This project will partner with an Alberta-based manufacturer(s) producing recycled-rubber products (e.g., recycled-rubber noise barrier panels, traffic barriers, fitness flooring, brake pads, and agricultural mats). The goal is for the Sustainability Scholar to work in partnership with the Alberta Recycling Management Authority (ARMA), the manufacturer and a municipal partner(s) to understand and align product performance […]

Located in the zone between Alberta’s grasslands and boreal forests, the Central Parkland natural subregion is an area of ecological transition, where many endangered species persist tenuously on the edge of their ranges, or have already been silently lost before conservationists understood what habitats and connections on the landscape were critical to their survival. In […]

Rising carbon dioxide emissions necessitate innovative approaches for its capture and effective conversion into valuable chemical products. This project will develop Frustrated Lewis Pairs (FLPs) tethered to redox-active ortho-carboranes, providing a tunable platform for carbon dioxide capture and catalytic hydrosilylation. By combining electrochemical activation with main-group catalysis, the project aims to synthesize a new class […]

This project examines how Chinese restaurant owners and operators in London’s Soho Chinatown navigate rapid change. Restaurants are central to Chinatown’s economy and to how “Chinatown” is publicly represented through food, space, and everyday hospitality practices. As tourism markets shift and new culinary trends emerge, operators make practical decisions about menus, branding, service, and target […]

Develop a data-driven return on investment (ROI) financial model to transform commercial EV charger installation in Edmonton that underscores this undeniably smart investment to accelerate private-sector EV adoption. This project moves beyond the “why” of sustainability and into the “how” of business finance. The scholar would develop an ROI model that effectively communicates the justification […]

This project will help Pure Environmental improve how it collects and maps important environmental and regulatory data. Pure has already built an initial version of a mapping tool in ArcGIS, and the intern will help make this system more reliable, easier to use, and able to pull in new information automatically. By strengthening this platform, […]

This project aims to couple a multimode optical fiber(MMF) to a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector(SNSPD) and characterize it. SNSPDs are currently the most sensitive single-photon detectors available. But most of the current SNSPDs are coupled using single-mode fibers(SMF), which collect photons in only one spatial mode. This is inefficient when collecting photons from biological samples, […]

This project aims to modernize Trueffect’s end-to-end data workflow by designing and enhancing a secure digital platform for client data exchange, validation, and analysis. The organization currently handles complex analytical datasets from multiple client partners, requiring a more efficient and scalable approach to ingestion, quality assurance, and internal analyst workflows. The proposed initiative introduces a […]

This project focuses on how people use modifiers to explain abstract terms in English and Chinese, employing Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) to describe the linear positions of modifiers, the levels of meaning they target, and whether they affect truth conditions. Aimed at education, public communication, and language technology, it will deliver clear hierarchy–scope–linearization criteria and […]

When we sleep, the brain produces rhythmic patterns of activity that help us learn, remember, and maintain healthy function. Some of these patterns travel across the brain like waves. Scientists believe these traveling waves are important for how the brain processes information, but we still do not fully understand how they form or what they […]

Precision assessment of standard laboratory methods for corrosion inhibitor evaluation.

At present, the data collected from the Fuel Management System (FMS) is only being used to a fraction of its potential. Our proposed solution is to delve into FMS data along with maintenance and operations information on critical mine site equipment such as heavy haul trucks, excavation equipment, and their light vehicle fleet to optimize […]