Nearly 80 up-and-coming University of Alberta graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are getting a federal funding boost to build the research and professional skills they’ll need to succeed in the next stage of their careers.
The U of A recipients are receiving scholarships and fellowships through the Canada Research Training Awards Suite, which brings together award programs from the three federal research funding agencies with the common goal of supporting the next generation of innovators.
“These talented graduate students and postdoctoral scholars have shown exceptional promise in fields across the natural and life sciences, health sciences and engineering,” says Tracy Raivio, vice-provost and dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. “These awards will help them fully realize their potential as future leaders in seeking solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges.”
The Canada Research Training Awards Suite includes three levels of awards: one-year master’s scholarships worth $27,000, three-year doctoral scholarships valued at $40,000 per year, and two-year postdoctoral awards of $70,000 per year.
U of A award recipients
Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Master’s
- Tia Attfield (Biological Sciences)
- Amy Bacon (Chemistry)
- Alexander Baxter (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)
- Danielle Beaulieu (Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging)
- Damon Bectell (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
- Samuel Bennett (Renewable Resources)
- Brandon Chilagan (Cell Biology)
- Cynthia Cui (Mechanical Engineering)
- Sydney Davidson-Yee (Biological Sciences)
- Abhigya Devkota (Mechanical Engineering)
- Mason D'Souza (Laboratory Medicine and Pathology)
- Thomas Dumont (Biochemistry)
- Kate Edwards (School of Public Health)
- Lubna Fazilat (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
- Evan Francis (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)
- Bailey Grondin (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)
- Garrett Grubisa (Laboratory Medicine and Pathology)
- Advait Gulawani (Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute)
- Jaimee Hodgson (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)
- Amber Hutton (Chemistry)
- Tyne Johnson-Dhillon (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
- Raymond Kwok (Biological Sciences)
- Zachary Larsen (Faculty of Engineering)
- Katelynn Lidman (Biological Sciences)
- Katherine Lin (Mechanical Engineering)
- Henry Mackay (Faculty of Science)
- Autumn McFetridge (Psychology)
- Grace Melvie (Medical Microbiology and Immunology)
- Kian Merkosky (Biological Sciences)
- Danielle Nadeau (Biological Sciences)
- Keiran Nicholson (Physics)
- Kota Norikane (Biochemistry)
- Benjamin Oblinski (Mechanical Engineering)
- Leonard Patterson (Biological Sciences)
- Lukian Podilsky (Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute)
- Amreen Podruzny (Biological Sciences)
- Adrienne Poulin (Mechanical Engineering)
- Veronica Price (Biological Sciences)
- Erin Rees (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- Saeed Shabani (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- Ethan Shaigec (Biological Sciences)
- Tanis Short (Renewable Resources)
- Mohana Talasila (Biological Sciences)
- Matthew Thomson (Physics)
- Pavlo Tsisar (Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
- Gursevak Uppal (Laboratory Medicine and Pathology)
- Brevan Wagner (Biological Sciences)
- Lindsay Weller (Chemistry)
- Alex Zhang (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral
- Hadi Afsaneh (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- Benjamin Bekkema (Chemistry)
- Grace Ciarniello (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- Diego Fernando Gomez Noriega (Computing Science)
- Lucas Graf-Alexiou (Mechanical Engineering)
- Chenyue Guo (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- Gabrielle Hatten (Biological Sciences)
- Jiamin He (Computing Science)
- Siyi Huang (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- Andrea Johnson (Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute)
- Kiara Kattler (Biological Sciences)
- Jessica Leverett (Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation)
- Lisa MacLeod (Biological Sciences)
- Ian MacPherson (Physics)
- Alessia Marchesan (Renewable Resources)
- Jenelle McCuaig (Biological Sciences)
- Hossein Mehnatkesh Ghadikolaei (Mechanical Engineering)
- Nima Narjabadifam (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- Abigail Paul (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- Alexandra Shyntar (Mathematical and Statistical Sciences)
- Sarah Smeltz (Psychology)
- Matthew Vandergrift (Computing Science)
- Xinkai Xu (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Canada Postdoctoral Research Award
- Tae Hyun Chung (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- Tianqi Jia (Chemistry)
- Lixing Lin (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- Michael Przystupa (Computing Science)
- Rachel Raymond (Biological Sciences)
- Basem Yusuf Shahriar (Electrical and Computer Engineering)