L to R: 2. Sun-Nee Tan: People’s Choice, Serbulent Turan: 1st Place, Magdalene Payne: Runner-up
1st Place: Serbulent Turan, Ph.D. in Political Science: Revolt, Revolution and Imagination
Supervisor: Dr. Bruce Baum
$1000 prize
Runner-up: Magdalene Payne, M.Sc. in Reproductive and Developmental Sciences: Determination of lysine requirements in healthy pregnancy
Supervisor: Dr. Rajavel Elango
$500 prize
People’s Choice: Sun-Nee Tan, Ph.D. in Neuroscience: Musical Walking Program for Parkinson’s Patients
Supervisor: Dr. Martin McKeown
$100 prize
Congratulations to the winners and to all the eight finalists – all who were attended were entertained and enlightened.
The eight finalists were:
- Magdalene Payne, M.Sc. in Reproductive and Developmental Sciences: Determination of lysine requirements in healthy pregnancy
Supervisor: Dr. Rajavel Elango - Sun-Nee Tan, Ph.D. in Neuroscience: Musical Walking Program for Parkinson’s Patients
Supervisor: Dr. Martin McKeownKeown - Dru Yates, M.Sc. in Soil Science: Assessing Soil Quality in Grassland Set-Asides
Supervisor: Dr. Maja Kržić - Megan Callahan, M.A. in Resource Management & Environmental Studies: Assessing the Challenge of Conservation in Zoos
Supervisor: Dr. Terre Satterfield - Mandy Pui, M.Sc. in Experimental Medicine: Ignorance Can Be Cancer – Communicating Workplace Risk
Supervisor: Dr. Christopher Carlsten - Serbulent Turan, Ph.D. in Political Science: Revolt, Revolution and Imagination
Supervisor: Dr. Bruce Baum - Mina Park, Ph.D. in School of Population and Public Health:Superheroes, Epigenetics, and Your Environment
Supervisor: Dr. Clyde Hertzman - Jenny McCune, Ph.D. in Botany: Exploring long-term changes in communities of plants
Supervisors: Drs. Mark Vellend and Gary Bradfield
Videos of some of the finalist and semi-finalists are coming soon to the Graduate Studies YouTube channel – we’ll let you know when they are posted.
Thanks again to all the participants, heat organizers, sponsors, volunteers, MCs and judges for another terrific event.
