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Award Recipients

Three-Minute Thesis

People’s Choice Award: Jocelyn Bel, MSc Biology (supervisor, Dr. Kam Leung)

Second Place: Allyson Paris, MSc, Environmental Engineering (supervisor, Dr. Baoqiang Liao)

First Place: Robert Jackson, PhD Biotechnology (supervisor, Dr. Ingeborg Zehbe)

Graduate Studies Research Excellence Awards

Natural Sciences Category

Dmitry Tarasov, PhD Forest Sciences

Md Nur Hossain, PhD, Chemistry & Materials Science

Social Sciences Category

Kevin Gardam, Master of Public Health

Graduate Student Conference Poster Winners

Winner Engineering Category: Minoo Ataie, MSc Environmental Engineering (supervisor, Dr.
Pedram Fatehi)

Winner NSERC/Science Category: Xuantong Chen, MSc Forestry (supervisor, Dr. Wensheng Qin)

Winner SSHRC Category: Jennifer White, Master of Social Work (supervisors, Dr. Jodie Murphy,
Dr. Lori Chambers, Dr. Kirsten Oinonen)

Winner CIHR Category: Gabrielle Gaultier, PhD Biotechnology, (supervisor, Dr. Marina Ulanova)

Postdoctoral Fellows Poster Awards

Health Category - Dr. Neha Dewan, Department of Health Sciences (supervisor, Dr. Vicki
Kristman).

Natural Sciences and Engineering - Dr. Samira Gharehkhani, Department of Chemical Engineering
(supervisor, Dr. Pedram Fatehi).

Indigenous Partnership Research Award

Dr. Frederico Oliveira, Department of Anthropology, and Clifford Bull, Chief, Lac Seul First Nation
for their collaborative project, “A Tridimensional Approach to First Nations' Land Use and
Occupancy in Northwestern Ontario: an Applied and Culturally Relevant Pilot Study.”

The second winner is Dr. Ruth Beatty, Department of Education, Lakehead Orillia, and Christina
Ruddy, First Nations partner, for their project, “Connecting Anishinaabe and Western
Mathematical Ways of Knowing.”

Student Innovation Award Winner

Ayyappa Kumar Sista Kameshwar, PhD student, Department of Biology

Faculty Innovation Award

Dr. Pedram Fatehi, Canada Research Chair in Green Chemicals and Processes, Department of
Chemical Engineering

Building Research Capacity Award

Dr. Han Chen, Faculty of Natural Resources Management

Canada Research Chair (CRC) Award

Dr. Max Haiven as Lakehead University’s Canada Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social
Justice

Contribution to Research Award

Dr. Sudip Rakshit, Biorefining Institute, Chemical Engineering – NSERC Category

Dr. Cheryl Lousley, English Department – SSHRC Category

Dr. Rebecca Schiff, Health Sciences – CIHR Category

Distinguished Researcher Award

Dr. Pamela Wakewich, the Departments of Sociology and Women’s Studies, and former Director
of Lakehead’s Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research.

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