A doctoral citation summarizes the nature of the independent research, provides a high-level overview of the study, states the significance of the work and says who will benefit from the findings in clear, non-specialized language, so that members of a lay audience will understand it.
| Year | Citation | Program |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Dr. Qiu studied how suicidal individuals construe death, and how different aspects of death construal relate to suicidal ideation and attempts. This research enhances understanding of the progression from suicidal thoughts to acts. | Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Ma conducted cross-field research in labor, public, and education economics. He found that student grants provided to low-income family students lead to higher earnings after graduation. The findings assist us in understanding the long-term labor market impact of various forms of student financial aids. | Doctor of Philosophy in Economics (PhD) |
| 2022 | Utilizing literature from philosophy, cognitive science, and dance studies, Dr. Heckman argued that spectators' bodily responses to dance are crucial for understanding and appreciating dance. | Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Johnson explored the experiences of adolescents who had completed treatment for cancer. Posttreatment is an invisible phase in the cancer trajectory yet holds significant implications for youth. This research highlights posttreatment as a dynamic period of time and compels clinical attention to it within adolescents' cancer survivorship care. | Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Juang uncovered novel mechanisms of blood clotting and developed reagents that modulate clotting to decrease both bleeding and the formation obstructive clots. In the short-term, these reagents are useful as research tool to study blood clotting. In the long-term, these reagents will hopefully be translated into the clinic as therapeutics. | Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (PhD) |
| 2022 | Driven by the demand for improving fuel efficiency, the automotive industry has been committed to reducing vehicle weight. Many casting technologies have been employed to produce aluminum automotive parts. Dr. Wei has worked to optimize the process parameters and die tooling design to improve cast quality for lightweight aluminum components. | Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Engineering (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Javed has developed breast cancer models to target primary and metastatic tumors at distant sites. She also explored the role of finger like projections-invadopodia in helping tumor cells movement through the lymphatic system. The findings from these studies will be helpful in providing an in-depth insight into targeting tumor metastasis. | Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmaceutical Sciences (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Cormier developed a novel adversarial machine learning algorithm in order to detect particles with challenging signatures in the ATLAS detector. This research both furthered the combination of machine learning and particle physics, as well as led to world-leading limits on the possible existence of some theories beyond the standard model. | Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Littlejohn developed a murine model to study the impact of early-life exposure to multiple micronutrient deficiencies on host, gut microbiome and resistome. Her most significant finding was that early-life micronutrient deficiencies induced clinically relevant antibiotic resistance which has major policy implications for malnourished children. | Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology and Immunology (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. D'Acunha compared carbon and water fluxes from natural and managed ecosystems in Brazil. She found that the magnitude, seasonality and drivers of these fluxes change with biome, land use and management. Her research increases our understanding of tropical ecosystems, and helps inform policies for land management and climate change mitigation. | Doctor of Philosophy in Geological Sciences (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Hacker used drone-based hyperspectral imagery to examine the impact of human activities on ecosystem functioning and biodiversity in endangered prairie-oak savannahs. This research provides quantitative evidence that human activities can alter plant function and introduces a method for detecting a global plant invader, Scotch broom. | Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Smith investigated how settler forestry and conservation management in British Columbia impact Lil'wat First Nation's processes to recover food sovereignty. Through collaborative community-based research with Lil'wat, Dr. Smith's research produces insights and potential pathways forward for supporting and enhancing Lil'wat Nation food sovereignty. | Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Mandal used computational simulation and experimental validation to develop an understanding of parameters related to pulsed UV light treatment of liquid foods. He developed a reactor for processing of liquid foods that can inactivate the microorganisms present in these foods, while retaining their sensory quality and nutritional value. | Doctor of Philosophy in Food Science (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Ryu studied the practices of Canadian death educators, who educate adults in public domains. She found that to change the culture of denying and defying death, we need to put efforts to die well and care for the dying and dead. With mortality, she binds all human and non-human beings, proposing broader solidarity and different ways to educate. | Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. George studied bacterial symbionts of microbial eukaryotes and viruses of symbionts. Her work highlights the complex interactions between viruses and microbes from diverse environments and provides valuable insights into their evolution. | Doctor of Philosophy in Botany (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Simkin examined differences in cancer risk by geography in British Columbia, Canada, using various methods that leverage locational information. In doing so, he revealed new insights on the geographical distributions of cancer, and developed analytic approaches and tools that provide localized information to support regional health planning. | Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Wang researched the causes and legacies of a state-sponsored massacre of Muslims in southwestern China. She investigated how Islam and Maoism had shaped interactions between Muslim villagers and communist officials from 1949 to 2019. Her work provides insights into why religious conflicts frequently emerge under communist rule in modern China. | Doctor of Philosophy in History (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Semenec looks at how discourses embedded in curriculum and everyday classroom practices position children as coherent, knowable, and agentic subjects who are responsible for their own mis/behaviour, and offers alternative, more speculative responses to the problem of in/attention among children. | Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Iwase examined why and how foreign national young migrants in Japan have been treated as problems despite the government's policies of multicultural coexistence. As a researcher-teacher-videographer, he collaborated with a group of young migrants to produce videos to find alternative ideas and hopes for their coexistence in the country. | Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Medina explored Indigenous mathematics through culture-based practices of his Maya Elders. His research demonstrates how Indigenous ways of knowing can engender greater awareness of meaningful mathematical heritages. Dr. Medina argues that mathematics, far from being immaterial and disembodied, is deeply material, human, and cultural. | Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum Studies (PhD) |
| 2022 | The most urgent ethical task in the face of genocide is the demand to stop it. Rooted in her experiences and philosophical study of anti-genocide activism, Dr. Adi Burton responds to the ethical, political, and educational crises of recent decades and posits a theory of praxis that aims to address the problem of action or response to genocide. | Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Scorah examined the nature of risk in wildfire management and how best to use public dollars to reduce those risks. The work emphasizes the need to be humble in the face of natural forces. | Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Adkins studied the impact of social pressures on interracial relationships. She discovered that individuals restructure their identity using methods to develop and maintain racialized trust with their partners. Her contributions include introducing a new process called racial frame convergence, which advances the areas of identity and trust. | Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Arostegui discovered the embryonic origin of a unique cell population responsible for the development of tendon-bone attachment sites and various stromal lineages in the limb. This work represents the foundation for future studies involving the role of this unique cell population in tissue repair and regeneration. | Doctor of Philosophy in Cell and Developmental Biology (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. MacLeod helped lead a team of scientists and engineers that built the world's first self-driving laboratory for optimizing thin-film materials. This autonomous robotic laboratory accelerates the development of new and improved materials for clean energy applications. | Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry (PhD) |