Winners of the UROP symposium best poster award

Winners from UROP cohorts 2020 and 2021 announced at the UROP Symposium 2021

UROP winners 2019 | 2020 UROP  

1st: Lin Kandakji, Faculty of Science, supervised by George Mintsioulis, Faculty of Medicine. Project title: Evaluation of Donor Tissue Storage and Preservation Times on Corneal Graft Surgical Outcomes.

2^nd: Yun-En Chung, Faculty of Science, supervised by Mathieu Lavallee-Adam and Daniel Figeys, Faculty of Medicine. Project title: Improving Identification Sensitivity Using Meal-Time-MS: A Machine-Learning-Guided Real-Time Mass Spectrometry Approach.

3^rd: Stephanie Drouin, Faculty of Social sciences, supervised by Krystelle Shaughnessy, Faculty of Social Sciences. Project title: The Big Five Personality Traits and Sexual Self-Disclosure

UROP winners 2020 | 2021 UROP Winners 

1st : Aniqa Sheikh, Faculty of Arts, supervised by Lori Beaman, Faculty of Arts. Project title:  Impacts of COVID-19 Restrictions on Muslim Death Rituals in Canada and the UK: A Discourse Analysis.

2^nd: Meghana Kesanakurti, Science, supervised by Adam Shuhendler, Science. Project title: A colour-changing formulation for the diagnosis of cutaneous melanoma 

3^rd: Alexandra Provost, Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section, supervised by Murielle Paradelle, Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section. Project title : Les femmes “maricides” victimes de violence conjugale au banc des accusés : L’androcentrisme du droit prouvé.

Students who qualified among finalists for 2019 | 2020

Michelle Chin, Faculty of Arts, supervised by Marie-Josee Hamel, Faculty of Arts. Project title: Second Language Teachers’ (Digital) Written Corrective Feedback Practices. 

Jean-Louis Parmasad, Faculty of Medicine, supervised by Maxime Rousseaux, Faculty of Medicine. Project Title: PFTK1 reduction as a novel strategy to decrease alpha-Synuclein levels in Parkinson disease.

Students who qualified among finalists for 2020 | 2021

Maisha Islam, Faculty of Health Sciences, supervised by Krista Power, Faculty of Health Sciences. Project Title: Impact of Pectin-Supplemented Purified Rodent Diets on Colon Mucus Barrier Integrity In C57B1/6 Male Mice.

Pascale Nevins, Faculty of Science, supervised by Dr. Monica Taljaard, Faculty of Medicine. Project Titled: Sample size discrepancies among protocols, registrations and final publications of pragmatic clinical trials.

Winners of the best posters of the UROP 2019 Symposium

More than two hundred fifty students gathered in the Huguette Labelle room at Tabaret Hall on Wednesday March 20 to present their undergraduate research projects. Congratulations to all who participated, to finalists and to the four poster presentation winners of the 2019 UROP Symposium:

Winners of the poster competition

1st  prize: Julia Meliambro, Health Sciences, supervised by Linda McLean. Project title: Validity of wireless pressure shoe insole in measuring vertical ground reaction force.

2nd prize: Owen Lutes, Science, supervised by André Beauchemin, Science. Project title: A new approach to forming complex hydrazine derivatives.

3rd prize: Elliane Loignon, Social Sciences, supervised by Delphine Nakache. Project title: Gendered barriers to language, knowledge and naturalization: a review of the litterature.

4th prize: Emily Bauman, Social Sciences, supervised by Rebecca Margolis, Arts. Project title : Evaluating effectiveness of The Pin in Holocaust Education.

The other four outstanding finalists, whom showed excellence of their research works through their poster work are:

Nasandrata Rabriniaina, Telfer School of Management, supervised by Imed Chkir, Telfer School of Management. Project title: Une analyse boursière de la légalisation du cannabis au Canada.

Olivia Griffin, Arts, supervised by Kevin McMullin, Arts. Project title: Learning sound patterns with blocking.a

Pamela Cataldo, Civil Law, supervised by Michelle Giroux, Civil Law. Project title : La filiation des enfants nés de mères/femmes porteuses au Québec.

Sara Asif, Medecine, supervised by Barbara Vanderhyden, Medecine. Project title: Characterizing the expression of major histocompatibility molecules in mouse ovarian cancer cell lines. 

Winners of the UROP symposium best poster award 2018

More than three hundreds of students gathered in the university centre to present their undergraduate research projects on Thursday, March 22. Congratulations to all who participated and to the four poster presentations winners of the 2018 UROP Symposium:

Winners of the poster competition

1st  prize: Iman Sattar, Social Sciences, Budget-Maximizing Bureaucrats? Testing Public Choice Theory.

2nd prize: Amit Scheer, Science, Role of checkpoint receptor expression on tumor cells in inhibition of NK cell responses to cancer.

3rd prize: Garrick Ho, Engineering, Analysis of Crack Propagation in Concrete Containing Recycled Concrete Aggregates.

4th prize: Yannick Galipeau, Sciences, Modification de l’expression des protéines du complexe passage Des chromosomes en présence du virus de l’hépatite delta.

The Office of the Vice-President, Research held its seventh Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Symposium on March 23, 2017. The event was an opportunity for more than 300 young researchers to make a poster presentation of their findings. Congratulations to all the participants!

We also wish to congratulate the winners of the UROP poster competition.

Poster competition - Pure and applied sciences

1^st prize: Victoire Difié Têlé Kpadé (Faculty of Health Sciences)

2^nd prize: Fadey Farid (Faculty of Engineering)

3^rd prize: Juliana Choueiry (Faculty of Health Sciences)

Poster competition - Social Sciences and Humanities

1^st prize: Lydia Zhou (Faculty of Social Sciences)

2^nd prize: Julien Tousignant-Groulx (Faculty of Social Sciences)

3^rd prize: Candide Uyanze (Faculty of Arts)

The Office of the Vice-President, Research held its sixth Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Symposium on March 24, 2016. The event was an opportunity for more than 300 young researchers to make a poster presentation of their findings. Congratulations to all the participants!

We also wish to congratulate the winners of the UROP poster competition.

Poster competition - Pure and applied sciences

1^st prize: Aazad Abbas (Faculty of Science)

2^nd prize: Shaezeen Syed (Faculty of Health Sciences)

3^rd prize: Abdulgadir Ahmed (Faculty of Engineering)

Poster competition - Social Sciences and Humanities

1^st prize: Sonia Varma (Faculty of Social Sciences)

2^nd prize: Alexandre Marotte (Faculty of Arts)

3^rd prize: Joanna Chan (Faculty of Law)

The Office of the Vice-President, Research held its fifth Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Symposium on April 2, 2015. The event was an opportunity for more than 300 young researchers to make a poster presentation of their findings. Congrats to all the participants!

We also wish to congratulate the winners of the UROP poster competition, as well as the laureates of the Library Prize for undergraduate research.

Poster competition - Pure and applied sciences

1^st prize: Chris Fliesser (Faculty of Engineering)

2^nd prize: Andrew Meehan (Faculty of Health Sciences)

3^rd prize: Manel Zeghal (Faculty of Science)

Poster competition - Social Sciences and Humanities

1^st prize: Sara Ghalia (Faculty of Social Sciences)

2^nd prize: Ashley Bell (Faculty of Health Sciences)

3^rd prize: Catherine Larocque (Faculty of Health Sciences)

Library Prize

Shunghyo Kim (Faculty of Law)
Marie-Claude Savoie (Faculty of Education)
Lydia Schriemer (Faculty of Arts)
Aurélie Thériault Brillon (Faculty of Arts)

The Office of the Vice-President, Research held its fourth Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Symposium on March 25, 2014. The event was an opportunity for more than 300 young researchers to make a poster presentation of their findings. Congratulations to all!

We also wish to congratulate the winners of the UROP poster competition, as well as the laureates of the Library Prize for undergraduate research.

Poster competition - Pure and applied sciences

1^st prize: Wassim Karkache (Faculty of Science) (Poster)

2^nd prize: Sarah Mohand-Saïd (Faculty of Health Sciences) (Poster)

3^rd prize: Diana Liu (Faculty of Science) (Poster)

Poster competition - Social Sciences and Humanities

1^st prize: Steve Lorteau (Faculty of Arts) (Poster)

2^nd prize: Andrey-Ann Deneault (Faculty of Social Sciences) (Poster)

3^rd prize: Elisa Dorman (Faculty of Social Sciences) (Poster)

Learn about the research opportunities at the undergraduate level!

The Office of the Vice-President, Research held its third annual Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Symposium on April 4, 2013. More than 275 young researchers made a poster presentation of their findings. Congratulations to all!

We also wish to congratulate the winners of the UROP poster competition and the recipients of the Library Prize for Undergraduate Research.

Pure and applied sciences 

1^st prize: Amir Hamid

2^nd prize: Wilson Lam

3^rd prize: Anish Krishnan 

Social Sciences and Humanities

1^st prize: Natalie Ho

2^nd prize: Emily Stewart

3^rd prize: Marlon Danilewitz

Library Prize for Undergraduate Research - Fall 2012

• Najat Firzly
• Emilio Z. Zavarella

Library Prize for Undergraduate Research - Winter 2013

• Madeline Smolarz
• Alex Jürgen Thumm

The Office of the Vice-President, Research held its annual Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Symposium on March 29, 2012. The event was an opportunity for the first 250 UROP scholarship recipients to make a poster presentation of their findings.

We also wish to congratulate the first winners of the UROP poster competition. Recipients were chosen among two categories – pure and applied sciences, and social sciences and humanities.

Pure and applied sciences 

1^st prize: Justin Whitaker (Faculty of Science)

2^nd prize ex aequo: Alison Hamilton (Faculty of Science)

2^nd prize ex aequo:  Khaled Atieh (Faculty of Engineering)

Social Sciences and Humanities

1^st prize: Marlena Flick (Faculty of Social Sciences) 

2^nd prize ex aequo: Pénélope Boucher (Faculty of Arts)

2^nd prize ex aequo: Marie-Ève Larivière (Faculty of Arts)