JCURA Projects 2022

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Zooming in on brain aging: An ultrastructural investigation into microglia-neuron interactions

Zooming in on brain aging: An ultrastructural investigation into microglia-neuron interactions

I am currently a fifth year honours neurobiology student at the University of Victoria. Over the...

SHINE a Light on Concussion Awareness: Efficacy of Neuroeducation Program in Youth

SHINE a Light on Concussion Awareness: Efficacy of Neuroeducation Program in Youth

Jamie Morrison is a third-year undergraduate student studying Biology with a concentration in...

Faculty of Education

Validating Mobile EEG for Assessment of Cognitive Impairment Using an N-back Task

Validating Mobile EEG for Assessment of Cognitive Impairment Using an N-back Task

My name is Sierra Hall and I am a 5th year Kinesiology student at UVic. I’ve been involved with...

Don’t Weight: A Pilot Examination of Women’s Weight-Based Experiences Living with Cushing’s

Don’t Weight: A Pilot Examination of Women’s Weight-Based Experiences Living with Cushing’s

My name's Sarah and I go by She/Her pronouns. I am in my last year of my combined degree in...

Using Portable EEG to Assess MCI: An Investigation of the P300 Component

Using Portable EEG to Assess MCI: An Investigation of the P300 Component

My name is Hannah Smith and I’m a fifth-year kinesiology student at the University of Victoria. I...

Learning by Service: Connecting the Classroom to the Community

Learning by Service: Connecting the Classroom to the Community

My name is Nate Brown and I am currently an emergency and resident support worker for the Victoria...

Measurements of Mental State via EEG: Using EEG to Understand the Impact of Burnout and Fatigue on Athletic Performance

Measurements of Mental State via EEG: Using EEG to Understand the Impact of Burnout and Fatigue on Athletic Performance

My name is Hendrik ("Ludwig") Pepler and I am a 4th year Kinesiology student graduating in April...

Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science

Because I am a Woman: An Investigation of Gender Biases in Engineering Fields

Because I am a Woman: An Investigation of Gender Biases in Engineering Fields

Kezia is finishing her undergraduate degree at UVIC with a combined major in Psychology and...

Analysis of Biofilm Formation on Potential Artificial Reef Materials

Analysis of Biofilm Formation on Potential Artificial Reef Materials

Hello, my name is Logan O’Reilly; I am in my final term of Mechanical Engineering at UVic after...

CLueSS: Conceptual Linear Stretchable Space, Making Documents More Memorable and Navigable with SVG Images

CLueSS: Conceptual Linear Stretchable Space, Making Documents More Memorable and Navigable with SVG Images

My name is Paul Henderson and I am a fourth year student in Computer Science, with a background in...

How Effective are Backcountry Campers’ Point of Use Water Treatment Practices?

How Effective are Backcountry Campers’ Point of Use Water Treatment Practices?

Alice grew up in Calgary, AB. She came to the University of Victoria in fall 2018 to pursue a...

Towards Vision-Based Agent Navigation for Signage System Evaluation

Towards Vision-Based Agent Navigation for Signage System Evaluation

I’m Colin, a 4th-year student at the University of Victoria studying Computer Science and...

6-DOF Parallel Link Robotic Platform

6-DOF Parallel Link Robotic Platform

From turbo Japanese imports to American rock crawlers, I have always found a way to have a good...

Parallel Batch-Dynamic Connectivity Problem with Improved Worst Case

Parallel Batch-Dynamic Connectivity Problem with Improved Worst Case

I am a fourth year honours student in the Combined Computer Science and Mathematics program. I...

Utilizing Recycled Cloth to Make Fiber Reinforced Concrete and Investigating the Corresponding Performance

Utilizing Recycled Cloth to Make Fiber Reinforced Concrete and Investigating the Corresponding Performance

Collin Bilinski is a 3rd year student in the civil engineering program. Collin has been a concrete...

Faculty of Fine Arts

Investigating how the Success of TikTok Hinges on Black Creators’ Contributions

Investigating how the Success of TikTok Hinges on Black Creators’ Contributions

Maddy Morrison is a third-year student at the University of Victoria. She is working towards her...

Fisher Price Chatter Telephone: An Exploration of Childhood Nostalgia and the Monstrous

Fisher Price Chatter Telephone: An Exploration of Childhood Nostalgia and the Monstrous

Nina Parrotta is a 23 year old Visual Arts Honours major and Applied Ethics minor at the...

El Bachiano: A look into Venezuelan Music, the Joropo and Raimundo Pineda’s Compositional Style

El Bachiano: A look into Venezuelan Music, the Joropo and Raimundo Pineda’s Compositional Style

Connie Goetz is an inspirational Victoria based flutist and vocalist, known for her versatility...

Sound as Scenography: Applying Hildegard Westerkamp’s Site-Specific Soundscape Composition Techniques in the Theatre

Sound as Scenography: Applying Hildegard Westerkamp’s Site-Specific Soundscape Composition Techniques in the Theatre

Miriam Dumitra is a fourth-year student in the department of theatre focusing on sound and...

“Influenza Blues”: Pandemics, Music, and Mental Wellbeing from the Middle Ages to the Present

“Influenza Blues”: Pandemics, Music, and Mental Wellbeing from the Middle Ages to the Present

Jas Schweitzer is a fifth-year BA student at the University of Victoria double majoring in...

So as not to Offend the Common People: Queer Musical Figures in Seventeenth Century France and the Modern Day

So as not to Offend the Common People: Queer Musical Figures in Seventeenth Century France and the Modern Day

Christopher Dlouhy (he/they) is a fourth-year pianist BMus student majoring in musicology and...

Colour Theory: The Secret Ingredient of Wayne Thiebaud’s Paintings

Colour Theory: The Secret Ingredient of Wayne Thiebaud’s Paintings

Hello! My name is Emma Crum and I’m a fourth student. As an aspiring art historian and passionate...

The Game of Life: Play and Enculturation in the Georgian Home

The Game of Life: Play and Enculturation in the Georgian Home

Caitlin is an Art History and Visual Studies in her final year of studies at the University of...

Faculty of Human and Social Development

Faculty of Humanities

Octavio Paz and Mexicanness: Tracing the Changes of National Identity from 1950 to 1975

Octavio Paz and Mexicanness: Tracing the Changes of National Identity from 1950 to 1975

I’m Tara, a third-year Hispanic Studies major here at UVic. I enjoy language learning, film...

Relative Clause Acquisition in L2 French and English

Relative Clause Acquisition in L2 French and English

Carter Doyle is a fourth year UVic Linguistics student with a strong interest in second language...

Attitudes Towards Pronunciation in Syrians Learning English for Employment in Canada (SLEEC)

Attitudes Towards Pronunciation in Syrians Learning English for Employment in Canada (SLEEC)

Hi! I’m Suraya, and this project wraps up the final year of my BA in Linguistics here at UVic....

Eva Perón as a Model for Class-Based Femininity

Eva Perón as a Model for Class-Based Femininity

Hi, I’m Paige (she/her) and I’m in my last semester of a degree in History and Hispanic Studies! I...

Pages of Unity and National Identity: The Response of the Palestinian Press to British Repression during the 1936 Great Strike

Pages of Unity and National Identity: The Response of the Palestinian Press to British Repression during the 1936 Great Strike

My name is Alec Lazenby and I am in my fifth and final year of a History (Honours) and Political...

Using the Lens of Transitional Justice to Evaluate Reconciliation in Canada

Using the Lens of Transitional Justice to Evaluate Reconciliation in Canada

Hey everyone! My name is Elyse and I am a fifth year philosophy student at UVIC. My areas of...

The Lost Voices of Meretrices: The Female Experience of Sex Work in the Roman World

The Lost Voices of Meretrices: The Female Experience of Sex Work in the Roman World

Selayna Hostrawser-Cranfield is an experienced Museum Technician with a graduate diploma in...

On the Personal/Subpersonal Distinction: How Do We Conceptualize the Mind?

On the Personal/Subpersonal Distinction: How Do We Conceptualize the Mind?

Fabian is nearing completion of his BA in Philosophy at Applied Ethics at the University of...

Home is Where the Hearth is: Post-Palatial Hearths at Ancient Eleon

Home is Where the Hearth is: Post-Palatial Hearths at Ancient Eleon

Mira Harvey is a fourth year History and Greek & Roman Studies major, originally from Treaty 6...

‘Victors of History’: Museums and Memorials as Venues of Propaganda in East Germany

‘Victors of History’: Museums and Memorials as Venues of Propaganda in East Germany

Rebecca Hartley is a fourth-year History Honours and Anthropology Minor student at the University...

Feminist Vengeance? Rape-Revenge Film and Women’s Empowerment

Feminist Vengeance? Rape-Revenge Film and Women’s Empowerment

Hello! My name is Laura Kellough-Pollock, and I’m a fourth-year student, originally from the...

The Memorialization of Babin Yar

The Memorialization of Babin Yar

My name is Sophie Sacilotto, and I am currently working on a Bachelor of Arts degree in Honours...

Privilege Versus the People: a Study of Food, Volk, Elitism, and the Nazi State

Privilege Versus the People: a Study of Food, Volk, Elitism, and the Nazi State

Mira is in her fourth year at the University of Victoria as an Honours student in the Department...

The Phenomenology of Spirituality in Academia: Non-Analytic Methods of Knowledge Production

The Phenomenology of Spirituality in Academia: Non-Analytic Methods of Knowledge Production

Scott Joly is a third-year undergraduate enjoying his fourth year of University as he saunters...

Re-storying History: Disrupting Colonial Narratives Through Indigenous Storytelling and Truth-Telling

Re-storying History: Disrupting Colonial Narratives Through Indigenous Storytelling and Truth-Telling

My name is Alexis, and my traditional name is Lumsiyah. I am a Cowichan Tribes member on my...

Owing an Ode to Isa Craig Knox

Owing an Ode to Isa Craig Knox

Bethel Sileshi is an undergraduate student at the University of Victoria studying English and...

The Student Reader: Reading Experiences in Undergraduate English Classes and the Cultivation of Empathy

The Student Reader: Reading Experiences in Undergraduate English Classes and the Cultivation of Empathy

Simone is a fourth-year student in the English Honours and Professional Communication programs....

Keys to the Success of the K-Pop Phenomenon in the West: K-Pop Marketing Strategies & Confucian Ideology

Keys to the Success of the K-Pop Phenomenon in the West: K-Pop Marketing Strategies & Confucian Ideology

Naoko Iida is a 4th year Pacific Asian & Studies major in the Faculty of Humanities as well as...

The EU’s East-West Divide: Assessing the Extent and Effects of Differences in the EU’s Post-Communist States of Hungary and the Czech Republic

The EU’s East-West Divide: Assessing the Extent and Effects of Differences in the EU’s Post-Communist States of Hungary and the Czech Republic

Laura Smith is in her final year at UVic studying Political Science with a minor in Professional...

En Pointe, in Print: Dance and the Early Nineteenth-Century Press

En Pointe, in Print: Dance and the Early Nineteenth-Century Press

Anne Hung is in her final year of study, pursing an English Honours degree with a minor in...

My Mother was an Archivist: Exploring the Worldbuilding Potential of Queer Archives Through Theory and Autoethnography

My Mother was an Archivist: Exploring the Worldbuilding Potential of Queer Archives Through Theory and Autoethnography

Beau Houle (they/ them) is a queer, non-binary, neurodivergent artist, writer, and educator. They...

Disability and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Disability and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

My name is Brooke Berube and I am a 5th year student at the University of Victoria with an honors...

Francophones in the Closet: Situating Yourself on the Linguistic Spectrum From a Minority Setting

Francophones in the Closet: Situating Yourself on the Linguistic Spectrum From a Minority Setting

Hi there, my name is Justine Bélanger, and I am about to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in...

‘In Her Watery Habit’: Geodramatics on the Thames in London’s Love to the Prince Henry

‘In Her Watery Habit’: Geodramatics on the Thames in London’s Love to the Prince Henry

Amogha Lakshmi Halepuram Sridhar is a fourth year English Honours student working towards a minor...

Fire From Sea and Sky: Defensive Responses to Japanese Attacks on British Columbia During the Second World War

Fire From Sea and Sky: Defensive Responses to Japanese Attacks on British Columbia During the Second World War

Aaron Stefik is an undergraduate scholar at the University of Victoria currently completing his...

Voice Feminization Training: Acoustic Changes and Speaker Perceptions

Voice Feminization Training: Acoustic Changes and Speaker Perceptions

My name is Zia van Blankenstein (she/her) and I am a fifth-year linguistics student, graduating...

Dimensions of English Commodification in Japan

Dimensions of English Commodification in Japan

Travis is a 4th year student in his final semester majoring in Pacific and Asian Studies with a...

Empty Beds: Representations of Euthanasia in Nazi Propaganda Films

Empty Beds: Representations of Euthanasia in Nazi Propaganda Films

Sarah is currently completing an undergraduate degree with a Double Major in History and Germanic...

Comparaisons Narratologiques: Le Père Goriot et Madame Bovary

Comparaisons Narratologiques: Le Père Goriot et Madame Bovary

My name is Yiwei Wu and I am a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Victoria. I...

March 21st and May 1st, 1933: Nazi Germany and the Nature of Fascism

March 21st and May 1st, 1933: Nazi Germany and the Nature of Fascism

Kiegan Barron is a fourth-year Honours History and Political Science student. His academic...

The River’s Legal Personality: A Branch of Growing on Canada’s Multi-Juridical Living Tree Being Cultivated by Canadian and Indigenous Law?

The River’s Legal Personality: A Branch of Growing on Canada’s Multi-Juridical Living Tree Being Cultivated by Canadian and Indigenous Law?

My name is Andrew Ambers, and I am from the ‘Namgis Nation, which is part of the Kwakwaka’wakw...

Greeks Bearing Gifts: Greek Gift Inscriptions in Context

Greeks Bearing Gifts: Greek Gift Inscriptions in Context

My name is Ben Watts-Wooldridge and I am in my final semester of a BA Honours degree in Greek and...

Marrying Christ: Bernard of Clairvaux and the Song and Songs in Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

Marrying Christ: Bernard of Clairvaux and the Song and Songs in Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

Jocelyn Diemer is a third-year Religion, Culture and Society and honours English student...

Faculty of Science

Characterizing How Intermittent Fasting Affects Age-Related Reproductive Decline in Caenorhabditis Elegans

Characterizing How Intermittent Fasting Affects Age-Related Reproductive Decline in Caenorhabditis Elegans

Hi! I am a fourth year Bachelor of Science Biology Honours student concentrating in neurobiology...

Opioid Detection by Surface Enhanced Raman for Community Drug Checking

Opioid Detection by Surface Enhanced Raman for Community Drug Checking

Hi! My name is Annabel, and I am a fourth-year honours student studying Chemistry and Mathematics...

A Fault in our Backyard: Using Geophysics to Investigate Crustal Fault Activity on the Saanich Peninulsa

A Fault in our Backyard: Using Geophysics to Investigate Crustal Fault Activity on the Saanich Peninulsa

Ellie McLeod (she/her) is a settler here on lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) territories and recently...

Paired Eternal Domination in Trees

Paired Eternal Domination in Trees

Elena Moss is a fourth-year math honours student. She is interested in the areas of graph theory...

Chemiluminescent Reactions With Robotic Assistance

Chemiluminescent Reactions With Robotic Assistance

Hello! My name is Wil Munro and I’m finishing my third year doing a double honours in chemistry...

Considering the Role of Disorder in Protein Interactions and Localization

Considering the Role of Disorder in Protein Interactions and Localization

Hello, my name is Martin Loe, and I am a fourth-year Biochemistry and Microbiology Honours...

Investigating the Endothelial Inflammatory Response to Treponema pallidum Infection

Investigating the Endothelial Inflammatory Response to Treponema pallidum Infection

Akash is a final year student majoring in microbiology. He has a strong interest in research and...

A Gold Cure: Using Gold Nanoparticles to Improve Cancer Chemoradiation

A Gold Cure: Using Gold Nanoparticles to Improve Cancer Chemoradiation

Ocean is a 4th year undergraduate student pursuing a major in biochemistry and a minor in physics...

Survival Rate of Euglossa Bees

Survival Rate of Euglossa Bees

Sierra Grant is a third-year undergraduate student at the University of Victoria where she is...

Extremely Fast P – C Bond Formation Using Ruthenium

Extremely Fast P – C Bond Formation Using Ruthenium

My name is Alexis. I grew up in Courtenay. I have always been interested in math and science. I...

The Impact of the Meridional Temperature Gradient on the Spatial Distribution of Chemical Weathering Fluxes

The Impact of the Meridional Temperature Gradient on the Spatial Distribution of Chemical Weathering Fluxes

Hi, my name is Keighan Gemmell. I am a fourth-year combined honours Chemistry and Earth and Ocean...

Establishing a New Protocal to Investigate Sensory Adaptation in a Mouse Model of Rett Syndrome

Establishing a New Protocal to Investigate Sensory Adaptation in a Mouse Model of Rett Syndrome

Taylor Kaban is in her final semester of a BSc. in the combined biology and psychology program,...

Investigating Thyroid Involvement in Rett Syndrome

Investigating Thyroid Involvement in Rett Syndrome

Hello my name is Jenna and I am graduating from UVic with a BSc. Microbiology Hons. I have made...

Spatial Navigation and Maze Learning in a Fish with Alternative Reproductive Tactics

Spatial Navigation and Maze Learning in a Fish with Alternative Reproductive Tactics

Madeleine is a fourth-year student in the University of Victoria Biology Department with an...

Does Kelp Need Help? Influences of Variation in Local Environmental Conditions on Macroalgal Community Composition and Diversity

Does Kelp Need Help? Influences of Variation in Local Environmental Conditions on Macroalgal Community Composition and Diversity

Brittnie is in her final year at UVic, majoring in Biology with a Marine Concentration and an...

Peter B. Gustavson School of Business

Too Good To Go: Switzerland’s Initiative to Eat Away the 2.6 Million Tonnes of Food Waste Each Year

Too Good To Go: Switzerland’s Initiative to Eat Away the 2.6 Million Tonnes of Food Waste Each Year

Hello! My name is Reece Hawthorne, I am a fourth-year Gustavson school of business student who is...

The Paradox of Luxury and Sustainability in the Fashion Capital of the World

The Paradox of Luxury and Sustainability in the Fashion Capital of the World

Natasha is currently in her 4th year at UVic. In September 2021, she started her exchange at...

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