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 Recent Graduate Receives Major Awards from the Canadian Association of Geographers
(Dept: Natural Resources Institute)
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 Claude Peloquin, a recent graduate from the Natural Resources Institute was awarded the Robin P. Armstrong Memorial Prize for Excellence in Native Studies. The official announcement was made at the recent CAG meetings at Carleton.
The Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG), Statistics Canada, and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada award the Robin P. Armstrong Memorial Prize for Excellence in Native Studies to a graduate for the best Master's or PhD thesis on an aboriginal topic.
Based on his Masters thesis, Claude has given several conference
papers; prepared a chapter for the book, The Science and Politics of Protected Area Creation (C. Scott, M. Mulrennan and K. Scott, eds., UBC Press); and a paper for the journal, Human Ecology. Both publications are now in press.
2009 - Claude Peloquin, MA thesis: "Variability, change and continuity in social-ecological systems: insights from James Bay Cree cultural ecology". Thesis supervisor at the University of Manitoba: Fikret Berkes.
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 Faculty of Kinesiology & Recreation Management Student Honoured
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Helena Baert (M.Sc., 2008), was honoured recently by the Canadian Association of Teacher Education. The recent graduate was given a Thesis Recognition of Excellence Award for her Masters thesis: Wiki & TGFU: A Collaborative Approach to Understanding Games Education.
The award was presented at the University of Carlton in Ottawa. Read more here...
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U of M Ph.D. Student First Recipient of the Minister of Water Stewardship Scholarship for International Studies
(Dept: Environment and Geography)
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University of Manitoba PhD student Bryan Oborne is the first recipient of the new Minister of Water Stewardship Scholarship for International Studies.
Oborne, is the first recipient of the scholarship which has been designed to encourage students from Manitoba to gain expertise in water stewardship by using Israel as a case-study. The scholarship is for two years and a total of $50,000.
Oborne will focus on finding effective answers to water quality issues by studying Israel's similar experiences.
The announcement was made by Water Stewardship Minister Christine Melnick. Read more here...
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U of M Student Included in List of Winners of the NDLTD-ETD Awards
(Dept: Civil Engineering)
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Gerald W. Ferris is one of ten winners in the Physical & Life Sciences portion of the "NDLTD-ETD Awards Powered by Scirus" for his thesis titled An Elastic Plastic Approach: Modeling Deformation Of Dense Sand.
The 10 winning ETDs were selected through a rigorous selection process which combined a shortlisting of the most downloaded ETDs per subject area through Scirus, and adjudication by scientific editors from Elsevier Journals Publishing unit.
The awards were presented at the ETD 2008 Symposium, held June 4-7 at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland. Award winners each receive a $500 cash prize, an NDLTD-ETD Awards: Powered by Scirus medallion and honorary recognition on the Scirus homepage.
Full details are available online here and here.
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ECE Student Wins Honourable Mention at IEEE Conference
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 Abas Sabouni (ECE - PhD) was recently awarded honourable mention at the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation in San Diego, CA for his paper titled "Hybrid Binary-Real GA for Microwave Breast Tomography."
The IEEE-AP conference is an advanced international conference in Antenna propagation. Find out more about the conference here.
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U of M Graduate wins award for MSpace Submission
(Dept: Landscape Architecture)
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Recent Landscape Architecture graduate Michael Klassen’s Voice Map Trekking thensis was awarded for its technical proficiency and imagination. He created a thesis within a web site environment that includes text, hyperlinks, interactive landscape mappings, video diaries, audio files, photographs, digital sketchbooks and voice maps.
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Ph.D. Student Wins War Memorial Doctoral Scholarship
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Audrey Swift (Psychology) has been awarded the War Memorial Doctorial Scholarship by the the National Chapter of Canada IODE. Swift, who is currently working on an Interdisciplinary Doctorate in Psychology, Nursing and Medicine is studying health in later life and how the mind-body connection affects physical and mental health.
The War Memorial Doctorial Scholarship was created to honour Canadians in the First World War who had lost their lives or had been injured. IODE is a women’s charitable organization based out of Toronto that works toward improving the quality of life for children, youth and people in need through educational, social service and citizenship programs.
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| Electrical and Computer Engineering Students Excelling with Papers Presented at Symposia |
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Alireza Foroozesh, (Ph.D. Student - advisor L. Shafai) recently attended ISAP 2007 (International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation) in Niigata, Japan, August 20-25, 2007. ISAP is one of the three most advanced international conferences in Applied Electromagnetics.
Alireza's paper was in competition with an international contingent of 102 students and won two awards.
He won Student's Best Paper Award for his paper on "Performance Enhancement of a Microstrip Patch Antenna Using High Impedance surfaces and Different Ground Plane Sizes, by Alireza Foroozesh and L. Shafai as well as the Young Scientist Travel Award.
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Several students in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering recently attended the EMTS 2007 (International Union of Radio Science (URSI) - Electromagnetic Theory Symposium) in Ottawa from July 26-28.
The following students and one Post-Doctoral Fellow had their papers selected as winners of Young Scientist Awards.
- A. Foroozesh and L. Shafai: On the Effects of Angular and Polarization Dependency of Artificial Ground Planes in Planar High-Gain Anternnas
- I. Hossain, S. Noghanian and S. Pistorius: A CPW Fed Ultra Wide Band (UWB) Taper Arc Slot Antenna
- S. Latif, L. Shafai and M. Ng Mou Kehn: Gain Enhancement of Small Microstrip Antennas Using Multi-layered Laminated Conductors
- M. Ng Mou Kehn, L. Shafai and S. Noghanian: Accuracy Improvement of a Permittivity Measurement Technique for Cylindrical Dielectric Samples
Alireza Foroozesh and Saeed Latif are Ph.D. students of L. Shafai
Malcolm Ng Mou Kehn is a Post-Doctoral Fellow of L. Shafai
Iftekhar Hossain is an M.Sc. student of S. Noghanian
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| U of M Food Science Students Win Award for Healthy Snack |
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A group of University of Manitoba students in the department of Food Science were recently awarded for their effort in creating Globix - a high-fibre, high-protein, low-calorie and low-fat snack.
Graduate student Alex Anton led a team of 11 students that were responsible for creating the new product that recently beat out other finalists to take first place in the American Association of Cereal Chemists' annual product development competition.
Their product, Globix, is crunchy snack resembling a stick pretzel that is made from navy bean flour. The snack was designed to be a healthy product that the students hope people will want to eat - in other words it tastes good at the same time that it is good for you.
Globix is made from a combination of wheat flour, bean flour and gluten and comes in four flavours: wasabi, mild curry, creamy dill and jalapeno, representing tastes from around the world.
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| NRI Student Scott Nicol Wins United Nations Environmental Program Award for Best Paper |
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Congratulations to Scott Nicol, an NRI student, who with co-author Dr. Shirley Thompson, won the United Nations Environmental Program award for the “best new paper on a Montreal Protocol Related Topic in the policy category.” The paper was called “Policy Options to Reduce Consumer Waste to Zero: Comparing Product Stewardship and Extended Producer Responsibility for Refrigerator Waste” and was published in January, 2007 in the international journal called Waste Management Research. This article will also be posted on the UNEP website. Scott and Shirley will be attending the UNEP conference in Montreal to celebrate twenty years of progress on ozone and the success of the Montreal Protocol.
This research compares the effectiveness of these different management polices as applied to refrigerators in Europe and North America to achieve sustainable products, prevent pollution, conserve resources and achieve zero waste. Interviews, a survey and tours of recycling and disposal facilities in United States (US), Canada and EU (included tours to Britain and Denmark) were conducted to ascertain what the impact of different policies were for the management of post consumer waste, focusing on refrigerators. Waste management policies, particularly in North America, frequently fail to reduce consumption, prevent pollution, conserve resources and foster sustainable products. However, waste policies are changing to focus on lifecycle impacts of products from the cradle to the grave by extending responsibilities of stakeholders to post-consumer management. Product stewardship and extended producer responsibility are two policies in use, with radically different results when compared for one consumer product, refrigerators. North America has enacted product stewardship policies that fail to require producers to take physical or financial responsibility for recycling or for environmentally sound disposal, so that releases of ozone depleting substances routinely occur, which contribute to the expanding the ozone hole. Conversely, Europe’s Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive requires extended producer responsibility, whereby producers collect and manage their own post-consumer waste products. WEEE has resulted in high recycling rates of greater than 85%, reduced emissions of ODS and other toxins, greener production methods, such as replacing greenhouse gas refrigerants with environmentally friendly hydrocarbons and more reuse of refrigerators in EU compared to North America.
Refrigerators are an important case study as a large number are in the waste stream and are a significant source of ozone depleting substances (ODS). 50 million refrigerators are sent for disposal each year in North America, with similar numbers in Europe, representing one percent of the total municipal solid waste stream. Refrigerators contain ODS with high global warming potential, called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), in their insulation foam and refrigerant that are a major contributor to the ozone hole. The "ozone hole" is a severe depletion of the ozone layer, which acts to protect life on Earth by blocking harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun, high above Antarctica and the Arctic. Scientists report that the 2006 ozone hole at the Southern polar region was the largest to date. The ozone layer is needed to protect life from the many harmful impacts of solar radiation. With its thinning dramatic increases in the incidence of skin cancer, cataracts, and loss of species diversity have occurred over the last few decades (The Ozone Hole 2006). In addition to ozone depletion, CFCs have up to ten thousand times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide, contributing to climate change. Despite the many environmental impacts of refrigerators, Canada and the US have no comprehensive end-of-life management policy.
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U of M Student Wins at Inaugural Annual Conference (Dept: Kinesiology and Recreation)
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Former U of M Physical Education student Farrell Cahill recently won 3rd place at the first annual meeting for the Exercise Physiologists Of Western Canada (EPOWC).
The presentation took place in Calgary, Alberta where Farrell was presenting the results from his Master's thesis: "The effects of whole body hypothermia on voluntary activation of the elbow flexors."
His project was made possible by his supervisor Dr.Gordon Giesbrecht (Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation) and Dr. Philip Gardiner (Director, Health Leisure and Human Performance Research Institute).
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International Student of the Year
(Dept: Food Science)
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Selected from nearly 300 other international students across Canada, Alex Anton, a 24-year-old University of Manitoba master’s student from Brazil, has won the 2007 Elizabeth Paterson International Student of the Year Award. Read more in the Bulletin
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| Grads Featured in The Bulletin |
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The May 31, 2007 convocation issue of the Bulletin featured write-ups on a few students in the Faculty of Graduate Studies. You can read their stories individually by clickng the links below or download the entire Bulletin as a pdf here.
Reese Cowan - Landscape Architecure
Sara McGrath - Computer Science
Christine Fawcett - English
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Best Paper Award
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Department of Computer Science students Kiran Kola and Amit Chhabra won the BEST PAPER AWARD at the Banquet of the International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, Sorrento, Italy, Dec.4-7, 2006.
This is a IEEE Computer Society (Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC))sponsored international conference.
They received the award for the paper "A Software Architecture Framework for On-line Option Pricing."
Here is an excerpt from the opening remarks by the steering chair of the conference about the 2006 conference program: "... Only 79 papers were accepted out of 244 submissions (about 30% acceptance) from 28 countries (2 accepted out of 6 submissions from Canada - the other paper was from Queens University, Kingston, ON). Based on the reviews, our paper was selected "unanimously" for the 1st BEST PAPER among the 79 accepted; and the 2nd best paper was selected after some deliberations, and that paper was from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA and Vienna University of Technology, Austria. ..."
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