Best Paper Awards
Each year, USURJ awards two $200 Best Paper Prizes. These prizes are funded by the University of Saskatchewan Office of the Vice-President Research and are intended to recognize top-quality undergraduate student research, showcase undergraduate accomplishments, and contribute to a culture of research at the University of Saskatchewan.
For more information about the terms of the awards and the judging criteria, please see the Best Paper Awards Terms of Reference
2023-2024
Winners:
- Krishna Kolen for “The Relationship Between Wildfires and Respiratory Health: AQHI Data in Southern Saskatchewan and Its Potential Respiratory Implications”
- Maxwell Folk for “Green Capitalism Won’t Save Indigenous Nations or Canadians”
Nominees:
2022-2023
Winners:
- Alana M. Krug-McLeod for Winding Routes and Precarious Switchbacks: The Effect of Silk Road Development on Food Diversity
- Jordan Derkson for Not Racist, but... ID Canada and the Mainstream Marketing of Fringe Ideas
Nominees:
- Matthew Dyck for Globalization and the (Re)Emergence of Europe's Far Right
- Samuel Papp for The Selective Pressures That Led to the Rarity of Venomous Mammals
2021-2022
Winners:
- Nakita Funk for What Do Christina Rossetti and Emily Ratajkowski Have in Common? : Gendered Power Dynamics in the Relationship Between the Female Model and the Male Artist
- Matthew Chapelski, Natalie E. Houser, Ashley Libke, Dana S. Lahti, Kristi D. Wright, Charissa Pockett, Tim J. Bradley, Scott Pharis, Corey R. Tomczak, and Marta C. Erlandson for The Effect of a Fundamental Movement Skill Intervention on the Physical Literacy Levels of Children with Congenital Heart Disease : A CHAMPS Cohort Study: Physical Literacy in Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease (Matthew Chapelski)
Nominees:
2020-2021
Winners:
- Mandy Olsen, Robin Hartl, Seshni Naidoo and Allison Cammer for Fibre Content and Fibre Fortification of Menu Items Served to Sherbrooke Community Centre Residents on Texture Modified Diets
- Celine Rose Beaulieu for The Historic and Contemporary Permanence of the Doctrine of Discovery in Canada
Nominees:
- Ashley Vols for The Call for Critical Multiculturalism: Indigenous and Newcomer Relationships within the Canadian Context
- Ellen Byrns for “It Takes a Village”: Factors Related to Coping in Families Raising Children with Disabilities
- Jasmine Redford for A Foundation of Serial Murder and Appreciation of the Male Voice: Historical and Feminist Considerations in the Handmaid's Tale.
2019-2020
Winners:
- Emily Morgan Wiebe for “How American Media Affects Perceived Racism in Canada”
- Drumlin N.M. Crape for “But Virgil Was Not There”: The Lasting Impact of Dante’s Homosocial Hell
Nominees:
- Benjamen Smith and Emery Dlugan for A centroid-based modelling approach to lens inversion for gravitationally lensed systems
2018-2019
Winners:
Nominees:
- Branden T. Neufeld for The Dire Consequences of Specializing on Large Herbivores: A Comparison of Extinct Canis dirus and Extant Canis lupus
- Olenka Kawchuk for Children of Heaven: A Bioarchaeological Review of the Inca Capacocha Mummies
- Bidushy Sadika for Promiscuous versus Romantic Lesbianism in Films: The Killing of Sister George and Blue is the Warmest Color
2017-2018
Winners:
- Lizette Gerber for Transgender Bodies in "The Little Mermaid" and Swim Thru Fire
- Mariam Goubran for Investigating the Molecular Basis of Rubella Virus-Induced Teratogenesis: A Literature Review
Nominees:
- Jana Perkins for “A Lost Pulse of Feeling”: Reconnecting with the “Hidden Self” in Matthew Arnold’s “Buried Life,”
- Hannah Elizabeth Crowder for Lesbians under National Socialism: Legal Indifference, Real Oppression
- Danielle Rose Schlehahn for Separation Anxiety in Canines and Potential Mitigation Options