Every year, awards are given out for the best Honours Fest posters, as judged by faculty and alumni. The top three posters overall are selected, as well as the top poster in each department.
Since 2012, all Honours Fest awards have come with a generous cash prize due to the generosity of Dr. Fritz Boehm. His gift continues to support UVic’s emerging scientists, helping Canada stay at the forefront of research and development.
My family congratulates all students who have received and will receive our award. Perhaps one day we will read that an Honours Fest award winner is now a Nobel Prize winner… who knows! So go for it: Be inspired! Be inquisitive! Be courageous! Think! Explore! Experiment!
– Dr. Fritz Boehm
Past winners
1st place winners
Every year
| Year | Winner | Dept | Poster Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Amy Penney | MATH | Counting codes via the container method |
| 2023 | Mackenzie Scott | BCMB | Investigating the interactions between PI4KA and its accessory proteins |
| 2022 | Matthew Thibodeau | BCMB | Detailing WDR44 ciliogenesis regulation |
| 2021 | Coen del Valle | MATH | A complete existence theory for signed graph designs |
| 2020 | Josey LeGallais | BCMB | Investigating polyphosphorylation of a histone chaperone in budding yeast |
| 2019 | Wylee Fitz-Gerald | SEOS | Dynamics of dissolved oxygen in the Labrador sea as observed by robotic profiling floats |
| 2018 | Shawn Shorthill | BCMB | Exploring functional relationships of paralogous histone chaperones using a systems biology approach |
| 2017 | Stephanie Monty | PHYS | The GeMS/GSAOI galactic globular cluster survey (G4CS) I: A pilot study of NGC 2298 and NGC 3201 |