Internal + Donor Funded Awards

Ms. Teegee has completed her Executive MBA Indigenous Business and Leadership program.

Grace has completed her MBA in the Beedie School of Business where she learned how to create sustainable change in healthcare systems.

Kofi is a Full-Time MBA student.

Ahmad is a graduate student in Business with i2I program experience as an entrepreneur.

Claudia is a Business Administration Ph.D. candidate studying traditional gender stereotypes in advertising, and help promote self-esteem and self-empowerment.

Skye Augustine is passionate about working in the field of marine science and contributing to First Nations communities.

Dr. McCuish is from the School of Criminology in the Faculty of Arts + Social Sciences.

Adam Vaughan, PhD Candidate in the School of Criminology, is one of two researchers to have been awarded the newly created Health Policy Fellowship by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.

Elena Pennell wants to shed light on the effect of SAWP on family life for Mexican migrant workers.

Dr. De'Ath provides new insights into the relationships between culture and capital in a moment of protracted economic crisis.

Martha works with various Indigenous communities and manages the development of corporate strategy and programs related to Indigenous programming.

Dr. Kris Frederickson has a Master's of Business in Indigenous Business & Leadership from the Beedie School of Business.

Mandy is a Executive MBA (EMBA) student in Beedie School of Buisness.

Sharina is a Management of Technology master’s student working to develop cloud data models and visualization dashboards of operational and financial information.

Dr. Michael Ouellette completed his MBA from the Beedie School of Buisness.

Rosa is a Executive MBA (EMBA) student in Beedie School of Business.

Sally is a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (GDBA) student.

Valerie Bob combines her interests in native language renewal and ceremonial music for her PhD program.

Dr. Niu of the Faculty of Education developed an online argumentation visualization tool called the dialectical map for her dissertation.

Dr. Wilson's work shows how qualitative research contributes to the efforts of community-based organizations towards social justice.

Tiffany's research used energy-economy modelling to analyze policy options for Canada to achieve greenhouse gas emission targets.

Monique Auger, a proud Métis woman, is a recipient of the 2015 Graduate Aboriginal Entrance PhD Scholarship.

Dr. Patterson worked with women living with HIV to examine how the law may impact their healthcare engagement.

Dr. Rezansoff from Health Sciences is the first SFU student to be awarded two Dean of Graduate Studies Convocation Medals.

Dr. Ayaka's dissertation looks at the "memoryscapes" of the sex trade in Japan's Koganecho district in the 2000s.

Gunpreet is a Finance Master's student in the Beedie School of Business with specialization in Risk Management.

Thomas Girard to present his research paper at the Sorbonne in Paris 2023.

Momoko Ueda, a PhD candidate in the School of Criminology at SFU, will be live on Twitch on November 3 to present her recently published research!

Paola is a Full-Time MBA student. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Bicram Rijal, a PhD candidate in Anthropology at SFU, writes an article and is interviewed on CBC Radio.

Marina Candeia, a Global Management Officer at SFU International and a Master of Arts student in International Studies, was selected as one of the 2021-22 ICN Youth Delegates and attended the West Coast Security Conference in November 2021, which took place virtually over the course of five days.

Andrew Cheng, a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Linguistics, was interviewed for a podcast about Korean Linguistics.

Former Graduate Program Assistant, Department of Mathematics

Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts

Professor in the Beedie School of Business

Former Graduate Program Assistant, Department of History

Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences

Bhavesh is a Business Administration Master's student in the Beedie School of Business whose program is designed to train him in real world situations. (Beedie Family Grad Scholarship)

Marcel is a Business Administration Master's student in the Beedie School of Business. (Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation G)

Kristen is a Management of Technology Master's student in the Beedie School of Business whose focus is on how she can apply what she is learning about tech leadership to the data science industry. (Rix Family Bio MOTMBA Graduate Scholarship, Lin Perceval Graduate Scholarship)

Ehsan is a Business Administration PhD student specializing in Management Information Systems researching social phenomena through simulations. (Graduate Dean's Entrance Scholarship)

Rohith is a full-time Business Administration Master's student in the Beedie School of Business. (Beedie Family Graduate Scholarship)

Stacia is a Business Administration Master's student in the Beedie School of Business learning the soft and hard skills needed to be a resourceful and open-minded leader while also meaningful connections with very intelligent and interesting people. (A. John Ellis Grad Entrance Scholarship)

Bryant is a Business Administration Master's student in the Beedie School of Business whose program is pushing him out of his comfort zone with its relevant and impactful subjects. (A. John Ellis Graduate Entrance Scholarship, Beedie Family Grad Scholarship)

Lucy Bell in INS travelled to Haida Gwaii to begin her dissertation research.

Timothy is a Business Administration Master's student in the Beedie School of Business learning fundamental business skills such as accounting, economics, marketing, and data analytics, but also learn and practice becoming strong leaders through courses such as leadership & teamwork, negotiations, and managing a globalized workforce. (A. John Ellis Graduate Entrance Scholarship; Legge Grad Vol Lead Award in Business)

Greg is a Management of Technology MBA student in the Beedie School of Business training for handling technology companies. (Beedie Family Graduate Scholarship)

Doctoral student Soraya Janus and undergraduates Arianna Sihota, Emma Choat, Jasleen Sidhu, Macaela Bradley-Tse, Abby, and Selena Newman created a capstone presentation, “Social Echo: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls” for Brenda Morrison’s fourth-year Criminology class.

Arushi is a Business Administration Master's student in the Beedie School of Business whose program and faculty members impart invaluable information, offer great experiential knowledge from internationally varied experience, and the case-based discussions provide an elevated method of learning. (Beedie Family Graduate Scholarship)

Ifeoma is a Business Administration Master's student in the Beedie School of Business learning how to stay relevant, pivot or adapt when there is a need to, but also thrive, both at work and at home. (A. John Ellis Graduate Entrance Scholarship, Beedie Family Graduate Scholarship, Bill Oliver Family Graduate Scholarship in Business)

Xueyao is a Master's student in the Beedie School of Business studying accounting, corporate finance, fixed income, and derivatives. (SFU Beedie Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Maira is a Business Administration Master's student in the Beedie School of Business honing her leadership, negotiation and analytical skills and learning how to manage people efficiently and empathetically. (HSBC Graduate Award in Business, Scotiabank Graduate Award Business)

Yi Chien Jade Ho in Education studied environmental education in Taiwan.

Lindsey Bannister in English studied the lives and writings of Twentieth Century Canadian authors who were regarded as racial imposters in Ontario and Alberta.

Jennifer Bigman in Biological Sciences studied metabolism and respiratory morphology in the East Coast of the United States.

Chapin Korosec in Physics worked on an artificially designed molecular motor called the Lawnmower in Lund, Sweden.

Jayme Lewthwaite in Biological Sciences studied the effects of climate change on butterfly species in Washington, D.C.

Nicolas Salcedo in Biological Sciences studied the immune system of the kissing bug Rhodnius prolixus (R. prolixus) in Brazil.

Xiao Mei Kuang in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry studied TB and HIV in Durban, South Africa.

Milad Doroudian in History studied the Kastner affair in Romania.

Jordan Lui in Engineering Science studied Visible Light Communication in Rome, Italy.

Lauren Rattray in International Studies studied the semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar in Tanzania.

Shaun Fickling in Engineering studied brain vital signs for sports-related concussions in the USA.

Sarah Vanderveer in Sociology studied how female academics in Ghana are challenging gender norms.

Gyuzel Kamalova in Anthropology studied the experience of orphanage graduates in Kazakhstan.

Benjamin Dipple in History studied 20th-century Ottoman and Turkish figures in the USA and Turkey.

Songwei He in History studied the Temple Destruction Movement during the Qing Dynasty in China.

Panagiotis Delis in History studied ethnic cleansing in the Balkan Wars in Europe.

Natalie Kinloch in Health Sciences traveled to the USA to study the genetic characteristics of HIV.

Siling Tao in History studied overseas Chinese communities in the Fujian province in China.

Lena Ware in Biological Sciences studied Black Oystercatchers in Alaska.

Yujuan (Jade) Wu in Education studied digital literacies among English language learners in rural China.

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Tara Limothei in REM studied mercury contamination in mining sites in BC.

[Full Name] in [faculty/school/dept] studied [research topic] in [location].

Lucy Bell in INS studied repatriation and restitution in Chile.

Edited by SFU INS PhD student, Katherine Nichols; SFU Archaeology PhD student, Chelsea Meloche; and, SFU Archeology PhD graduate, Dr. Laure Spake.

Congratulations to SFU Engineering Science PhD student Careesa Liu for receiving the Wendy McDonald Diversity Award!

Justine won both first place and public choice award in the Institute of Public Administration of Canada’s (IPAC) Fifth Annual National Student Paper Competition.

Meghan Parker is the first Canadian student at SFU to submit and defend a thesis in comic book form.

Health Sciences student Shantelle Medal's project was recognized as the winning project of Student-Community Engagement Competition.

From a small town in Mexico, Amparo is pursuing her PhD in biomedical physiology and kinesiology (BPK).

Spencer Greening has a gift for balancing traditional Indigenous knowledge, research, language and culture with Western scholarship, politics and activism.

Mirjana Prpa is a changemaker and a PhD student at SFU’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology.

Andrea Del Rio is a recipient of the 2017 Pat Hibbits Scholarship Award.

Anna Maslouskaya in Anthropology studied how Brazilian telenovelas influence the understanding of race and class.

Blake Danis in Biological Sciences studied the impact of agricultural and industrial practices on amphibian life in Indiana.

Reese Muntean in Interactive Arts and Technology studied the use of 360° video and drone documentation in cultural safeguarding practices in Thailand.

Tanya Prinzing in Biological Sciences studied metabolism in Horned Sharks in the USA.

Rachel Munger in Biological Sciences studied sea cucumber species in The Bahamas.

Vienna Chichi Lam in Criminology studied aquatic human body detection, recovery and repatriation in the Netherlands Antilles.

Michaela McGuire in Criminology presented on a panel on Indigenous issues in Toronto.

Tamara Kazmiruk in Biological Sciences studied the impact of plastics and microplastics on aquatic ecosystems in Russia.

Carlos Ponce in Criminology studied gang violence in Central America.

Rui Zhang in History studied different measures to safeguard workers in Hong Kong.

Allison Hotti in Education studied Indigenous research methods, including the Kaupapa Maōri ways, in Hawaii.

Joseph Burton in History conducted biographical research on labour union activist, Frederick Thompson, in the USA.

Curtis Platson in History studied the colonial politics of witchcraft in Zanzibar and Pemba, during the 1920s-1964.

Konstantin Lehmann in Physics studied particle physics in Switzerland.

Stevan Bozanich in History & Hellenic Studies studied the Chetnik movement from Yugoslavia in Southern Europe.

Professor in the School of Criminology

Richard Zhang in the School of Computing Science

Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education

Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education

Professor in the School of Communication

PhD candidate in the Graduate Student Society

Program Manager in the Faculty of Education

Library Assistant in the Research Commons

This fall, CERi is excited to welcome an impressive and diverse group to the second cohort of CERi graduate fellows.

Guerin is dedicated to revitalizing hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓, the downriver dialect of the Halkomelem language spoken by the Musqueam people.

Science & Policy Exchange (SPE) Canada will be hosting a Zoominar on the current situation of mental health policies and resources in academic institutions in Canada.

Professor in the Faculty of Education

Professor in the Department of Psychology

Associate Professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management

Professor in Department of Biological Sciences

Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology

Professor in the School of Criminology

Professor in the Department of History

Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy

Professor in the Department of English and the School for Contemporary Arts

Professor in the Department of Chemistry

Professor in the Faculty of Education

Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science

Professor in the Department of Physics

Professor in the Department of Geography

Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences

Danielle Jeong is from the Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology in the Faculty of Science.

Sdahl K’awaas is the recipient of Simon Fraser University’s 2021 Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy for her bravery in calling out racism in the heritage field and advocating for change.

Individualized Interdisciplinary doctoral candidate, Jennifer Chutter, writes an article about housing affordability and the federal election, and is featured in The Conversation.

Individualized Interdisciplinary doctoral candidate, Jennifer Chutter, is interviewed on Spice Radio about housing affordability and the federal election.

Tatiana is a Business Administration Master's student in the Beedie School of Business preparing for leadership roles in the business world and beyond. (A. John Ellis Grad Ent Scholarship)

Carlos is a Full-Time Business Administration Master's student in the Beedie School of Business studying business from different angles by analyzing real life examples. (Legge Grad Vol Lead Award in Business)

Rodolfo is a Full-Time Master of Business Administration student in the Beedie School of Business whose studies focus on developing soft skills and seek to strengthen hard skills. (A. John Ellis Grad Ent Scholarship)

Lucy Bell, a PhD student in Individualized Interdisciplinary Studies, is interviewed on BC Museums Association Podcast.

Emma is a Full-Time MBA student. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies PhD student, Shanny Rann leads this inaugural event from Aug 28-31.

Dr. Brown used machine learning to improve understanding of infant brain structure and development to predict neurodevelopment outcomes.

Dr. Thompson of the Department of Chemistry's thesis was on the design of highly birefringent materials.

Dr. Churchley's dissertation contributes to a deeper understanding of graph immersions and the problems of structural graph theory.

Tim Dueck in Faculty of Education studied Indigenous Instructor Identity and Curriculum in Winnipeg.

Xinglu is a School of Computing Science Doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences who aims to improve the explanation of why algorithms make certain decisions and help the users establish trust with them. (Special Grad Entrance Scholarship, Graduate Fellowship)

Shadi is a Mechatronic System Engineering Doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences researching on application of machine learning for cancer diagnosis and detection. (Graduate Fellowship)

Maria is a master's student in the School of Communication and a recipient of the SSHRC-CGS Master's Scholarship. Additionally, Maria is a teaching assistant and graduate caucus secretary in the School of Communication as well as an associate editor for Stream, SFU's interdisciplinary communications journal.

Josephine is a School for the Contemporary Arts doctoral student as well as an SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship recipient. Josephine uses various artistic mediums to propose new ways of how more equitable and symbiotic futures can be created.

Amy is a PhD student in the School of Communication and a recipient of the SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship. Amy's current research focuses on how museums and exhibitions about climate change help people to understand what the future will look like.

Amy is an Earth Sciences student pursuing her Cotutelle PhD with SFU and National Taiwan University, and also a recipient of the NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship. Amy's research focuses on the impact of past climate cycles on tropical cyclone and monsoon activities.

Lisa is an anthropology master's student and a recipient of the SSHRC CGS-Masters Scholarship. From her research, Lisa hopes to gain a greater understanding of the complexity and diversity of Muslim women's experiences within a Canadian context.

Letícia is pursuing her MA in International Studies, coming from Brazil as an International Relations professional. Letícia's interest focuses on social change, human rights and migration.

Niloufar involves mathematics, computer science, and biology in her interdisciplinary studies as a PhD student.

Weldrick and colleagues published an article titled "Experiences of Healthcare Workers in Long-Term Care during COVID-19: A Scoping Review" in the Journal of Applied Gerontology. It is open-access and available to all.

Tira is a Master of Resource Management (Planning) student and a recipient of the SSHRC Master's Scholarship. Tira researches how cities plan for sea level rise and adapt to climate change along their coastlines, and has prior experience working on sea level rise and urban resilience projects.

Mateas is a master's student in the Resource and Environmental Management program, and a recipient of the CGS Master's scholarship. Mateas's research aims to identify and eliminate the toxic chemicals in the Salish Sea that harm the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whale population.

Katie is a counselling psychology master's student and a recipient of the CGS Master's scholarship. Katie's thesis focuses on understanding how parents engage in discussions about grief with their children, while incorporating their sociocultural backgrounds into these conversations.

Tessa is a Master's student in the Faculty of Health Sciences whose research seeks to contribute evidence that is directly relevant to the decision makers responsible for designing, prioritizing and funding cycling facilities, in order to maintain the momentum for action on active transportation. (Graduate Fellowship, Michael Geller Grad Scholarship)

Alexander is a postdoctoral fellow researching wetlands and their process of removing pollutants such as industrial wastes from the water. (Canadian Pacific/Teck Resources Award for Environmental Innovation, Simons Foundation Graduate Award in the Faculty of Environment, three Mitacs Accelerate internships and the Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship award)

Dr. Wilson studies the social-ecological diversity and resilience in Canadian fisheries.

Dr. Jones' research will study the influence of external interventions on microbiome composition.

Friederike is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography, Faculty of Environment.

Priyanka is working to identify and characterize new candidate proteins by integrating structural bioinformatics, biochemical and reverse proteomic approach.

Anil is a postdoctoral fellow interested on human-computer interaction and virtual and augmented reality.

Bulmaro specializes in the use of robotic devices and augmented real-time feedback to aid in the rehabilitation and assistance of people with disabilities.

Jens is a School of Computing Science Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Applied Sciences whose research is in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, a subarea of Artificial Intelligence that studies how an agent's knowledge can be represented symbolically and subsequently manipulated through reasoning algorithms.

Anastasia is a postdoctoral fellow at the Beedie School of Business focusing on regulations adopted by host states to govern foreign direct investment made by state-owned enterprises.

Amber is an education Postdoctoral Fellow investigating how storied resistances against rape culture are enacted online through young adult (YA) fanfiction. (Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship)

Kieran is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biological Sciences researching anthropogenic noise and the ecological effects of noise pollution on fish and invertebrates communities. (Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellowship)

Dr. Andrew Park completed his PhD from the Beedie School of Business.

Peter Thompson is a quantitative ecologist interested in developing innovative statistical methods that can be used to solve urgent problems in wildlife conservation and management. Peter is a recipient of the Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Dr. MacAulay examined how new technologies affect gay men's communities and their HIV prevention needs.

Shawn Deng is an international student from China in the Master of Digital Media program.

Yun Zhang is an international master's student in Sociology and Anthropology and participated in the International Teaching Assistant (ITA) Program.

Dr. Warren designed an innovative method to estimate age of immature insects which can be applied to death investigations.

Dr. Teeple explored the feasibility of creating a nuclear arms control regime in the Arctic within the context of the U.S.-Russia arms competition.

Dr. Rodgers from the Faculty of Education uses philosophy of mind to question long-held pedagogical questions.

Dr. Long from the Faculty of Education investigated young children's prosocial development in a Montessori classroom in a longitudinal study.

David from the Faculty of Environment uncovered ways that new biometric technologies could intensify and extend surveillance.

Christine's accelerated master's thesis looked into the development of a multi-modal imaging system.

Dr. Pek studied how companies can integrate environmental & social sustainability into their cultures and operations.

Dr. Hall studied the genetic interaction and regulation of essential cellular mechanisms during development for his PhD thesis.

Bamdad is from the Department of Mathematics in the Faculty of Science.

Dr. Peters' doctoral dissertation unravels the role blood activity plays in eliciting cardiac arrhythmia.

Dr. Adams from the Faculty of Health Sciences spent three months in Mexico to learn how medical tourism practices shape health-care delivery.

Dr. Closson explored the intersect between sexual decision making, gender, and HIV-risk among young people in Soweto, South Africa.

Ihsan is a criminology master's student and a recipient of the CGS Master's Scholarship. With her research focused on correction, she hopes to contribute to improving Canada's criminal justice system.

Kyle is a member of the Anishinaabe-Ojibwe group of Indigenous peoples of Ontario.

Habib Daneshpajouh is a Computing Science Master's student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences.

Karam Elabd researches injury biomechanics at SFU’s School of Engineering Science.

Lior Bragilevsky is a machine-learning enthusiast who is a research assistant at SFU's multimedia laboratory.

Nafiseh is a PhD student in Computer Science doing research in the field of bioinformatics.

Samantha is a doctoral student in the School of Criminology and a recipient of the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. Samantha's research is focused on wildlife criminology.

Robert is a poet, artist, and curator who works with Jewish histories as a medium for a context and site-dependent practice.

Liana is a chemistry PhD student in the Linington lab at SFU, and a recipient of the CGS Doctoral Scholarship. Liana's current project is on connecting metabolites to their cognate biosynthetic gene clusters using a high-throughput approach.

Betty is a Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology master’s student researching the use of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to study the human brain. (CIHR CGS Masters Scholarship)

Kristen is a PhD student focusing on microbial genomics, investigating pathogenic bacterial species from a genomics perspective. (CIHR Doctoral Research Award)

Asim is a Biological Sciences PhD student researching the behaviors of ants and how they communicate information to each other, especially during group tasks. (NSERC-CGSD)

Phillip is a Statistics PhD student researching the information given by data sets and algorithms. (NSERC Doctoral Awards)

Winfield is a Statistics master’s student researching genome-wide association studies involving ways to improve the storage and processing of human genetic data. (NSERC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Alexandra studies the properties of networks for her doctoral research in mathematics.

Florian is studying the dynamical properties of systems of many interacting quantum particles theoretically. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship and Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Dr. Greenberg's research focused on the winning and losing evolutionary species in today's rapid, human-driven environmental change.

Dr. Zucca published numerous papers in scholarly journals during his time at the Department of Physics in the Faculty of Science.

Chris is a Molecular Biology and Biochemistry master’s student involved in Nucleic acids-based therapeutic research. (NSERC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Kalvin is a Chemistry master's student researching on the development of precision/targeted cancer therapy. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Dr. Adamski's dissertation focuses on implementation of a hydrogen-powered, clean energy economy through new functional material designs.

Jakub is a master’s student developing instrumentation for detecting illusive particles to expand our insights about the universe. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Matthew is researching biological molecular machines; both why they’ve evolved the way they have, and how we might go about designing better ones in the future. (NSERC CGS Masters Scholarship and BC Graduate Scholarship)

Joshua is a Physics master’s student researching quantum computers. He is involved with studying quantum spins used as qubits in quantum computers. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Aivija is a Chemistry Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science working on producing, purifying and binding radioactive antimony to organic molecules for the use of radiotherapy in cancer treatment. (GPS Graduate Fellowship)

Anita is a Biological Science Master's student in the Faculty of Science interested in the biological control potential of a disease-causing fungus towards soil-dwelling Elaterid beetle larvae for use in agricultural systems. (Graduate Fellowship)

Adrian is a Physics Master's student in the Faculty of Science trying to understand the fundamental properties of nature and is seeking to be able to explain why our world is the way it is. (Special Grad Entrance Scholarship)

Dr. Cojocaru completed his PhD from the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry in the Faculty of Science.

Isabella is a Biological Science Master's student in the Faculty of Science studying the effects of petroleum products on Pacific Oysters to aid in oil-spill modelling and impact assessment for fisheries management. (Graduate Fellowship, Abbott/Fretwell Graduate Fellowship)

Farhaan is a Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology Master's student in the Faculty of Science looking at the potential role of fainting in children who experience a sudden cardiac arrest for which there is no explanation. (Graduate Fellowship)

Himani is a Chemistry Master's student in the Faculty of Sciences developing inhibitors for carbohydrate processing enzymes in our body using synthetic organic chemistry. (GPS Graduate Fellowship)

Jessi is an Earth Sciences Master's student in the Faculty of Science whose research aim is to try to understand how an alpine area in central Yukon was affected by ice sheets and glaciers over time. (Graduate Fellowship)

Iiro is a Biological Science Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science researching how genes may regulate the information of human behaviours and whether one can make more informed predictions of the 'how' and 'why' questions. (Graduate Fellowship)

Keenan is a Biological Science Master's student in the Faculty of Science whose research focuses on cellular and metabolic changes that help hinder viral replication. (Graduate Fellowship)

Mina is a Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Master's student in the Faculty of Science interested in the biochemical and structural properties of AID/APOBECs proteins in human and other species as well as involving mechanisms. (Flight 752 Memorial Graduate Scholarship, Graduate Fellowship)

Diana is a Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Master's student in the Faculty of Science studying the interaction between the biomechanical properties of immune cells and their role in complex diseases like cancer. (Graduate Fellowship)

Faezeh is a Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science studying the effects of changes that occur in our genome by a family known as "AID/APOBECs" on immunotherapy escape in tumor cells. (Weyerhaeuser MBB Grad Scholarship)

Gregory is a Chemistry Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science who's studying how the anticancer drugs behave in relevant biological environments using spectroscopic techniques involving magnets, such as MRI. (NSERC Postgrad Scholarship - Doctoral)

Maggie is a Statistics and Actuarial Science Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science carrying out innovative researches and projects regarding pricing and funding methods for insurance industry. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Manon is a Biological Science Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science trying to figure out why certain species can be found in one place but not in another, even if it is nearby. (Graduate Fellowship, Glen Geen Graduate Scholarship)

Nico is a Biological Science Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science studying the novel ecological interactions that have emerged in Patagonia, southern Chile following the recent establishment of non-native Chinook salmon. (Weston Family Scholarship)

Qurat is a Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Master's student in the Faculty of Science aiming to identify dysregulations in lymphoma, a type of blood cancer, and functionally classify them and their impact to the transcriptome. (Weyerhaeuser MBB Grad Scholarship)

Sneha is a Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science identifying changes in DNA passed on from one generation to another in families affected with lymphoid cancer. (Graduate Fellowship)

Zhi is a Physics Master's student in the Faculty of Science figuring out a way to convert the entanglement in 1 million qumodes into 1 million qubits to revolutionize quantum computing. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Maziyar is an Earth Sciences Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science whose research focus is on the 3D reconstruction of Georgia Basin and the potential for Carbon Capture Sequestration in the Lower Mainland, British Columbia. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship, Bert Henry Graduate Scholarship, GPS Graduate Fellowship, Petro-Canada Graduate Scholarship)

Olga is a Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science whose research proposes a systematic search for phenotypes associated with healthy aging which has the potential to identify biological processes and pathways that are relevant for successful aging. (Graduate Fellowship)

Emma is a Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science trying to identify the cellular pathways that control amyloid body formation in response to stress. (CIHR Doctoral Research Award, Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Claire is a Biological Science Master's student in the Faculty of Science exploring how environmental impacts can create patterns of change in underwater communities over space and time. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Jason is a master's student in the Department of Earth Sciences focusing his research on landslides.

Alexander is a master's student in the Department of Mathematics. His research is focused on graph theory and combinatorics.

Dr. Lucci completed her PhD from the Department of of Biomedical Physiology & Kinesiology (BPK) in the Faculty of Science.

Tope is a Biomedical Physiology & Kinesiology master's student in the Faculty of Science working to understand the barriers that prevent children from getting the COVID_19 vaccine in specific groups of people. (Dr. Tom Richardson Memorial Graduate Entrance Award)

Heather is a plant pathology-focused doctoral student with an interest in food production and plant biosystems. Heather's current research is aimed towards crop protection and preventative plant disease management.

Matthew is pursuing a PhD in Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, researching ecological models, disease analytics, computational efficiency, and Functional Data Analysis techniques.

Claire is a Biological Science Master's student in the Faculty of Science examining how blood-feeding arthropods perceive their environment through chemical stimuli. (Finlayson Graduate Entrance Scholarship, MPM Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Franklin is a Chemistry Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science whose research is focused on the design or improvement of systems that will help promote the production of hydrogen as a renewable energy source. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Ramis is a Biological Science Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science studying how microbial communities form and how they can be directed and controlled, which can lead to generating value from waste at a scale and at low cost. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Dr. Kumar completed his PhD from the Department of Physics in the Faculty of Science.

Josiah is a Chemistry Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science whose research is aimed at developing new methods for accessing molecules which have relevance for drug discovery and the development of new imaging agents for PET imaging. (NSERC Postgrad Scholarship - Doctoral)

Franklin is a Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science whose research seeks to study the body mechanisms that control iNOS production and function. (CIHR CGS Masters Scholarship)

Casey is an MBB PhD student studying the rate of snow melt due to certain factors such as snow algae blooms and climate change.

Catherine is a BPK Aerospace Physiology Laboratory Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science whose ultimate goal is to assist astronaut crews to withstand the physiological effects of space as they explore deeper into (and beyond) the solar system.

Raffaele is a Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science examining how the heart changes based on short and long term physical activity in populations that are healthy and those who are impacted with various chronic diseases. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Dr. Wong completed his Molecular Biology and Biochemistry PhD from the Faculty of Science.

Nicholas is a Physics Master's student trying to achieve all-optical control of qubits in Silicon. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Allison is BPK PhD student investigating how to help women perform sport and exercise through the menstrual cycle. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Chuqiao is an Earth Sciences Doctoral Student in the Faculty of Science researching about the geological history of Vancouver Island to other subduction zones around the world, in order to understand how subduction zones pose unique risks and economic opportunities to the people living near them. (NSERC CGS Doctoral Scholarship )

Maksym is an Applied and Computational Mathematics Master's student in the Faculty of Science whose research is in studying and developing accurate, robust and efficient artificial intelligence, specifically deep neural networks, for image reconstruction. (BC Graduate Scholarship & NSERC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Emmanuel is a Chemistry PhD student researching on fuel cells and how they can be made cheaper and more efficient with environmentally friendly starting materials. (MITACS Research Training Award, Chemistry Graduate fellowship (3), and NSERC Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship)

Parsa is a Chemistry master’s student researching the DNA sequence detection of two different Ginseng species. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Katja is a Molecular Biology and Biochemistry student in the Faculty of Science studying fruit flies to learn more about how their cells communicate with each other as they grow and become adults in order to have a better understanding of human development and diseases that arise when the cells do not coordinate with each other properly. (CIHR CGS Masters Scholarship)

Dane is a Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science researching the regulation mechanism of stress-induced protein aggregation that helps animal cells survive harmful conditions. (Weyerhaeuser MBB Grad Scholarship)

Dr. Large completed his Department of Physics PhD from the Faculty of Science.

Priyanka is an MBB master’s student researching the evolution of a family of DNA/RNA mutating enzymes. (Special Graduate Entrance and Graduate Fellowship Award)

Dr. Meanwell completed his Department of Chemistry PhD from the Faculty of Science. (NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship & Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship)

Matthew is a Biology Master's student in the Faculty of Science researching on how microgravity (space) affects the nervous system at the cellular level. (BC Graduate Scholarship; Dean's Graduate Fellowship; NSERC)

Jaime is a Pest Management Master's student in the Faculty of Science whose research focuses on exploring the foraging preferences and chemical communication methods of ants. (Thelma Finlayson Graduate Fell)

Amelinda is a Biological Master's student in the Faculty of Science doing her research in neural stem cells.

Courtney is a Earth Sciences doctoral student. Her research aims to promote, support, and advance geoscience communication in British Columbia. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Breanna is a Molecular Biology Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science whose research focuses on a dominant snow algal species, Sanguina. (NSERC CGS-M)

Haggai is a mathematics doctoral student focusing on enumerative combinatorics and algebraic geometry. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Alaa is a Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science whose research aims to exploit single-molecule biophysics techniques to characterize how collagen type IV balances structural stability with responsiveness to physiologically relevant environmental changes. (NSERC Postgrad Scholarship Doctoral & Weyerhaeuser MBB Grad Scholarship)

Kevin is a Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science whose research is based on determining whether the gut microbiota influenced the severity of transplant rejection, and which bacterial species or components were most important. (Weyerhaeuser MBB Grad Scholarship)

Anthony is an Earth Sciences Master's student in the Faculty of Science whose research involves using the geologic record to reconstruct earthquake and tsunami events in the past to help inform British Columbians of the seismic hazards, as well as to improve community preparedness. (NSERC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Aspen Anderson, an Earth Sciences Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science, studying an important to everyone resource - water. (The Michael Stevenson Graduate Scholarship)

Annabelle Kilham is a Chemistry Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science whose research focuses on optimizing nanoparticle catalysts for their use in fuel cell. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship & NSERC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Shaianne is a Molecular Biology & Biochemistry master's student in the Faculty of Science studying how a special cell type, Mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (MSCs) are affected by certain environmental stressors including aging, diet and chronic stress, and how these compromised cells function in disease. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Avinash is a Physics Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science experimenting on colloidal particles. (Billy Jones Grad Award in Physics)

Parmissa is a Nuclear Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science researching on the development of new pharmaceuticals (radiopharmaceuticals) for cancer that incorporates a radioactive metal atom. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Samira is a Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science whose research focuses is on isolating specific cellular components that trigger a pathway that leads to cell division and cancer. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Rebekah is a Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology Master's student in the Faculty of Science whose research will explore the interactions between breathing patterns and the reflexive tuning of heart rate and blood pressure. (CIHR CGS Masters Scholarship)

Jenny is a Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Master's student in the Faculty of Science trying to understand human diseases in both molecular and therapeutic levels through fruit flies. (Weyerhaeuser MBB Grad Scholarship)

Mariah is a master's student studying whether society can reduce carbon emissions in large vehicles. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Lucy is an Independent Interdisciplinary Studies Doctoral student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose research is on Indigenous museology and Haida museum practice in particular.

Kailyn is researching the trigonometric work of Georg Rheticus (1514-1574), and seeks to explain the peculiar flaws his tables contain. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Hannah is researching numerical methods for partial differential equations on surfaces. (Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Anqi is using statistical methods to describe and compare the characteristics of frequent and non-frequent ED users in two Canadian provinces. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Erin is a master's student who is researching fainting. (CIHR CGS Masters Scholarship)

Joseph is working to understand the behaviors of the really small molecular motors operating inside our cells that are responsible for our body’s continued function. (NSERC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Kennedy is researching flatfish mechanisms that control visual tuning. (NSERC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Hamza's work is related to experimental high energy physics. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Alexander is studying the Large Hadron Collider which produces an incredible amount of data from proton collisions. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Brooke is a PhD student researching how to target cancerous cells in an extremely targeted manner. (Graduate Entrance Scholarship and NSERC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Andreas is a Biology PhD student who is studying how spiders communicate with chemicals. (NSERC CGS Doctoral Scholarship)

Leea is designing a cavity which enhances the photon-qubit interactions. (NSERC CGS Masters Scholarship and Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Debora is studying how nutrients move from ocean into land, and how this affect plants and animals. (NSERC CGS Doctoral Scholarship)

Matt's research is furthering our understanding of the Boltzmann equation from an analytic perspective. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Ryan is researching the mathematical modelling of skeletal muscle. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Farah's research study genetic mutation that affects the functionality of the heart.

Kendra is a master's student focusing in implementing methods to analysis of the urban environment, of study areas with a high level of development and densification. (NSERC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Brooklyn is a master's student who is researching metalloproteins. (NSERC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Matthew is researching atomic nucleus and the forces which both hold it together and allow it to interact with other nuclei. (NSERC Doctoral Awards)

Nasrin is a PhD student researching how to improve the properties of materials to improve the everyday life of people. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Mahdi is PhD student who is researching the role of AID/APOBEC in cancer, and novel therapies based on exploiting AID/APOBECs to work against cancer. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Ray is researching how atmospheric waves interact with clouds and how clouds interacts with waves. (Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

David is a Chemistry PhD graduate. His research looked at liquid crystalline materials and how it can be tailored for an application.

Koushik is exploring the physical properties of the collagen protein in the human body. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Nikola's research interests include machine learning and goodness-of-fit.

Javier is working on improving the efficiency and accuracy of computational simulations of skeletal muscle mechanics. (Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Pavreet is researching why children with cerebral palsy are less active than other children. (NSERC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Elana aims to make rodent management both more effective and eco-friendly.

Dr. Talab pursued research in Molecular and Cell Biology in the Faculty of Science.

Lauren is researching microplastics ingestion by zooplankton in the Arctic.

Milad is pursuing the study of neuroplasticity and biomechanical engineering.

Brett is investigating the concept of 'programmed' mass loss in European starlings.

Sarah's research involves a multi-faceted approach to modeling bumble bee dynamics.

Dr. Godwin from the Department of Biological Sciences researched the impacts of parasitic sea live on wild juvenile salmon.

Obinna is studying magnetism and superconductivity in quantum materials. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Prince is interested in exploring the various functionalities of DNA.

Viviane examines how contractual approaches in health care hinder and/or advance equity in mental health.

Zarah is a PhD student interested in understanding how cities can be designed to preserve, protect, and promote health. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Brandi is a Master's student who is focusing on the relationship between Indigenous language fluency and health and wellness. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Amanda studies how stress and sleep patterns may affect women's reproductive development.

Emanuel is a PhD student aiming to generate evidence that will inform the clinical management of people with opioid use disorder with concurrent mental disorders. (CIHR Doctoral Research Award)

Josh is a master’s student using quantile regression to understand the relationship between exposure to toxic chemicals during pregnancy and child autism outcomes. (BC Graduate Scholarship and NSERC CGS Master's Scholarship)

Dr. Collins' research examined gendered poverty relations, poverty, and the built environment when it comes to overdose risk impact among women.

Aniqa is working on a cure for HIV/AIDS. (CIHR Doctoral Research Award)

Weng Sut Sio is a Master of Public Health student seeking to identify myopia protective factors to implement in schools to help in myopia control.

Natasha is a Master of Public Health student working to contribute to finding solutions that allow aging in place.

Maude is a Doctoral student in the Faculty of Health Sciences studying the interaction between genetic and environmental factors in the development of mental health problems in the Québec Longitudinal Study of Child Development. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Meridith is a Doctoral student in the Faculty of Health Sciences whose research explores the design of sociable, healthy, and equitable cities. (SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship)

Emanuel is a Doctoral student in the Faculty of Health Sciences whose research aims to help physicians improve medical care for people with opioid use disorder with concurrent mental disorders. (CIHR Doctoral Research Award)

Marco Zenone completed his master’s from the Faculty of Health Sciences.

Dr. Carter in Health Sciences studied sexual health, happiness, and pleasure among more than 1,400 women living with HIV in Canada.

Nathan researches dopamine neurotransmission, namely how important proteins may interact with other proteins of the dopamine signalling system.

Harry's research is on the development of novel statistical methods on the assessment of environmental chemical mixtures on pregnancy outcomes.

Natalie's research on the genetic features of the HIV virus aims to bring us closer towards a cure.

Dr. Amanda Butler completed her PhD from the Faculty of Health Sciences.

Diego is a Master's student in the Faculty of Health Sciences trying to create more efficient ways to deliver healthcare among cancer patients. (GPS Graduate Fellowship)

Beth is a Public Health Master's student in the Faculty of Health Sciences whose interests range from global health to social determinants of health to epidemiology. (GPS Graduate Fellowship)

Maggie is a Doctoral student in the Faculty of Health Sciences whose research interests broadly cover philosophy of medicine, health beliefs and patients’ experiences as well as medicines in colonial contexts with a focus on Chinese medicine. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship, Graduate Fellowship)

Emily is a doctoral student in the Faculty of Health Sciences who is researching how police violence is portrayed in the media and the impact of that portrayal on people more likely to experience police violence. (Graduate Dean’s Entrance Scholarship)

Emily is a Doctoral student in the Faculty of Health Sciences whose research involves investigating how adverse life events, such as growing up poor or being bullied, can impact overarching structure of our DNA, and how that can lead to changes in our reactions to future stress and potentially impact mental health later on. (Graduate Fellowship)

Quiana is a Master's student in the Faculty of Health Sciences developing an effective vaccine to prevent congenital disease and HCMV infection in general. (Graduate Fellowship)

Martha is a Master's student in the Faculty of Health Sciences learning about a wide range of public health topics and expanding her ability to evaluate public health issues using a social justice lens. (GPS Graduate Fellowship)

Iveoma is a Master's student in the Faculty of Health Sciences working on a research project that 1) aims to critically examine the motivations underlying the move to privatize humanitarian aid; and 2) analyze the Canadian government's role in promoting privatized humanitarian aid as a solution for reproductive, maternal and infant global health challenges around the world. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Tyson is a doctoral student in the Faculty of Health Sciences and a registered outreach social worker doing research on stolen xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, sḵwx̱wú7mesh & səlilwətaɬ lands.

Martha is a Master's student in the Faculty of Health Sciences looking at the experiences and mental health problems of non-binary youth (ages 15-29) in organized team sports in Canada and the US. (Graduate Fellowship; CERi Graduate Fellowship)

Gisele is a Doctoral student in the Faculty of Health Sciences whose research focuses on understanding the ways human immunodeficiency virus type (HIV-1) uses to challenge protection by human immune responses, invade the body and enhance disease development. (Graduate Fellowship)

Tanner is a Master's student in the Faculty of Health Sciences investigating the impact of air pollution exposure during pregnancy on the development of respiratory symptoms in early childhood. (Graduate Fellowship, Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Alison is a Master's student in the Faculty of Health Sciences whose research interest lies in how resilient responses to multimorbidity translate into protection from other adversities, such as fall injuries. (Graduate Fellowship)

Gemma is a Master's student in the Faculty of Health Sciences investigating strategies to improve how we retain and transfer new learnings under different environments to enhance neurorehabilitation programs. (Mitacs Globalink Fellowship, Special Grad Entrance Scholarship)

Stefanie is a Doctoral student in the Faculty of Health Sciences trying to understand what immigrant women's access to healthcare looks like and how it may look different for younger women, as well as for people with precarious immigration status during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CIHR Doctoral Research Award, Graduate Fellowship, President's PhD Scholarship)

Kelly is a Public Health Master's student in the Faculty of Health Sciences who's working on developing evidence-based interventions and programs that address the upstream causes of poor health outcomes among communities and populations, rather than just at an individual-level. (Janes Corbett Grad HS Practice)

Erik is a Master's student in the Faculty of Health Sciences whose research focuses on how food security and housing environments relate to mental health using a two-eyed seeing approach. (Graduate Fellowship)

Anna is a master's student in the Faculty of Health Sciences whose research seeks to describe present HIV-1 subtype diversity in Ghana, identify circulating drug resistance mutations in the country and lastly predict HIV-1 coreceptor usage using an algorithm that analyses sequences in the envelope region of HIV. (Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship)

Mari is a Master's student in the Faculty of Health Sciences whose research aims to understand barriers to accessing mental health services among teens in BC. (CERi Graduate Fellowship, Dr. Nancy Hall Graduate Award in Public Health)

Georgia is a Master's student in the Faculty of Health Sciences studying about disparities in birth outcomes. (Janes Corbett Graduate Health Science Award)

Alexandra is archeology master's student who is working with archaeological collections of fish bones from Atl'ka7tsem/Howe Sound, BC. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Rachel is researching the lack of corporate and government accountability for effective caribou habitat restoration in interior BC. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship and Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Hannah works with coastal First Nations to investigate how access to important seafood is affected by climate change and the recovery of sea otters. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Simon is creating a framework for a systematic survey of Jamaica for early sites and mapping the most ideal ecological locations that people would have chosen to settle 1500 years ago. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Andrew is a PhD student researching how the political and economic aspects of primary care reform shape whether jurisdictions are successful in their efforts to improve the health of communities and limit public health care costs. (SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship)

Alex is studying glacial landforms to reconstruct how water moved beneath the Cordilleran Ice Sheet. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Mariah is a master's student studying whether society can reduce carbon emissions in large vehicles. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Daniel is a master's student that is focusing in updating the sediment budget for the lower Fraser River. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Tommy is a recent doctoral graduate from the School of Resource + Environmental Management.

Bradley is a Master's student who is assessing the impact that climate-motivated policies at various levels government have on greenhouse gas emissions and technology choice. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Christine is researching to help cultivate functional conservation strategies for the endangered and at risk species of Curaçao. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Tsatia is PhD student bringing the urban Indigenous communities in the Metro Vancouver and Russian into dialogue with each other. (Indigenous Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Jen is studying stone projectile points, that is arrowheads and spear points, in the southwestern boreal forest. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Hannah is studying recreational fisheries as social-ecological systems. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Babak is a PhD student interested in Digital Soil Mapping, and use soil field and environmental data to generate maps for soil properties. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Myfannwy is exploring how First Nation government can address housing need for those who are off-reserve. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Erin is a recent doctoral graduate from the Department of Archaeology.

Ian studies how rivers connect the land and the ocean, and how that link varies from river to river.

Dr. Burt's research illuminates the drivers of ecosystem transformations occurring as sea otters recover and expand their range on BC's coasts.

Victoria’s Master’s of Science research in the Faculty of Environment focused on measuring carbon storage in seagrass ecosystems in BC.

Brea is fascinated by people, cultures, and the extremes of the human experience.

Shawna is a doctoral student of gerontology and a recipient of the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. Shawna currently studies the impact of social isolation on the health of older adults, especially throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jennifer's research looks at the concept of housing being more than a shelter or economic commodity, exploring how attachment to a dwelling creates a sense of home.

Katherine is studying forensic search and recovery methods in residential schools in Canada.

Alice is a PhD student in Individualized Interdisciplinary Studies in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology examining how journalists use preprints - studies that have not yet gone through the peer review process - and what this means for the publics who rely on their reporting. (SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship, Michael Stevenson Grad Scholar)

Laurence is studying autofiction in postmodernism and performance theories.

Steve is a PhD student in Individualized Interdisciplinary Studies studying wildfire forecasting.

Asura is studying the infrastructure of scholarly communication in the 21st century.

Hasheem is studying multimodal queer-based pedagogy in French Immersion high school classrooms.

Matthew is a PhD student studying the history of small music venues in BC.

Spencer is a PhD student studying Indigenous knowledge and land stewardship.

Bryan is studying the role of media technologies in documenting Indigenous cultural heritage.

Ethan is a Doctoral student in Individualized Interdisciplinary Studies whose research concerns ekphrases (i.e. descriptions) of the urban landscape of Constantinople and its monuments in eleventh and twelfth century Byzantine literature. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Rina is an international student from Albania and is currently pursuing her MA in International Studies. Her specific interests are foreign affairs, human rights and immigration.

Justin is a History Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences researching to understand the relationship between electronic and Indonesian music, counterculture, politics, and economics in Vancouver from the 1960s-1980s through the life and work of the Vancouver-based composer, community organizer, and educator Martin Bartlett (1939-1993). (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship, BC Graduate Scholarship, Ladner Graduate Scholarship in BC History)

Shreemouna is a PhD student studying Gerontology with the goal of learning more about interdisciplinary approaches, qualitative method, and knowledge translation.

Timothy is a Political Science Doctoral student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose research focuses on right-wing Canadian/Albertan politics. (SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship, BC Graduate Scholarship, Dean's Graduate Fellowship)

Ata is an Economics Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences researching economic topics, such as, Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Richard is a Public Policy Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences studying the practice of policy analysis while developing knowledge base in relevant areas such as economics and political science. (Graduate Fellowship)

Daniel is a doctoral student in Psychology (Cognitive & Neural Sciences), studying neuro-cognitive processes through noninvasive recordings of brain electricity to see how people pay attention to their visual environment.

Kevin is a Public Policy Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences identifying policy problems, researching and analyzing information, and coming up with policy solutions. (Graduate Fellowship)

Christy is a Public Policy Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences researching on policies to help food insecure communities and strengthen local food systems. (Graduate Fellowship)

Cassandra is a Psychology Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences researching on how early childhood experiences influences risk taking behaviours and outcomes related to borderline personality disorder and nonsuicidal self-injury throughout the lifespan. (CIHR CGS Master's Scholarship)

Ritam is a Philosophy Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences interested in ethics and logic, and also in social and political philosophy. (Mitacs Globalink Fellowship, Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Nhi is a Psychology Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences researching attachment insecurities and emotion regulation. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Ashley is a master's student in the School of Criminology studying offender risk assessment, with research focused on overrepresentation of Indigenous Peoples in the justice system.

Eva is a Doctoral student in Law and Forensic Psychology. Previously, she was working as a Research Associate in England. Eva's research is focused on the reliability of witnesses in court and the causes of false eyewitness identification.

Dr. Dawson completed her PhD from the School of Criminology in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Sajid is an Economics Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences who uses data to explore and answer economic questions. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Samuel is a master's student in the Clinical Psychology program, and his research focuses on psychopathy, violence, and risk assessment.

Tina is an English Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences exploring diversity in contemporary publishing and making note of trends that have occurred within the last few years. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Robyn is pursuing her Masters in Urban Studies to expand her knowledge on place-based activism, including inequity and financialization of housing.

Dr. Finney completed her PhD from the Department of Linguistics in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Yaser is an English Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose research is focused on Indigenous literatures. (Dean's Graduate Fellowship, Temple Maynard Graduate Bursary)

Gabrielle is a Public Policy Master' student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences learning how to research, develop, analyze, and implement public policies. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Elizabeth is an Anthropology Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences working to provide culturally safe access to healthcare and decolonizing it globally. (Graduate Fellowship)

Shehroze is a History Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences examining the surveillance of religious and economic exchange between British India and Ottoman Iraq during the First World War. (Baldwin Graduate Scholarship in History)

Priscilla is a Public Policy Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences encompassing every aspect of our society and our day-to-day lives. (Graduate Fellowship, GPS Graduate Fellowship)

Matia is a Public Policy Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences figuring out what barriers students with disabilities face and how policy can reduce those barriers. (Graduate Fellowship)

Kathryn aims to devise new graph algorithms to solve computational problems.

Yogiraj works on developing a novel corrosion protection system which can be integrated with a smart-grid infrastructure.

Dr. Yang from the School of Computing Science invented a number of key algorithms for deploying viral marketing campaigns in social networks.

Dr. Ibrahim from the School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering focused on identifying practical uses for microfluidic battery technology.

Abdelrahman's research focuses on powering smart wearable devices.

Pooya works on improving the functionality and efficiency of electric machines.

Fenggen's research focuses on how to analyze digital data and use computing for applications like image recognition and 3D shape organization.

Kumar is a PhD student researching medical image analysis methods for dermatological applications, particularly, skin cancer detection. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Sami is researching is utilizing sonar data and video footage in machine learning tools to count salmon. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Robin White researches X-ray microscopy at SFU’s School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering.

Dr. Deng pushed the frontiers of computer vision and deep learning for his doctoral research in the School of Computing Science.

Kamaria is building modelling tools to help policy makers effectively and efficiently address climate and other system impacts and trade-offs. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Fahmid is an Engineering Science master’s student researching fabrication of 2D material devices for efficient Solar Photovoltaic technologies. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Daniel is a postdoctoral fellow who is interested in developing new photonic quantum technologies to solve real-world problems.

Sebastian is focused on machine-learning applications for film and visual effects. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Lydia is a doctoral Computing Science graduate, whose research focuses on enhancing personalized learning processes and experience.

Shirin's research focused on designing control methods for systems working with motors at SFU’s School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering.

Arman is investigating human blindness through a technology called Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). (NSERC CGS Masters Scholarship)

John's project aims to determine if the performance of PEM fuel cells can be improved by expediting the removal of liquid water from the system. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Brandon is a master’s student who uses machine learning to derive explanations for database query results for his research. (NSERC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Rimika is a computing science PhD student researching the learning process behind web-resources to better support the learner. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Danrui is a PhD student who is working on data science. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Oliver is a PhD student who is researching on using AI to better diagnose disease and find new treatments. (NSERC Doctoral Award)

Fangxin is a Computing Science PhD student. (Michael Stevenson Graduate Scholarship)

Dingyi's research interests include to path planning, machine learning, and robotic perception. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Zipan is a master's student focusing his research of PMP Big Data to acquire advanced knowledge and competencies of data acquisition from a variety of sources and their analysis.

Katie is an Engineering Science master’s student aiming to evaluate a method to non-invasively measure blood constituents at the blood vessels on the eye. (NSERC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Moshen is a Sustainable Energy Engineering PhD student working on lifetime modeling of PEM Fuel Cells. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Sarah is a Master's student is researching fuel cells that convert hydrogen and air into clean air. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Logan is using methods from machine learning to analyze, translate, and visualize ancient text corpora. (NSERC CGS Doctoral Scholarship)

Hesam is a Sustainable Energy Engineering Doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences whose research focuses on developing environmentally-friendly fuel cell materials.

Ankita is a Computing Science student working on making impactful data-driven decisions using Machine Learning.

Milad is a Mechatronics System of Engineering doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences researching energy modelling and retrofit modelling of buildings to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission reduction to fight against climate change and lead our society toward sustainability. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Ahmad is a Master’s of Applied Science (MASc) student investigating how to improve connectivity and develop new control methods for industrial systems. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Nic is a Biomedical Engineering Science master’s student working on a very sensitive magnetic field sensor that used to detect the tiny fields your brain produces.

Hang is a Computer Science Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Applied Sciences whose research will be beneficial to the autonomous driving community and also image evaluation community.

Nelson is a Computer Science Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Applied Sciences who works with AI-driven research helping architects to design floor plans more efficiently. (External Grad Award - General)

Callum is a Mechatronic Systems Engineering Master's student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences researching and developing a novel pulsating pipe that involves the spread of heat. (NSERC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Trevor is a Sustainable Energy Engineering Master's student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences who develops energy models to evaluate system level renewable energy transitions and support effective policy development. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Seyed is a Computing Science doctoral student researching problems related to computer vision and reinforcement learning.

Pedram is a Computing Science Doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences whose mission is to employ a vigorous theoretic backbone for everyday world problems through leveraging programming skills.

Ghislain is an Energy Engineering Master's student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences working on an innovative process to perform thermal decomposition of methane into hydrogen with no greenhouse gas emissions or water consumption. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Salman is a Mechatronic System Engineering PhD student researching ofunctional adsorbents for adsorption cooling systems. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship & Graduate Fellowship Award)

Mar is a Contemporary Arts Master's student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences trying to explain environmental urban issues through the sounding creative process. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Chirong is a Computing Science Doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences whose research interest focuses on data pricing. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Ashish is a Computing Science master’s student working on multi-modal skin analysis with the help of machine learning methods.

Xuan is a Computing Science Doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences whose research goal is to motivate people to contribute their data to help Machine Learning models make wise decisions while not losing too much of their privacy. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Amin is a Doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences developing next-generation electronic and optoelectronic devices based on atomically thin 2D materials to have faster, smaller, and more efficient processors. (Kaiser Foundation for Higher Education)

Elaheh is a Sustainable Energy Engineering Master's student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences working on improving the interfacial properties, like adhesion, between different layers of solar cells to enhance the total efficiency of solar cells. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Reza is a Sustainable Energy Engineering Doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences whose research focuses on improving the sustainability of transportation systems, such as systems and vehicles, to help the environment decrease CO2 production and other emissions in the world. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Isla is a PhD candidate in MSE working in the field of Power Systems and Smart Grids (Kaiser Foundation Scholarship).

Cesar is a Mechatronics Systems Engineering Master's student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences whose research focuses on improving the computational models of spinal cord injury to have more accurate results that would allow for prediction of injury progression after a specific impact. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Dr. Wang completed his degree from the School of Computing Science PhD in the Faculty of Applied Sciences.

Paige is a Computing Science doctoral student who is researching how robots can be used to preserve and teach minority languages.(NSERC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Hamed is a Mechatronic Systems Engineering Doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences whose research focus is on exoskeleton robots - wearable robots that can help paralyzed people walk again and improve the lives of people with limited or no hand mobility. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Shahriyar is a Mechatronics Doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences working on a novel concept in the development of next generation condensers for energy systems. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Navid is a Sustainable Energy Engineering doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences focusing on alternative fuels and engine efficiency improvement in commercial vehicles.

Fabusuyi is a Sustainable Energy Engineering Doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences whose research probes the innermost structures of the fuel cell using X-rays to understand its operational behaviour. (TELUS Graduate Award in Sustainable Energy)

Mohammad is an Engineering Science Doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences studying 2D materials to eventually use them as the building blocks of next-generation electronic devices. (Graduate Fellowship)

Thushani is an Engineering Science Master's student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences whose goal is to develop a micro-scale biosensor capable of detecting any abnormal increase of biomolecules, which can be used in early cancer diagnosis applications. (Graduate Fellowship)

Dominic is a Mechatronics System Engineering Doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences whose research focuses on biomedical engineering by measuring sleep quality with non-invasive devices. (Graduate Fellowship)

Jingyan is a Computing Science Master's student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences studying big data techniques, big data programming, and data engineering. (Computing Science Graduate Fellowship)

Kaisong is a School of Computing Science Doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences dedicated to building faster database systems. (Graduate Fellowship)

Marie-Anne is a Mechatronic Systems Engineering Master's student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences whose research involves using neuroimaging technologies to study how brain activity is disrupted in youth with depression. (CIHR CGS Masters Scholarship, Special Grad Entrance Scholarship)

Wesley is a Mechatronic Systems Engineering Master's student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences researching hydrogen fuel cell diagnostics. (Graduate Fellowship)

Vahideh is a Mechatronic Systems Engineering Doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences developing a novel physical computer using sensors, which eliminates the demand for digital computers in cognizant sensing applications. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholar, Graduate Fellowship)

Jiaqi is a Computing Science Master's student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences interested in Computer Vision, 3D Scene Understanding, Machine Learning, and Robotics. (GPS Graduate Fellowship)

Eric is an Engineering Science Doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences working with miniature probes that use light, in a way similar to ultrasound, to look at the layers of tissue in the body to identify and treat early cancer. (Graduate Fellowship)

Kasra is a Computing Science Doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences enabling data mining on massive networked data by leveraging graph theoretic insights to develop more efficient algorithms as well as parallelizing the workloads to take advantage of today's multi-core computers. (Graduate Fellowship)

Zhiyun is a Computing Science Doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences studying database and data mining. (GPS Graduate Fellowship)

Javith is a Sustainable Energy Engineering student from Southern India continuing their studies at SFU to pursue a master's degree, with the goal of developing novel prototypes that focus mainly on energy conversion and storage devices for a sustainable and advanced future.

Robyn is studying Statistics for her Doctorate Degree, focusing her research on the decision-making mind of curlers as they throw their shot in Curling.

Saeed is an Engineering Science Doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences making data compression for intelligent systems more efficient. (Graduate Fellowship, Lang Wong Scholarship in Engineering Science)

Saboora is a Mechatronic Systems Engineering Doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences researching on designing automated wearable systems to detect drug impairment in workers in a continuous and non-invasive way. (Graduate Fellowship)

Dr. Herath Gedara Chinthaka Pathum Dinesh completed his PhD from the School of Engineering Science in the Faculty of Applied Sciences.

Mohammad is a School of Computing Science doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences helping to improve robots' intelligence to be able to use them at home or shopping centers, etc. to make people's life easier. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Ghazal is an Engineering Science Master's student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences whose research focuses on analyzing the underlying patterns in Alzheimer's disease using artificial intelligence. (Graduate Fellowship)

Reza is a Sustainable Energy Engineering doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences focusing on hybrid electric and low-carbon gaseous fuel engines.{Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship}

Pardis is a Mechatronic Systems Engineering Master's student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences whose research was to develop a mathematical/numerical model to predict the behaviour of a novel capillary-driven microfluidic flow battery named PowerPAD. (Graduate Fellowship)

Dr. Bao completed his PhD from the School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering in the Faculty of Applied Sciences.

Weina is a Computing Science Doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences developing clinical user-centric explainable AI techniques for medical imaging tasks. (Sulzer Pumps Graduate Scholarship)

Anjali is a Computing Science Doctoral student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences exploring the design space of emerging technologies such as AR/Mixed Reality applications, Explainable AI, and design user-centered solutions that have the potential to enhance the usability, usefulness, and meaning of the technologies for end-users. (Special Grad Entrance Scholarship, GPS Graduate Fellowship, Graduate Fellowship)

Britny is focused on the decomposition of human remains underwater and the use of novel underwater detection techniques to assist recovery and identification of missing people. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Sydney is studying the politicization of human trafficking laws. (BC Graduate Scholarship; SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Inez's research is heavily focused on alternatives to policing and facilitating access to social services (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Nancy researches on The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and its application to environmental matters. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Victoria is researching how individual characteristics covary with support for social movements such as BLM, and discovering fascinating trends. (Social Science and Humanities Research Council CGS-M Award)

Annika is researching group processes and collective environmental action. (Special Entrance Graduate Scholarship)

Rachel is an International Studies master's student investigating how to divert plastic waste away from the ocean and into a circular economy in Taiwan. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Jorji researches pop culture from the 70s until now demonstrating how romantic love continues to be connected to the dynamics of capitalism. (Messenger Graduate Fellowship in English)

Stephen is studying aspects of professional design implementation, situating the intersection of professional ethics of public space design and social equity within the formation of the city. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Rowena is researching the experiences of people working in grocery stores during the global pandemic. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Nikola's research is focused on children's memory for events, and researching best practices for interviewing children. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Emma is exploring Asian-Canadians' feelings of safety given the recent rise in hate crimes due to COVID-19. (BC Graduate Scholarship; SSHRC CGS-M)

Fatima is a Economics Master's Student. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Nikita is a master’s of International Studies student researching Latin American refugees and forced migration. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Rashmi is a master’s student involved in Clinical Psychology research done in private practices and hospitals. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Rachelle is researching the various health, emotional, and social impacts of intergenerational relationships/programs have on older adults. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Darya is researching Track II diplomacy, that is to say, unofficial dialogues between academics, policy experts, and retired government officials, rather than the official diplomacy that we typically think of when world leaders visit other countries. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Jesse is focussed on how people process and interpret imperative sentences with no overt subject from audio recordings. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Kathleen is researching how trans youth in BC connect to support and resources online, including how they handle privacy issues and misinformation. (SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship)

Chun is researching the psychological and developmental harms resulting from the gamble-like mechanism in video games. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Teresa is a Graduate Liberal Studies Master's student. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Erika is researching the way young adults internalize (or not) the messages received in school-based sex education and how that knowledge shapes their perceptions regarding sex and sexuality. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Tasnim is researching the use and diffusion of English language in non-native contexts, to explore the theoretical models of World Englishes. (Special Entrance Graduate Scholarship)

Sherif is a master’s of Philosophy student focusing on the nature of scientific knowledge and the connections between logic, human reason, and rationality. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Naz is researching the Greek-Orthodox Carnival celebrations in the Ottoman Empire, Greece, Balkans and Modern Turkey. (Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Rawia is a PhD student exploring how individual and group fantasies are embedded in cultural objects that reproduce the Palestinian-Israeli context. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Taline researches on the experiences of foster children in the justice system. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Liam is enjoying the cohort experience of the Public Policy master's program along with the practical and theoretical knowledge the program offers. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Clarissa's research looks at radical politics and how different social, cultural, and economic issues impact political behaviour and party competition. (Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Julia is a Clinical Psychology masters student expanding her previous work in adult risk-taking behaviours to focus on adolescents and the impact of close relationships in the future. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Mohamed is a PhD Economics student researching monetary policies. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Natalie is a Graduate Liberal Studies master’s student who aims to learn the skills required to put forth her own ideas into the world through the magic of the written word.

Jacob is a master’s English student researching the interactions of medieval English authors with medieval Italian literature. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Dr. Kyle Willmott's doctoral research broadly focused on questions of political and economic sociology, and Indigenous policy.

Mackenzie is an English PhD student researching poetry, Indigenous literature, and urban spaces. (Edward M.W. Gibson Fellowship in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)

Hira is a Clinical Forensic Psychology graduate student researching the risks for violence and sexual offending, criminal behaviours, psychopathy, and other issues in the area of mental health and law. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Michaela is a School of Criminology PhD student examining the importance of belonging, justice, and injustice by analyzing decolonization, belonging, resurgence and self-governance. (Graduate Dean's Entrance Award, SSHRC CGSM, SSHRC Vanier)

Dr. Wiwad is a doctoral graduate from the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Art + Social Sciences.

Thuy is a Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s studies PhD student researching gender politics and identity, migration, multiculturalism, economic development, and Vietnam's economic history. (Graduate Fellowships, and the Meredith Kimball Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Amanda is an Urban Studies master’s student researching collaborative governance and the ways in which process design is influenced by municipal reasons for choosing to initiate a collaborative process. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Thomas is a Graduate Liberal Studies master’s student researching Greek Mythology, and fiction and non-fiction literature.

Reema is a Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies PhD student who joins her colleagues in researching the roots of oppression along vectors of difference and the struggle for equality.

Emanuela is a PhD graduate in Linguistics exploring how doctors and patients communicate during medical visits.

Daniel is a Law and Forensic Psychology student who is researching how photographs can make statements seem more true and believable. (SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship)

Saima is a public policy student with previous research experience in health and education in developing countries.

Steve, an Urban Studies student, is researching the impact of COVID-19 on the Korean-Canadian community in Metro Vancouver. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Eric is a PhD graduate in Economics whose research focused on immigration policy's effect on documented vs. undocumented immigrants.

Madison is a Clinical Psychology student researching individual’s risk of violence and the relationship between criminal offending, mental illness, and the legal system. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Thinh is a master's student in Economics to approach high standards and modern knowledge for practical researches in the future. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Jenny is a political science master's student who is focusing on energy issues in relation to environmental impacts, taking a political economy perspective. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Vienna's research on aquatic bone decomposition has earned her international recognition as the Forensic Science Foundation and CRC Press 2019 top student travel award winner.

Muhammad has completed his PhD as well as his Masters in Criminology at SFU.

Shelbie is a PhD student who is focusing on using interview techniques to enhance eyewitness memory. (SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship)

Armaghan is a Digital Media Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology tackling different types of challenges in different aspects moving from the project forward and achieving the best possible result. (Centre for Digital Media Scholarship)

Jamie is a master's student who currently works as a Managing Editor for SFU's interdisciplinary communications journal and a Teaching Assistant in the School of Communication.

Alex is a Communication Doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology looking at the space in-between technology and art. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship, Graduate Fellowship)

Zohra is a Publishing Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose program is the mixture of theory and practice related to publishing industry. (Graduate Fellowship)

Salome is a School of Contemporary Arts Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose project explores the intersection between her cultural heritage and butoh aesthetics, deconstructing the Mexican female archetypes in performance. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Edward is a Contemporary Arts Doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose research looks at the exploration, deconstruction, re-enactment and reshaping of the socio-historical knowledge, narratives, practices and traditions embedded in East African Indigenous dances into new performative contemporary theatrical dance practices. (GPS Graduate Fellowship, Dean's Graduate Fellowship, FCAT Grad Fellowship (PhD), Special Grad Entrance Scholarship)

Simranjot is a Digital Media Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology learning to develop essential communication, collaboration and leadership skills. (Centre for Digital Media Scholarship)

Aniana is a Publishing Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology interested in the publishing industry. (Graduate Fellowship, Southam Graduate Entrance Scholarship in Publishing)

Mingmin is a Communication Doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose current research concerns Political Economy of Communication, and Cultural and Media Studies. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Kittie is a Contemporary Arts Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology building DIY electronic instruments, and composing text and graphic scores that incorporate physical gestures, lighting, and/or other visual components. (Special Grad Entrance Scholarship, Graduate Fellowship)

Nwaufa is a Digital Media Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology creating compelling character designs, exploring new fields of design and bringing ideas to life. (Centre for Digital Media Scholarship)

Dr. Knight focused on Indigenous writers who authoritatively proclaim enduring national, linguistic, and land-based connections for her research.

Dr. Kim from the Department of Linguistics investigated syntatic and interpretive properties of Korean anaphoric devices.

Sarah is researching effective current human rights advocacy strategies, specifically for defending LGBTQ workers' rights.

Madison's research focuses on witness memory and what makes a credible witness in the legal system.

Katherine studies the assessment of violent behavior and psychopathic personality.

Abigail's research looks at the effects of ethical capital on social enterprises.

Cari is a master's student who is interested on innovating and creating opportunities for older adults to live purposeful, connected, and fulfilling lives regardless of their health status. Special (Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Hung Truong is a economics doctorate student who explores the interaction between human behaviour and economic modeling. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Maegan McKay is currently working on a survey project which is collecting quantitative data and analysis on the mental health of seniors, and the accessibility to Mental Health Care and Services. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Connor's research concentrated on the intersection of Gothic literature and ecocriticism in children's and young adult literature.

Isamara is interested in the decision-making process about urban transportation and urban mobility in Brazil and Canada.

Aaron research focuses on questions about the mind, and how to use both scientific and philosophical methods to answer those questions. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Alyssa is researching archival and manuscript studies, with a focus on materiality. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Connor is a Master's student researching the social construction of gender concepts. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Ashley is a student who is researching labour trafficking of migrant workers who enter the country legally but are later coerced into exploitative conditions. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Robin is Master's Student focusing in finding points of connection between content and form. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Madelyn research looks at makers to understand what contributes to their making practices and products. (SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship)

Marybelle is a master's student exploring the relationship between language and politics. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Ileanna is a master's student who is researching dance improvisation. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Robin is researching how people learn and acquire skills over time. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Emily is a PhD student who is focusing on traumatic brain injury. (CIHR Doctoral Research Award)

Emma's research looks at the influence that seeing social media profiles for potential suspects of a crime. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Diana is researching about how technology is changing social dynamics globally, deepening gaps and inequalities, but also opening spaces for participation and empowerment. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Megan is exploring how the government can use and incorporate Indigenous Knowledge to support climate adaptation policy and decision-making. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Bouchra is a Linguistics Doctoral student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences examining the spread and use of English in the historically multilingual North African country of Morocco.

Kenzie is a Criminology master's student studying intimate partner violence. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Francis is a master's student in Graduate Liberal Studies.

Jason is a Social Psychology PhD student researching human social cognition and emotions and helping to develop community prosociality programs. (Community Engaged Research Initiative Graduate Research Fellowship, Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship at SDFU, SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master's, & Arthur and Ancie Fouks Graduate Entrance Award in Public Service)

Mathew is a Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies PhD building bridges between feminist STS and the work of Indigenous theorists on multispecies governance (Dean's Graduate Fellowship, the BC Graduate Scholarship, the Margaret & Claude Mitchell Graduate Award, the National Council of Jewish Women Scholarship, and Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC))

Marina is an International Studies master’s student researching the intersection between international law, the collective right to security, and the work of citizen-led organizations to promote this right in Indigenous communities.

Dian is a Ph.D. student in Economics. His research focuses on auction theory and mechanism design. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Dr. Golubović completed her Sociology and Anthology PhD from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Jacqueline is a master's student in History investigating actor/producer/director Leslie Howard and his contributions to the war effort in WW2. (Baldwin Graduate Scholarship)

Samantha is a Gerontology PhD studentresearching social care when facing grief and technological mediation as new ideas of mourning and funerary practices.

Tessa is a master’s student in Liberal Studies pursuing research about postmodernism and the arts.

Shanny is a Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Doctoral student undertaking community-engaged research on practicing Tai Chi as self-care during COVID-19 and and it's effect on immigrant women during the pandemic (Grace Woodsworth MacInnis Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Abu is a Sociology and Anthropology Doctoral student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences studying Hazara refugees in time and across space to see how memories and forgetting of the past are implicated in their migration trajectory and settlement desires and practices, social mobility, and political work. (Graduate Dean's Entrance Scholarship; Community Trust Endowment Fellowship)

Dr. Coburn completed her Department of Psychology PhD from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. (SSHRC Canada Doctoral Scholarship)

Sadia is a Gerontology master's student researching the relevance of depression and dementia among people in long term cares. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Samuella is a Sociology Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose research surrounds labour migration particularly among women but on a local level.

Hailey-Thomas is a Gerontology Doctoral student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences exploring aging, including topics such as, health and the built environment. (SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship)

Eddie is a Philosophy Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose research is focused on the interaction between truth and the world. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship & SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Caroline is a Political Science Doctoral student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose research looks at the intersection of liberal democracy and cultural autonomy in the Canadian context. (Dave and Ann Trick Award)

Masood is an Economics Master’s student investigating how economic models can be used to simplify the amount and complexities of information and data. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Jessica is a PhD student in the Clinical Psychology researching the dyadic effects of emotion regulation on relationship and sexual satisfaction, and the implications these effects have for individuals and couples seeking treatment. (SSHRC CGS-D award)

Manéh is a Master of Arts in Criminology student.

Yifan is a doctoral student in the department of History interested in social history of the People's Republic of China. (CTEF Graduate Fellowship; SFU President's PhD Scholarship; SFU Multi-Year Funding)

Dr. Hopkins completed his Political Science PhD from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Aphrodite is an Urban Studies master’s student researching how physical spaces (indoor and outdoor) affect the ability of community organizations to support community capabilities through emergencies.

Saba is an English Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose current project argues that Joyce's references to Ireland are not perceived through a temporal experience at the time of writing Ulysses.

Thomas is a PhD graduate in Economics whose thesis focused on instrumental variable estimators. (Peter Kennedy Memorial Graduate Fellowship)

Momoko is a School of Criminology Doctoral student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences researching about stable isotopes in human teeth collected from across Metro Vancouver to better understand what the stable isotope values look like and whether the values differ from other Canadian cities.

Claire is a Public Policy Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences exploring the ways that cover crop adoption occurs in agricultural regions in BC. (Andrew Petter GS Public Policy)

Elise is a Public Policy Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences researching on public policy solutions to reduce textile waste in BC. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Catherine is an English Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences working on a project that explores the tension that exists in literary scholarship between 'serious' literature and 'popular' literature. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship & Aphra Behn Grad Scholarship ENGL)

Payten is a Criminology Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose research focuses on arson and wrongful convictions. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Ziwei is an English Doctoral student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose research involves studying English culture and literature as well as looking at how psychoanalysis helps understand human behaviors and broader social phenomenon. (Messenger Grad Fellowship in English & CTEF Graduate Fellowship)

Felix is an English Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences working on a project that examines the relationship between cultural production and gentrification. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Ranjani is a Gender, Sexuality and Women Studies Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences working on a variety of issues that affect minorities in society in order to contribute to a better world for young girls and women. (G.W. MacInnis Grad Award)

Nancy is an Urban Studies Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose research is focused on investigating the barriers to implementing policies and programs to improve air quality and reduce environmental inequity related to truck traffic-related air pollution exposure along one of Metro Vancouver's busiest truck routes. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Stevan is a History Doctoral student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose researching about the phenomenon of paramilitarism in various regions and at various time periods to prevent their perpetration. (McWhinney Fdn Hellenic Studies)

Adriana is a Psychology Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences who uses an evolutionary approach to understand mental processes through evolution. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Wen is an English Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose research is guiding her to a language-teaching career in the near future. (Aphra Behn Grad Scholarship ENGL)

Boah is a Gerontology Doctoral student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose main research interest is community-based integrated care for older adults with complex needs. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Yiwen is an English Doctoral student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences seeking to understand the causes of hatred and injustices across the world and how to prevent them from happening in the generations to come. (Messenger Grad Fellowship in English & CTEF Graduate Fellowship)

Ilvy is a Forensic Psychology & Law Doctoral student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences studying how to talk better about the findings following assessments for violence risk. (SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship)

Alexandra is a Political Science Doctoral student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose research examines how different generations view security and defense issues. (CTEF Graduate Fellowship)

Shirleen is an Economics PhD student researching countries with democracies and how their characteristics affect economic development. (Richard G. Lipsey award)

Bronwen is a Political Science master’s student.

Oreofeoluwa is a Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences learning about how the world hates women, how the patriarchal society is rigged in favour of men, and how one's sexuality is translated into a tool for oppression. (G.W. MacInnis Grad Award)

Marissa is a social psychology master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose interests include cancel culture and collective validation; social media group interactions; toxic masculinity and gender-based violence and oppression; and methodology and psychometrics. (Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master's)

Zoe is a History Master's student in the Faculty of Applied Sciences interested in the female and gender history of the People's Republic of China. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship, Douglas Cole Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Ella is a Public Policy Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences studying policy analysis, economics, and qualitative and quantitative research methods. (Graduate Fellowship)

Emily is a Public Policy Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences studying the work of political processes. (GPS Graduate Fellowship)

Cahit is a History Doctoral student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose research focuses on a specific province of Byzantium referred to as Paphlagonia spanning the North-Central portion of Asia Minor. (Graduate Dean's Entrance Scholarship)

Farinaz is a Gerontology Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences who compares the perception of walkability and patterns of walking behaviour between two culturally different groups of Iranian and White Canadian older adults who live in Metro Vancouver. (Special Grad Entrance Scholarship, CERi Graduate Fellowship, Lillian Zimmerman Graduated Scholarship Gerontology)

Soraya is a Criminology Doctoral student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose work focuses on advocacy, learning about why people confess and/or plead guilty to crimes that they did not commit - despite being factually innocent. (Graduate Fellowship)

Maitland is a Psychology Doctoral student in the Faculty of Arts and Socials Sciences whose research focus is to understand when and why people will support acts that are committed by their own group and are intended to cause harm to another group. (Laurine Harrison Graduate Thesis Award)

Crystal is a Psychology Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences conducting a research predominantly on the cross-race effect and its impact on lineup procedures. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Farina is an Urban Studies Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose research focuses on electric vehicles and how they potentially impact cities and mobility. (Joy de Cosson Graduate Research Fellowship in Sustainable Transportation)

Wyatt is a Political Science Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences interested in exploring how western countries conduct state-building and how a misunderstanding of reality vs. political theory has led to recent failures. (Graduate Fellowship, Ted and Shirley Cohn Graduate Scholarship in Political Science).

Kirstie is a History Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences examining Indigenous women's contributions to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples hearings held across Canada between 1992 - 1994. (Graduate Fellowship, Bridwell Grad Scholarship, Saywell Graduate Scholarship in History)

Talia is an International Studies Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences examining how refugee children are able to access education. (Simons Foundation GF in IS)

David is an English Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences interested in the power narratives to shape knowledge and its perception. (MATE Scholarship)

Alexander is an International Studies Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences learning how to comprehend and solve complex global issues. (Graduate Fellowship, Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Katherine is a Clinical Psychology Graduate Certificate student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose research focuses on issues germane to forensic psychology. (SSHRC Vanier Canada Grad Scholarship)

Jacob is a Political Science Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences studying policy issues, voter behaviour, international relations, and philosophical issues. (Graduate Fellowship)

Erika is a Public Policy Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose research is focused on evaluating different models of drug decriminalization for the Province of British Columbia. (Graduate Fellowship, Maloney Petter Fellowship in Public Policy)

Kristen is a Public Policy Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences studying public policy problems and analysis. (Graduate Fellowship)

Lauren is a Linguistics Doctoral student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences analyzing the Elders' speech and legacy materials to understand the structure of the language. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholar, Graduate Fellowship)

Joanne is a Graduate Liberal Studies Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences studying how women working at home during the COVID-19 pandemic are reshaping the domestic environment. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau Awrd GLS)

Leandro is an Urban Studies Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose research is about how friendly our cities will be in the future in terms of urban mobility, considering the consequences of our present choices like when private trips or ride-hailing substitutes public transit. (Lambda Alpha International Vancouver Grad Award)

Steffanie is a Sociology Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences focusing on national agendas and extractivism in the international area of contemporary art. (BC Graduate Scholarship, Dean's Graduate Fellowship)

Jeenat is an Economics Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences further exploring the branches of economics. (GPS Graduate Fellowship, Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Steff is a Criminology Doctoral student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose research aims at creating inclusive practices conducted for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit death investigations in North America. (GPS Graduate Fellowship, Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Yanjie is a Philosophy Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences aiming to figure out what happens in people's minds when making moral judgements and/or performing moral actions. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Ellen is a Graduate Liberal Studies Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences engaging in critical conversations about some of the most pressing issues of our time.

Taylor is an English Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences working on a project that examines traditional language use and revitalization as an element of colonial resistance among Scottish (Scots Gaelic) and Cree peoples, and also exploring the history and impact of language loss due to colonialism. (David and Mary Macaree Graduate Fellowship)

Leslie is a Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Doctoral student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences whose research seeks to shed light on the sexual harassment of women lawyers by male lawyers. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Anne is a Resource and Environmental Management (REM) PhD student researching the effectiveness of avalanche risk communication. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Thomas is working to advance analytical tools capable of assessing the effectiveness of policies to achieve a transition of our energy systems towards a path of rapid deep decarbonization. (SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship)

Adrienne researches the spatial distribution of carbon in BC's soils. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Deanna is an Archaeology master’s student researching age estimation methods for forensic and human rights investigations. (Indigenous Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Phil is researching ways to improve decision making for water management in BC. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Nadia is researching bio-plastic packaging in the food service industry. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Sarah is a Resource and Environmental Management (REM) PhD student researching the benefit of climate policies for Indigenous Nations’ own near-term efforts towards reconciliation. (Arthur and Ancie Fouks Graduate Entrance Award in Public Service)

Jonathan researches how Indigenous communities engage with resource extraction projects, their impact and legal decision process. (SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship)

Marianna is investigating how stress caused by marginalization impacts the development of the skeleton in childhood and the eventual shape of the adult skeleton. (SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship)

Joy is a master’s student researching underexplored history of racism and segregation policies in public swimming spaces in Vancouver. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Anne St. Clair is from the School of Resource and Environmental Management in the Faculty of Environment.

Dr. Letham examines shoreline changes in the Northwest Coast of North America.

Dr. Anderson developed a suite of geosimulation models to represent the dynamics and behaviour of emerald ash borer infestation.

Adrienne is a Geography Master's student in the Faculty of Environment studying digital soil mapping and spatial distribution of soil carbon. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Kristin is an Archaeology Master's student in the Faculty of Environment researching on what species were present in the waterbodies in and around K'ómoks Estuary on Vancouver Island in order to contribute better information to peoples and organizations that are trying to conserve what is left of the populations. (BC Graduate Scholarship & SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Sophia is a Master's student in the Faculty of Environment whose research aims to find out basic chemical behaviour of PFOS and help improve its risk assessment. (NSERC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Melissa is an Archaeology Master's student in the Faculty of Environment conducting an ethnoarchaeological study of beer production in Tigrai, Northern Ethiopia. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Emma is a Resource and Environmental Management Master's student in the Faculty of Environment whose research focuses on national policy pathways to reach net zero emissions in Canada by 2050. (BC Graduate Scholarship & SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Alexandra is an Archaeology master's student examining archaeological animal bones to understand how people in the past lived and interacted with the land. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship & SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Kim-Ly is a School of Resource and Environmental Management Doctoral student in the Faculty of Environment whose research seeks to inform community-driven actions and policy supporting Indigenous food sovereignty in the context of a changing climate. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Morgan is a Geography master's student working to identify locations along the Fraser River that act as potential barriers to spawning salmon at different flow levels based on surface velocity. (Graduate Entrance Scholarship, Simons Foundation Award Environment)

Rob is an Archaeology Doctoral student in the Faculty of Environment interested in finding evidence of a coastal migration route related to the peopling of the Americas on the Pacific coast of North America that may have existed prior to 12,000 BP. (SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship)

Christine is a Geography master’s student working to quantify the potential of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) (NSERC/SFU USRA)

Zoe is a Resource and Environmental Management (REM) PhD Student researching how new technologies can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector over time and how policy can ensure that these technologies are compatible with climate change goals. (Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship and a Graduate Fellowship)

Nadia Springle is a Resource Management Master's student in the Faculty of Environment researching bioplastic packaging in the foodservice industry. (BC Graduate Scholarship & SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Dr. Spake completed her Archaeology PhD from the Faculty of Environment.

Cameron is a School of Resource and Environmental Management Doctoral student in the Faculty of Environment whose research focuses on community benefit agreements which are often negotiated between impacted communities and resource project developers. (SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship)

Yuka is an Archaeology Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science reconstructing past fishing activities as well as environmental changes by tracing ancient fish DNA. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Maureen is a Resource and Environmental Management master’s student researching equity and justice within large-scale land-use planning for wildlife recovery. (HeliCat Canada Wildlife and Environmental Research Fund, Mitacs Accelerate Fellowship, and SFU Graduate Fellowship)

Naomi is a Geography student in the Faculty of Environment exploring the relationships between colonial power, the Catholic Church's ownership of land, and current private redevelopment. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Bright is a Geography Doctoral student in the Faculty of Environment whose research consists of modelling different dynamics of urban growth in diverse regions across the globe and assessing the impacts of urbanization on other connected environmental systems. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Lal is a Resource and Environmental Management Master's student in the Faculty of Environment whose project focuses on finding out environmental and ecological changes in the Salish Sea that affect the productivity of wild Pacific Salmon. (Graduate Fellowship)

Hannah is a Geography Doctoral student in the Faculty of Environment researching the under-ice hydrodynamics and biogeochemistry of arctic lakes in the Mackenzie River Delta of the Northwest Territories. (Graduate Entrance Scholarship in Geography)

Sarah is a Resource and Environmental Management Master's student in the Faculty of Environment whose research seeks to inform how Indigenous led management of kelp aquaculture on Vancouver Island can meet the goals and objectives of the Nation we are partnered with. (NSERC CGS Masters Scholarship, Graduate Fellowship)

Viviane is a School of Resource and Environmental Management Doctoral student in the Faculty of Environment whose research investigates consumer response to low-carbon transport innovations and car-based mobility, aiming to clarify the transformative potential of such innovations. (BCAA Environmental Studies Award)

Katherine is a Resource and Environmental Management Master's student in the Faculty of Environment whose research focuses specifically on how wildlife might use streams as connector habitat to navigate through human-developed areas. (School of EVSC Scholarship, GPS Graduate Fellowship)

Andrew is a Resource and Environmental Management Master's student in the Faculty of Environment examining applications of successful Indigenous water governance frameworks and their applicability under the province's Water Sustainability Act, as well as related implications for water sustainability planning under the recently adopted Bill C-41 (Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act). (Graduate Fellowship, GPS Graduate Fellowship)

Nathan is studying Resource and Environmental Management as a Master's student, working on a research project on how single-family zoning in Metro Vancouver affects housing affordability.

Véronique is a Geography Doctoral student in the Faculty of Environment whose current research examines the labour geographies of 'microwork', the hidden and underpaid 'human intelligence' work behind artificial intelligence algorithms. (SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship)

Samara is an Ecological Restoration Master's student in the Faculty of Environment studying the ways in which we can increase and improve critical habitat for at-risk raptors in the Lower Mainland by taking advantage of anthropogenic features (namely, the Vancouver Landfill). (John Halliday McCrae Graduate Scholarship)

Hafsa is a Resource and Environmental Management Master's student in the Faculty of Environment whose research focuses on how to make healthy food accessible to everyone. (Graduate Fellowship, BC Graduate Scholarship, External Graduate Award - General)

Liam is a Geography Doctoral student in the Faculty of Environment whose work in the field of political ecology asks where people draw that often arbitrary line between "nature" and "culture." (SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship)

Katarina is a second year Master's student in the Resource and Environmental Management program, doing research to design, plan and implement the use of electric and hybrid marine vessels in remote Indigenous communities along the coast of British Columbia.

Kaitlin is a Resource and Environmental Management Master's student in the Faculty of Environment working to explore uncertainties on the path to decarbonisation, including costs of energy alternatives, technology readiness, and political feasibility. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship, Graduate Fellowship, GPS Graduate Fellowship)

Anwen is a Resource and Environmental Management Master's student in the Faculty of Environment planning change adaptation measures for flooding. (Graduate Fellowship)

Dr. Royle completed his Archaeology PhD from the Faculty of Environment.

Will is a Resource and Environmental Management Doctoral student in the Faculty of Environment interested in the roll that fossil fuels play in entwining energy, environment, and community. (Graduate Fellowship, Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship, GPS Graduate Fellowship)

Alex is a Geography Doctoral student in the Faculty of Environment whose research focuses on expanding the modeling of geospatial systems, where interactions between various environments and individuals can be mapped by their locations on Earth and expanding it into three spatial dimensions and through time. (CanPacific/Teck Resources Award, Wayne Goeson Memorial Award)

Canan is a Mathematics Ediucation Doctoral student in the Faculty of Education examining TouchTimes and exploring how multiplicative thinking emerges as learners interact with it.

Makhfirat is an Individualized Studies Doctoral student in the Faculty of Education whose research is focused on what factors emerge as the primary drivers of success and failure among Central Asian students at the University of Central Asia (UCA). (University of Central Asia Scholarship, Dean's Graduate Fellowship)

Dr. Chang completed his PhD from the Faculty of Education.

Estella is a Doctoral student in the Faculty of Education interested in tackling many of the greatest problems of our times -- climate change, oppression, inequality, and mental health issues. (Graduate Fellowship)

Alex is a Counseling Psychology Master's student in the Faculty of Education whose research interests center on mental health challenges and psychotherapeutic treatment of gender diverse and sexual minority individuals. (GPS Graduate Fellowship)

Kristy is an Educational Theory and Practice Doctoral student in the Faculty of Education whose research focuses on the ethical responsibilities of Settler educators in decolonizing post-secondary education. (Graduate Fellowship)

Reuben is a Curriculum & Instruction Master's student in the Faculty of Education interested in the ways that natural spaces like gardens and parks have been narrativized, have been composed, and have been written as natural spaces. (Graduate Fellowship)

Phuc is a Master's student in the Faculty of Education studying theoretical insights, principles and practical implications in literacy instruction and development in multicultural and multilingual contexts. (GPS Graduate Fellowship)

Dr. Hajian completed her PhD from the Faculty of Education.

Chukwudi is an educational technology & learning design master's student in the Faculty of Education whose research seeks to provide a framework for the development of eLearning systems to provide equal access to education, particularly for persons in displacement and rural areas. (Knud George Pedersen International Graduate Endowment)

Sarah is an Educational Theory and Practice Doctoral student in the Faculty of Education interested in how children connect to the places where they live and how schools can aid in that connection. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Kelly is a Mathematics Education Doctoral student in the Faculty of Education interested in how a student views or understands a differential equation. (Graduate Fellowship)

Liang is a Doctoral student in the Faculty of Education whose research program helped him develop new world views and better understand who he is. (SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship)

Misty is an Arts Educational Doctoral student in the Faculty of Education researching the aesthetics of everyday life and its impact on pedagogy, leadership, and mentorship. (Graduate Fellowship)

Marie is a Mathematics Education Doctoral student in the Faculty of Education exploring mathematics education through multiple perspectives while providing a supportive community for each student. (Graduate Fellowship)

Chunhong is a Languages, Cultures and Literacies Doctoral student in the Faculty of Education researching on writing feedback, especially how students of second language feel, view, and use feedback on their writing from various sources. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Carol is a Languages, Cultures, and Literacies Doctoral student in the Faculty of Education interested in internationalization of higher education, particularly in ways curriculum, pedagogy, and policies could better embrace the uniqueness of multilingual/international students studying in Canada. (Graduate Fellowship)

Shrey is an Educational Technology and Learning Design Master's student in the Faculty of Education striving to design the most rewarding systems and processes for learners by not only leveraging technology but also investigating 'how,' 'why,' and 'to what extent' technology needs to be leveraged. (GPS Graduate Fellowship)

Alexis is an Educational Technology and Learning Design Doctoral student in the Faculty of Education whose research interests center around the use of technology for informal learning, particularly in remote and rural contexts, with a focus on gendered perspectives. (Graduate Fellowship)

Gladys is a Master's student in the Faculty of Education whose research focus is on how women in Canada use internet technology and what is the extent of its impact on their social lives. (CBIE Study in Canada)

Garfield is a Languages, Cultures and Literacies Doctoral student in the Faculty of Education seeking to understand the origin, nature and critical value of his family's Caribbean English Creole (CEC) language identity. (Graduate Fellowship)

Thomas is a master's student interested in political communication, online participatory cultures, and film and online media studies. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Shawn is a User Experience Designer with a Master's in Digital Media. Building impactful digital solutions that solve real-world problems, drive business values, connect and resonate with people.

Silas is exploring the realm of sound from deaf people and how they transform sounds through the medium of photography into images. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Carina is studying social network "thinking" from a perspective that engages both technical and social sciences. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Naghmi's research revolves around interfaces and tools enabling designers for creative problem solving.

Mayra has obtained a Ph.D. in human-computer interaction (HCI), a sub-area of computer science.

Mozhdeh is a Master's student focusing on political cinema, violence & cinema, and cinema & reality. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Alexandra is studying the social and political role of contemporary art in transition societies. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Yasamin is a UX researcher with an engineering and computer science background. She is eager to improve people’s lives by using technology and creating new designs.

Anthony is focusing on Digital Health Technologies (DHTs) at the centre of delivering health interventions moving into the mid 21st century. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Chelsea is exploring technology that allows social relationship over the Internet. (NSERC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Israt is a Contemporary Arts master’s student researching culture, performance, gender, and the less discussed issues in society. (Graduate Fellowship Award & Entry Scholarship)

Matthew is working on expanding the shape that art can take and reinventing the relationship that people have to art and artists in the world. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Devan is a Global Communication master’s student researching hospitality and COVID-19.

Dr. Chen is a PhD graduate from the School of Communication in the Faculty of Communication, Art + Technology.

Simranjot is a master's student who is specialized in core user-centered research, interaction design, user experience and interface programming skills.

Nawal aims to equip students with the ability to apply theories, methods, and practical skills in a diverse and inclusive learning environment.

Katie is a master's student researching the role of media in contemporary politics. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Lauren is a communication master's student who wants to bridge Indigenous perspectives within soundscape research and methodology to consider how such techniques are controlling via surveillant practices and mediated listening. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Dr. Blake's research examines the development of ‘diversity’ as a policy objective in national and international policy debates.

Denise researches and creates design guidelines for VR to help enhance people's well-being.

Stacey is a Communication PhD candidate in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology looking at how gender and sexuality are communicated through audio media such as radio and podcasting. (SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship, COGECO Graduate Scholarship in CMNS)

Katerina is a School of Interactive Arts and Technology Doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose research explores how the immersive powers of modern technology can be leveraged to help people become more connected with themselves, each other and the world around them. (SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship)

Belen is a School of Communication Doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose research collaborates with women who have migrated from rural parts of Ecuador to Quito, the country's capital city, and which local community media gather and share alternative experiences of wellbeing in the context of internal migration, and to collectively consider their relation to structural factors shaping women's health. (Steel Memorial Graduate Scholarship)

Katrina is interested in exploring approaches to counselling that centre Indigenous worldviews and support resisting colonial violence.

Dr. Kanji in the Faculty of Education examined how a large Canadian university could increase dental science student retention.

Jane has been selected as one of Canada's Top 25 Canadian Immigrants according to the 11th Annual RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards.

Dr. Trevisan's research examines how people with autism perceive, understand, and communication emotions.

Steven is a PhD student researching how and why people change in their fundamental belief systems (i.e., political/religious ideologies) that result in violent behaviours. (SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship)

Carolyn is a PhD student that is working towards changing the educational system and the education programs to help future generations with their education. (Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Michelle's doctoral Education program is focused on Educational Leadership in Post-Secondary Contexts.

Kathleen PhD thesis looks toward picturebooks as rich sites for exploring more-than-human relationality through a queer worlding framework. (SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship)

Lynda is a PhD graduate in the Faculty of Education. Her program looked at Educational Technology and Learning Design.

Jessamyn is a Counselling Psychology master’s student researching youth born of genocidal sexual violence during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Dr. Thrift has completed her Educational Psychology PhD from the Faculty of Education.

Camilla is a Counselling Psychology master’s student researching the development of the parent-child relationship within the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Ki is a PhD student researching the relationship between media production education, media work cultures and systems of oppression. (SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship)

Natalie's research focuses on accessible and inclusive education for students who are studying online with mental-health-related disabilities. (SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship)

Qiang is a Mathematics Education PhD student researching the multiple lenses of mathematics education. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Jessica is an Educational Psychology master’s student researching parental perceptions and attitudes towards adolescent substance use. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Cristina is an EdD graduate in the Faculty of Education. Her main research interest is educational leadership.

Sonja is an Educational Theory and Practice Doctoral student in the Faculty of Education whose research is focused on students from refugee backgrounds. (SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship)

Dr. Patzak completed her Educational Psychology PhD from the Faculty of Education.

Annie is an Arts Education Master's student in the Faculty of Education learning how to become a better art teacher.

Allen is an Educational Theory and Practice Doctoral student in the Faculty of Education researching on the impact of contemplative practices in post-secondary administration and how they affect infrastructure. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Juliana is a Languages, Cultures and Literacies Doctoral student in the Faculty of Education interested in the lived experiences of post-secondary international students in Canada, and how their voices can inform more socially just ways to internationalize higher education. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Magali is a Languages, Cultures, and Literacies doctoral student in the Faculty of Education researching the ways in which school-aged children and teenagers negotiate their identities and engage in creative practices with digital technologies when several languages are involved at home and in school. (SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship; President's PhD Scholarship; International Reading Association Scholarship)

Dr. Louise St. Pierre completed her PhD from the Faculty of Education.

Matthias is a Doctoral student in the Faculty of Education interested in documenting adult learners' experiences with digital access, literacy, and problem-solving in interactions with resources and services online. (SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship; President's PhD Scholarship)

Kevin is a Counselling Psychology Master's student in the Faculty of Education whose research seeks to explore how a therapist's own growth as a result of the counselling relationship can be used to support the client's growth and therapeutic outcomes. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Evelyn is a graduate diploma student in Education investigating young children's agency and capacity to self-actualize holistically.

Ilana is an Educational Theory and Practice Doctoral student in the Faculty of Education whose research focuses on innovative education characteristics and on how to support teachers in becoming innovative teachers who dare to get out of their comfort zone and explore pedagogy. (BC Graduate Scholarship & Dean's Graduate Fellowship)

Carolina is a PhD student who is interested in learning how to transfer knowledge from her body to other bodies. (SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship)

Robline is examining how online interaction create challenges to from non-dominant cultures who are enrolled in post-secondary online education. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship & NEIHR Network Doctoral Scholarship )

Dawn Marsden is a master's student enrolled in Counselling Psychology focusing on Indigenous Knowledge.

Yearin's research looks to support practitioners who work with Korean-Canadians who have a child with Autism.

Kathryn is an EdD graduate in the Faculty of Education. Her program focused on Educational Leadership.

Denise is a PhD student who is passionate in exploring holistic healing and transformation that have ensure the survival of Indigenous people throughout millennia. (BC Graduate Scholarship 2020, SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship, GPS Graduate Fellowship)

Dr. Olivia Kanna has earned her third Master's degree in Education, in Teaching English as an Additional Language.

Hadia is an Educational Technology and Learning Design Doctoral student in the Faculty of Education researching on how technology can be used in educational settings for improving the instructional/training/learning goals. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Kate is an Education Doctoral Student in the Faculty of Education whose research begins with the assumption that a cancer diagnosis enlivens the question of what it means to live well with the Earth and its multi-dimensional beings. (EDUC EdD Grad Fellowship)

Tiana is a Curriculum & Instruction (in French) master’s student, researching how to teach French, and learning about the diversity and equity intersections involved.

Sina is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology in the Faculty of Science researching how the brain controls walking under different conditions. He is a CIHR award recipient.

Dr. Alberto Lusoli completed his School of Communication PhD from the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology.

Shiyu is a Communication Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology. (Orient Star Media Graduate Scholarship in Global Communication)

Chelsea is a Digital Media Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology working on diverse projects to practice skills, such as, product management, game design and UX design. (Centre for Digital Media Scholarship)

Shauna-Kaye is a Contemporary Arts Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose research looks at situating Arts Administration as an artistic practice. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Mzwakithi is a Digital Media Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology turning nascent ideas into tangible prototypes/digital artifacts. (Centre for Digital Media Scholarship)

Nazmus is an Interactive Arts & Technology Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology studying fictions and speculations in his design research to foresee different future of possibilities. (GPS Graduate Fellowship)

Mary is a Digital Media Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose main focus is on UX design. (Gerri Sinclair Award Digital Media)

Rafael is an Interactive Arts & Technology Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose research relates to improving Artificial Intelligence algorithms for music composition and improvisation. (Graduate Fellowship)

Ying is a Digital Media master's student who has a high level of experience in producing RWD design, web apps and mobile applications.

Philippa is a Communication Doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology researching how people talk about women-led films on social media sites. (Asper Graduate Fellowship in CMNS)

Stan is an Interactive Arts and Technology Doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose research revolves around the understanding that the data used in real-world decisions is messy, incomplete, and requires an exploration of alternative interpretations. (Andrew Wade Mem Scholarship; Van Pykstra Graduate Scholarship; Presidents PhD Scholarship; SFU Big Data Graduate Scholarship)

Pearl is a Master's in Publishing student in the Faculty of Communication, Art & Technology.

Mark is a Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose research hopes to combine a thorough critique of how labour is used in North American prisons with an exploration of better solutions focused on rehabilitation first and foremost. (SSHRC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Catherine is a Communication Master's Student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose research focuses on the ways that finance has become a key part of everyday life. (SSHRC-CGS Master's Scholarship)

Homa is a Fine Arts Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art, and Technology learning new practices of making art. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Eneas is a master's student in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology. (Graduate Fellowship)

Jonas is an Interactive Arts & Technology Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology who wants to apply his knowledge in AI and Deep Learning to create and express himself. (Mitacs Globalink Fellowship)

Shaleeta is a Master's in Publishing student working to find ways to support the publishing industry. Graduate Fellowship Scholarship)

Doaa is a School of Contemporary Arts Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences exploring race and female agency in contemporary horror films, and dance as a movement to reclaim cultural identity and dismantle white supremacy within marginalized groups. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Erin is a Publishing Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology researching on zines and the zine community of the west coast of Canada as a publishing counterculture.(BC Graduate Scholarship)

Lakshmi is a School of Interactive Arts & Technology Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology researching on how visual analytics methods may serve to help people recognize patterns from large sets of collected data and reflect on their wellbeing and health-related behaviors. (Fraser Health Graduate Scholarship)

Pinyao is an Interactive Arts & Technology Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology leveraging Virtual Reality technology to foster human connection and positive emotions. (Mitacs Globalink Fellowship)

Tin is an Interdisciplinary Arts Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences researching on how to better hold space for individual and collective reflection on identity, positionality, and place. (McPhee Grad Scholarship)

Emily is a Contemporary Art Master's student in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences researching on arts integration as a foundation for social justice and decolonization in early education, with a focus on music and musical storytelling as a pedagogical tool for teaching and learning. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship)

Anthony is a Communications Doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology studying computation, computing, computers, and the worlds that surround them (SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship)

Dr. Kitson completed her School of Interactive arts & Technology PhD from the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology.

Matthew is a Digital Media Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology whose research ranges from video games to virtual reality simulations. (BC Graduate Scholarship)

Ruchika is a Digital Media Master's student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology focusing on experiential learning with projects to solve real-world problems for clients across the digital media industry like Gaming, Healthcare, Extended Reality, Entertainment. (Centre for Digital Media Scholarship)

Julian is a School of Interactive Arts and Technology Doctoral student in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology researching the nature of reality or life in a Matrix. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Tylar is an Interactive arts & Technology PhD student researching visual anthropology, media archaeology, and how humans interface with technology to create new realities. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship, SSHRC Vanier)

Medha is a clinical psychology student and a recipient of the CGS Master's Scholarship. Medha's current research focuses on examining factors contributing to the development of persistent post-concussion symptoms.

Kristina Podesva, a doctoral student in the Faculty of Contemporary Arts, shares an upcoming lecture by Dr. Ming Tiampo entitled "What it means for us to be together: Solidarity, Difficult Histories, and Planetary Futures in the work of Jin-me Yoon."

School of Communication doctoral student Woochul Kim serves on a jury for the Hinzpeter International Journalism Award.

Biftu Yousuf in Criminology and Health Sciences studied Oromo conceptions of well-being in metropolitan areas of Canada.

SFU Faculty of Education PhD candidate, Poh Tan, will speak at the Government of Canada's Global Affairs Event in collaboration with New Zealand on her STEM education research on Nov. 8 & 9. Join this conversation (it's free).

Celeste is a Biological Sciences doctoral student in the Faculty of Science examining ecosystem change through historical salmon scale pattterns and isotope analyses of harbour seal and salmon bones. (NSERC CGS Masters Scholarship)

Emmanuel is a doctoral student and a recipient of NSERC CGS-D scholarship. He is researching how parasites find their hosts and what makes one host more appealing than another.

Soroush Naeiji is a doctoral student in Mechatronic Systems Engineering finding solutions for advancing sustainable power and energy solutions.

Irfan is an interdisciplinary artist pursuing his Master of Fine Arts, and a Colin McPhee Graduate Scholarship Award recipient. Irfan explores the intersection of technology and performance with electronic instruments, feedback systems, and more.

Livia is a Languages, Cultures and Literacies Doctoral student in the Faculty of Education studying the development of identity among French immersion students in British Columbia by looking at how these students' language and accent intersects with their classroom group affiliations, and Francophone community affiliations. (GPS Graduate Fellowship)

Bonnie is a doctoral student and a recipient of the NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship-CGS D. Bonnie is researching how pollution in the lower Fraser River is affecting the health of juvenile Chinook salmon.

Bahareh is studying sustainable energy engineering with the goal of developing photovoltaic devices that people can access easily. Previously, Bahareh earned a bachelor's and master's degree in polymer engineering in Iran.

Parsa is a computing science master's student and a recipient of the SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship. Parsa studies how computer science education benefits students' critical thinking and problem solving skills.

Sharon Bond, a master's student in the Beedie School of Business, is interviewed on the Bigger Than Me Podcast about her Indigenous cuisine business, Kekuli Café.

Geography PhD student Vimbikayi Rachel Chimuka shares her video for Science.org's annual #DanceYourPhD2023 global competition.

Sean studies engineering science while competing on SFU's track and field team. He is a recipient of the CGS Master's scholarship. Currently, Sean is developing a wearable circuit that can create powerful pulses of light for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.

Mathew aims to draw parallels between Indigenous methodologies, queer theory, and 'hard' science to examine the scientific and sociopolitical impacts of HIV/AIDS particularly related to Indigenous Peoples. Biagioni Indigenous Graduate Entrance Scholarship

SFU CERi awarded Jason Proulx and Erica McAdam the Community-Engaged Graduate Scholar Award.

Rhiannon is a doctoral student of health sciences and a recipient of the CIHR CGS Doctoral award.

Tiara is a graduate student in Social Psychology who is focusing on the intersections of life transitions and pro-social behaviors on well-being outcomes. (Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship, SSHRC Vanier)

Pavel is a sociology master's student who studies sociologically inclined theoretical perspectives on the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Anderson is an engineering science doctoral student studying how artificial intelligence can capture the redundancies present in images and videos.

Steven is pursuing a doctoral degree in Chemistry studying a family of dye molecules for applications in energy storage.

Miguel is a doctoral student in the Faculty of Health Sciences. He is studying a respiratory condition called bronchiectasis that doesn't have any available treatment and causes difficulty breathing, cough, and increased pulmonary secretions.

Elena is an Archaeology Doctoral student in the Faculty of Environment planning to improve current methods for the estimation of age-at-death in unidentified skeletal remains and make sure they are more inclusive and more robust overall. (CTEF Graduate Fellowship, Jack Nance Memorial Graduate Scholarship)

Valentina is an Archaeology Doctoral student in the Faculty of Environment whose research aims to investigate ancient subadult diet and potential stigmas in sociocultural practices of postnatal care and assist throughout the Neolithic in Croatia using stable isotope analysis. (Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Lauren is an Archaeology Master's student in the Faculty of Environment studying how ancestors of the Xwisten band in interior British Columbia may have changed how they hunted deer during a time of subsistence stress around 1300 years ago by using ancient DNA. (Graduate Fellowship, Dr. Jack Nance Memorial Scholarship and the Canadian Pacific/Teck Resources Award)

Spencer is a Doctoral student in the Faculty of Environment whose research is about telling the story of a sacred watershed in Gitga'at Territory through several lenses. (Graduate Student Support from Dr. Charlotte Loppie, Public Health and Social Policy, CTEF Graduate Fellowship, Graduate Fellowship)

Dr. Dennis Yu Liu completed his PhD in the Department of Chemistry where he developed an assay to study vulnerabilities unique to drug-resistant bacteria and discovered new bioactive compounds that specifically target these bacteria and can act in combination with major antibiotics to suppress the emergence of drug resistance.

Dr. Miranda Louwerse completed her PhD in the Department of Chemistry where her research resulted in her creating a novel theory that provides a quantitative perspective on the concept of the “reaction coordinate” that is central to chemical reaction theory.

Dr. Natalie Frandsen completed her PhD in the Faculty of Education where she researched accessible and inclusive education for post-secondary students with mental-health-related disabilities who are undertaking their studies online.

Dr. Hilda Fernandez-Alvarez completed her Geography PhD in the Faculty of Environment where her research looked into the challenges of providing trauma services, demonstrating that community practices supporting mental health are limiting the ability to support people’s psychological and social needs.

Dr. Suk Kyoung Choi completed her PhD in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology where she used artificial intelligence to examine the displacement of embodiment by technology and the implications of that displacement for the development of human-centered AI.

Dr. Tanya Behrisch completed her PhD in the Faculty of Education where she focused on how mastery relates to strangeness—that is, anything we encounter as threatening or uncertain.

Dr. Natalie Kinloch completed her PhD in the Faculty of Health Sciences where her work in understanding HIV genetic diversity led to improvements for a gold-standard test for measuring HIV in infected individuals.

Melennia Point completed her master's degree in the Beedie School of Business in the Indigenous Business Leadership Executive MBA program.

Sanam is a doctoral Sstudent in the department of Biology studying disease transmission in bed bugs.

Tiara Cash completed her master's degree in the Department of Psychology where she researched the relationship between life transitions and everyday acts of kindness as a strategy for boosting well-being in first-year university students.

Dr. Xiaolin Sun completed her PhD in the Department of Economics where she explored the mechanisms behind social programs, for instance, investigating the effects of electricity grids on employment and healthcare programs on expenditure to demonstrated the power of econometrics in comprehending intricate systems and informing evidence-based decision-making.

Dr. Lovedeep Gondara completed his PhD in the School of Computing Science in the Faculty of Applied Sciences working on enhancing machine learning performance while using decentralized data and ensuring that data privacy is intact

Dr. Hyomin Choi completed his PhD in the School of Engineering Science in the Faculty of Applied Sciences where his pioneering work is being adopted as international standards in the field of AI-based video compression.

Michael is a Biology Doctoral student in the Faculty of Science studying the change in numbers and diversity of wild salmon in British Columbia over the last century by reading the individual and collective stories bound within the scales of fish extracted from fisheries. (Weston Family Scholarship)

Em is a doctoral student in biology and is focused on the role of marine animal in recycling nutrients. [NSERC CGS-D (2023), NSERC CGS-M (2020), and BC Graduate Scholarship (2020)]

Amirhossein is a doctoral student in Computing Sciences researching power of computers to help fight diseases more effectively.

Ali is a doctoral student in Computing Sciences seeking to improve the accuracy and trustworthiness of machine learning methods for using AI in precision medicine

Troy Boucher is a doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology program. He is in the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Lab (ADDL) conducting research in autism and intellectual disability across the lifespan.(Vanier scholarship, Robert Russell Family First Nations Graduate Scholarship, Dean’s Graduate Fellowship, BC Graduate Scholarship, and SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship)

Brett is a doctoral student in the School of Interactive Art & Technology and his research looks at how documentarians can use artificial intelligence within their work to help others build critical literacy around artificial intelligence. (Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship)

Vimbikayi is a doctoral student in Geography in the Faculty of Environment analyzing how the climate system responds to equal amounts of emissions and removals of CO2, and quantifies the extent to which the land carbon responses to emissions and removals differ. (Vanier CGS, Graduate Dean Entrance Scholarship)

Stella is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography studying elements that contribute to the conduciveness of an environment for running and how privilege influences patterns in participation. (Vanier CGS)

Normand is a doctoral student in Biomedical Physiology & Kinesiology researching female cardiovascular systems in different types of exercise scenarios. (Vanier CGS, Dean's Graduate Fellowship and BC Graduate Scholarship)

Caitlin Courchesne is a doctoral student in SFU’s Clinical Psychology researching mental health interventions for adults with persisting post-concussion symptoms. (SSHRC doctoral fellowship; Kruger Products Bicultural entrance fellowship, BC graduate scholarship, and Dean's graduate fellowship)

Ghazal is an MFA student Interdisciplinary Arts working with virtual and augmented reality to reflect on some personal and existential subject matters. (Graduate fellowship award and the Research and Travel award)

Dana Graham Lai is a PhD student in the Department of English using interdisciplinary methods of literary criticism applied to eighteenth and nineteenth-century Scottish women’s writing. (SSHRC-CGS doctoral award, David and Mary Macaree Graduate Fellowship)

Sabrina is a doctoral student in Educational Theory & Practice: Curriculum & Pedagogy Stream. Her research focuses on decolonization through the lens of vocational education. (SSHRC Doctoral)

Neethu is a postdoctoral fellow at the Beedie School of Business. She is an ethnographer who specializes in Economic Sociology, Gender, and Indigenous Studies.