Name

Department

Project Title

Doug Craig

Chemistry

Single Molecule Enzymology

Pradeep Atrey

Applied Computer Science

Privacy-aware Automated Multimedia Surveillance for Public Safety

Athar Ata

Chemistry

Phytochemical Studies on Medicinally Important Plants

Ross Stokke

Math/Stats

Homomorphisms, representations, and amenability of group and Fourier algebras on locally compact groups

Simon Liao

Applied Computer Science

Image analysis with moment descriptors

Harinder Aujla

Psychology

Neural mechanisms of stress-reward interactions

Name

Department

Project Title

Patricia Fitzpatrick

Geography

Silos and systems, development and sustainability: Catalytic forces in mineral policy?

Anne-Laurence Caudano

History

Sphere, Box or Egg? Cosmological Descriptions of the universe in Byzantium (c.1045 - c.1261)

Albert Welter

Religious Studies

The Social and Institutional History of Buddhism in China through the Early Song Dynastry (ca.1000): An Examination and Annotated Translation of Zanning's Outline History of the Buddhist Order in China

Serena Keshavjee

History

Natural History, Cultural History and the making of Art History: Elie Faure, Elisée Reclus and Eugène Carrière

Name:

Department:

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Murray Alexander

Physics

Epidemic Spreading with Evolving Contact Network Structure

Christopher Bidinosti

Physics

Very low field nuclear magnetic resonance and magnetic resonance imaging using hyperpolarized gases and SQUID detectors

Melody Ghahramani

Mathematics and Statistics

Inference using estimating functions with applications

Randy Kobes

Physics

Quantum field theory and non-linear phenomena

Gabor Kunstatter

Physics

Quantum Theory, Black Holes and Quantum Gravity

Melanie Martin

Physics

Magnetic Resonance Microscopy

Seyed Moghadas

Mathematics and Statistics

Epidemiological models with the inclusion of within-host viral dynamics

Anna Stokke

Mathematics and Statistics

Representations of classical and quantum groups

Douglas Williams

Psychology

Animal and Human Associative Learning

Name:

Department:

Title:

Athar Ata

Chemistry

300 MHz spectrometer for “walk-on” use in chemistry research at The University of Winnipeg

Christopher Bidinosti

Physics

Apparatus for the spin-exchange optical pumping of Xenon-129

Jeffrey Martin

Physics

Qweak Compton Electron Detector: Mechanical System and Spares

Name:

Department:

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Jacqueline Dewar

Geography

Terrestrial Ecology

Tracie Parkinson

Biology

Animal Biology

Jenna Tichon

Mathematics and Statistics

Statistics and Probability

Todd Travis

Psychology

Behavioural Neuroscience

Jonathan Thiessen

Physics

Optics

Name:

Department:

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Mark Baschuk

Biology

Evolution & Ecology

Krista Hanis

Geography

Soil Science

Chad Iverson

Chemistry

Organic Chemistry

Laura Marginet

Biology

Immunology

Michael McDonald

Physics

Electronic circuits and devices

Name:

Department:

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Linda DeRiviere

Politics

The labour market and fiscal outcomes of intimate partner violence

Beverley Fehr

Psychology

Compassionate Love in Relational Context: Knowledge Structures, Relationship Experience, and a Proposed Integration

Brian Freose

History – Canadian Mennonite University

American Evangelical Missions in the Twentieth-Century Canadian West

Pauline Greenhill

Women’s and Gender Studies

Transgender Imagination and Enactment in Traditional and Popular Culture in Canada

James Hanley

History

Regulation and redistribution: Public Health in Nineteenth-Century England

Royden Loewen

History/Mennonite Studies

Canadian “Horse and Buggy’ Mennonites in the Americas: A Social and Cultural History of a Contestation of Modernity, 1958-2008

Douglas Walton

Philosophy

Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence and Law

Name:

Department:

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Pauline Greenhill

Women’s and Gender Studies

Transgressive Tales: Reading Queer and Trans in Traditional Fairytales

Name:

Department:

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Tara Conway

Psychology

Goal interference and facilitation in dating relationships and friendships

Rebecca Hildebrand

English

Gender and memory in the autobiographical fiction of modernist women writers

Christine Kampen Robinson

Modern Languages and Literature

Code-switching in the elementary level German language classroom

Amanda LeBlanc

English

Miniature monsters: serial killer figures and the aesthetic reproduction of

atrocities in the postmodern age

Margaret MacAulay

Rhetoric, Writing and Communications

A site where any body can be anybody: cyberconstruction and performance of

the self on Facebook and MySpace

Karla Schulz

Politics

Liberty, community, nationalism and Canadian unity: a critical investigation

Name:

Department:

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Jens Franck

Biology

Functional and Evolutionary Characterization of the Zebrafish Rvanodine Receptor Mulitgene Family

Robert McLeod

Mathematics and Statistics

Optimal Designs for Industrial and Computer Experimentation

Melanie Martin

Physics

In Vivo Imaging of the Central Nervous System

Andrew Park

Biology

Functional traits as a template to develop a restoration silvios of neotropical trees

Sheila Ramanna

Applied Computer Science

Granular Computing Approach to Software Requirements conflict Analysis and Resolution for large-scale Scale Systems

Stephen Smith

Psychology

The Emotional Modulation of Attention by Conditioned Stimuli: Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms

Craig Willis

Biology

Ecophysiology of Boreal Small Mammals: Physiological Variation and Environmental Change

Name:

Department:

Title:

Alberto Civetta

Biology

Real Time quantitative PCR system

Douglas Craig

Chemistry

Laser to Support Single Molecule Enzymology

Jeffrey Martin

Physics

Qweak Compton Polarimeter Bectron Detector

Stephen Smith

Psychology

Research Tools for Measuring the Emotional Modulation of Attention by conditioned Stimuli

Craig Willis

Biology

Datalogging Radio-Telemetry Receivers

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Justin Friesen

Psychology

Behavioural Neuroscience

Katherine Hastings

Geography

Physical Geography

Corie Horwood

Chemistry

Analytical Chemistry

Heather MacKenzie

Psychology

Psychology

Nicholas Neufeld

Psychology

Cognitive Science - Fundamental Software

Douglas Storey

Physics

Physics

Jonathan Thiessen

Physics

Optics

Name:

Department:

Discipline:

Lara Michelle Bates

Biology

Evolution & Ecology

Jonathan Ziprick

Physics

Physics

Name:

Department:

Title:

Darlene Abreu-Ferreira

History

Mea culpa: women, crime, and pardon tales in early modern Portugal

Peter R. Ives

Politics

Language and suprastate democracy: the case of the European union

Jason M. Yaremko

History

Amerindian passages: imperial geopolitics and indigenous adaptations, movements and migrations from North America to the Caribbean

Name:

Department:

Title:

Wendy Josephson

Sociology

Youth-led peer violence prevention: effects and mechanisms

Name:

Department:

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Nathalie Arcand

Modern Languages and Literature

Littérature française

Scott de Groot

History

History

Danielle Gridley

English

Literature, English

Michael Poplyansky

History

Political History

Jacy Young

Psychology

History of Psychology

Name:

Department:

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Pauline Pearson

Psychology

Psychophysical Studies of Memory Representations and Colour Processing

Alexander Brodsky

ACSAS

The Role of Synchrony in the Implementation of Shared Memory Objects

Doug Goltz

Chemistry

Science and Spectroscopy of Cultural Artifacts

Alberto Civetta

Biology

Evolutionary genomics of postmating reproductive challenges

Desiree Vanderwel

Chemistry

Regulation of sex pheromone biosynthesis in Tenebrio molitor females

Terry Visentin

Mathematics & Statistics

Algebraic Methods in Enumerative Combinatorics

Derrick Bourassa

Psychology

Cognitive Processes and Linguistic Factors in Written Language Acquisition

Jeff Martin

Physics

Quartz Scanner Detector For Queak

Doug Goltz

Chemistry

A Hyperspectral Camera for Analysis of Cultural Artifacts

Geography

Churchill Northern Studies Centre - Research Support Enhancements

Name:

Department:

Discipline:

Aaron Larsen

Chemistry

Biochemistry

Heath Matheson

Psychology

Psychology

Gina Passante

Physics

Physics

Matthew Sodomsky

Applied Computer Science

Biomedical Engineering

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David Ostapchuk

Physics

Physics

Joel Peters-Fransen

Mathematics and Statistics

Pure Mathematics

Kyle Vincent

Mathematics and Statistics

Statistics and Probability

Kelly Hille

Biology

Aquatic Ecology and Limnology

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Department:

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Paul Bramadat

Religious Studies

Stories and histories: Canadian West Indian Christian narratives in a multicultural world

Jerry Buckland

Menno Simons College

Financial Exclusion & Poverty in Canada: Individual Coping, Community Action & Policy Reform

Robin Church

Business Computing and Admin. Studies

The effects of organizational heterosexism on job involvement and organizational citizenship behaviour of gay and lesbian employees and on the adoptions of same-sex partner benefits

Michael MacKinnon

Anthropology

Animal Use in the Roman Provinces around the Mediterranean: Integration of Zooachaeological and Ancient Textual Data

James Silver

Politics

Inner City Neighbourhood RevitalizationL A Comparative Analysis

Albert Welter

Religious Studies

Chan Scholasticism: Yongming Yanshou and the "Zongjing lu" (Records of the Source Mirror)

Name:

Department:

Title:

Fiona Green

Women’s Studies

Measuring the Influence of feminist mothering on the lives of adult children

Name:

Department:

Discipline:

Jodi Giesbrecht

History

Social History

Michael Reid

Anthropology

History

Maya Seshia

Politics

Political Science

Lucia Madariaga-Vignudo

Politics

Political Science

Karla Zubrycki

Centre for Academic Writing

Resource Management

Alaa Abd-El-Aziz

Chemistry

Design of Novel Transition Metal-Containing Macromolecules

Yangjun Chen

Applied Computer Science & Administrative Studies

Effective Databases for Web and Document Management

Ed Cloutis

Geography

Spectroscopic Analysis of Planetary Analogue Materials and Surface Modification Processes

James Currie

Mathematics and Statistics

Combinatorics on Words

Scott Forbes

Biology

The Evolutionary Ecology of Family Structure

Jeff Martin

Physics

Weak Interactions in Few-Body Systems

Ortrud Oellermann

Mathematics and Statistics

Graph Convexity, Distance Invariants and Average Connectivity

Mary Silcox

Anthropology

The Evolution and Anatomy of the Earliest Primates

Lisa Sinclair

Psychology

Goal-Based Knowledge Activation

Simon Liao

Applied Computer Science & Administrative Studies

High-Speed Computing System for Moment-Based Applications in Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis

Melanie Martin

Physics

In Vivo Magnetic Resonance

Katherine Aoki

Geography

Evolution and Ecology

Jennilee Gavina

Chemistry

Biochemistry

David Janzen

Mathematics and Statistics

Pure Mathematics

Joanne Kettner

Physics

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Kelly Malcolmson

Cognitive Science -- Language

Kristin Streuber

Biology

Cell Biology

Ryan Gawryluk

Biology

Molecular Biology

Laryssa Kurjewica

Physics

Physics

Tim McDowell

Chemistry

Organic Chemistry

Erik Youngson

Mathematics and Statistics

Statistics and Probability

Candida Rifkind

English

Love, Law, and Intrigue: Popular Fiction and Modern Canada

Doug Walton

Philosophy

Dialogue Systems for Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence and Law

Negotiating Diverse Stories to Live by:  Becoming Aboriginal Teachers and Researchers

French Studies and German Studies

Florilegium

Title of Development Plan:

Social Justice and Aboriginal Governance in the Age of Globalization

As a result of being awarded an “Aid to Small Universities Grant” from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the University of Winnipeg is poised to focus increased attention over the next three years (2005-2008) on “Social Justice in the Age of Globalization” and “Aboriginal Governance”. Research projects in these inter-connected research fields will be supported by a strong team of researchers and undergraduate students as well as members from the community and government. Conferences, workshops and seminars involving professors and students will be organized in order to promote the exchange of research findings at the national and international level.

Amount awarded:

Year 1: $29,860

Year 2: $29,338

Year 3: $29,128

Kirsten Kramar

Sociology

Policy by Death?  Investigating the Connection Between Coroner's Inquests, Law and Regulatory Policy

Martine August

Environmental Studies/Urban Studies

Community Development

Margaret Carlyle

History

Intellectual History

Michelle Church

Geography

Social/Cultural Geography

Dana Knoll

Psychology

Industrial, Organizational Psychology

Mauricio Martinez

English

Literature, English Canadian - Literary Theory