Harrison McCain Foundation Young Scholar Awards - ORS

Harrison McCain Foundation
Award History

Name	Faculty or Dept	Program	Title, Location or Name	Amount
2010
Theodore Christou	Education	Young Scholar	Inside & Outside Knowledges: Reframing our Educational History	$4,000
Jose Domene	Education	Young Scholar	Career Expectations of Francophone Canadian University Students	$4,000
Adam Dyker	Chemistry	Young Scholar	The Development of Environmentally Friendly, Rechargeable Organic Batteries	$19,000
Sara Eisler	Chemistry	Young Scholar	Controlling Pentacene Interactions Through Liquid Crystal Formation	$5,000
Chris Gray	Chemistry	Young Scholar	Antituberculosis & Immunostimulant Natural Products from Canadian Medicinal Plants	$5,000
Joseph Hall	Mechanical Engineering	Young Scholar	Aeroacoustic Sources in Aircraft Landing Gear	$10,000
Howard Li	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Young Scholar	Intelligent Coordination of Multiple Unmanned Ground Vehicles and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles	$6,000
Chris Martyniuk	Biology	Young Scholar	Molecular Signaling Pathways Underlying the PAH Phenanthrene: Implications for Human Neurodegenerative Diseases	$14,500
Erin Morton	History	Young Scholar	Bordering the Venacular: Canada, Fold Art, and the "New" North America	$8,000
Sasha Mullally	History	Young Scholar	Gendering Rural Medicine in Nova Scotia & Massachusetts, 1880s-1930s	$10,000
Laura Romero-Zeron	Chemical Engineering	Young Scholar	Bio-Energy Production Using Municipal Waste Biomass From the City of Fredericton Wastewater Treatment Plant	$20,000
Wei Song	Computer Science	Young Scholar	Enabling Intelligent Healthcare with Seamless Interconnected Wireless Body Area Networks	$4,000
Lucia Tramonte	Sociology	Young Scholar	Understanding Pathways to Adulthood in a Changing Society: A Life Course Perspective to Describe Variability in Critical Transitions	$4,000
Lin Wang	Mathematics and Statistics	Young Scholar	Effects of Travel & Vaccination on the Spread & Control of H1N1	$4,000
Kate Weaver	Nursing	Young Scholar	Social Support & Eating Disorders Among University Students	$6,000
Richard Cunjak	Forestry and Environmental Management	Visitorship	Institut National de Recherche Agronomique, France	$7,500
Nicole Letourneau	Nursing	Visitorship	University of Calgary & Alberta's Children's Hospital	$10,000
Sean McGrady	Chemistry	Visitorship	University of Oxford	$7,500
Karl Butler	Geology	Visiting Professorship	Dr. Bernd Kulessa, Swansea University, Wales, UK	$12,000
Jula Hughes	Law	Visiting Professorship	Dr. Ilka Qyindeau, University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany	$3,000
2009
Chris Gray	Chemistry	Young Scholar	Antituberculosis & Immunostimulant Natural Products from Canadian Medicinal Plants	$17,515
Jula Hughes	Law	Young Scholar	The Reform Potential of Canada's Residential School Truth & Reconciliation Commission	$12,000
Jeff Houlahan	Biology	Young Scholar	Effects of Multiple Stressors on Aquatic Ecosystems	$11,150
Sophie Lavoie	Culture and Language Studies	Young Scholar	Women, Writing & Revolution in Sandinista Nicaragua	$12,000
Donna Bulman	Nursing	Young Scholar	Migratory Workers & HIV/AIDS: Exploring the Risk from a NB Perspective	$15,000
Carolyn Bassett	Political Science	Young Scholar	Toward Producing Pro-Worker Policy Knowledge in South Africa After Apartheid: the National Economic Development & Labour Insitute	$10,468
Sophie Yao	Mechanical Engineering	Young Scholar	Development of an Effective Computer-based System to Support Free Hand Sketching	$18,000
Les Cwynar	Biology	Visitorship	U of Tasmania	$12,800
Jeff Houlahan	Biology	Visitorship	U of Ottawa & Cape Town University	$11,762
Karen Pearlston	Law	Visitorship	Kent Law School, U of Kent, Canterbury, UK	$11,400
Ghislain Deslongchamps	Chemistry	Visitorship	Chemical Computing Group, Montreal	$10,574
Peter Kyberd	IBME	Visiting Professorship	William Harwin, U of Reading	$14,360
Lee Jolliffe	Business	Visiting Professorship	Frederic Dimanche, CERAM Business School	$16,480
2008
Lisa Best	Psychology	Young Scholar	Graph perception cognition and interpretation: electrophysiological, eye tracking and behavioural correlates	$21,279
Juan Carretero	Mechanical Engineering	Young Scholar	Parallel Manipulator Design for Manufacturing Applications	$22,000
Wei Qi Elaine Perunovic	Psychology	Young Scholar	Positivity Implications for Immigrant & Community Samples in Canada and in Israel	$20,839
Charlene Shannon	Kinesiology	Young Scholar	Victimization in Recreation & Sport Settings: Exploring Prevention & Intervention Strategies	$19,244
Kathryn Weaver	Nursing	Young Scholar	Assessing University Students Seeking Help for Eating Issues	$14,260
Joanne Wright	Political Science	Young Scholar	Women Writing War & Peace	$11,736
Keith Culver	Philosophy	Visitorship	University of Edinburgh School of Law	$9,172
Tom Erdle	Forestry and Environmental Management	Visitorship	University of Canterbury, New Zealand	$11,500
Heather Hunt	Biology	Visitorship	University of Waikato, New Zealand	$8,920
Benedict Newling	Physics	Visitorship	University of Nottingham / Cambridge	$11,050
Weichang Du	Computer Science	Visiting Professorship	Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences	$37,800
Ross Leckie	English	Visiting Professorship	Don McKay, Banff Centre for Arts	$12,200
2007
Susan Blair	Anthropology	Young Scholar	The archaeology of river landscapes in New Brunswick	$12,000
Zengtao Chen	Mechanical Engineering	Young Scholar	Dynamic fracture analysis of piezoelectric ceramics	$17,000
Wendy Churchill	History	Young Scholar	Cross cultural comparison of ethical issues in early modern British medical practice, 1600 - 1815	$15,000
Neil Craik	Law	Young Scholar	Greening the 49th: Transnational Canada - US Environmental Governance Structures	$11,000
Carmen Gill	Sociology	Young Scholar	Comparative study of domestic violence specialized courts in Canada: What are the benefits of specialization?	$10,000
Dianne LaChapelle	Psychology	Young Scholar	An Evaluation of Patients' & Professionals' Readiness for Arthritis Self-Management	$20,000
Darren Piercy	Psychology	Young Scholar	NB Cyberpsychology and Anxiety (NBCA) Virtual Lab	$15,000
Denise Clark	Biology	Visitorship	BC Genome Science Centre	$6,600
Peter Dare	Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering	Visitorship	University of West Indies, Trinidad	$13,500
Eric Hildebrand	Civil Engineering	Visitorship	University of Canterbury, NZ	$7,000
Brad Nickerson	Computer Science	Visitorship	Aarhus University, Denmark	$20,000
Yonghao Ni	Chemistry/Chemical Engineering	Visitorship	University of Maine, Orono	$7,500
Joanna Everitt	Political Science	Visiting Professorship	Daniel Salee	$37,500
Mihaela Ulieru	Computer Science	Visiting Professorship	Dipl-Ing Dietmar Dietrich	$12,500
2006
Paul Howe	Political Science	Young Scholar	The political disengagement of young Canadians	$8,768
Karen Kidd	Biology, SJ	Young Scholar	Emerging chemicals in New Brunswick waterways	$21,000
Van Lantz	Forestry and Environmental Management	Young Scholar	Economic impact analysis of climate change policies	$21,000
Nicole Letourneau	Nursing	Young Scholar	Salivary cortisol levels in mothers with PPD: response to intervention	$21,000
Carissima Mathen	Law	Young Scholar	Louise Arbour in theory and practice	$7,420
Benedict Newling	Physics	Young Scholar	Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of highly turbulent flows	$21,000
Bruce Balcom	Physics	Visitorship	Cambridge University	$9,000
Peter Bischoff	Civil Engineering	Visitorship	University of New South Wales	$12,500
Sandra Byers	Psychology	Visitorship	New York University	$23,900
Sean McGrady	Chemistry	Visiting Professorship	B.R. Jagirdar	$11,000
Kelly Munkittrick & Allen Curry	Biology	Visiting Professorship	Gaspar Gonzalez-Sanson	$21,225
Barbara Paterson	Nursing	Visiting Professorship	Debbie Kralik	$12,500

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