Current & Past Competitions
2020 – 2021
Competition Results
Thank you to everyone who came out to our live event on Saturday, February 27th, 2021!
Congratulations and thank you to all our finalists for sharing your incredible research. A video recording of the virtual competition will soon be available. Stay tuned!
Competition Results
Winners
Laurel Gill
When Mussels Get Cold Feet
Biology
Serena Chuang
Tempering the Cytokine Storm Caused by Coronavirus Infection
Biochemistry
Runner-Up
Sahil Kanani
Cell Phone: Building Smartphone-Based Disease Diagnostics
Chemistry
Audience Choice Award
Laurel Gill
When Mussels Get Cold Feet
Biology
Finalists
Designing a Quantum Computer Component with Classical Computing
Julie Belleville
You are a Biologist
Emily Black
Understanding Chemo and Radiotherapy Response in Bladder Cancer: An Investigation of FBXW7-mediated Degradation of TP53 in vitro
Elaine Chen
Tempering the Cytokine Storm Caused by Coronavirus Infection
Serena Chuang
Facemasks, Oxygen Levels, and MRI
Aisling Fothergill
When Mussels Get Cold Feet
Lauren Gill
Cell Phone: Building Smartphone-Based Disease Diagnostics
Sahil Kanani
Qualitatively Assessing Social Presence and Therapeutic Alliance in a Digital Intervention for Persistent Postconcussion Symptoms (PPCS)
Kiarah O’Kane
Generating artificial images to improve prostate cancer segmentation
Kush Sharma
Silencing pests to death
Daniela Yanez
Conversing with Chatbots
Stephanie Yu
Functional Forest Materials
Svena Yu
2019/20
Competition Results
Thank you to everyone who came out to our live event on Saturday, February 15, 2020! We’d like to congratulate our two winners and all our finalists for absolutely blowing us away with their 3 Minute Thesis presentations! See all finalists.
Competition Results
Winners
Laurel Neufeld
Following your gut: how the intestinal environment shapes bacterial infections
Microbiology
Katie Rink
Building Blocks for the OSI’s Space and Environmental Stewardship Index
Physics
Runner-Up
Rithikha Rajamohan
Quantifying the Protective Value of Blue-Green Infrastructure during Coastal Disaster Events
Geographical Sciences
Audience Choice Award
Ana Ivkov
Bilingual Infants’ Word Class Distinctions
Behavioural Neuroscience
Finalists
The Role of Prelimbic Cortex and Behavioural Flexibility
Angela Chuang, Biology
The Relationship Between Social Support and Self-Compassion
Maggie Coval, Psychology
The Development of the Quantifier “some” in Children
Paris Gappmayr, Linguistics
A cosmic game of hide and seek: Why velocity kicks are important for solving the mystery of missing white dwarfs
Steffani Grondin, Astronomy
Geospatial Correlates of Air Pollution Dose – Fixed Site vs Wearable Sensors
Andy Hung, Kinesiology
Bilingual Infants’ Word Class Distinctions
Ana Ivkov, Behavioural Neuroscience
Following your gut: how the intestinal environment shapes bacterial infections
Laurel Neufeld, Microbiology
Quantifying the Protective Value of Blue-Green Infrastructure during Coastal Disaster Events
Rithikha Rajamohan, Geographical Sciences
Building Blocks for the OSI’s Space and Environmental Stewardship Index
Katie Rink, Physics
Understanding brain dynamics and behaviours in ASD
Jamie Wong, Biology