Awards
Awards
Awards
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)
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)
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).
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.”
Dr. Pedram Fatehi, Canada Research Chair in Green Chemicals and Processes, Department of
Chemical Engineering
Dr. Max Haiven as Lakehead University’s Canada Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social
Justice
Dr. Pamela Wakewich, the Departments of Sociology and Women’s Studies, and former Director
of Lakehead’s Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research.