Research Scholarship and Award Winners
Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s Award Winners 2024
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships Master’s (CIHR CGS-M)
- Carter Williamson, Project Title: “Investigating Metabolic Dysregulation Induced by Oncogenic micro RNA in Breast Cancer”
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships (NSERC CGS-M)
- Carter Loewen, Project Title: “Old Fish, New Tricks: Understanding Hiodon Ecology in the Assiniboine River Watershed Using a Modern Molecular Toolkit”
- Raya Turner, Project Title: “Fins, Fat, and Fuel: Metabolic Implications of a High-Fat Insect Diet in Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma Coactivator 1 Alpha (PGC-1a) Crispant Zebrafish”
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Master’s (SSHRC CGS-M)
- Robyn Allen, Project Title: TBD
Undergraduate Student Research Award (NSERC USRA) Winners – Summer 2025
BU NSERC USRA RECIPIENTS 2025 |
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| Student Name | Supervisor | Research Area | Research Topic |
| Ayodele Adeniyi | Bryan Cassone | Biology | Sugar Feeding Dynamics of Mosquito Vectors |
| Lukas de Vries | Roberto Limongi | Psychology | Effect of Artificial-Intelligence Assisted Writing on Dopaminergic Activity |
| Evan Dreilich | Mousumi Majumder | Biology | Development of RNA-Seq Data Analysis Pipeline to Identify Markers Linked with Doxorubicin Resistance |
| Sannelle Engelbrecht | Christophe LeMoine | Biology | Metabolic Impact of PERM-1 Knockdown in Zebrafish |
| Bryce Friesen | Margaret Carrington | Physics and Astronomy | Gauge Invariant Calculation of Transport Coefficients in Glasma |
| Danielle Isfeld | Michael Charette | Chemistry | Is the Ribosome Assembly Protein Emg1 Involved in Removing snR35 from its Target? |
| Jonah Jarvis | Shrinwantu Pal | Chemistry | Development of Cooperative Catalysts for Hydrogen Activation |
| Noah Monk | Adam Rogers | Physics and Astronomy | The Eddington Capture Sphere: Implications for Accretion and Growth of Black Holes |
| Brenna Sawchuk | Adam Rogers | Physics and Astronomy | A Control Scheme for Remotely Operated Vehicles Based on Collective Motions in Nature |
| Geneviève Pearce | Mousumi Majumder | Biology | Investigating the Roles of Ectopic ATP Synthase in Cellular Stress Management |
| Umer Shabbir | Eric Bushnell | Chemistry | A Computational Investigation into the Production of H₂ by Functionalized Pt-Dithiolene Catalysts |
| Marco Wahba Hanna | Eric Bushnell | Chemistry | A Computational Investigation into Ovothiol’s and Ergothioneine’s Antioxidant Properties |
BU CIHR USRA RECIPIENTS 2025 |
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| Student Name | Supervisor | Research Area | Research Topic |
| Morolaoluwa Favour Temitope | Mousumi Majumder | Biology | Evaluating the Roles of miRNA in Metabolic Stress Responses in Breast Cancer |
BU SSHRC USRA RECIPIENTS 2025 |
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| Student Name | Supervisor | Research Area | Research Topic |
| Name withheld at request of the recipient | Ariane Hanemaayer | Sociology | The Lucky Boy”: Female-Perpetrated Sexualized Violence and Its ‘Illegitimate’ Victims |