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Undergraduate Research Fair 2021 winners

Dr. James Wu Award for Best Lower-Year Project

  • 1st place: Dara Dillon / Anti-Black Racism is Endemic! / AP/PPAS 1110
  • 2nd place: Meaghan Landry & Ryan Yacknovets / Hiring Discrimination Towards Transgender Nonbinary Job Applicants / GL/PSYC 2520

Dr. James Wu Award for Best Upper-Year Project

  • 1st place: Catherine Morin-Mitchell / A Path Toward Mental Health Equity: Assessing Classic Literature as a Source of Racial Trauma in the Classroom / AP/SOSC 3121
  • 2nd place: Manminder Singh / Information Diffusion, Environmental Degradation & Modernization: How COVID-19 Revealed Society’s Vulnerability to Disaster / EU/ENVS 4440

Dr. James Wu Award for Best Honours Thesis Project

  • 1st place: Harmoni Watson / The Consequences of Police Brutality on Psychological Well-Being and Collective Action / GL/PSYC 4000
  • 2nd place: Braxton Hartman / Atypical Brain Connectivity in Autism / AP/COGS 4750

Information Literacy Award

  • 1st place: Tiana Putric / Neuroweapons: The Future of Warfare / AP/DEMS 4709
  • 2nd place: Claudia Dias Martins / Impact of Socioeconomic Status (SES) and Bilingualism on French Language Development in Early French Immersion / GL/PSYC 4000

Best Group Project

  • 1st place: Vyjayanthi Janakiraman, Hailey Luong & Justin Chiu / Save-A-Bear / FA/DESN 2011
  • 2nd place: Yasmin Dini & Yanet Habtom / eHealth in the 21st Century: The Case of the Fitbit Versa 2 / HH/HLST 4320

Art Walk Exhibit Award

  • 1st place: Asha Cabaca / Wild Apples (The Fruit of Labour) / FA/VISA 3031
  • 2nd place: Shifra Hetherington & Jaelyn Jones / Skinscape / FA/MUSI 1900

Best Poster Presentation

  • 1st place: Hannah Santilli / Redesign the Ill-Defined: Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Implications of Low Socioeconomic Status / AP/COGS 4901
  • 2nd place: Ayeda Khan / Western Medicine: Inroads for Colonialism and Neocolonial Suffocation of Indigenous Medicine / AP/POLS 2201