This capstone project seeks to develop intervention strategies to help Varsity Courts Student Family Housing (VCSFH) become a zero-waste community. Thus, this project aims to contribute to achieving the University of Calgary zero-waste goals. Nature’s Ride can use the intervention strategies as workshops that can be taught in schools. Nature’s Ride can explore the possibility […]

During COVID-19 the demand for the services at Connected Canadians has gone up significantly, and the strain on the volunteer management team has gone through the roof. Communities all over Canada asking Connected Canadians for help. One of the key areas that have expanded in scope is dealing with those communities, and standardizing the procedures […]

The project to be undertaken by the intern is to work with the executive team in the development and execution of strategies that promote the sustainability and financial health of the organization, and enhance its ability to engage clients. The focus will be on documenting vital business functions in order to create a system of […]

As new generations of millimetre-wavelength cosmology experiments look to detect ever-fainter signals, they require ever-increasing levels of sensitivity. Because modern detectors and readout systems already operate at such high levels of performance that they attain the physical limit imposed by the photons they detect, any improvements in sensitivity must instead come from increasing the number […]

The overall aim of this research is to improve the educational experiences and outcomes of Indigenous autistic students, their families, teachers and communities by more deeply understanding Indigenous approaches to autism and intervening in settler colonialist and ableist policy and practice. The research is located in Brandon, Manitoba. The research questions, which will be explored […]

My summer internship will support CFRAC’s efforts to respond to racism and discrimination in Edmonton, which has been made more difficult due to the challenges posed by COVID-19. Due to lock-down measures imposed by provincial and municipal governments, most Edmonton organizations have encountered varying financial implications. COVID-19 has also impacted non-profits, like CFRAC, uniquely due […]

This four-month project with The Centre for Race and Culture (CFRAC) will provide the Intern with hands-on, real-life experience. The Intern will support CFRAC’s business plan development, brand identity, and relationship management. The Intern will work with the Executive Director to advance CFRAC’s social enterprise and innovate its strategy to today’s environment. The Intern will […]

In a seminal paper, Juslin and Västfjäll (2008) propose that visual imagery—i.e. experiencing images such as landscapes, people or abstract shapes in one’s mind’s eye—is one of several mechanisms by which music induces emotions in the listener. This claim is supported by evidence showing that 77% of a representative sample report having experienced visual imagery […]

I am in the MUN MBA SEE program. This project will delve into the supports available for university students with disabilities who are interested in becoming entrepreneurs. This research will be used to develop a social enterprise that focuses on peer and professional support for young entrepreneurs with disabilities. This project can form the basis […]

Our goal is to create an environment for the robots to participate in a cooperative situation and collaborate with other robots and human on cooperating task. Games like Hanabi and Block Stacking problems are good examples of goal-oriented and cooperation focused problem-solving tasks that will lead us to implement an algorithm that can be applied […]

The proposed research is a study to test the effectiveness of a health promotion campaign to increase physical activity delivered via WhatsApp to Mexican adolescents. We believe that adolescents who receive three weekly PA promotion messages via WhatsApp will increase their physical activity. Youth aged 15-17 will be recruited from three regional high schools. Changes […]

Approximately 80% of currently used antibiotics were first discovered from Streptomyces. In addition, many pharmaceuticals, including antibiotics, are halogenated. In particular about a quarter of the top-selling pharmaceuticals are fluorine-containing compounds. The overall objective of my doctoral thesis is to elucidate the complete biosynthetic pathway of the fluorinated antibiotic, nucleocidin, in Streptomyces. Elucidating the biosynthesis […]