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“El Yerro Barroco / The Baroque Error”

Baroque is defined as an irregular pearl, and it is described as an oddity. This oddity or kink, as defined in the dictionary, hints at how the baroque that Spain created transcended an artistic style. In Spain during the XVI century, including the conquest in 1521 in Mexico all the way to the beginning of the XVIII century, the “Spanishness” (hispanidad) merged the baroque worldview with culture, politics, society, and religion. Colonization provoked a clash of civilization between the new and the old, the modern and the savage (the calibán). My specific focus will be on the baroque in contemporary society in Mexico to explain how we understand social-historical phenomena and relationships. My project explores and connects the core cultural, theoretical, political, religious, artistic manifestations of baroque in contemporary Mexico, and by extension Latin American, where Brazil and Mexico for example, is one of the most Catholic countries in Latin American because their colonial heritage.

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Faculty Supervisor:

William French

Student:

Carlos Colín

Partner:

Discipline:

History

Sector:

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

A Sense of Self: Examining the Relationship between Chinese Religion and Self-Identity

My project will be examining different aspects of Chinese popular religion, including online representations, physical landmarks, and firsthand accounts, and drawing connections between popular religion in China and the self- and community-identities of lay practitioners in Beijing. I will be visiting sites in Beijing, including St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Yonghe Gong, and Baiyun Guan, examining primary and secondary online sources for each of these sites, and conducting interviews with practitioners of these three religions, Christianity, Taoism, and Buddhism. The goal of this research project is to draw connections between the resurgence of popular religion in China and the ways in which identities of practitioners have been shaped by it.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Susan Andrews

Student:

Cassidy Phillips

Partner:

+VG Architects

Discipline:

Religion

Sector:

University:

Mount Allison University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Family Ties in Monastic’s Lives: A Study of Contemporary Monasticism in Beijing

The project investigates the practices of contemporary Buddhist Monastics in relation to their interaction and communication with family members. The question to be investigated is: To what extent, if at all, do contemporary monastics maintain relationships with living family members? The research will focus, in particular, on ways that family is understood in this context and the influence, if any, that modern technology has on relationships between monastics and their families. The research will entail studying autobiographies of contemporary Chinese monastics as well as conducting in-depth interviews with five practicing Buddhist Monks residing in Beijing, China. Beyond simply illuminating the ways that family works in religion, this project should help us to better understand the contemporary Chinese religions generally.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Susan Andrews

Student:

Megan Moffatt

Partner:

Discipline:

Religion

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University:

Mount Allison University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

In Conversation with Contemporary Chinese Pure Land Buddhism: What It Means to Practice

“In Conversation with Contemporary Chinese Pure Land Buddhism: What it Means to Practice” is a study of the relationship between objects and practice in Pure Land Buddhism as told by the practitioners themselves. Interviewing scholars and practitioners of contemporary Chinese Pure Land Buddhism and visiting key sites of practice in the Shanghai area, I will ask questions such as: What objects, if any, define contemporary Chinese Pure Land practice? Does curated space count as a material object? When Buddhism moves locales, from Japan to China for example, how does the materiality of the tradition get transferred? How do objects lose or gain meaning when they change locations? This project is an extension of work that I began as an intern for the Pluralism Project at Harvard University in the San Francisco Bay Area and will now extend into the urban Shanghai area. The outcome of this research will be three podcasts, a research paper that will be included in my Master’s thesis, a presentation and five entries in the Material Culture and East Asian Religion website we are developing at Mount Allison University.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Susan Andrews

Student:

Emma Bass

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Discipline:

Religion

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University:

Mount Allison University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Secure Outsourcing of Storage and Computation

The rise of cloud technologies and the proliferation of mobile devices have revolutionized data storage and their processing. Amongst numerous benefits, cloud technologies offer a flexible way to outsource storage and computation to the cloud vendors. As a result, sensitive data often end up being managed on remote servers maintained by third party outsourcing vendors. Whence, despite being envisioned as a promising service for the future, security and privacy issues remain the major inhibiting factors towards a wide scale acceptance of cloud technologies in practice. The goal of this project is to improve upon existing cloud technologies and design scalable and practical solutions for new and emerging problems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rei Safavi-Naini

Student:

Amrit Kumar

Partner:

Discipline:

Computer science

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University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Mathematical Modeling of Fetal Cardiovascular, Neurovascular, and Metabolic Response to Umbilical Cord Occlusions

Acidification of fetal blood presents one of the greatest risks to the fetus during childbirth. Current monitoring technologies focusing on recording fetal heart rate are poor indicators of fetal stress levels, and provide minimal assistance in clinical decision-making. This is due to a lack of understanding about which features of fetal heart rate best represent blood acid levels. Since fetal heart rate is one of the most inexpensive and easily obtained measurements of fetal stress, identifying the properties of fetal heart that best predict the outcome of labour is a highly relevant research goal. Mathematical and computer modeling presents an opportunity to analyze different features of fetal heart rate in a systematic way, without the need for expensive or impossible to perform experiments. The goal of our research is to develop a mathematical model that reproduces observed changes in fetal heart rate during labour, and precisely correlate these changes to blood acid levels. This will allow researchers and clinicians alike to better monitor fetal stress from easily obtained signals.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Huaxiong Huang

Student:

Nathan Gold

Partner:

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

University:

York University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Simulation numérique de la chauffe surfacique de cylindres en superalliage pour modifier les microstructures et créer des gradients de propriétés

L’amélioration des performances des pièces structurales pour l’aéronautique demande de d’optimiser le comportement spécifique de chaque région des pièces fabriquées au besoin spécifique de celle-ci. C’est ce que l’on entend par conception de gradient de propriétés fonctionnelles. Une des voies proposée est l’introduction de gradient de microstructure et de propriétés au sein des pièces, et cela grâce à la création de gradients contrôlés de températures à la surface des pièces lors de traitements thermiques. Dans le cadre de ce stage, l’évolution des microstructures en fonction du temps et de la température sera étudié pour qu’à partir d’un historique thermique l’on puisse prédire l’évolution des microstructures dans pièces chauffées. On pourra ainsi mieux comprendre les conditions requises pour obtenir des pièces avec des gradients fonctionnalités de microstructure. Ces informations permettront à l’entreprise partenaire de concevoir les procédés de chauffe appropriés permettant d’atteindre de tels gradients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philippe Bocher

Student:

Achraf Senhaji

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate International

Asset-Based Community Enterprise Development in Bolivia Year Two

This cross-sectoral research project will track the process of supporting four nascent community-based enterprises (CBEs) in indigenous communities in the Bolivian highlands, examining the complex interaction of factors that contribute to successful CBEs. The four cases will provide a test of an innovative “Community-Based Enterprise Development Model” (CBED Model) as a method to facilitate and generate self-defined, community-led sustainable development with indigenous peoples that can be applied in Bolivia, other Andean countries, and potentially with immigrant or First Nations populations in Canada. The Canadian industry partner is seeking to support sustainable community development initiatives with marginalized populations as part of their emerging corporate social responsibility strategy. This research will allow them to assess the potential impact of the CBED Model with a minimal initial investment, before moving forward to funding and supporting this model on a wider scale.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Roseland

Student:

Gretchen Hernandez

Partner:

ILSC Education Group

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Elevate

A hybrid brain-computer interface (BCI) using tactile stimulus and motor imagery

Brain computer interfaces (BCI) allow for persons with severe motor impairment to communicate with the outside world. These systems work by either providing some stimulus (in the form of sound, touch or visual cues) or asking the user to imagine a certain motion. By analyzing the resulting brain activity using superficial electrodes on the scalp, a technique known as electroencephalography (EEG), selections on a computer may be made. Our research will combine motor imagery with tactile (touch) stimulus into one hybrid BCI. This BCI system will include two distinct sources of information and is expected to have a high accuracy as well as information transfer rate. Such a hybridBCI is a cutting-edge system that is expected to advance the field of assistive communication device development. This will move us one step closer to providing those with severe motor impairments the transformational ability to communicate with others.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Noseworthy

Student:

Rami Saab

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

A general population study of Brazilian lottery players who engage in ‘Jogo do Bicho’ (Brazilian Animal Game) and their motivations

Jogo Do Bicho, also known as the Brazilian Animal Game (BAG), is an immensely popular illegal gambling game in Brazil. Indeed, BAG generates over 60% more in revenues than legal lotteries. This is a concern as the revenue from BAG is used to fund criminal activities. Further, draws for BAG occur more frequently than the official state lotteries, which may increase the probability of an individual developing a gambling addiction. Unfortunately, there have only been a few research studies on BAG, which have focused on gamblers in treatment who make up a small portion of gamblers overall. Thus, the proposed research will examine whether BAG is associated with increased risk of gambling addiction among lottery players in the general population. In addition, the research will examine BAG player’s motivations for engaging in BAG over legal lotteries. It is expected that BAG will be associated with an increase in gambling related harms and that the ease of play and frequent draws will be main factors why gamblers chose BAG over legal lotteries.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Hodgins

Student:

Hyoun Soo Kim

Partner:

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Sedimentation of petroleum coated particles in non-aqueous phase

Extraction of a solvent has been considered as one of the promising methods for heavy hydrocarbon recovery from oil and tar sands because of its low usage of water, as well as its high efficiency rates. Unfortunately, longer sedimentation times are caused by the mineral particles being suspended in a non-aqueous solution because of the heavy fractions on the particles surface (which is a result of the usage of coated petroleum components). To help better understand this property, the main focus of my study will be to investigate the particle sedimentation in the solvents through the testing and analysis of various parameters. Following my stay at china and the conclusion of the investigation on this project, we expect to obtain values for the aforementioned parameters and use this data to publish 1~2 academic papers. These variables in question include the settling rate, the size distribution, and the mineral composition of the petroleum coated particle sedimentation in non-aqueous solution.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jesse Zhu

Student:

Aun Ehsan

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

University:

Western University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

The Search for Earliest Triassic Refugia

Four billion species are estimated to have evolved on Earth over the last 3.5 billion years, of which 99% are extinct. The end-Permian extinction is the largest extinction event that resulted in the elimination of 97% of oceanic species. The conditions that led to this devastating event are similar to the environmental changes we are experiencing today, including increasing temperature, ocean acidification and a decrease in ocean circulation. Understanding how marine ecosystems recovered from the end-Permian extinction is vital to future marine conservation efforts. Refuges are defined as sanctuaries to which organisms migrate during times of environmental stress. Despite their importance, the concept of refugia is poorly understood. This project will describe new Early Triassic refugia in Japan and in so-doing provide the necessary first steps to develop a universal framework for the identification of refugia in the rock record. The results could inform best practices to mitigate effects on biodiversity during the projected sixth extinction in our future.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Charles Henderson

Student:

Amanda Godbold

Partner:

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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