Watch past finalists and winners here.
First Place Winner:
Elana Varner - Biological Sciences PhD student
A bumblebee nest-site roadmap: The saving grace of mouse pee?
People's Choice Winner:
Kady Tishyadhigama - Health Sciences PhD student
Stop the Spread
Benjamin Aloi - School of Public Policy MPP student
Enhancing Consumer Choice and Competition in American Beer Markets: An Analysis of Vertical Restraints on Craft Brewer Entry and Growth
Tania Bakas - Education master's student
Lived Experiences of Perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda who have Engaged in Action-Based Psychosocial Reconciliation
Kari Gustafson - Educational Theory and Practice Philosophy of Education stream student
All kinds of orcs: Roleplaying games and collaborative, emergent storytelling
Corinne Henderson - Political Science master's student
Tones and topics: the role of gender and race in the media coverage of political candidates
Emma Jones - Archaeology master's student
Repossessing the Past: Chinook Archaeological Heritage and Stewardship at Tansy Point, Oregon
Aaron Thien - Biological Sciences master's student
How to Kill a Monster
First Place and People's Choice Winner:
Elana Varner - Biological Sciences master's student
Sex appeal of mouse pee safeguards wildlife
Saaed Ranjbar Alvar - Engineering Science PhD student
Privacy Preserving Face Detection
Second Place Winner:
Hannah Watkins - Biological Sciences master's student
Vitamin Pee for a Healthy Sea
Manpreet Kaur - Mechatronics Systems Engineering PhD student
3D Architecture Revolutionizes Robot Design
Emily Purcell - Archaeology master's student
Revealing Past Sts'ailes Landscapes Through the Microscope
Noortje de Weers - Linguistics PhD student
How Expectations and Biases Change How We Perceive Speech
Andrea Smit - Psychology PhD student
Illuminating Sleep in the Dark: The Relationship Between Electric Light and Sleep on Tanna Island, Vanuatu
Alison Butler - Public Policy master's student
Room to grow: Building better rental stock for Vancouver families
Allison Carter - Health Sciences doctoral student
Desires embraced: A critical analysis of sex, love, and relationships among women living with HIV
Shaun Fickling - Engineering Science doctoral student
Brain vital signs after concussions
Ankit Gupta - Interactive Arts and Technology doctoral student
How can wearable technology support self-management of Arthritis?
Danielle Hoefele - Biological Sciences master’s student
European fire ant foraging and communication
Michelle La - Sociology & Antrhopology master's student
Sneakerheads and their practices of trading
Brea McCauley - Archaeology master's student
Ritualized Finger Amputation in the Classic Maya
Gioachino Roberti - Earth Sciences doctoral student
Volcanoes in a changing climate
April Wang - Computing Sciences master’s student
How modern learning resources fail conversational programmers
Matthea Wiebe - Archaeology master's student
Exploring Neanderthal Fire-Starting technologies through microarchaeology
Gopa Caesar - Communication
The Lost Lore of Partition
Shera Fisk - Archaeology
The Differential Effects of Environmental Factors on Immature and Mature Bone Degradation: A Controlled Experiment Using Pig (Sus scrofa) Skeletal Remains
Maggie Cascadden - Resource & Environmental Management
Best Practices for Impact Benefit Agreements
Alexandra Kasper - Physics
Work-Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs in Molecular Machines
Vienna Chichi Lam - Criminology
Lacustrine Taphonomy: A Forensic Histological Examination of Skeletal Changes in a Freshwater Lake
Julia Mazurchuk - Public Policy
A Fragmented Net: Supporting At-Risk Families in BC
Alexandra Pulwicki - Earth Science
Tracking Snow on Glaciers
Emily Ross - Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology
Text Messaging to Help Support Heart Disease Patients Post-Discharge from the Hospital
Cecilia Sierra-Heredia - Health Sciences
Climate change, pollen and the development of asthma
Louise Thomas - Mechatronic Systems Engineering
Manual wheelchair stability and maneuverability with adjustments to seating configurations
Alexander Thumm - Urban Studies
Strategically Planning for Parking: The Case of Laneway Houses
David Yin - Engineering Science
Detection of Low Concentration Ammonia Gas Using Differential Laser Induced Fluorescence
Nezam Alavi - Engineering Science
Arm Rehabilitation Robotic System
Hannah Celinski - English
Reading Dance Technique through Technology
Travis Crowell - Archaeology
Follow the Shore: Refining Local Sea-Level Histories through Settlement Change in Waiatt and Kanish Bays, Quadra Island, BC
Lee Beavington - Education
Scientific Ethics and Outdoor Education
Heather Coatsworth - Biology
Going Viral: Can We Stop Dengue Transmission?
Amanmeet Garg - Engineering Science
Imaging Biomarkers for neurodegenerative disorders
Mara Katz - Linguistics
Politeness Theory and a New Classification of English Speech Acts
Leah Kelley - Public Policy
Embodied Injustice: Policies to Address Self-Injury among Low-income women Aged 35–49 in Alberta
Alexandra Kitson - Interactive Arts and Technology
The Functional Significance of Vection
Daniel Peach - Biology
Floral Foraging Ecology of Mosquitoes
Kimberly Nickel - Education
Professional Goalkeeper: The Criminal Justice Practica Supervisor
Teresa Rosales Ramirez - Earth Sciences
Characterizing contamination risk in the surface/shallow subsurface zone due to spills of wastewater from shale gas activities
Aateka Shashank - Geography
Walkability in Metro Vancouver
Qinwen Yu - Communication
How Canada Views the Rise of China
Senay Cebioglu - Psychology
Becoming Human - Developing Self-Awareness
Karen Cochrane - Interactive Arts and Technology
Wearable Technology for Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
Emanuela Mileva - Linguistics
Getting to Know Your Patient - Talk in Alternative Medicine Sessions as a Blend of Mainstream Medicine and Psychotherapy
Thea Rutherford - Education
Wandering as Metaphor and Practice in Teaching and Learning
Jeremy Chiu - Mathematics
Thermoregulation of Swarming Honeybees
Amir Maravandi - Mechatronic Systems Engineering
Regenerative Shock Absorber
Antonia Musso - Biology
Building a Better Mouse Trap - Reduction of trap box neophobia in house mouse with use of urine derived semiochemicals
Laura Spake - Archaeology
Selecting an Appropriate Reference Population for Age Estimation of Juveniles in a Forensic Context
Evgeny Vinnik - Computing Science
Mobile Application to Detect Falls
Ming Hui Yu - Business Administration
Automated Generation of Classical Chinese Poetry
Bekka Brodie - Biology
Multi-modal Foraging and Communication in Blow Flies
Aviva Finkelstein - Archaeology
Trace Elements in Human Skeletal Remains: Determining Place Origin Through Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) Analysis
Allison Cornell - Biology
Predictive Cues and Fitness Consequences of Breeding Phenology
Vanessa Kong - Communication
Designing Better Public Washrooms for Our City
Honghua Li - Computing Science
Shape Compaction: 3D Shape Optimization for Space Saving
Irina Presnyakova - Linguistics
Vancouver English
Deanna Rexe - Education
The Political Economy of Tuition Policy Formation in Canada
Angie Natingor - Public Policy
Supporting Informal End-of-Life Caregivers in British Columbia
Pradeep Reddy Raamana - Biomedical Engineering
Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease
Dominic Trevisan - Education
Adjustment Difficulties Among Undergraduates: The importance of Social Communication
Daniel Feuereissen - Interactive Arts and Technology
Active, User-generated Motion-Cueing Facilitates Self-Motion Perception (Vection) in Mediated Environments
Krystal Guo - Mathematics
Spectra of Digraphs
Mike Henrey - Engineering
Sticking in Space: Robots with gecko-inspired adhesive feet
Mary Ann Middleton - Earth Sciences
Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions
Michael Peabody - Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Towards Improved Monitoring of Watershed Health Through Identification of Microbial Markers
Andrea Smit - Psychology
Chronotype and Academic Performance in University Students
Blake Byron Walker - Geography
Spatial-Temporal Dimensions of Violent Injury in Urban Environments
Shruti Menon - Engineering
Electronic Detection of Bacteria
Amin Nouri - Chemistry
Nanostructured Platinum Catalysts for Fuel Cells
Britta Ricker - Geography
Collecting and Geovisualizing Trauma Surveillance Data for Injury Prevention Using Mobile Computers in Cape Town, South Africa
Mina Soltangheis - Interactive Arts and Technology
Designing a time visualization for CZSaw a visual analytic tool
Nick Zap - Education
Making Sense of Nonsense
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