URI_Stipend_Recipients_Round11


1	In the Summer 2017 application cycle for the URI Stipend, we received 183 applications and approved 48 projects.
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3	Student First Name	Student Last Name	Project Title
4	Joel	Agarwal	Post-Bronchodilator Testing as Part of Pulmonary Physiology Labs: Part of the Asthma Over-Diagnosis Problem?
5	Amira	Aissiou	Exploring the luminescence decay speed in high-brightness silicon quantum dots
6	Syed Irtiaz	Alam	Investigate the effect of variation in welding parameters on the overall weld quality using an automated orbital welding process.
7	Carolyn	Boychuk	Minimizing Practice Variation and Unnecessary Resource Utilization in Pediatric Cardiology
8	Vincent	Castonguay-Siu	Investigation of Accelerating Flow on Gas Clearance for High Flow Nasal Cannula Therapy
9	Valerie	Cheung	The Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Speech Motor Control during a Picture Naming Task in Healthy Younger and Older Adults
10	Tianna	Clarke	Role of alcohol-induced cytochrome P450 enzymes in the depletion of hepatic vitamin A
11	Natalie	Eng	Growth and Vulnerability in Africa as a Consequence of Chinese Investment
12	Changhao	Fang	Controlled Drug Delivery System from Light-Responsive Microgels
13	Mykhailo	Flaks	Improving magnetometers for Neuroscience applications based on a new technology in Physics
14	Xinhan (Sherry)	Gao	Air Quality in Urban Environments: Student Investigations of Personal Exposure to Respirable Particulate Matter
15	Amber	Hager	Sarcopenia in infants and children with chronic liver disease awaiting transplantation (LTX): Impact on pre-and-post operative LTX outcomes.
16	Calvin	Howard	Can the Introduction of Noise Improve Standing and Walking with Intraspinal Microstimulation?
17	David	Hu	Investigating synergistic effects of Intraspinal Microstimulation and monoaminergic modulation on spinal circuitry - Implication in spinal cord injury rehabilitation
18	Zhongren	Jin	NMR Study of Alkaline Earth Borophosphate Glass
19	Kelly	Keus	Portrayals of mental illness in contemporary fiction for young people.
20	Austen	Lee	Laughing Through Tears? : Cancer Narratives in Film Comedy and the Effects of Humour on the Terminally Ill
21	Nathan	Lentz	The Metabolic and Energetic Needs of Race Car Driving Performance
22	Angela	Ma	Are extremist groups perceived as being more cohesive?
23	Ariel	MacDonald	On the Waterfront: Urban Renewal and Political Dissent in Belgrade, Serbia
24	Juliana	Montoya Sanchez	The effects of Vocalization type on ZENK gene production in Black capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) brain cells.
25	Elizabeth	Pankratz	Determining best practices in the design of online dictionaries of Canadian Indigenous languages
26	Nicole	Paskar	How do adult female red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) choose among offspring during bequeathal?
27	Christina	Paterson	Exploring the relationship between virtual and cell based crossmatch- defining key parameters to optimize patient access to transplant.
28	Feodor	Poukhovski-Sheremetyev	Stimulant Medications and Induced Suicidality in Youth with ADHD
29	Samia	Rahman	The generation of stable cartilage tissue from adult-derived stem cells.
30	Shauna	Regan	Risk of venous thromboembolism (blood clots) in cystic fibrosis patients during hospitalization and the role of chemoprophylaxis as preventative therapy.
31	Marla	Roth	Do High Elevations Hinder Whitebark Pine’s Ability to Defend Against Mountain Pine Beetle?
32	Alexandra	Schaefer	Development and use of software for analyzing neural signals
33	Mason	Schindle	Longitudinal Changes in Nerve Health and Spasticity in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury Following Stimulation-Based Cycling
34	Megan	Schmidt	Carbon emissions from lakes in the Taiga Plains
35	Sophie	Shi	Fabrication of Stretchable Circuitry for Wearable Biosensors that Allow Real-Time Patient Monitoring
36	Morgan	Sosniuk	Immune phenotype and function of pediatric cardiac surgery patients: Laying the groundwork for assessment of post thymectomy immune function
37	Paisly	Symenuk	Exploring Strategies to Eliminate Family Violence during Pregnancy in Remote Zambia
38	Jonas	Szelewicki	Detection and characterization of shiga toxin genes of E. coli found in clinical cases
39	Cailey	Turner	Walking exercise therapy to improve sleep and QOL in menopausal women; a systematic review
40	Jacqueline	Withers	Colour signalling online: How filtered “selfies” can increase reproductive success
41	Nicholas	Yee	Cognitive Function and Wearable Sensors
42	Rachel	Zukiwsky	The Role of the Superior Fissure in Migration of Neural Crest Cells Into the Eye
43	The following projects were supported through targeted funding for students supervised by current Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant holders.
44	Lisa	Bojanowski	The Intersection of Canadian Politics, Satire and Feminism - An Analysis of "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" and "Rick Mercer Report" (2015-2017).
45	Mao	Ding	Orientation toward lifelong learning of medical students and practicing physicians
46	Heather	Capel	Development and optimization of an exploratory haptic assistive robotic interface for use by children with motor impairments.
47	Sauleha	Farooq	Sports and Stereotypes: An examination of Muslim women’s perspectives on sports
48	Terra	Pombert	The History of Women and Environmental Activism in Alberta
49	Justine	Sander	Existential Freedom and the Political
50	The following projects were supported through targeted funding for projects advancing campus sustainability, provided by the Office of Sustainability and Facilities & Operations under the Learning Experiences through Applied Projects (LEAP) program.
51	Dillon	Lee	International students and their accessibility to on-campus health services
52	Megha	Sharma	Work Place Culture- Diversity in Engineering
53	Meghana	Valupadas	Diversity in Engineering - Student Culture