Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards
The Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards (JCURA) program was established in 2009-2010 by the Vice-President Academic and Provost.
The goal of this award is to encourage undergraduates to pursue innovative and original research to enhance their learning while at the University of Victoria and to provide a valuable preparatory experience towards graduate studies or a research related career. The Division of Learning and Teaching Support and Innovation (LTSI) administers the award process on behalf of the Provost’s Office.
JCURA is directed at undergraduate students from all disciplines and who meet the following eligibility requirements:
- full-time third or fourth year undergraduate student (normally registered in 12 or more units of study in the winter session)
- excellent academic standing (normally with a minimum sessional GPA of 7.0)
- satisfy the general regulations of Student Awards and Financial Aid
This award experience allows students to be mentored by a faculty supervisor. Each academic unit is eligible for one to three student nominations per year, depending on the number of students in the unit.
Successful student applicants receive $1,500 credited directly to their UVic fee account.
2020-2021 Call for Nominations - Will be posted in February 2020
2020-2021 Eligibility for Indigenous Faculty and Students - Will be posted in February 2020
Application/nomination forms:
Application/nomination form 2020-2021 - Word format - .rtf format - Will be posted in February 2020
Please note: We ask that units collect all eligible nominations together and submit them as individual digital files in one email to the Division of Learning and Teaching Support and Innovation (LTSI).
The final deadline date for the LTSI to receive nominations from the faculty/department/school is June 30th.
Faculties/departments/schools are asked to submit all their unit's eligible number of nominations at the same time. Nominations will be processed and notifications will be made before mid-August.
Final survey
- Final survey - Student 2020-21 - Deadline date: Friday, April 24, 2020 (Will be sent out by email on March 5, 2020)
- Final survey - Supervisor 2020-21 - Deadline date: Friday, April 24, 2020 (Will be sent out by email on March 5, 2020)
General and financial questions
General questions concerning the Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards should be directed to the LTSI.
Financial and related questions (for example regarding distribution of funds) after the award has been approved should be directed to the Scholarship Officer or 250-721-8107.
| Student | Department | Project title |
|---|---|---|
| Anderson, Cole | Pacific and Asian Studies | Central Asian views of China’s Belt and Road Initiative |
| Verwoerd, Bethany | Curriculum and Instruction | Why do teachers choose to work at independent (versus public) schools? |
| Braun, Graham | Greek and Roman Studies | Defiant Maidens: The Social Role of Medusa and Gorgons in Art and Literature |
| Buhne, Eric | Political Science | Regional Identity in B.C. and Alberta: The Disparate Development of Identity in Western Canada |
| Burgoyne-King, Jessica | Political Science | Strategies of Co-Resistance: Indigenous and Black Mobilizing to Combat Racism and Colonialism in Canada |
| Byrne, Liam | Biology | Development of droplet digital PCR for detection of common N370S mutations |
| Callo, Esther | English | Tell Me a Story: Why Canadians Need Narratives by Indigenous Women |
| Carhoun, Jacqueline | Psychology | Body dysmorphic disorder and face perception |
| Cartwright, Sally | French | On and Off the Stage: Exploring Women’s Status in 18th Century Theatre |
| Castro, Melina Emilia Cortina | Sociology | Impermanent Workers, Permanent Labour: Policy Analysis of Temporary Foreign Workers Programs in BC |
| Cavallin, Natalie | Chemistry | New on-the-spot sensors for illicit drugs |
| Chudleigh, Jocelyn | Nursing | Holistic Healing and the Acute Care Setting: Connecting Theory to Practice |
| Cicon, Leah | Physics and Astronomy | Gold nanoparticle mediated cancer radiotherapy |
| Conway, Kate | Biochemistry and Microbiology | Investigating the effects of bacterial-derived antimicrobial peptides on host immunity |
| Corrie, Lorissa | Biochemistry and Microbiology | Dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate: Dispersant, laxative and endocrine disruptor |
| Costain, Rae | Anthropology | Indigenous Tattooing in British Columbia: Resistance and Resurgence in the Visual Record |
| Crozier, Chad | Religion, Culture and Society | SBNR: A Reclamation of the Lost Dimension of Religion |
| Dao, Nathan | Chemistry | Selective Access to a Functionalized Dicyclopentadiene Monomer |
| Daxini, Swapnil | Physics and Astronomy | Designing an External Cavity Diode Laser |
| Dierks, Katherine | Anthropology | More than just wool: Exploring the life and death of a Nuu-chah-nulth wool dog |
| Ebert, Sarah | Medical Sciences | Pannexin 1 in cortical neuron plasticity |
| Emery, Jamie | Economics | The Impact of Tobacco Smoking on Household Food Insecurity |
| Fitterer, John | Medical Sciences | Investigating Postnatal Choline Supplementation as a Potential Avenue for FASD Treatment |
| Fortini, Benjamin | Biology | A meta-analysis of marine light pollution on fish: Behavioural and physiological impacts |
| Franklin, Joshua | Visual Arts | Holon Inc.: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Holistic Process Based Art |
| Fraser, Jesse | Priority Initiative - Nursing | Teaching and Learning for Change: Building Knowledge and Skills to Address the Social Determinants of Health |
| Getz, Alan | Mathematics and Statistics | Applications of the Continuous Model Theory of C*-Algebras to Cantor Dynamical Systems |
| Giannopoulou, Kleio | Greek and Roman Studies | Child-slaves in Classical Athens |
| Good, Ireland | Germanic and Slavic Studies | An Analysis of the Euthanasia Program Propagated by the National Socialist Regime |
| Gulka, Sebastian | Biology | Confocal laser scanning microscope imaging of the ex vivo, intact, unfixed mouse cornea |
| Haaf, Jenna | Nursing | Does a Collaborative Learning Unit (CLU) impact development of a knowledge informed culture and implementation of evidence-based practice for nurses in priority patient settings? |
| Hackett, Kristin | Biology | Mechanisms of proliferation in transformed immune and neuronal cells: The biological effects of iron deficiency and excess |
| Hammerstrom, Mathew | Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education | Portable Measurement of Interbrain Neural Synchrony |
| Harder, Kathryn | Linguistics | Examining Sound Change in Hulq’umi’num’ |
| Harnois, Pierre-Jean | Geography | Transportation Geography in Victoria BC - Stakeholder views, current state of infrastructure, and planning for the near future |
| Hibbing, Lydia | Germanic and Slavic Studies | Bridging the German Gender Gap |
| Hoepner, Julia | Mathematics and Statistics | Eternal Roman Domination |
| Hof, Steve | Mathematics and Statistics | Hidden Markov Models for Estimating Difficult to Measure Populations |
| Holmes-Smith, Carmen | Earth and Ocean Sciences | Seasonal climatology study of diurnal, semidiurnal, and terdiurnal components of atmospheric tide from reanalysis |
| Ingram, Megan | Art History and Visual Studies | Police, Prejudice, and Film: Contemporary Perspectives on Filmic Representations of Law Enforcement |
| Jacobsen, Hanna | Interdisciplinary Academic Programs - Social Justice Studies | Transgender Identity Narratives in Communities |
| Jesperson, Talya | Interdisciplinary Academic Programs - Technology and Society | Using Technology To Curate Our Understanding of Politics |
| Johnson, Emma | Computer Science | Using Virtual Reality to Create Profound Experiences for Behavior Change: Tsunami Preparedness |
| Kelly, Alida | Social Work | Family Values |
| Kennedy, Mia | Biochemistry and Microbiology | Investigating the role of the short-chain fatty acid isovalerate on intestinal immune responses |
| Kikuchi, Kai | Pacific and Asian Studies | Technology and "Herbivore Men" in Japan |
| King, Alexandra | Geography | Forecasting Wildfire Severity: A Spatial Statistical Analysis |
| Kirkbride, Stephen | Philosophy | Aristotle on First Principles: Divine Substance and Book Lambda |
| Kocay, Brandi | Earth and Ocean Sciences | Geochemistry of carbonates formed during low temperature alteration of the oceanic crust |
| Kwan, Heather | Psychology | Comparative Behavioural Changes in Healthy Aging |
| Lacerte, Sage | Priority Initiative - Gender Studies | #strongresilientindigenous: _An exploration of Indigenous feminisms, decolonization and resurgence |
| Lake, Daniel | Economics | Living Learning Communities and University Student Success: Do Themed Residence Floors Impact Future Incomes? |
| Lakshmanan, Aditi | Nursing | The KhiTT framework: Knowledge translation and health information technology for transparency in policy-making |
| Landrey, Jennifer | History | Japanese Canadian Testimonies: An Oral History Inquiry |
| Larnder, Ashley | Chemistry | Evaluating Drug Checking Technologies |
| Lauder, Caroline | Sociology | Exploring the Intersection between Sociology and Marketing |
| Lawrence, Bronwyn | Child and Youth Care | Decolonizing Praxis: Implications for Child and Youth Care |
| Lazar, Katherine | Peter B. Gustavson School of Business | Encouragement of Cork as a Sustainable Building Material |
| Lee, Robert | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Data Mining Algorithms Implementation for Human Detection Application |
| Li, Sherry | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Application on high-Q silica microcavities: portable bio-monitor |
| Louw, Moira | Political Science | Identity Crisis: The Relevance of National Identity in the 21st Century |
| Luke, Cedar | Latin American Studies | Indigenous Governance and Community Resiliency in Cotacachi, Ecuador |
| Markwart, Emily | Music | Florence B. Price: An Antidote to the Whitewashed Classical Music Canon |
| Marshall, Liam | Philosophy | Objectivity and the Purpose of Philosophy in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations |
| Mason, Hana | Writing | Re-coming of Age: Themes, Motifs and Conventions in New Adult Fiction |
| McDonald, Callum | French | Zola’s Rougon-Macquart novels: A history of the Second French (Overseas) Empire? |
| McDowell, Catherine | Public Health and Social Policy | Informing Canada’s Blood Donor Deferral Policy for Sexual Minority Men |
| McMunagle, Alexa | Gender Studies | An Exploration of Transracialism and Transableism — Legitimacy, Reactions and Implications |
| Miller, John | Philosophy | Testimonial Alienation: A Marxist Examination of Testimonial Injustice |
| Moore, Hannah | Art History and Visual Studies | Revisiting the Anarchist Politics of Barnett Newman’s ‘Zip’ Paintings |
| Nielsen, Julianna | History | Orientalism, Borders, & (Im)Migration: the human dimensions of East/West border-making and -crossing |
| Oakley, Alex | Philosophy | Partial Grounds and Partial Essences: Does Every Part have a Whole? |
| Ogden, Shannon | Mathematics and Statistics | Total Roman Domination Edge-Critical Trees |
| Orsini, Henry | Geography | Development of a Fire Model in Southern Vancouver Island |
| Overeem, Tait | Environmental Studies | Changing Hydrological Dynamics in the Mackenzie Delta : A Gwich’in and Inuvialuit Perspective |
| Parker, Benjamin | Music | Post-War Art in Europe: Stravinsky, Sibelius, Vaughn Williams and Schoenberg in the wake of WW1 |
| Parkin, Hayley | Chemistry | Isolating Nickel Phosphenium Complexes for Catalytic Applications |
| Paterson, Keegan | Geography | Hospital Creek Estuary Restoration Project |
| Pinto, Sonja | English | Putting Down the Pen: Education Beyond the Classroom in Victorian Fiction |
| Pobuda, Anika | Germanic and Slavic Studies | Social and Political Instability and the Rise of Russian Absurdism in the Early 20th Century |
| Ponti, Paloma | Gender Studies | Perspectives on the Role of Counselling in Social Change and Activism |
| Rambold, Natalya | Political Science | Masculinities in Motion: The Implications of Shifting Narratives of Nationalism on The Formation of Canadian Masculine Identities |
| Ronayne, Emma | Anthropology | Maternal mortality: Inevitable evolutionary obstetrical dilemma or preventable health outcome? |
| Ross, James | Pacific and Asian Studies | Impact of Media on Mental Health in Japan |
| Ruff, Kara | Priority Initiative - Biology | Proof of principle: targeting of GFP to Dictyostelium mitochondrial matrix |
| Santana, Sebastian | Psychology | Music and Dementia: Exploring Protective Factors for Cognitive Function |
| Scharf, Makayla | English | Gendered Monstrosity in Malory’s Le Morte d'Arthur |
| Schneider, Lindsey | Hispanic and Italian Studies | ¿Y sí los facistas ganaran?/And if the Fascists Won? Spain and World War II Political Narratives |
| Senay, Zack | Psychology | Predicting onset of disordered eating behaviours in first-year undergraduate students |
| Seyed-Ali, Seyed Sina | Economics | Reassessing Plea Bargaining and Separating the Innocent |
| Shaman, Wren | History | An Exploration of the Ethics of Studying Indigenous Settler Relations at the Undergraduate Level |
| Short, Monica | Geography | Human Predators and the Transfer of Zoonotic Diseases: Exploring how disease risk might affect which species are targeted for human consumption |
| Simpson, Lucas | English | Gates in the London Wall and their Spatial, Cultural, and Regulatory Significance |
| Stagg, Katie | Chemistry | Microbrewidics: Creating stable hop oil emulsions using microfluidic technology |
| Steele, Robert | English | Changing Times: Timepieces as Metonyms of Industrialization in Victorian Fiction |
| Stefanek, Evan | Mechanical Engineering | 3D Bioprinting of cell-laden hydrogel microfibres |
| Stewart-Dziama, Rachel | Anthropology | Ethnographic Mapping and Indigenous Landscapes in the Gulf Islands |
| Studders, Carson | Mechanical Engineering | Effect of Screw Configuration on Bone Graft Micromotion in BIO-RSA |
| Styner, Tyler | Environmental Studies | Exploring (& Expanding) the Historical Ecology of Clam Populations in the Southern Gulf Islands |
| Swaich, Anmol | Psychology | How young adults with immigrant backgrounds navigate cultural differences in gender roles |
| Taillieu, Deanne | Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education | Impact of University Cafeteria Nudge Strategies on Student Vegetable Purchasing |
| Tervo, Christian | Theatre | Representing War on the Canadian Stage |
| Thomas, William | Economics | Carbon Pricing Effects on Canadian Manufacturing Sectors and Final Product Importation Rates |
| Thomson, Malcolm | Interdisciplinary Academic Programs - European Studies | After the Crash-Out: Understanding the Implication of Brexit on EU Economic and Monetary Integration |
| Timmins, Marielle | Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education | Impact of Actue Stress on Human EEG |
| Toppings, Jillian | Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education | Impact of Stress on the EEG Correlates of Human Decision-Making |
| Underdown, Chantal | Environmental Studies | Frog and frog habitat census |
| Vanwieren, Connor | Earth and Ocean Sciences | Characterizing the Triassic/Jurassic boundary through stratigraphy of northern Vancouver Island carbonates |
| Verwoerd, Bethany | Curriculum and Instruction | Why do teachers choose to work at independent (versus public) schools? |
| Wang, Anke | Economics | Incorporating Subjective Well-Being (SWB) into the Human Development Index (HDI) |
| Washington, Annie | Peter B. Gustavson School of Business | The Role of Family Businesses in the Czech Republic |
| Weinzierl, Miriam | Nursing | Metal hypersensitivity screening among healthcare workers |
| Wensink, Christine | Peter B. Gustavson School of Business | Increasing Life Expectancy in Spain and the Disregarded Socioeconomic Costs |
| Wheeler, Olivia | Theatre | EVOKE: An Exploration of Theatrical Designs Emotional Stimulus |
| Wilkinson, Scott | Physics and Astronomy | Observing the Frequency of Mergers in Post-Starburst Galaxies |
| Woodland, Candace | Sociology | Bisexual Identity Maintenance: Facing Biphobia and Bi-Erasure in Popular Media |
| Xu, Keren | Music | The flute solo repertoire ‘Reflections 1’ and reception of female composer Diane Berry |
| Yang, Soolin | Child and Youth Care | Decolonizing praxis: Implications for Child and Youth Care |
| Zaborniak, Tristan | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Electronic Transport in Molecular Networks |
| Zhao, Yichun | Computer Science | Dealing with Fake News: Automated Fact-checking AI Algorithms and Trust Database to Monitor, Summarize, and Cross-reference Information, and to Identify Claims |