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The SU’s 17th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium is happening this week. On Wednesday, we are hosting six different research workshops with topics like how to find research opportunities and even presentation techniques. On Thursday, we celebrate the undergraduate research award winners with an all-day drop-in event in MacEwan Hall.
Drop by any time beginning at 10:00 a.m. to see short presentations from across all faculties!
We wish to thank our keynote speaker, Penny Pexman, for opening the 2022 Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Penny Pexman is currently Professor of Psychology and Associate Vice-President (Research) at the University of Calgary. Penny earned her PhD in Psychology at the University of Western Ontario in 1998 and joined the University of Calgary the same year. Her research expertise is in psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and social-cognitive development. In broad terms, she is interested in how we derive meaning from language, and how those processes are changed by context or experience. Her research investigates several aspects of language understanding, ranging from lexical-semantic processes to figurative language. Penny has published over 150 journal articles and book chapters on those topics. An award-winning teacher, mentor, and researcher, Penny is an elected Fellow of both the Canadian Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science.
Full schedule of presenters:
| Start Time | End Time | Name | Award Name | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00AM | 10:05AM | Shaziah Jinnah Morsette | Welcome Speech | |
| 10:05AM | 10:25AM | Penny Pexman | Keynote Address | |
| 10:25AM | 10:30AM | Shaziah Jinnah Morsette | Awards Introduction | |
| 10:30AM | 10:40AM | Muhammad Ansari | Schulich School of Engineering Award | Understanding Persistent-Post Concussion Symptoms Using Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping |
| 10:40AM | 10:50AM | Emily Chow | Faculty of Science Award | Identifying signal transduction pathways in breast cancer that contribute to bone metastasis. |
| 10:50AM | 11:00AM | Ben Shi | Office of the Vice-President Research Award | The Assessment of Saccadic Eye Movements Post Stroke |
| 11:00AM | 11:10AM | Gabriella Joyce Gelinas | Faculty of Science Award | Precision Mass Measurements of Exotic Nuclei with TITAN |
| 11:10AM | 11:20AM | Claire McPherson | Campus Mental Health Strategy Award | The Prevalence of Self-Harm, Suicidal Ideation, and Suicide Attempts in Bulimia Nervosa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis |
| 11:20AM | 11:30AM | Celeste Holy | Department of Psychology Award | Global Changes in Child and Adolescent Mental Health from Prior to During COVID-19 Pandemic |
| 11:30AM | 11:40AM | Vishnu Shiv Dhanda | Undergraduate Aspiring Innovator Award | Developing accurate geometries to conduct effective analysis on 3D printed carbon fiber parts |
| 11:40AM | 11:50AM | Camille Eamon | Vice-Provost Teaching and Learning Award | The Link Between Visuomotor Learning and Proprioceptive Impairments After Stroke |
| 11:50AM | 12:00PM | Munesah Rahman | Werklund School of Education Award | Changes in Students’ Written Communication of Strategies and Challenges with Iterative Board-Game Play |
| 12:00PM | 12:10PM | Alicia Carrie Brozny | ii’ taa’poh’to’p Indigenous Strategy Award | The responsibility of higher education institutions: Retention factors of Indigenous students |
| 12:10PM | 12:20PM | Danielle Greenberg | Office of the Vice Provost (Libraries and Cultural Resources) Award Runner-up | Modern Acedia and the Concept of 'Oversaturation': Evidence from the Last 25 Years |
| 12:20PM | 12:30PM | Ishaan Cheema | Undergraduate Aspiring Innovator Award | Current practices regarding neuromuscular training warm-up programs in youth field hockey |
| 12:30PM | 12:40PM | Emily Chang | Office of the Vice Provost (Libraries and Cultural Resources) Award | Mechanistic study of a novel method of synthesizing a crucial drug scaffold – azetidine |
| 12:40PM | 12:50PM | Emily Laycock | The GSA Future Innovator Award Runner-up | State-of-the-Art in Interpretable Deep Learning Analysis of Fundus Images to Identify Eye Cancer: Black Box to Glass Box |
| 12:50PM | 1:00PM | Daniel Sikstrom | SU Sustainability Award | Perovskite-type Nd1-xBaxCo0.8Fe0.2O3-d (0 = x = 0.7) Cathodes for Intermediate Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells |
| 1:00PM | 1:10PM | Tessa Marie Chomistek | President's Award for Research Excellence | Cognitive Functioning and Social Outcomes among Survivors of Childhood Brain Tumour |
| 1:10PM | 1:20PM | Taye Louie | Program in Undergraduate Research Experience Award | Novel Methods for the Measurement of Cell Vibrations Using Optical Tweezers |
| 1:20PM | 1:30PM | Anika Achari | The GSA Future Innovator Award | Machine Learning Based Predictive Modeling for Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Inflammatory Bowel Disease |
| 1:30PM | 1:40PM | Dinithi Mudalige | Faculty of Science Award Runner-up | Longitudinal Associations Between Mild Behavioral Impairment (MBI), Sleep Disturbance, and Progression to Dementia |
| 1:40PM | 1:50PM | Malana Loxam | SU Sustainability Award Runner-up | Off-grid subsoil aeration systems to mitigate fugitive gas migration around "low-leaker" energy wells (OGSAS Methane Biofilter) |
| 1:50PM | 2:00PM | Noelle Elizabeth Thundathil | Office of the Vice-President Research Award | A molecular genetic investigation into the origins of anthelmintic drug resistance in Ancylostoma caninum in pet dogs across the USA |
| 2:00PM | 2:10PM | Muhammad Shakir | Cumming School of Medicine Award | Applying light sheet microscopy to study facial development in mice embryos |
| 2:10PM | 2:20PM | Batool Mahdi AlMousawi | Office of the Vice-President Research Award | Global Changes in Child and Adolescent Emergency Department Presentations for Suicide Attempts Prior to During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| 2:20PM | 2:30PM | Srinidhi Kotikalapudi | Future Alumni Community Impact Award | ERK activation during postnatal development in a mouse model of Fragile X Syndrome and wildtype mice |
| 2:30PM | 2:40PM | Athena Jamie Liu | Faculty of Nursing Student Impact Award | Feasibility of Incorporating the Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training Program into Nursing Education |
| 2:40PM | 2:50PM | Mackenzie Kaitlyn McManus | Program in Undergraduate Research Experience Award | Entamoeba histolytica (Eh)-induced IL-8 secretion from high MUC2 mucin-producing goblet cells is regulated by the PI3K-Akt signaling pathway |
| 2:50PM | 3:00PM | Jenny Duong | Office of the Vice-President Research Award | Barriers and enablers to engaging under-represented AYAs in cancer research: a pilot study |
| 3:00PM | 3:10PM | Therse Poulin | Faculty of Science Award | Patient and family perceptions of research coordinator attire in the intensive care unit: A cross-sectional survey |
| 3:10PM | 3:20PM | Lana Coles | Undergraduate Aspiring Innovator Award | The Contemporary Aesthetics of Adolescence: How Euphoria uses style to spectacularize representation of modern youth in the articulation of a teenage gaze |
| 3:20PM | 3:30PM | Kenza Filali | Schulich School of Engineering Award | The effect cognitive distortions have on the emotional wellbeing in first year engineering students |
