CARIC 2026 – Presentation Award Winners
The CUE Annual Research and Innovation Conference (CARIC) was a huge success this year.
We had over 74 poster presentations and 20 oral presentations from faculty members and students across all faculties in both graduate and undergraduate degree programs.
It was an amazing demonstration of the ground-breaking research and academic work done here at CUE.
After much deliberation and review, our panel of judges have decided on the undergraduate and graduate winners of the poster presentations and the oral presentations.
Congratulations to our award winners on their exceptional work.
DISPLAY AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Undergraduate Students:
1st place: Haley Burgardt (Faculty of Science, Environmental and Physical Sciences)
A COMPUTATIONAL AND SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF NITROBENZENE HYDRATES CONTAINING 2 TO 4 WATER MOLECULES
2nd place: Taylor Zinger (Faculty of Science, Environmental and Physical Sciences)
EARTH MATERIALS: THROUGH THE LENS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
3rd place: Lucias Varze (Faculty of Arts, Psychology)
A STUDY OF OUTCOME-BASED ENRICHMENT IMPLEMENTATION TO SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE NATURALISTIC BEHAVIOURS IN SICHUAN TAKIN (BODORCAS TAXICOLOR TIBETANA)
Graduate Students:
1st place: Florence Olayiwola-Samuel (Faculty of Management, MISSM/MISAM)
SENTIMENT ANALYSIS FOR BRAND MANAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY OF CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY OF EDMONTON
2nd place: Pooja Sharma (Faculty of Science, Mathematics and Information Technology)
FEDERATED LEARNING FOR HEALTHCARE ANALYSIS IN BRAIN TUMOR
3rd place: Jodi Arrowsmith, Shraiya Raijput, and Jingyu Xu (Faculty of Management, MISSM/MISAM)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FUNDAMENTALS
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Undergraduate Students:
1st place: Celina Posa (Faculty of Arts, Psychology)
“LIFE FULL OF LOVE”: A RCT TESTING A NEW WELLBEING INTERVENTION
2nd place: Alexandra Asuchak (Faculty of Science, Biological Sciences)
PLANT-DERIVED COMPOUNDS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE
3rd place: Elora Charabin (Faculty of Arts, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Classics)
CAN VIDEO GAMES INCREASE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF ANCIENT MYTH?: AN ANALYSIS OF THE GAME HADES
Graduate Students:
1st place: Basma Khan and Sraboni Biswas (Faculty of Management, MISSM/MISAM)
SECURITY ANALYSIS OF RFID-BASED HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS: SIMULATION OF CLONING AND MAN-IN-THE-MIDDLE ATTACKS
2nd place: Harsh Parekh, Parth Vikrambhai Suchak, and Smit Kalpeshbhai Patel (Faculty of Management, MISSM/MISAM)
UNAUTHENTICATED COMMAND INJECTION AND DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS ON AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES: EVALUATION AND DEFENSIVE STRATEGIES
Thank you to everyone who participated and presented.