Updated: April 2024
2024 Competition:
| Award | Student Name | Department | Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTEA-HLS | Jacob Burek | Biology | Behavioural and Molecular Characterization of Acquired Pain Sensitization in Mice |
| UTEA-HLS | Kelly Cheung | Psychology | Investigating Handling Stress on C-fos Protein Expression in Larval Zebrafish |
| UTEA-HLS | Tarkan Dahi | Psychology and Biology | Role of Histone H2A Variant macroH2A1.1 in Alzheimer’s Disease |
| UTEA-HLS | Maryam Fazili | Psychology | The Role of Dopamine in the Cingulate Cortex for Modulating Pain and Anxiety |
| UTEA-HLS | Ruitong Li | Biology | The Retinotopy of Cortical Modulation of Visual Innate Behavior OKR |
| UTEA-HLS | Brooke Lim | Psychology | Temporal Tuning of Binocular Motion Integration |
| UTEA-HLS | Amanda Jani | Biology and Psychology | Psychobiological Pathways to Explain Sex and Gender Differences in the Rates of Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Among Police Officers |
| UTEA-HLS | Laura Neira | Psychology and Biology | H2A.Z Regulates Antioxidant Response in Alzheimer’s Disease |
| UTEA-HLS | Laiba Paker | Psychology and Biology | Brain Structure of Transgender Adolescents |
| UTEA-HLS | Anh Tran | Psychology | Social, Cognitive, and Psychological Well-Being Aspects of Child Gender Development |
| UTEA-NSE | Adil Billah | CPS | Generative Models for Intrinsically Disordered Proteins |
| UTEA-NSE | Logan A. Blaskie | CPS | Quantum Chemistry and Machine Learning for Predicting Chemical Reactivity |
| UTEA-NSE | Hannah Semb Rognan | Language Studies | The Typology of Syn-Expression |
| UTEA-NSE | Ruiting Chen | Computer Science | Continual Learning of Changing Dynamics for Controlling Autonomous Boats |
| UTEA-NSE | Christina De Melo | Biology | Growth, Xylem Anatomy, and Hydraulic Function of White Spruce in Response to Environmental Stress |
| UTEA-NSE | Gurveen Dhillon | CPS | Novel in-situ Labelling Strategies for Single-Molecule Imaging of GPCRs and G Proteins in Live Cells |
| UTEA-NSE | Silvia Guidi | Psychology | Measuring Visual Search Efficiency Through Wordsearches |
| UTEA-NSE | Mumtaz Hajjo Alrifai | Biology | Statistical Modeling and Prediction of Neclear Localization Sequences in Intrinsically Disordered Regions Using Evolutionary Contrasting |
| UTEA-NSE | Aleeza Khan | CPS | Biochemical and Biophysical Studies of Disease Mutations in the SUR, the Regulatory Subunit in KATP Channels |
| UTEA-NSE | Keonho Lee | Biology | Probing the Plant Immune System for Novel Resistance to Bacterial Effectors |
| UTEA-NSE | Shaopeng Lin | Computer and Mathematical Sciences | Demonstrating Rowhammer Attack Vulnerability on GPUs |
| UTEA-NSE | Sophia MacKeigan | Psychology | Spoken Language Development in Diverse Contexts |
| UTEA-NSE | Gauri Menon | Biology | Characterizing Genomic Structural Variants in Trifolium Repens, and Their Role in Adaptation to Environmental Stress Adaptation to Environmental Stress |
| UTEA-NSE | Imanuel Arie Sirupa | CPS | Sea ice dynamics along Nares Strait |
| UTEA-NSE | Ryan Siu | GGE | Ecosystem Mapping using UAV-Based Imaging |
| UTEA-NSE | Jenny (Hye) Sung | Psychology | Can Enrichment Ameliorate Embryonic Alcohol Exposure Induced Behavioral Impairments in Zebrafish? |
| UTEA-NSE | Xiaokun Wei | MCS | Planar Lattice Models of Statistical Physics at Criticality |
| UTEA-NSE | Kaitian Zheng | MCS | Learning from Demonstration of Soft-Material Robotic Cutting |
| UTEA-SSH | Ienas Abdulaziz | Anthropology | Marginalized Mystical Voices in the World of Islam |
| UTEA-SSH | Maria Jose Amaya Varela | Economics | Market Incentives and College Admissions in the Absence of Standardized Tests |
| UTEA-SSH | Hania Amir | Forensic Science | Giving Voice: Collaborating with Racialized Canadian Students to Understand Their Personality Development and Promote Well-Being During Their University Years |
| UTEA-SSH | Loridee De Villa | Psychology | Examining Non-verbal Behaviours Related to Perceived Social Roles in Police Officers During De-escalation Attempts at Citizen Protests |
| UTEA-SSH | Efemena Eghujovbo | Sociology | Examining Equity Diversity and Inclusion in Canadian Geography |
| UTEA-SSH | Talla Enaya | ICCIT | How Students Think with and about Generative AI to Support Text Design |
| UTEA-SSH | Reem Idris | Psychology | Surprise, Surprise – How Musical Surprises Might Benefit Language Learning in Children |
| UTEA-SSH | Ekaterina Kalugina | Cell and System Biology | Oppressed Muslim Minorities in the Former Soviet Union |
| UTEA-SSH | Katya Lee | Philosophy | Confabulations in Large Language Models |
| UTEA-SSH | Liam McFadden | Language Studies | Artificial Language Learning of Iconic Sound Patterns |
| UTEA-SSH | Aisha Mir | Anthropology | Changing World Changing Sleep |
| UTEA-SSH | Diana R. Moldovanu | English & Drama | Margaret Cavendish's Books: Textual Bibliography and Critical Editing |
| UTEA-SSH | Wardah Nadeem | Psychology | Exploring Monolingual and Bilingual Infants’ Reaction to Unfamiliar Languages |
| UTEA-SSH | Selen Onculoglu | Political Science | Do Racialized Candidates Still Receive Less Votes? |
| UTEA-SSH | Sierra Pearce | Historical Studies | A Letter from a Teenaged Queen: Margaret Tudor’s Correspondence with Henry VII in 1503 |
| UTEA-SSH | Leena Saleh | Historical Studies | A Herald’s Account and an Ambassador’s Report on the Marriage of Margaret Tudor to James IV, King of Scots |
| UTEA-SSH | Hiya Singh | GGE | Biodiversity Conservation in Diverse Landscapes |
| UTEA-SSH | Saghar Tavakoli | Psychology | Conveying Emotions in Speech vs Song |
| UTEA-SSH | Clarice Manggalani Wu | ICCIT | Measurement of Environmental Fidelity in Social VR |
| UTEA-SSH | Yufei Yang | ICCIT | Perception of Affordances in Social VR |
2023 Competition:
| Award | Student Name | Department | Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTEA-HLS | Tarkan Dahi | Biology | Role of MacroH2A1 Splice Isoforms in Alzheimer’s Disease |
| UTEA-HLS | Loridee De Villa | Biology | Mapping Long-Range Connectivity of Brainstem Circuits Underlying Innate Ocular Behaviors |
| UTEA-HLS | Patrick Fahim | Biology and Psychology | Autonomic Modulation Training and Heart Rate Variability in a Sample of Police Officers |
| UTEA-HLS | Amirah Farooq | Psychology | Title of Proposed Research Project: Social Control of Pain Circuits |
| UTEA-HLS | Celina Micaela Javier | Psychology | Brain Structure in Transgender Adolescents |
| UTEA-HLS | Maryam Qayyum | Biology | Testing a Functional Role for Corticotropin Releasing Hormone Binding Protein in Socially-Mediated Reproductive Suppression |
| UTEA-HLS | Matthew Rykaczewski | Biology | Investigating the Role of Ubiquitin Ligases in Epilepsy |
| UTEA-HLS | Joaquin San Agustin | Psychology | Epigenetic Control of Individual Differences in Social Phenotype |
| UTEA-HLS | Yaqi (Guoria) Sun | Biology and CPS | The Role of the Phospholipid, PIP2, as a Biased Allosteric Modulator in GPCR Signaling |
| UTEA-HLS | Evelina Tronina | Biology | Uncovering Disease Causing Mutations in the Marinesco-Sjogren Syndrome Gene SIL1 |
| UTEA-HLS | Yiqi Zhang | Biochemistry | New Biosynthetic Strategies for the Uniform Incorporation of Methyl-Tryptophan into Receptors |
| UTEA-NSE | Amber Akbar | Biology | Investigating the Role of Beta-Arrestins in Circadian Timekeeping |
| UTEA-NSE | Sophia Alonzi | CPS | Development of Bioanalytical Technologies for Protein Detection |
| UTEA-NSE | Keerath Bhachu | Biology | Tissue Specific Expression of Hydrogen Cyanide Defences in Trifolium Repens |
| UTEA-NSE | Meyha Chhatwal | Psychology | Spontaneous Synchronization with Periodic Signals |
| UTEA-NSE | Christina De Melo | Biology | Growth, Xylem Anatomy, and Hydraulic Function of White Spruce in Response to Environmental Stress |
| UTEA-NSE | Christabel Faylinn | CPS | Elimination of Microbial Biofilms with Light Activation |
| UTEA-NSE | Aaron Goidel | MCS and Language Studies | Computing Linguistic Diversity |
| UTEA-NSE | Sana Hashim | GGE | Using remote sensing and ground observations to rapidly assess legacy pit restoration success |
| UTEA-NSE | Andrew Magnuson | Engineering Science | Safety Guarantees in Imitation Learning with Neural Networks |
| UTEA-NSE | Sheraz Nadeem | Biology | Understanding of the Roles of Epigenetic Regulatory Protein Using Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Motor |
| UTEA-NSE | Tian Qin Tan | Engineering Science | Sim2Real Reinforcement Learning with a 7 Degree of Freedom Robot |
| UTEA-NSE | Ryan Unrau | CPS and MCS | Staying Focused: A Focal Drift Adjustment System for TIRF Microscopy |
| UTEA-NSE | Victoria Valeeve | MCS | Epidemic Models Built on Random Walks |
| UTEA-NSE | Veronica Venditti | Psychology | igating Episodic Memory in German Ram Cichlids |
| UTEA-NSE | Rami Younis | CPS | Dark Dynamic Therapy: Producing Reactive Oxygen Species by Chemiexcitation |
| UTEA-SSH | Ienas Abdulaziz | Forensic Science | Esoteric Interpretation (Ta’wil) and Philosophy in Islam |
| UTEA-SSH | Jessica Archibald | Political Science and Sociology | Private Land and Provincial Programs for Conservation |
| UTEA-SSH | Taha Bin Aamir | Economics | Market Incentives and College Admissions in the Absence of Standardized Tests |
| UTEA-SSH | Jasmine Bittu | CCIT and TCS | Barriers to Community Participation Among Women Magic: The Gathering Players |
| UTEA-SSH | Arist Alfred Bravo | Religion and Computer Science | Towards a Handwritten Text Recognition Tool for Burmese Pali Palm Leaf Manuscripts |
| UTEA-SSH | Ryan Mark David | Psychology | Variation in Perception of Music and Language Around the World |
| UTEA-SSH | Maryanna Diab | Social Sciences | Understanding the Lived Experience of the Covid-19 Pandemic among Racialized and Immigrant Populations in Peel Region |
| UTEA-SSH | Allison Suyapa Gutierrez | Psychology | Investigating the Effect of Prior Knowledge on Children’s Question-asking Efficiency |
| UTEA-SSH | Julia Chunxiao Hu | Psychology | A Longitudinal Study of Children’s Real-Life Conversational Efforts to Establish a Shared Reality with Others |
| UTEA-SSH | Tasmia Jamil | GGE | Species at Risk: What is the Role of Climate Change? |
| UTEA-SSH | Bakita Kamara | Sociology and Health Studies | University Student Newspapers as a Data Source: Advancing Social Science Methodology |
| UTEA-SSH | Kendal Tyler Kandasamy | Anthropology, Criminology, and Sociolegal Studies | University Student Newspapers as a Data Source: Advancing Social Science Methodology |
| UTEA-SSH | Marisa Klassen | Philosophy and Sociology | Global Cities and Post-Covid Recovery |
| UTEA-SSH | Ayesha Lodhi | Biology | Building Resilence in a Post-Pandemic Landscape in Peel Region. Perspectives of (In)formal Organizations |
| UTEA-SSH | Zi Wei Low | Economics | A Pandemic Legacy – The Rise of Low-Contact Occupations |
| UTEA-SSH | Jawahir Mohamed | Psychology | Variation in Perception of Music and Language Around the World |
| UTEA-SSH | Elizabeth Provost | CPS and Visual Studies | The Technical Study of Bernini’s Bronzes: Art History, Conservation, Material Science |
| UTEA-SSH | Elisa Schembre | Language Studies | Italiese and Its New Developments: From Endangered to a Global Language |
| UTEA-SSH | Tianheng Zhang | Psychology | Debiasing Hiring Practices through Affirming the Worth of Newcomer Professionals in Canada |
2022 Competition:
| Award | Student Name | Department | Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTEA-NSE | Abdul Rahman Al Kos | Biology | Exploring the Protein Interactions between the C-terminus of Presynaptic Cav2 channels and the scaffolding protein RIM using NMR spectroscopy |
| UTEA-NSE | Daphne Arguelles | Psychology | Characterizing the Constituents of a Complex Virus-host System |
| UTEA-NSE | Adrian Carpenter | Mathematics and Physics | Lattice Models of Statistical Physics: Search for Observables |
| UTEA-NSE | Maya Michelle Eid | CPS | Biochemical Studies of Disordered Regions in ABC Proteins |
| UTEA-NSE | Anya Franks | Biology | Biochemical Characterization of Prenyltransferases in Rose-scented Geranium (Pelargonium graveolens) |
| UTEA-NSE | Danny Huong | Biology and MCS | Mathematical Modeling of the Growth of Human Placental Vasculature |
| UTEA-NSE | Yewon Lee | Engineering | Safety Guarantees in Imitation Learning with Neural Networks |
| UTEA-NSE | Ivonne Rebeca Lopez-Miranda | CPS | Synthesis and Evaluation of a Cancer-targeted Agent for Dark Dynamic Therapy: Photodynamic Therapy Without Light Excitation |
| UTEA-NSE | Zainulabdeen Nassrullah | CPS | Profiling Allosteric Pathways in Enzymes |
| UTEA-NSE | Carolyne Yu Qiang | GGE | Investigate the Effect of COVID-19 on the Urban Thermal Environment of Canadian Urban Centers Through Cloud-based Image Analysis |
| UTEA-SSH | Anood Ali | Psychology | Sociocultural Influences on Question-asking in Early Childhood |
| UTEA-SSH | Ximena Bailly Alvarado | GGE | Cultural Services Experiences by People in Treed Urban Spaces |
| UTEA-SSH | Angela Bakaj | Biology and English & Drama | Margaret Cavendish’s Books: Textual Bibliography and Critical Editing |
| UTEA-SSH | Amelie Desroches | GGE | Exploring People’s Attitudes and Preferences about Urban Trees |
| UTEA-SSH | Gianna Francesca Giovio Canavesi | Language Studies and Psychology | Production and Patterning of Keiyo Vowels |
| UTEA-SSH | Kaitlyn Harris | English | The Development of Language-based Social Biases |
| UTEA-SSH | Chloe Kapanen | Environment and Trinity College | Government and Industry Responses to Dealing with Plastic Waste |
| UTEA-SSH | Dalal Mahir | Psychology | Can Empathy be Promoted Through the Introduction of Awe |
| UTEA-SSH | Elizabeth Provost | CPS and Visual Studies | The Technical Study of Bernini’s Bronzes: Art History, Conservation, Material Science |
| UTEA-SSH | Jaiditya Sharma | Psychology and Biology | The Experiences and Personality Development of Racialized Students during University: Uplifts, Stressors, and Well-Being |
| UTEA-SSH | Shayla Rae Shewchuk | Psychology | Affirming Afghan Refugee Women: Empowerment, Support, and Intervention |
| UTEA-SSH | Larasati Wulandari | Economics | Air Pollution and Environmental Damages: Measurement, Health Effects, and Policy |
| UTEA-SSH | Siwen Yang | MCS and Economics | Health and Education Policy Research |
| UTEA-SSH | Angelina Maria Rego Zahajko | Faculty of Arts and Sciences | Food-Hailing, the COVID-19 Digital Pivot, Platform Firms and Cities |
2021 Competition:
| Award | Student Name | Department | Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTEA-NSE | Seyed Alireza Rasoulzadeh Hosseini | Biology | Altered Epigenomes in Breeding and Early Tree Development |
| UTEA-NSE | Artittaya Boonkird | CPS | Single-Molecule Counting with Localization Microscopy |
| UTEA-NSE | Farishteh Khan | Psychology | Cognitive Processes Underlying the Development of Possibility Judgements about Improbable Events |
| UTEA-NSE | Xinye Peng | Psychology | Outbreeding Preference in Naked Mole-Rat Queens |
| UTEA-SSH | Melissa Heppner | GGE | Bison as Reconciliation on the Great Plains |
| UTEA-SSH | Mehvash Saiyed | POL | State Motivations and Civil War Duration - Explaning Sub-National Variation in Counter Insurgency in India |
| UTEA-SSH | Snimar Kaur | Psychology | An Empathy-Based Intervention to Improve Children's Gender-Related Atitudes |
| UTEA-SSH | Fatima Azahraa Al Saadie | Sociology | Understanding Refugee Needs in Peel Region through an Intersectional Ecological Lens: Focus on Disability-Related Stress & Youth Integration |
| UTEA-SSH | Jennifer Liu | Visual Studies | Technicial Study of Bernini's Bronzes: Art History, Conservation and Material Science |
2020 Competition:
| Award | Student Name | Department | Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTEA-NSE | Sami Chouihna | Biology | The Role of Insulin-Like peptides in feeding in Rhodnius Prolixus |
| UTEA-NSE | Esther Grace Kaye | CPS | Developing a Red-Shifted Carboxylesterase 2 Photosensitizer for Cancer-Targeted Photodynamic Therapy |
| UTEA-NSE | James Hogan | MCS | Non-Standard Analysis Applied to Probability and Statistics |
| UTEA-NSE | Nicole Sell | Psychology | Children's Attention and Emotions: A Mechanistic Approach |
| UTEA-SSH | Stephen D'Addario | Economics | Student Mental Health Interventions at the University of Toronto |
| UTEA-SSH | Jayati Khattar | Geography | Cross-Border Connections and Psychosocial Health Among Eritrean Immigrants in Toronto |
| UTEA-SSH | Grace Wang | Psychology | The Impact of Emotion Regulation on Partner Change |
| UTEA-SSH | Raquelle Kupferschmidt | Biology and Psychology | Sociolinguistic Factors in the Development of the Infant Lexicon |
| UTEA-SSH | Fatima Azahraa Al Saadie | Sociology | Student Protests and University Responses in the United States and Canada, 2012-2018 |
| UTEA-SSH | Jennifer Liu | Visual Studies | Bernini's Bronzes: Art History, Conservation and Material Science |
2019 Competition:
| Award | Student Name | Department | Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTEA-NSE | Adam Snyder | Biology | Vertebrate Fauna of Early Permian Cargill Locality, Oklahoma |
| UTEA-NSE | Jovana Miladinovic | CPS | Uncovering the Mechanisms of Transcriptional Regulation by Lsr2 |
| UTEA-NSE | Javis Kennedy | MCS | Variations on Sard's Theorem |
| UTEA-NSE | Ruofang Wang | Psychology | Integrative Mechanisms Underlying Effective Language Processing |
| UTEA-SSH | Krista May Duncan | Economics | Air Pollution in Otario: Measurement, Health Effects, and Policy |
| UTEA-SSH | Jayati Khattar | Geography | Understanding Barriers to Immigrant Access to Mental Health Care Services in Canada |
| UTEA-SSH | Gloria Lim | Geography | Work-Life Interfaces: Implications for Well-Being in Higher Education and Among Working Adults |
| UTEA-SSH | Shuyue (Julie) Qiao | Geography | Financing Sustainable Transportation and Housing in China |
| UTEA-SSH | Minal Waqar | Geography | Understanding the Connections Between Origin Country Ties and Psychosocial Well-Being Among Immigrants in Canada |
| UTEA-SSH | Anna Lyashenko | Language Studies | Shifting Perception: How Listeners Adapt to a Multi-Accented World |
| UTEA-SSH | Haley James | Psychology | Is It Possible to Limit Children's Negative Appraisals of Gender Norm Violations Among Hypothetical Peers? |
| UTEA-SSH | Arshnoor Khaira | Psychology & Biology | The Emergence of Word Comprehension in 6-Month-Olds |
| UTEA-SSH | Victoria Pringle | Psychology | Maximizing Partner Change through Responsive Gratitude Expressions |
| UTEA-SSH | Mohamed Afify | Sociology | RISE (Refugee Integration, Stres, and Equity) Team |
| UTEA-SSH | William Hunt | Music | Rhythm, Repetition, and the Resonance and Fade out of the Line |
| UTEA-SSH | Claire Elizabeth Smith | Visual Studies | Bernini's Forge: The AGO Crucifix and Bronze Casting |