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2018-01-01

Kafara, Rylan

My research examines who now belongs in Edmonton’s gentrifying downtown. In September 2016, the publicly financed $613 million new arena and entertainment district opened for business. Located in the urban core, the “Ice District” was already home to the majority of Edmonton’s homeless...

2018-01-01

Guzzo, Caitlin

This image depicts a drop of sodium silicate (“liquid glass”) curing under polarized light. Sodium silicate, colloquially known as “waterglass” or “liquid glass”, can take the form of an aqueous solution or a solid glass. Liquid- form waterglass will solidify in contact with carbon dioxide; for...

2018-01-01

Martin, Caroline

Urban-industrial sprawl has been increasing in Canada and is associated with infrastructure development, such as highways and transmission lines. In particular, transmission line developments have been increasing globally at a rate of 5% per year, with over 230 000 km of lines existing in Canada....

2018-01-01

Dagg, Adrienne

In my research I am looking at the female experience depicted in oil painting. As a female painter the majority of my formative years have been guided by the images and teachings of male painters. The prevailing male narrative in painting has been so pervasive that alternate perspectives have had...

2018-01-01

Xu, Kun

It was taken in mid November 2017 at Banff National Park. As the changing climate continues posing threats to human and nature, severe weather becomes more frequent in the world than last century. My research focuses on the relationship between climate change and forest ecosystem. And one major...

2018-01-01

Funston, Gregory

This image is a thin-section of a fossilized dinosaur shin bone. The bone belongs to a feathered theropod dinosaur called a caenagnathid, which would have looked like a colourful ostrich or emu with a long tail and a crest on its head. Thin-sections are one of the best ways of understanding the...

2018-01-01

Laxamana, Kevin

Today, almost everyone has heard of Bali. To some, it means a paradise which brings mental images of warm weather, palm trees, rolling waves, romantic getaways, or a scene of a wide-eyed Julia Roberts from the movie adaptation of Eat Pray Love. In general, the popular knowledge of Bali ends...

2018-01-01

Keshavarzi, Reza

Shale gas is one of the targets to produce energy but this type of reservoir is very tight and economic production from that without stimulation techniques (mainly fracturing) is almost impossible. Meantime, one of the behaviors observed in this type of reservoirs is suction of water (which is...

2018-01-01

Ngan, Lillian

Taken in Tai O (a fishing town in Hong Kong), this photo best bespeaks Hong Kong’s vicissitude and conceptualize the historical changes in a visualized form. Although Hong Kong has radically transformed from a small fishing village to an internationally recognized cosmopolitan, the livelihood of...

2018-01-01

Boos, Jens

Black holes belong to the most fascinating objects in our Universe, and they challenge the way we think about space and time. My research involves studying both mathematical and physical properties of black holes, and how they can help us to learn something new about the Universe we live in. With...