Please find below the U of T Mississauga research projects that have been funded through the Office of the Vice Principal, Research, Research and Scholarly Activity Fund's past competitions.
April 2023 (February 2023 Competition)
| Name | Department | Project |
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| Katharina Braeutigam | Biology | Seed production without sex – (epi)genetic variation and adaptive success in a temperate grass |
| Cassidy D'Aloia | Biology | Quantifying movement patterns of the sea cucumber Holothuria mexicana |
| Marc Johnson | Biology | Phylogenomics of specialization in plant-insect interactions |
| Arbora Resulay | Biology | The timescale of visual short-term memory in lateral visual cortex during perceptual decisions |
| Ho Sung Rhee | Biology | Genomic Characterization of Neuron-Specific Epigenetic Regulation |
| Adriano Senatore | Biology | Exploration into the functional properties and contribution to virulence of the newly identified NALCN ion channel subunit, UNC-80, in the opportunistic fungal pathogen C.neoformans |
| Virginijus Barzda | CPS | Nonlinear Digital Histopathology of Tumor Margins for Prediction of Cancer Metastases |
| Andrew Beharry | CPS | Long-wavelength absorbing photoactivable β-lapachones for in vivo targeted anticancer therapy |
| Marta L. Bryan | CPS | The Movers and Shakers of Planetary Systems: Probing Planet Formation with Exo-Jupiters |
| Sebastian Dyrda | Economics | Taxing Multinational Enterprises in a Global Economy |
| Tim Duval | GGE | Developing a Protocol to Assess Restoration Success of Abandoned Aggregate Pits and Quarries |
| Carrie Atkins | Historical Studies | Preliminary Fieldwork for Identifying an Eroding Late Bronze Age Coastscape at Maroni-Tsaroukkas, Cyprus |
| Alessandro Delfanti | ICCIT | The warehouse as a laboratory for digital automation |
| Dan Guadagnolo | ICCIT | "After the Sale is Over": Marketing & Customer Relationship Management, 1980-2000 |
| Jessica Burgner-Kahrs | MCS | Optimal Teleoperation Control of Continuum Robots |
| Janine Clark | Political Science | Indigenous Funding of LGBTQ and Sex Worker Activism in Africa: Decolonization, Democratization and Solidarity? |
| Andrea Olive | POL and GGE | Role of Private Property in the Public Goal of 30x0 |
| Alison Smith | Political Science | An Ounce of Prevention: Promising Practices in the Prevention of Homelessness |
| Erika Carlson | Psychology | The role of self-defining traits in personality dynamics |
| Emily Impett | Psychology | Sacrifice as an Opportunity for Self-Expansion in Intercultural Couples |
| Elizabeth Johnson | Psychology | Electrophysiological measures of lexical development |
| Doug VanderLaan | Psychology | Sexually and Gender-Diverse Identity Development and Wellbeing in the Context of High Societal Visibility and Acceptance: A Retrospective Mixed-Methods Study in Thailand |
| Benjamin Wolfe | Psychology | A proof of concept for individual visual reading interventions in medical contexts |
| Timothy Bryan | Sociology | Checking the street: Perceptions and feelings of safety and danger in Halifax, Nova Scotia |
December 2021 (November 2021 Competition)
| Name | Department | Project |
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| Alex Nguyen Ba | Biology |
Prediction of Human Variant Effects through Iterative Deep-mutational Scanning and Machine Learning |
| Mark Currie | Biology |
Structural Basis of Progeria Disease Mechanism |
| Ted Erclik | Biology |
Long-range Temporal Patterning of Neural Stem Cells in the Fruit Fly Brain |
| Michael A. Phillips | Biology | Genome Sequence of Diviner’s Sage, Salvia Divinorum |
| Josh Milstein | CPS |
Revealing the Macromolecular Organization and Dynamics of GPCRs |
| ALana F. Ogata | CPS |
Single-molecule Detection of Protein Biomarkers in Menstrual Blood for Disease Diagnostics |
| Sarah Rauscher | CPS |
Elucidating the Interaction of the Human Protein TRIM5α with the HIV Capsid Using Molecular Simulations |
| Jumi Shin | CPS |
New franken-proteins as Synthetic Biology Tools that Control Genetic Circuits |
| Laura Brown | GGE |
Changing Ice Cover and the Effects on High Arctic Lakes |
| Vincent Kuuire | GGE |
Identifying the Drivers of COVID-19 Misinformation, Institutional Mistrust and Vaccine Hesitancy in Ghana and Liberia |
| Julie MacArthur | Historical Studies |
Kimathi at War: A Scholarly and Film Project on the Social Life of Forest Fighters during the Mau Mau Rebellion, 1952-56 |
| Nicole Cohen | ICCIT |
Diversity and Equity in Media Union Collective Bargaining |
| Jessamyn Schertz | Language Studies |
AccentCorpus: a Shared Resource for the Study of Linguistic Diversity and the Perception of Accented Speech |
| Laura Derksen | Management |
Early Childhood Development and Education in Malawi |
| Randy Besco | Political Science |
Racial Attitudes in Canadian Politics and Public Policy |
| Loren Martin | Psychology |
Identifying inhibitors of receptor tyrosine kinase ErbB4 for the treatment of chronic pain |
| Jennifer Stellar | Psychology |
Understanding Compassion Fatigue |
| Anna Korteweg | Sociology |
The Co-Construction of LGBTQ Subjectivity and National Borders: Queer Muslim Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands |
December 2020 (November 2020 Competition)
| Name | Department | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Nicole Novroski | Anthropology | Developing an Improved Genetic Reference Dataset for Criminal and Civilian forensic Human Identification Efforts in Canada |
| Esteban J. Parra | Anthropology | Exploring Age-Related Methylation Changes in a Sample of Elderly Individuals from Brazil |
| Marcus M. Dillon | Biology | The Evolution of Antimicrobial Resistance in Dynamic Population Genetic Environments |
| Ho Sung Rhee | Biology | Distal Enhancers That Control the Fate of Motor Neurons |
| Helene Wagner | Biology | Conservation Genetics of a Native Bee Community |
| Andrew Beharry | CPS | Exploiting NQO1 for Targeted Photodynamic Therapy for Lung Cancer |
| Lindsay Schoenbohm | CPS | The Record of Past Earthquakes in the Eastern Great Lake Basin |
| Carolina Arteaga Cabrales | Economics | Innocent Victims: The Marketing of Prescription Opioids and Infant's Health |
| Sebastian Dyrda | Economics | Business Tax Competitiveness: Canada vs. United States |
| Terry Robinson | English & Drama | A History of Nobody - Now |
| Tenley Conway | GGE | Exploring Urban Trees' Contribution to Wellbeing and Livability |
| Tim Duval | GGE | Urban Stream Sediment Fingerprinting: Unlocking the Mysteries of Continued Water Quality Impairment |
| Igor Lehnherr | GGE | Climate Change and River Diversion Impacts on Mercury Inputs to Lhù’ààn Mân (Kluane Lake) |
| Trevor Porter | GGE | Long-Term Changes in Winter Climate, Sea Ice and Mercury Cycling in the Canadian Arctic Reconstructed from Ice Wedges |
| Emily Impett | Psychology | Love in the Works: Promoting Trailing Partners' Well-Being after Job Relocation |
| Chris Smith | Sociology | Vice for Sale: Neighborhood Change and Illicit Markets |
| Elizabeth Wijaya | Visual Studies | Migratory Encounters Between Past and Present: A Cinematic Research-Creation Collaboration |
January 2020 (November 2019 Competition)
| Name | Department | Project |
| Jack Sidnell | Anthropology | Reference to Self and Other in Vietnamese: A Comparison of Interaction in Two Urban Settings |
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Katharina Braeutigam |
Biology | Molecular Mechanisms of Plant Sex Determination |
| Teddy Erclik | Biology | Selective Spatial Patterning of Neural Stem Cells in the Fruit Fly Brain |
| Peter M. Kotanen | Biology | Understanding the Emerging Risk of Plant Invasions in Tundra Ecosystems |
| Bailey McMeans | Biology | A Predictive Framework for Abiotic and Biotic Controls on Lake Fish Production |
| Alexandra Gillespie | English & Drama | Machine Learning for Historical Script Recognition” |
| Matthew Adams | Geography | Urban Exposure to Carcinogenic Benzene |
| Ron Buliung | Geography | Inclusive Play and Childhood Disability |
| Vincent Kuuire | Geography | Improving Water Access for the Urban Poor: Examining Public Perceptions and Priorities for Safe Water in Ghana |
| Jue Wang | Geography | An Exploratory Study of Individual Air Pollution Exposure Monitoring and Analysis |
| Negin Dahya | ICCIT | Portraits of Educational Change: Refugee Education, Gender & Technology |
| Derek Denis | Language Studies | Multicultural Toronto English: Sources and Discourses |
| Marie-Paule Lory | Language Studies | Understanding French Teachers’ Social Representations of Linguistic and Cultural Diversity |
| Dehan Kong | MCS | Novel Statistical Methods for Alzheimer’s Disease Studies |
| Noel Anderson | Political Science | Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish? An Assessment of Security Force Assistance Program Effectiveness |
| Martha Balaguera Cuervo | Political Science | Abolition, Legal Accompaniment and the Caravanization of Asylum at the US-Mexico Border |
| Emily C. Nacol | Political Science | Writing about Plague: Contagion and Imagination in the History of Political Thought |
| Alexander Reisenbichler | Political Science | From Heroes to Villain: The New Politics of Central Banking Since the Great Recession |
| Alison Smith | Political Science | Governing Homelessness in Canada: Unpacking the Layers and Players in a Complex Policy Field |
| Elizabeth K. Johnson | Psychology | Speech Processing in Typically-Developing Children Versus Late Talkers |
| Iva Zovkic | Psychology | Gene-Specific Regulation of Nicotine Reward by the Histone Variant H2A.Z |
January 2019 (November 2018 Competition)
| Name | Department | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Sarah Hillewaert | Anthropology | Yoga and Wellness as Development in Eastern Africa |
| Baohua Liu | Biology | The Circuit Mechanisms Underlying the Cortical Control of Innate Reflexes |
| Steven Short | Biology | The Complex Interactions of a Host-Virus Consortium |
| Bryan Stewart | Biology | Analysis of Human Muscle Physiology in a 3D Culture System |
| Ulrich Fekl | CPS | Sustainable, CO2‐neutral Fertilizer with the Help of Sunlight |
| Jochen Halfar | CPS | Ice Edge: Sea-Ice and Glacier Retreat of Coastal Baffin Bay - Past, Present, and Future |
| Jumi Shin | CPS | Our Two-Pronged Combination of Rational Design & Directed Evolution toward Asthma Drug Discovery |
| Laura Brown | Geography | Modelling Changing Ice Covers in the Canadian High Arctic |
| Laurel Besco | Geography and IMI | Innovative Law and Policy Approaches to Mitigating GHG Emissions from Air and Maritime Transport |
| Igor Lehnherr | Geography | Sources of Toxic Methylmercury to Arctic Marine Waters During the Ice-on Season |
| Elspeth Brown | Historical Studies | LGBTQ2+ Oral History: Digital Futures and Community Engagement in the Peel Region |
| Boris Chrubasik | Historical Studies | Social and Cultural History of Elites in the Seleukid Empire |
| Karen Ruffle | Historical Studies | Materialities of Religious Devotion & the Formation of Civic Cultures in Pakistan in the Everyday |
| Alessandro Delfanti | ICCIT | Amazon Robots and the Future of Work |
| Jessamyn Schertz | Language Studies | Factors Influencing Perceptual Adaptation of Sound Categories: The Effect of Listener Experience |
| Erika Carlson | Psychology | Who Has Self-knowledge and How Do They Get It? |
| Melissa Holmes | Psychology | Epigenetic Contributions to Social Control of Pubertal Timing |
| Emily Impett | Psychology | Thanks for Trying! Maximizing Partner Change and Promoting Satisfaction Through Responsive Gratitude Expressions |
| Loren Martin | Psychology | The Modulation of Pain by Social Interactions |
January 2018 (November 2017 Competition)
| Name | Department | Project | ||
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| Esteban J. Parra | Anthropology | Healthy Land, Healthy People: An Ecosystem Approach to First Nation Health Using Metagenomics |
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| David Samson | Anthropology |
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| Ingo Ensminger | Biology | Sequencing and Characterization of a Novel 16-kD Dehydrin Protein to Understand Its Role in low Temperature Acclimation and the Development of Cold Hardiness in Plants |
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| Ho Sung Rhee | Biology | Roles of the BAF Chromatin Remodelling Complex in Maintenance of Motor Neuron Identity |
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| Voula Kanelis | CPS | Designing Drugs to Treat ATP-Sensitive Potassium (KATP) Channel Mutations That Cause Cardiac Disease | ||
| Marc Laflamme | CPS | Investigating the Evolution of Complex Reef Ecosystems from Labrador, Canada |
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| Lindsay Schoenbohm | CPS | Are Remnants of the Tibetan Plateau Preserved in the Southern Himalayan Thrust Belt? | ||
| Sebastian Dyrda | Economics | Taxes, Regulations of Businesses and Evolution of Income Inequality in the US |
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| Liza Blake | English & Drama | Choose Your Own Poems and Fancies | ||
| Alexandra Gillespie | English & Drama | Global Networks for Premodern Writing Technologies | ||
| Terry Robinson | English & Drama | A History of Nobody: Being and Non-Being in Literature and Art from the Early Modern Era to the Present |
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| Matthew Adams | Geography | Air Pollution in Full Day Kindergarten Outdoor Play Areas | ||
| Yuhong He | Geography | Developing a Precision Farming Monitoring System with Multi-Source Remote Sensing and Mobile Apps | ||
| Nicole Charles | Historical Studies | Suspicion: Vaccines, Biotechnologies and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados |
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| Vincent Kuuire | Geography | Understanding the Occurrence of Infectious Diseases and Noncommunicable Diseases in Rapidly Evolving Urban Environments |
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| Kathi Wilson | Geography | An Exploratory Study of the Health Impacts of Changing Settlement Patterns of Immigrants in Peel Region, ON |
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| Sara Hughes | Political Science | Accumulating Injustice: Tracing the multiple causes of the Flint Water Crisis |
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| Shivaji Mukherjee | Political Science | Why are the Longest Insurgencies Low Violence? State Motivations and Counter Insurgency Variation |
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| Doug VanderLaan | Psychology | Cultural Influences on How Children Think About Cross-Gender Behaviour: A Preliminary Investigation in Thailand | ||
| Sida Liu | Sociology | Ecologies of Globalization: China’s Shadow on the Legal Professions in Hong Kong and Taiwan |
December 2016 (November 2016 Competition)
| Name | Department | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Tracy Rogers | Anthropology |
Skeletal Age at Death Estimation |
| Andrea
Muehlebach |
Anthropology |
Water, Politics, and the Democratic Imagination in Europe |
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Adriano Senatore |
Biology |
Systems Level Analysis of Ligand-GPCR Signaling in the Simple Animal Trichoplax adhaerens |
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Michael A. Phillips |
Biology |
New Plant Essential Oil Genes and Their Use in Food Safety |
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Sasa Stefanovic |
Biology |
Hybridization and Polyploidy in Cuscuta (Dodders, Convolvulaceae) |
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Peter Kotanen |
Biology |
The Impact of an Invasive Plant on Soil Microbiome Composition |
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Kent Moore |
CPS |
Atmospheric Forcing of Ocean Convection |
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Joshua Milstein |
CPS |
The Microbial Gene Swap: Studying Gene Transfer to Gain Insight into the Initiation and Spread of Infection |
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Ulrich Fekl |
CPS |
Molecular Rotors for Device Applications |
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Ronald Wolthoff |
Economics |
Information Disclosure, Statistical Discrimination and Labor Market Outcomes |
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Holger Schott Syme |
English & Drama |
Shakespeare in Berlin, 1918-2018 |
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Carrie Fulton |
Historical Studies |
Underwater Survey of the Ancient Anchorage of Maroni-Tsaroukkas, Cyprus |
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Alessandro Delfanti |
ICCIT |
Worker Mobilization in the Sharing Economy |
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Alex Hanna |
ICCIT |
Automating the Generation of Protest Event Data |
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Victoria McArthur |
ICCIT |
Project PARSEC (Pedagogical Applications for the Recruitment of Scientists, Engineers, and Cosmonauts) |
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Erin Tolley |
Political Science |
The Canadian Municipal Election Study |
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Jennifer Stellar |
Psychology |
Identifying the Mental and Physical Health Benefits of Experiencing Awe |
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Keisuke Fukuda |
Psychology |
EEG-Based Memory Monitoring and Intervention for Older Adults |
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Erika Carlson |
Psychology |
Measuring Self-Knowledge |
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Kajri Jain |
Visual Studies |
Inorganic Nature and Public Space in Post-Liberalization India |
January 2016
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Name |
Department |
Project |
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Teddy Erclik |
Biology |
Spatial and Temporal Patterning of Neural Stem Cells in the Fruit Fly Brain |
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Helene Wagner |
Biology |
Landscape Genomics of Onset of Flowering in a Spring Wildflower |
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Marc Laflamme |
Chemical & Physical Sciences |
The Dawn of Animal Life from Central Iran |
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Sebastian Dyrda |
Economics |
Household Formation and Labour Market Outcomes: Europe vs. USA |
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Michel Serafinelli |
Economics |
Mobility of Inventors and Innovation |
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Julie MacArthur |
Historical Studies |
Mapping Decolonization: Sovereignty, Territory, and Belonging in Eastern Africa, 1950-76 |
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J. Barton Scott |
Historical Studies |
Oceanic Associations: Liberalism and Hindu Reform Across the British Empire |
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Cosmin Munteanu |
ICCIT |
Increasing Older Adults' Online Safety: Understanding and Removing Barriers to Technology Adoption |
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Laurel Besco |
Geography |
Engendering the Production of Corporate Environmental Norms: Energy Efficiency Targets in Ontario |
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Laura Brown |
Geography |
Lake Ice in the Canadian High Arctic |
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Tenley Conway |
Geography |
Exploring Ecological and Socially Relevant Diversity in the Urban Forest |
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Doug VanderLaan |
Psychology |
Parent-Reported Mental Health Risk Among Gender-Nonconforming Children and Adolescents: An Examination of a Nonclinical, Community-Based Sample |
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Andrew Miles |
Sociology |
Doing Good, Feeling Good: Moral Identity, Emotion, and Psychological Well Being |
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Weiguo Zhang |
Sociology |
Migration, Aging and Well Being: Chinese Seniors in Canada |
February 2015
| Name | Department | Project Title |
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| Dan Schulze | Chemical & Physical Sciences | Constraints on the Origin of the Colorado Plateau |
| Liza Blake | English & Drama | Arthur Golding's A Morall Fabletalke and Other Renaissance Moral Fables |
| Alexandra Gillespie | English & Drama | Collating Chaucer's Canterbury Tales |
| Ron Buliung | Geography | Understanding Geographies of Childhood Dis/ability |
| Tim Duval | Geography | Land-use Effects on River Water Quality During Storms |
| Trevor Porter | Geography | The Last 18 Million Years of Climate Change in Continental Yukon and Alaska Reconstructed from Water Isotope Proxies |
| Nicole Cohen | ICCIT | Journalistic Labour in the Digital Newsroom |
| Mihaela Pirvulescu | Language Studies | Trilingual Language Development and Maintenance in the French-immersion System |
| Sara Hughes | Political Science | The Politics of Sustainable Cities: Case Studies of Institutional Change |
| Emily Impett | Psychology |
Not in the Mood? Development and Validation of the Sexual-Rejection Scale |
| Loren Martin | Psychology | The Role of Social Stress on the Initiation of Chronic Pain |
| Hae Yeon Choo | Sociology | Speculative Home-Making: Women's Labour, Class Mobility, and Real-Estate Investment in South Korea |
| Brian Price | Visual Studies | The Elusive Image |
October 2014
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Name |
Department |
Project Title |
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Esteban Parra |
Anthropology |
Healthy Land, Healthy People: An Ecosystem Approach to First Nation Health Using Metagenomics |
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David Smith |
Anthropology |
The Social History of Precontact Huron-Wendat Communities in South-Central Ontario |
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Ingo Ensminger |
Biology |
Screening Tools for Assessing Adaptation of Conifers to Future Climate |
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Shannon McCauley |
Biology |
Food Web Assembly in Experimental Ponds |
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Steven Short |
Biology |
Genomic and Metagenomic Analysis of Freshwater Viruses |
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Ulrich Fekl |
Chemical & Physical Sciences |
Forming Carbon-Carbon Bonds through Palladium (IV) Intermediates |
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Jochen Halfar |
Chemical & Physical Sciences |
Calibrating Artic Coralline Algae to Sea Ice Cover |
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Jumi Shin |
Chemical & Physical Sciences |
Yeast as a Model System to Understand the Effects of Nanoparticles in the Environment |
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Igor Lehnherr |
Geography |
Climate Change Impacts on Methylmercury Production in Arctic Ecosystems |
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Nicola Lacetera |
Management |
Do Beliefs About Repugnant Transactions Respond to Empirical Evidence? An Experimental Analysis |
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Andrea Olive |
Political Science |
Landowner Attitudes Toward Species at Risk in Ontario |
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Judith Andersen |
Psychology |
Understanding the Psychological and Biological Impact of Compassion Fatigue and Compassion Satisfaction Among Police Officers |
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Erika Carlson |
Psychology |
Self-knowledge or Self-deception: Is Knowing How Others Perceive us Adaptive? |
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Norman Farb |
Psychology |
The Body’s Role in Training Healthy Emotions |
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Tina Malti |
Psychology |
Effects of Social Exclusion on Children’s Developmental and Behavioural Adaptation |
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Iva Zovkic |
Psychology |
Memory Enhancing Effects of H2A.Z: Therapeutic Implications for Age-related |
February 2014
| Name | Department | Project Title |
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| Francis Cody | Anthropology | Mediating the People: Newspapers and Mass Politics in South India |
| Gary Crawford | Anthropology | Understanding Agricultural Origins in the Lower Yangzi Valley |
| Jeannine DeLombard | English & Drama | Homes Protected by Law: Race & Real Estate in 19th-Century American Literature |
| Patrick Gunning | Chemical & Physical Sciences | Pioneering Inhibition of UBA5 Enzymes for Use in Cancer Combination Therapy |
| Yuhong He | Geography | Mapping Trees Infested by Emerald Ash Borer Using High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing Data |
| Marc Johnson | Biology | Feedbacks Between Plants and their Soil Microbiome: An Experimental Next-Generation Sequencing Approach |
| Angela Lange | Biology | Ureases and Derived Peptides: Understanding the Neurotoxic Mechanism of Action in Insects |
| Joshua Milstein | Chemical & Physical Sciences | Super-Resolution Imaging of Transcription Factories within Embryonic Stem Cells |
| Andrea Muehlebach | Anthropology | Water, Politics, and the Democratic Imagination in Europe |