#8221;<br \/>\n\u201cComputational Drug Design: Building Molecules that Dock to an Artificially Constructed Building Site of the Penicillin G Antibiotic&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>VICE PRESIDENT, STUDENTS<br \/>\n<strong>Donovan Toews, Emily MacMillan, Ian Toohey, Lise Nehring and Mika Sevcik &#8211; Geography<br \/>\n<\/strong>Supervisor: Steven Marsh<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8220;City Landscape Usage on Dissolved Organic Matter along Willband Creek, Abbotsford, BC&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/04\/Shayne.Oberhoffner-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8511 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/04\/Shayne.Oberhoffner-2019-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/04\/Shayne.Oberhoffner-2019-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/04\/Shayne.Oberhoffner-2019.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>DEAN, FACULTY OF SCIENCE $200<br \/>\n<strong>Shayne Oberhoffner &#8211; Biology<br \/>\n<\/strong>Supervisor: Stephen Thomas<br \/>\n\u201cSynthesis of sulforaphane (1-isothiocyanatio-4-methylsulfinylbutane) and evaluation of antimicrobial properties in-vitro&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ASSOCIATE VICE-PRESIDENT, RESEARCH, ENGAGEMENT &amp; GRADUATE STUDIES $200<br \/>\n<strong>Ajeet Klaer &#8211; Biology<br \/>\nSupervisor: Sharon Gillies<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThe role of non-toxic substances in earthworm extraction &amp; the distribution of native versus invasive earthworm species &amp; gregarine parasites in the City of Abbotsford&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/04\/Sink-or-Swim-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8510 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/04\/Sink-or-Swim-2019-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/04\/Sink-or-Swim-2019-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/04\/Sink-or-Swim-2019.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>ASSOCIATE VICE-PRESIDENT, RESEARCH, ENGAGEMENT &amp; GRADUATE STUDIES $200<br \/>\n<strong>Fraser Forbes, Rebecca Gourde, Xinhao Xie and Julia Wosnak &#8211; Physics<br \/>\n<\/strong>Supervisor: Lin Long<br \/>\n\u201c Sink or Swim, an Underwater ROV &#8211; electrical access required&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Congratulations to all of the winners!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/video.ufv.ca\/media\/UFV+Student+Microlecture+March+2019\/0_vlbc79b5\/46828\">microlectures<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ufv\/sets\/72157706240859781\">photos<\/a> from throughout the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student Research Day was held on March 26th with 14 microlecture presentations and a record number of 95 posters! The event included a two-minute micro-lecture challenge, where students shared the results of their research in a fast-pace format, followed by a poster fair and research awards. The Faculty of Science had a great showing of &#8230; <a title=\"Science students shine at UFV&#8217;s 2019 Student Research Day\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2019\/04\/16\/science-students-shine-at-ufvs-2019-student-research-day\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":8509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,20,5,9,6],"tags":[363],"class_list":["post-8506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-chemistry","category-deans-office","category-engineering","category-mathstats","category-physical-geography","category-physics","tag-student-research-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506","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=8506"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8517,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506\/revisions\/8517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}