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2021-01-01

Gouda, Maged

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) hold the promise to bring about a paradigm shift in transportation safety and mobility. CAVs mimic humans’ behavior. Instead of eyes and brains connected with a nervous system, AVs use sensors and computer systems connected with several types of...

2024-06-01

Noton, Emily

My socio-cultural research on women and ballet draws from Michel Foucault’s post-structuralist theories about power, identity and the self. I examine the experiences and opportunities that women have to continue dancing past the age of 18, as they navigate the often fraught transition to...

2021-01-01

Garg, Aneri

Coral reefs are dying at an unprecedented rate; so too are the fish reliant on corals for habitat space. Given the erasure of this critical habitat, scientists, conservation organizations, and concerned community members are working hard to restore coral reefs by adding young corals onto reefs....

2020-01-01

Luo, Lixin, Bao, Tan, Seraj, Mudasser, Maruyama, Michiko, Chakravorty, Anna, McCollum, Kim, Marino, Angela, Girodat, Jamie-Lee, Perez, Hector, de Bruijn, Noemi, von Gunten, Konstantin

ABOUT THIS BOOK This book is a collection of images submitted by Master’s and Doctoral researchers challenged to convey their research in one single image. The selected images were either finalists or semi-finalists of the competition between 2015 and 2019. We created this colouring book to...

2019-01-01

Gordaneer, Jeremy

My intention, as an overall conceptual starting point, is inspired by an ongoing series of drawings I call “impossible set designs.” These drawings use scale, forced perspective, paradox, and weights and balances to create optical illusions that destabilize the spectator’s gaze. They are intended...

2019-01-01

Won, Savanna

This image represents a blend of food and the often unseen scientific processes that go into food production. The semi-translucent photos depict laboratory materials that are commonly used in my research, including bacteria cultures growing on agar plates and micropipettes. They are overlaid over...

2021-01-01

Rolfson, Terri

I am researching female laundry labour and the cultural import of clean, white linen in 18th century England. There are very few examples of surviving linens anywhere. I am most fortunate to have access to some rare 18th and 19th century linens recently donated to the University of Alberta,...

2021-01-01

Mahal, Habba

Plants encompass every aspect of humanity; from maize to cassava, rice to canola, we have cultivated crops for 23,000 years. Yet, despite how vast our understanding of plants is, there exist misconceptions that they are inactive, insensitive, and incapable of perceiving and responding to...

2020-01-01

Won, Savanna

The sourdough bread-making process enhances the taste, texture, shelf-life, and nutritional quality of bread products. My research focuses on understanding the break down of proteins during sourdough fermentation and the goal of this project is to use sourdough to reduce the amount of allergenic,...

2020-01-01

Duarte Wisnesky, Uira

“What’s the use of having freedom if one cannot go out. Free, I am not”. Lack of accessibility to outside surroundings is one of the greatest challenges some people of the world face today. Limited accessibility leads to isolation and restricted inclusion in society most often for those living...