Be Informed

Join us as our upper-year students present research and projects to colleagues, friends, family members, and the wider BU community.

Monday, April 7, 2025

Stay for the day or stop-by any one of our themed sessions. All presentations will be held in the Louis Riel Room.

9:00 a.m. — Human Complexities

• Liberty Bachewich “Maniac”
• Kaelyn Delaurier “Sights that Break the Dark: A Short Screenplay”
• Emma Gertz “One Final Day of Perfection”

10:00 a.m. — Icelandic Sagas:

• Keiman Olson “Literacy and Orality in the Icelandic Family Sagas”
• Jessica Old “Women’s Legal Agency in the Icelandic Family Sagas”
• Stephan Waldner “Greed and the Icelandic Draugr: An Examination of the Icelandic Family Sagas”

11:00 a.m. — Understanding Cancer

• A.J. Ambona “Die or Not to Die: miRNA Makes the Decision”
• Geneviève Pearce “Who Keeps the pH Balance in an Acidic Environment in Breast Cancer?”
• Evan Dreilich “Pulling Bioinformatics from the Toolbox: An in silico Study of Chemoresistance in Breast Cancer”

12:30 p.m. — Western Manitoba’s Past

• Timothy Shackel “Western Manitoba’s Hockey Elite”
• Carson Zavitz “‘One Language, One Flag, One School’: The Political Activity of Manitoba’ Orange Order, 1889-1930”
• Brayden Sutherland “The Baptist Battle of Brandon College”

1:30 p.m. — Confronting Challenges

• Hannan Pathan “Waste Management Analysis Research Project”
• Aimee Schmidt “Optimizing Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) Platoon Models in the CARLA Simulator”
• Brody Burr “To Interfere or Not Interfere: An Investigation into Foreign Interference within Canadian Politics”

2:30 p.m. — Meanings of Place

• Kees Adriaansen “The Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium: Centennial Fever and Manitoba-Canadian Identity”
• Brooke Graham “The True Intent of the Treaties: Spirit Lake and the Treaty 5 Adhesion”
• Gina Musgrave “Public Knowledge of and attitudes toward aquatic invasive species and their Management in Riding Mountain National Park”

3:30 p.m. — Identity and Relationships

• Carley Poloski “Chasing Starlight”
• Elaine Hofer “Everyday Life”
• Francine Coutu “Incandescence: A Short Story”
• Rejoice Okechukwu “The Effects of Personality and Conflict Handling on Friendship Quality”