The UTSC Undergraduate Research & Creative Prize honours UTSC students who have excelled in research, scholarship and creative activities in the classroom and beyond. Up to 4 cash prizes of $1000 will be given out annually, one each for projects in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, and Creative categories. The judges evaluate the projects on their quality and reserve the right to award prizes in one, two, three, or all four of these categories.
2023-2024
Humanities
Bhavana Akilan
Social Sciences
Brianna Wedderburn - Neurodiversity in University: A Mixed-Methods Study on Student Experiences and Disability Identity
Sciences
Mira-Smaktruffa Ola - Cellular Automata as a Theoretical Framework for Understanding Infectious Disease Dynamics
Creative
Tanya Ng Cheong - Feast for Three
2022-2023
Humanities
Kaitlyn Nicol - To “open up the vacant Crown lands”: Surveys, Property, and Settlement Along the Bobcaygeon Colonization Road (1840s to 1880s)
Social Sciences (tie)
Stephanie Domingo - The Psychology of Romantic Relationships
Sapolnach Prompiengchai - Bringing Student-Centered Learning to India: Initial Reactions from Teachers and Students
Sciences
Pionie Kwok - Two sides to every story: Adaxial and abaxial sides of Canadian wheat leaves respond differently to heat and drought stress Social Sciences
2021-2022
Humanities (tie)
Noah Faberman - “The Abyss of Noah”
Zekai Zhao – “The Genealogy of a Marginalized Art Movement – The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival”
Social Sciences (tie)
Blessing Nkennor – “African Indigenous Community-Engaged Epidemic Control: Ebola as a Case Study”
Sapolnach Prompiengchai – “Online Self-Disclosure of Stigmatizing Experience: Does Anonymity Matter?”
Sciences (tie)
Jasmin Khela – “A Review of the Molecular Mechanisms, Diagnosis, and Current Therapies of the Brittle Bone Disease Osteogenesis Imperfecta”
Aditi Bansal, Ayuni Weerakoon Ratnayake, Natalie Wong, Sapolnach Prompiengchai and Theluckshan Saseetharan – “Reflection Revisited: Assessing the Impact of Students’ Study Strategy Reflections on Academic Performance in a Foundation Biology Course”
2020-2021
Jane Ching Lam Lui, Physical & Environmental Sciences
Rajpreet Sidhu, Centre for Critical Development Studies
Jeffrey Liu, Historical & Cultural Studies
2019-2020
Angela Zavaleta Bernuy, Computer & Mathematical Sciences
Ali Javeed, Psychology
Sylvie Stojanovski, Arts Culture & Media
2018-2019
Judy Perpose, Arts Culture & Media
Praveen Jayarajan, Biological Sciences
2017-2018
Olivia Rennie, Psychology
Karen Wang, Arts Culture & Media
Nikolai Meek, Computer & Mathematical Sciences
2016-2017
Garima Shah, Neuroscience
Monica Shah and Abdulwahab Sidiqi, Centre for French and Linguistics
Janessa Tam, Centre for French and Linguistics
2015-2016
Nishita Agrawal, Management
Cherrie (Yan Ning) Kwok, Psychology
Swara Shah, Biological Sciences