SGS Celebrates Graduate Student Winners of Federal Tri-Council Awards - Narissa Byers
Andrea
Posted: Apr 17, 2025
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Profile of: Narissa Byers Award Received: NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral Awarded for the project: Eye Movements and Perceptual Processing During Reading in Linguistically Diverse Older Adults: An Eye-Tracking Investigation Department: Psychology Supervisor: Dr. Veronica Whitford What happens to our ability to understand printed information as we age? As the global population of...
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Andrea
Posted: Apr 11, 2025
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Profile of: Amber McMillan Award Received: SSHRC Postgraduate Scholarship - Doctoral Awarded for the project: Inheritance, a poetry collection that wrestles with relational ethics in New Brunswick Department: English Supervisor: Dr. Sue Sinclair How does the language we use reflect and reinforce colonial ideologies, and in what ways can it be transformed to challenge these power dynamics? How...
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Andrea
Posted: Apr 2, 2025
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Profile of: Fawn Parker Award Received: SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral Awarded for the project: Indifference, The Unreliable Author—Writing By and About Mad Women Department: English Supervisor: Dr. Kasia Van Schaik My doctoral project, a novel and accompanying critical introduction, deals with themes of Madness, psychiatric institutionalization, and womens'...
Read the full postImages of Research 2025 - Winning Entries Announced
Andrea
Posted: Mar 31, 2025
Category: News and Events , Student Stories , Money Matters
Congratulations to Liam Brennan and all the winners of the 2025 Images of Research competition! This collaboration between the School of Graduate Studies and the Harrient Irving Library Research Commons asked UNB students to capture their work in a single image. This year's images will be dispalyed at the Hans W. Klohn Commons and the Research Commons on the third floor of the Harriet...
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Andrea
Posted: Mar 26, 2025
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Profile of: Chris Ryan Award Received: SSHRC Post-Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral Awarded for the project: Exploring education innovation through institutional studies and applied neurocognition Department: Interdisciplinary Studies Supervisor: Dr. Jonathon Edwards As our society continues to evolve, there is pressure on public schools around the world to change and adapt. One of the big...
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Andrea
Posted: Feb 19, 2025
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Profile of: Connor deMerchant Award Received: Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral Awarded for the project: Making Whiteness, Remaking Empire: The Poor Whites of Dorsetshire Hill, St. Vincent, 1834-1940 Department: Historical Studies Supervisor: Dr. Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy My project demonstrates that the racialization of poverty in Barbados and St. Vincent is, in many ways, a legacy of an...
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Andrea
Posted: Feb 12, 2025
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Profile of: Allyson Lamont Award Received: SSHRC Post-Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral Awarded for the project: Mental Health and Help-Seeking at the Intersection of Food Insecurity and Other Social Determinants of Health Department: Psychology Supervisor: Dr. David Speed Nearly one in four Canadians are food insecure, meaning they experience inadequate or uncertain access to...
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Andrea
Posted: Feb 5, 2025
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Profile of: Eliza Ives Award Received: SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral Awarded for the project: Insomnia: A Fugue State Department: English Supervisors: Dr. John Ball and Dr. Stephen Schryer Insomnia is a common yet poorly understood disorder. My doctoral project, a narrative composed both of fiction and fact, relates a year-long episode of chronic insomnia, for which there was no...
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Andrea
Posted: Jan 29, 2025
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Profile of: Meghan Kemp-Gee Award Received: SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral Awarded for the project: The Lyric and the Athlete Department: English Supervisor: Dr. Sue Sinclair What can competitive sports teach us about poetry? Can we "read" a tennis match like a lyric poem? I came to UNB to write and study lyric poetry, and I’ve also been a competitive athlete since I was...
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Andrea
Posted: Jan 16, 2025
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Profile of: Janet Mills Award Received: SSHRC Post-Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral Awarded for the project: Religion, Reverberations, and Rebellion: Demerara in the Age of Abolition, 1795-1834 Department: Historical Studies Supervisor: Dr. Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy Today we rely on communication through social media and other modern advantages. But what did we do before the internet, television, or...
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