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Congratulations to the Undergraduate Research Dissemination Fund (URDF) winners! The URDF awards aim to enhance engagement between undergraduate students and their research through travel and other ventures. See program guidelines and submission requirements for more information on how you can qualify.
Winter 2026 Award Recipients
| Student | Investigator | Project/Event | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rafaelle Penas | Elaine Ori | Exercise misinformation and TikTok: An application of the FLICC Framework | $1,500 |
| Cadence Norn | Arianne Boileau | 58th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association/51st Archaeological Society of Alberta Conference (Canmore, AB) | |
| Rylie LaBoret | Jonathan Mee | Annual Conference for the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution | $1,500 |
| Julia Swallow, Jay Hinkler, Alisha Bagshaw | Monica Pauls | 2026 Child and Youth Care World Conference | |
| Julia Trieu | Cheryl Techentin | Influence of Environmental Lighting on Cognitive Function |
$1,500 |
| Iris Sinani | Rebecca Gilmour | Illuminating the Lives of Roman Civilians: Examining Status through Grave Construction in Carnuntum, Austria |
$1,500 |
| MacKenna Cook | Cass Foursha-Stevenson | From Observation to Action: The Effect of Embodied versus Non-Embodied Actions on Novel Word-Pair Learning | $1,500 |
| Hannah Yusef | Jared Fletcher | 10th World Congress of Biomechanics | $1,500 |
| Elaine Lamoureux | Nausheen Sadiq | 68th International Conference on Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy (ICASS) | $1,500 |
| Kaiah Ritchie | Sarah Orton | Expression of Vitamin D Super Enhancer Target Genes in Myopathy Patients: A Case-Control Pilot Study | $1,500 |
| Khristianne Ermino | Jonathan Mee | Conservation Research and Conservation Action: Is there a mismatch between what counts and what matters? | $1,500 |
| Lina Yu | Jared Fletcher | 10th World Congress of Biomechanics | $1,500 |
| Student | Investigator | Project/Event | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avery Follet | Leah Hamilton | Exploring Gender Euphoria through Arts-Based Research with Trans, Intersex, and Gender Diverse Youth and Their Caregivers. Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC) Summit 2025, Montreal, QC | $1,500 |
| Paige Fell Kadin Lough-Morelli |
Trevor King | Okanagan Cardiovascular and Respiratory Symposium presentations: Can resistance exercise prepare our arteries for a bout of mental stress? | $3,000 |
| Toka Hassan | Said Baadel | Leveraging ML to Transform Febrile Disease Diagnosis in Resource-Limited and Vulnerable African Countries. International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence (ICAAI 2025), Manchester, UK |
$1,500 |
| Angelo Lozancic | Leda Stawnychko | ERA Annual Meeting 2026 (April 8th to 12th, San Francisco, California) |
$1,500 |
| Veronica Rodriguez Aaron Phillips Ruiz |
Chi Dara | From EPD to Design Decisions: Digital Material Library to Product Specifications for Interior Design Education. Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) Conference, Illinois, Chicago | $3,000 |
| Student | Investigator | Project/Event | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samuel Trepac | Yasaman Amannejad | IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2025 | $1,500 |
| Caden Albright | Jeella Acedo | Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC 2025) | $1,500 |
| Kieran Mounce-McKinney | Dylan Webb | Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC 2025) |
$1,500 |
| Sama Ghods | Nick Strzalkowski | Alberta Motor Control Conference (NeuroHike) |
$1,500 |
| Dawson Sheehan | Jared Fletcher | CSEP 2025 | $1,500 |
| Meagan Campsall | Michele Wellsby | Connecting Minds Undergraduate Research Conference in Psychology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University | $1,500 |
| Samantha Brian | Ashok Krishnamurthy | Canadian Statistics Student Conference (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) | $1,500 |
| Xena Al-Hejji | Eric Chalmers | Canadian Association for Neuroscience (Toronto, ON, Canada) | $1,500 |
| Student | Investigator | Project/Event | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alyssa Landeta | Khosro Salmani | The 17th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS – 2024) in Montreal | $1,500 |
| Emma Gardener |
Laura Atkinson |
American Physiology Summit 2024 (Baltimore, Maryland) |
$1,500 |
| Christine Pendleton | Michelle DeWolfe | New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, Penobscot Bay, Maine |
$1,500 |
| Nicole Bushfiled | Trevor Day | International Hypoxia Symposium 2025 |
$1,500 |
|
Santina Duarte |
Trevor Day |
APS Summit 2025 |
$1,500 |
|
Jasmyn O'Farrell |
Karen Ho |
2024 SoTL Symposium, Banff, Alberta |
$1,500 |
| Robyn Deschamps | Joshua Hill | 2024 SoTL Symposium, Banff, Alberta | $1,500 |
Standard Grants
| Student | Investigator | Project/Event | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caden Albright | Jeella Acedo | Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition 2024 | $1,500 |
| Birhan Gezahegn | Nausheen Sadiq | 66th International Conference on Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy (ICASS) |
$1,500 |
| Claire Mason | Malinda Desjarlais | CPA2024 (annual Canadian Psychological Association) Convention, Ottawa |
$1,500 |
| Tobias Wondwossen | Ashok Krishnamurthy | GEOMED 2024 | $1,500 |
| Grace Pigott | Jonathan Mee | Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE) |
$1,500 |
| Natalie McCallum |
April McGrath |
EQuiP24: Association of European Qualitative Researchers in Psychology 2024 Conference |
$1,500 |
| Katherine Rodger | Evelyn Field | Canadian Sex Research Forum Conference: The Impact of Social Chatbot Use on Users' Human Relationships | $1,500 |
| Hayl Balla | Janet Miller | University of Leeds Disability Justice Conference | $1,500 |
Team Grants
| Students | Investigator | Project/Event | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Grace Blott Kayla Praill |
Rebecca Gilmour | Canadian Association for Biological Anthropology Annual Conference, London, Ontario |
$3,000 |
|
Madison Smith Aimee Williams |
Nausheen Sadiq | 66th International Conference on Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy (ICASS) |
$3,000 |
|
Erika Smith Linh Bui Emma Duke |
Richard Hayman | Congress 2024 (OTESSA and CSSHE) |
$3,000 |
| Students | Investigator | Project/Event | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Myer | Ashok Krishnamurthy | National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Long Beach, California, USA | $1,500 |
| Morgan Payette | Charlotte Curtis | AAAI-24 (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) |
$1,500 |
| Nicole Johnson | Trevor Day | American Physiology Summit 2024 (Long Beach, California) |
$1,500 |
| Angela Faye Galeos | Trevor Day | American Physiology Summit 2024 (Long Beach, California) | $1,500 |
| Vanessa Sandoval | Cass Foursha-Stevenson | 2024 APS Annual Convention, San Francisco, California, USA |
$1,500 |
|
Students |
Investigator | Project/Event | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tejas Gill | Bret McCollum | 2023 Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC 2023) held in Vancouver | $1,500 |
| Julia Sampang | Jeella Acedo | Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CCCE 2023) in Vancouver - Production and Characterization of a Novel Bacteriocin from Streptococcus Mitis |
$1,500 |
| Jason Oliemans | Jared Fletcher | American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting and World Congress. Denver, Colorado Lower Extremity Muscle Activation In Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome |
$1,500 |
| Donald Golden | Jared Fletcher | Considerations of Muscle Quality and Architecture in Relation to Muscle weakness in Hypermobility-Related Disorders | $1,500 |
| Kara Woodley | Yaw Asante | Decolonizing the African Judicial System: Finding a Future through Rwanda's Gacaca |
$1,500 |
| Rene Tremblay | Cass Fourshua-Stevenson | International Symposium on Bilingualism- Australia The Impact of Cross-Linguistic Influence on Metalinguistic Awareness | $1,500 |
| Nadezda Kolesnikova | Alain Morin | Theory-of-Mind, Self-Reflection, Self-Rumination, and Inner Speech | $1,500 |
| Mary Ma | Yaw Asante | Fragmentation and Restoration: Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah. | $1,500 |
| Luong Yen | Karen Ho | Implementing Diverse Continuous Reflective Strategies in Large General Chemistry II Lab | $1,500 |
Team Grants
| Students | Investigator | Project/Event | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Zafina Budhwani Jenna Buragina |
Jeella Acedo | Characterization of a Novel Antimicrobial Peptide from Bacillus Wiedmannii |
$3,000 |
Standard Grants
| Students | Investigator | Project/Event | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natalie Hoa | Monica Pauls | 2022 Symposium for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning | $1,500 |
| Spencer Skaper | Jared Fletcher | Report Back to the Tucamo Community on Design for Peace and Reconciliation Exhibitions | $1,500 |
Standard Grants
| Students | Investigator | Project/Event | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Bennett | Jared Fletcher | North American Congress on Biomechanics | $1,500 |
| Rene Tremblay | Cass Foursha-Stevenson | The 8th Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition. Abo Akademi University Turku, Finland. | $1,500 |
| Madeline Scarlett | Karen Manarin |
Gothic Interruptions: 16th International Gothic Association Conference--Trinity College Dublin, Ireland English Nationalism and Xenophobia in 'Eliza, or the Unhappy Nun' |
$1,500 |
| Jack Jin | Jared Fletcher | The International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine- Boston, USA | $1,500 |
| Crytsal Wai | Ashok Krishnamurthy | FOSS4G 2022, held in Firenze, Italy | $1,500 |
Team Grants
| Students | Investigator | Project/Event | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Donald Golden Jason Oliemans |
Jared Fletcher | Active and Passive Force-Length Relations in Joint Hypermobility Syndrome | $3,000 |
|
Sahara Smith Catharina Venter |
Karen Ho | Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE)at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana | $3,000 |
| Students | Investigator | Project/Event | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connie Rediron | Harpreet Aulakh | Indigenous Offenders in Canada's Correctional System | $1,500 |
| Jillian Mah | Milena Radzikowska | Report Back to the Tucamo Community on Design for Peace and Reconciliation Exhibitions | $1,500 |
Standard Grants (Oral Presentation)
| Student | Investigator | Project | Event | Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hannah Storrs | Erika Smith and Richard Hayman | An Analysis of Undergraduate Students' Anonymous Online Confessions | Research Application, Information and Library Studies (Melbourne, Australia) | $1,500 |
| Jillian Bear Chief | Andrea Kennedy | Reconciliation in Research through Collaborative Knowledge Mobilization with Indigenous Elders | IAFOR International Conference on Education (Honolulu, Hawaii) | $1,500 |
| Andrea Heron | Janet Miller and Michelle Pidgeon | Indigenous Women's Stories of Journeying through University towards their Career | 17th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education (Honolulu, Hawaii) | $1,500 |
Standard Grants (Poster)
| Student | Investigator | Project | Event | Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin-Fafard Shelby | Michelle DeWolfe | Lithostratigraphy of the Sunset Rhyolite, Beaulieu belt, Slave Province | Yellowknife Geoscience Forum | $1,500 |
| McKinnon Murdoch | Ashok Krishnamurthy and Michael Wendlandt | Spatial Data Assimilation for Measles in Pre-vaccine England and Wales | Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatics 2019 (National Student Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario) | $1,500 |
Team Grant (Poster)
| Student | Investigator | Project | Event | Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juhene Khalil and Hannah Grewal | Karen Ho and Christopher Lovallo | Modifying Water Analysis Protocol using Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (AA) and Ion Chromatography (IC) for Analytical Chemistry 2 Laboratory | 257th ACS National Meeting and Exposition: Chemistry for New Frontiers (Orlando, Florida) | $3,00 |
Standard Grants
| Students | Investigator | Project/Event | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hannah Storrs | James Taylor | Predicting Daily Depression from Prior Anxiety and Depression: A 21-Day Study | $1,500 |
| Bailey McCafferty | Leah Hamilton and James Taylor | The Stereotype Advantage: How Perceived Outgroup Warmth Affects the Relation Between Perspective-Taking and Helping Intentions | $1,500 |
| Regan Fossen | Mohammed El Hazzouri and Kelley Main | ASAC Research Conference | $1,500 |
Team Grant (Poster)
| Students | Investigator | Project | Event | Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellie Campbell and Sarina Falcione | Brett McCollum | Emergence of Different Perspectives of Success in Collaborative Learning | BCCE 2018 (University of Notre Dame) | $3,000 |
Standard Grants
| Student | Investigator | Project/Event | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shaelynn Zouboules | Trevor Day | 3rd Okanagan Cardiovascular and Respiratory Symposium being held by the Centre for Heart, Lung and Vascular Health (Silver Star Mountain Resort, British Columbia, Canada) | $1,500 |
| Sally Vos | April McGrath | 2018 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention | $1,500 |
Standard Grants
| Student | Investigator | Project/Event | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gagan Kailey | April McGrath | 2017 Canadian Psychological Association National Convention | $1,500 |
| Cameron Egler | Brett McCollum | 253rd American Chemical Society: National Meeting and Exposition | $1,500 |
| Brandon Shokoples | Brett McCollum | 2017 Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference | $1,500 |
| Darlene Skagen | Brett McCollum | Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference: Interplay Between Relationships and the Flipped Classroom | $1,500 |
| Jennifer Flood | Carol Armstrong | The Society for Research on Cerebellum & Ataxia 8th International Symposium | $1,500 |
| Zachary Nurcombe | Carol Armstrong | The Society for Research on Cerebellum & Ataxia 8th International Symposium | $1,500 |
| Chelsey Creller | Cathy Carter-Snell | The International Conference of Forensic Nursing Science and Practice | $1,500 |
| Andrew Vespa | Melanie Rathburn and Roberta Lexier | 2017 International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Conference | $1,500 |
| Jorden Dye | Connie Van der Byl | Administrative Sciences Association of Canada 2017 Conference | $1,500 |
| Samantha Tippe | Peter Ryan | Illuminate: The 2017 Canadian Public Relations Society National Summit | $1,500 |
| Anja Meier | Leah Hamilton | 2017 Canadian Psychological Association National Convention | $1,500 |
Team Grant
| Student | Investigator | Project/Event | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hailey Lafave and Robyn Madden | Jill Parnell | Canadian Nutrition Society Conference | $1,500 |