Funded by the Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) and administered by Teaching and Learning Services, the Provost Scholar Award is valued at $500 and is given to undergraduate students who have demonstrated outstanding achievements in research, community engagement, immersive learning and/or international activities.

The Peter J. Ricketts Outstanding Provost Scholar Award was established in 2019 and is given to an outstanding recipient of the Provost Scholar Award. The award is named for Peter J. Ricketts, who served as the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) at 杏吧原创 for eight years. This year鈥檚 award, worth an additional $2,000, was presented to Aya Tessier.

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Provost Scholar Awards!

Funded by the Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) and administered by Teaching and Learning Services, the Provost Scholar Award is valued at $1,000 and is given to undergraduate students who have demonstrated outstanding achievements in research, community engagement, immersive learning and/or international activities.

The Peter J. Ricketts Outstanding Provost Scholar Award was established in 2019 and is given to an outstanding recipient of the Provost Scholar Award. The award is named for Peter J. Ricketts, who served as the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) at 杏吧原创 for eight years. This year鈥檚 award, worth an additional $1,700, was presented to Gabrielle Kolotinsky.

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2022 Provost Scholar Awards:

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Hassan Khan

Hassan Khan听is a听psychology听and sociology student who is described as insightful, engaging and committed to solving social problems. Last summer, Hassan worked with Prof. Michael Follert through听杏吧原创鈥檚 Students as Partners Program where they collaborated to contributed to curriculum development in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Hassan has also contributed to research projects at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute with听Dr. David Moher听and at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre. He participated in 杏吧原创鈥檚 Alternative Spring Break Program, after which he received the President鈥檚 Alternative Spring Break Award for his demonstration of leadership and commitment to community service. This past term, Hassan participated in the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project.听In addition, Hassan has volunteered as a note-taker with the Paul Menton Centre and has worked as a mentor in programs like FACTS, assisting first-year students with disabilities as they transition to the post-secondary education environment.

Justin Shimizu

Justin Shimizu is a psychology student with a concentration in social/personality psychology and a minor in sexuality studies who has contributed to research and community engagement in exceptional ways. They work part-time as a paramedic, serve on the City of Cornwall鈥檚 Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity Advisory Committee, and lead the Stigma Ends at CU campaign as President. They are a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society, serve as the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences student ambassador, and volunteer for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ottawa. In addition to working with Prof. Cheryl Harasymchuk as an honours thesis student in the Positive Activities in Intimate Relationships lab, Justin works as a Research Assistant with Prof. Chad Danyluck in the Social-Psycho-Physiology Lab and Prof. Johanna Peetz in the Life Tools Lab. Justin presented co-authored research at the Canadian Psychological Association conference, which has since been published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

Faculty of Engineering and Design

David Clarabut

David Clarabut is a civil engineering student who is described as a top student with excellent analytical capability. David worked with Prof. Abhijit Sarkar on a co-op term where they worked on an initiative related to renewable energy harvesting using wind turbines. David鈥檚 work is contributing to promoting efficient sustainable energy harvesting to address a pressing climate change issue. Throughout this research experience, he demonstrated his ability to conduct collaborative research with international colleagues in Canada and United States by effectively communicating the scope and applications of his research. He also regularly participated in research meetings with graduate students and Prof. Victorita Dolean (applied mathematics, jointly appointed at Strathclyde University, Scotland and Universit茅 C么te d鈥橝zur, France) which gave him the opportunity to witness international and interdisciplinary collaboration in advanced research at this early stage of his career.

Natalia Fomenko

Natalia Fomenko is an electrical engineering student who is described as exceptionally inquisitive. Her faculty nominator describes her as the top ranked student among all the students they have taught, mentored, supervised and advised in more than two decades in terms of her research potential, research preparedness and research aptitude. She has a number of previous degrees, including a bachelor鈥檚 degree in mathematics, which contribute to her outstanding training and skills. She excels academically and is one of the top students in her cohort in the Faculty of Engineering and Design. Last year, she joined Prof. Halim Yanikomeroglu鈥檚 Wireless Communications and Networks research group鈥攐ne of Canada鈥檚 largest research groups in this field鈥攁s a regular and active member where she has contributed in significant ways.

Faculty of Public Affairs

Pascale Malenfant

Pascale Malenfant is a journalism student who has exceptional personal presence, outstanding academic performance and a notable social conscience. She is the Chair of the听Charlatan听and President of the 杏吧原创 University Journalism Society, where she introduced philanthropic programming to the society鈥檚 activities, which included an equipment fund that provided over $1,000 to students in need and a Mental Wellness Week. Two of her journalism research projects won national recognition and/or were published by major outlets. Last year, she also received a Medal of Excellence from former Veterans Affairs Deputy Minister Walter Natynczyk for her research on underrepresented Canadian soldiers of the First World War. Outside of 杏吧原创, she volunteers to tutor underprivileged primary and elementary students, taking a special interest in refugee children鈥檚 literacy and math-related studies and their adjustment to new lives in Canada.

Najla Mohamed

Najla Mohamed is a global and international studies student with a specialization in global politics who is described as an exceptionally strong undergraduate student with a deep commitment to community engagement. Last year, under the supervision of Prof. Peter Andree, she participated in a CUROP-funded research project entitled 鈥淓conomic Growth and Environmental Sustainability in Canada: Discourses of Post-COVID 19 Recovery.鈥� She produced an outstanding honours research essay on Canada鈥檚 Feminist International Assistance Policy with Prof. Fiona Robinson. In the last two years, she has worked as a research assistant at the Canadian Arab Institute and with Prof. Aaron Ettinger. She has volunteered with the BGInS student society and the Somali Education Fund, helping with community events and fundraising campaigns aimed at financially supporting the education of youth in Somalia.

Faculty of Science

Candice Harris

Candice Harris is a neuroscience and mental health student who is described as engaged, creative and inspirational. In 2018, she collaborated with faculty and staff to create a neuroscientific animation explaining the neurobiological correlates underlying addiction. Last year, she worked with Prof. Rowan Thomson听to lead the development of the 鈥淪cience is for everyone: Integrating Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Teaching Science鈥� toolkit. Candice also created all the engaging visuals in the toolkit and produced a video overview of the toolkit, which gained international recognition and was presented at the 2021 Inclusion Week ACE EDI event. Since completion of the toolkit, Candice has been working with Prof. Kahente Horn-Miller and her team on the development of a Collaborative Indigenous Learning Bundle for science, as well as developing additional tools or content to expand EDI in science.

Nikita Koziel Ly

Nikita Koziel Ly is a neuroscience and mental health student who is described as bright, innovative and adaptable. She has participated in 杏吧原创鈥檚 I-CUREUS program and was the recipient of a Faculty of Science Research Training Award and an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award. At the beginning of the pandemic, Nikita worked alongside three faculty members in Neuroscience on a research project that focused on assessing lifestyle changes that could influence psychological state in a community population. Based on her diverse research experiences ranging from basic science to human survey research, Nikita鈥檚 faculty nominators describe her as someone who has incredible capacity for immersive, independent learning and that her outstanding productivity has helped bridge at least two international collaborations. She has engaged with community outreach by providing lectures to primary and high school students, and she is also an award-winning ballet and contemporary dancer who has performed on the national stage.

Sprott School of Business

Ellena Damini

Ellena Damini听is a commerce student with a concentration in finance who shows great听commitment to Sprott and the local community. In her role as Portfolio Manager for the Sprott Student Investment Fund, she led the adoption of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) and the UN Principles for Responsible Investment into the fund security Ellena Damini is a commerce student concentrating in finance who shows great commitment to Sprott and the local community through her passions for sustainability and social impact. In her role as Portfolio Manager for the Sprott Student Investment Fund, she led the adoption of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) and the UN Principles for Responsible Investment into the SSIF’s security selection process and internal operations. She is also developing community outreach on the SSIF, including instructing financial literacy to high school students to give back to the community. Members will participate under her guidance as part of their community responsibility and will strive to deliver critical life skills. Ellena is further conducting an empirical study with Professor Howard Nemiroff in directly testing ESG principles and their effect on portfolio returns. She is driven to produce meaningful results that will change how people view sustainability in the global investable universe.

Gabrielle Kolotinsky

Gabrielle Kolotinsky is a commerce student with a concentration in finance who is described as passionate, generous, intelligent and multi-talented. She served as the Enriched Support Program Facilitator for calculus and marketing and as the Vice-President of the 杏吧原创 University Students鈥� Association鈥檚 Gender and Sexuality Resource Centre. She is currently the President of the Sprott Social Impact Club, where she led Indigenous history and cultures awareness events and launched the inaugural IMPACT conference. She is the Fund Manager at the Social Value Fund, where she coordinates investments to local community businesses with a social purpose. During one of her courses, she collaborated with organizations working in Indigenous communities to help them craft a Theory of Change, stakeholder engagement plan and strategic plan. She also worked as a Research Assistant with Prof. Katherine Ruff and represented 杏吧原创 at the ROCA International Case Competition.

• Undergraduate research
• Community engagement
• Internationalization
• Immersive learning

There are up to two awards per Faculty valued at $1000 each. Final judging of the submissions was done by the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) in consultation with the Vice-Provost and Associate Vice 鈥揚resident (Academic) Lorraine Dyke, the Vice-President (Students and Enrolment) Suzanne Blanchard, Professor Cheryl Schramm from the Faculty of Engineering and Design, and the Director of the Discovery Centre Alan Steele.

Due to the variety of work done by students throughout the university, there can be a broad interpretation of the four categories above, but the student鈥檚 work must be linked to their studies at 杏吧原创. Although the focus is on individuals, nominations of groups or teams of undergraduate students were also considered, with the award money shared. Nominated students were all registered in an undergraduate program in 2017-18.

We are pleased to highlight this years’ Award Recipients:

Eliana Remus, Faculty听of Arts and Social Sciences, Psychology

Eliana is described as an outstanding student, committed to community engagement that is linked to her undergraduate research. Her studies are linked to a wide variety of community activities. She was selected to a volunteer position on a youth-led advisory committee with the Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa. She and her colleagues create and facilitate educational workshops on topics such as consent and healthy relationships delivered to local elementary schools or community centers.

Baraa Arar, Faculty听of Arts and Social Sciences, Humanities

Baraa has achieved success in the areas of undergraduate research, community engagement and immersive learning. In 2016, Baraa received the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Undergraduate Research Award for her research on representations of Algerian women in art. This research produced three conference papers and a Ted-style talk that she gave on at the 20^th Anniversary of the Bachelor of humanities program in October 2016. She is committed to community engagement through her podcast, 鈥淭he Watering Hole.鈥�

Brigitte Martins, Faculty of Engineering and Design, Architecture

For Professor Bucking鈥檚 Architectural Technology 1 class, Brigitte designed an original net-zero energy tiny home research project. As a result of this, she then worked with Professor Bucking on a Net Zero Energy tiny home called the Northern Nomad project during the summer of 2017. This project was student led and pushed the boundaries of sustainable building design. Brigitte was the lead designer and with her skills, she not only successfully completed the project, but engaged the local and national media.

Maximilian Polzin, Faculty of Engineering and Design, Aerospace听

Maximilian embodies community engagement, internationalization, immersive learning, and a strong commitment to academic excellence. He is committed to his studies and is a dedicated member of the 杏吧原创 Engineering team and the 杏吧原创 University Blackbird Unmanned Aerial Vehicle team. Taking his undergraduate research into the community is one of the ways Maximilian engages with those around him. He has organized and participated in activities to promote interest in space research and science, including visiting local high schools to present his team鈥檚 research and answer questions about 杏吧原创.

Anna-Marie Robertson, Faculty of Public Affairs, Law

Anna-Marie has excelled in the areas of undergraduate research and community engagement. Now in her fourth year at 杏吧原创, she has demonstrated, and continues to model excellence in undergraduate research, and community engagement with an internationalization theme that cuts across both. Reflecting her passions for humanitarianism and global citizenship, Anna-Marie seizes every opportunity to advance her own knowledge as well as engaging in the community through her involvement with the Canadian Red Cross, Humanitarian Organization for Latin American Students at 杏吧原创, Red Cross Club 杏吧原创 and the 杏吧原创 Law and Legal Studies Society.

Summer Lewis, Faculty of public Affairs, Criminology and Criminal Justice

In the Criminology and Criminal Justice program, Summer has shown to be an exceptional student, while also contributing extensively to the 杏吧原创 community. Summer has been on the Dean鈥檚 List and was awarded the Celia Ruygrok Scholarship for the top student accepted into the field placement course in 2016-2017. In her third year she completed a placement with the Law Office of Jonathan Boss, from September 2016 to April 2017 (384 hours).听Summer is currently completing a Mindtrust fellowship and is a volunteer with the Canadian Association of College and University Student Services.

Elyn Rowe, Faculty of Science, Neuroscience

Elyn is described as an excellent researcher with well-rounded, active, contribution to 杏吧原创鈥檚 vibrant academic community. She is committed to her studies and her contribution to interdisciplinary collaborative research shows her strong leadership and hard-working devotion. At 杏吧原创, she was involved in founding a new Science Blog with The Charlatan to encourage science communication and as a kick-start team leader and mentor with 杏吧原创鈥檚 Student Science Success Centre.

Olivia Perryman, Faculty of Science, Computer Science

Olivia has achieved success in the areas of undergraduate research, community engagement and immersive learning. She received the Dean鈥檚 Summer Research Internship where she worked on understanding mental rotation. She was accepted into the Nengo summer school at Waterloo, and learned about computational neuroscience with senior scientists from many disciplines. Her neural model of rotation is the first to ever be created, and with her faculty supervisor, is now preparing her work for publication. She participated in a three-person team representing 杏吧原创 in the Association for Computing Machinery (AMC) programming challenge, placing 17th out of 127 teams–a 杏吧原创 record.

• undergraduate research,
• community engagement
• internationalization
• immersive learning

There are up to two awards per Faculty valued at $1000 each. Final judging of the submissions was done by the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) in consultation with the Vice-Provost and Associate Vice 鈥揚resident (Academic) John Shepherd, the Vice-President (Students and Enrolment) Suzanne Blanchard, and the Interm Director of the Discovery Centre Cheryl Schramm.

Due to the variety of work done by students throughout the university, there can be a broad interpretation of the four categories above, but the student鈥檚 work must be linked to their studies at 杏吧原创. Although the focus is on individuals, nominations of groups or teams of undergraduate students were also considered, with the award money shared. Nominated students were all registered in an undergraduate program in 2015-16.

We are pleased to highlight this years’ Award Recipients:

Heather McGale, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Psychology

Heather has achieved success in the areas of undergraduate research, community engagement and immersive learning. As a research assistant with the RCMP for 2 years, Heather has related her thesis work to the real-world police interaction with the public as it relates to recent incidents such as the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. She is committed to extracurricular volunteer work as a Bounce Back facilitator, and as an assistant to other students to improve their grades by working with them to identify important resources and help them cope with academic stressors.

Selam Abebe, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Child Studies

For her Honours degree, Selam designed an original research project titled, “What are you?”: It is an in-depth look at Mixed Race Childhood Experiences in Canada鈥� based on semi-structured interviews with a dozen Ottawa-based youth. Taking her undergraduate research into the community is only one way Selam engages with those around her. She is a volunteer note taker at the Paul Menton Centre, President of the Child Studies Society, is a primary and secondary school tutor and recently presented her research at the National Council on Undergraduate Research Conference in Asheville, North Carolina.

Anais Voski, Faculty of Public Affairs, Journalism and Communications

Anais is described as committed, curious and deeply engaged in making an impact at home and abroad. She is committed to her studies and is a dedicated organiser of major events for the Jean Monnet Chair 鈥淒emocracy in the European Union.鈥� Her involvement in a recent field trip to attend the presidential primaries in New Hampshire brought forward her strong work ethic and diligence in investigating all avenues of information.

Abdulraham al-Masri, Faculty of Public Affairs, Political Science

Abdulraham embodies community engagement, internationalization, immersive learning, and a strong commitment to academic excellence.听听 His professionalism, commitment and unique perspective enabled him to be instrumental in founding and sustaining #Refugees Welcome Ottawa 鈥� an organization creating concrete public events around the ongoing refugee crisis in Syria. In addition to his probing journalism and numerous published articles, Abdulraham is a critical thinker with a willingness to learn and support those around him.

Shira Schwartz, Faculty of Science, Biology

Shira has excelled in the areas of undergraduate research and community engagement. Her demanding Honours thesis has her investigation of the therapeutic effects of sub-symptom exercise regimen on progression of post-concussive syndrome 鈥� this involves direct patient contact and testing, and working with both physicians and physiotherapists at the 杏吧原创 Sports Medicine and Physiotherapy clinics. In addition to her dedicated research, Shira maintains various volunteer positions with Let鈥檚 Talk Science, she has a long-term commitment with extracurricular crowd-sourcing for the Biology Department helping them improve the anatomy lab teaching materials.

Meagan Harper, Faculty of Science, Biology

Meagan excels in undergraduate research, community engagement and immersive learning. She has led a team of undergraduate students to produce a prioritization system for invasive species management in the National Capital Commission (NCC) lands. Her research has contributed to the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority, NCC and Parks Canada work. In addition to relevant research projects in other course work, her ongoing volunteer positions with the Paul Mention Centre, Parks Canada and the Institute of Environmental Science make Meagan worthy of this award.

Kyle Stoles, Sprott School of Business, Commerce

Kyle is a 4^th year honours student in BCom, Finance concentration and is portfolio Manager for the Sprott Student Investment Fund. The fund is wholly responsible for the investment of roughly $800,000 worth of Sprott endowment money, and Kyle is responsible for managing the team of 20-odd students. Kyle completes industry calibre analysis, presents quarterly presentations to the Investment Committee of the University and introduces the world of equity investing to the students at large. Kyle was a participant on the Sprott team that participated in The Economist magazine investment competition last year, finishing 3rd in the world and has participated in other prestigious competitions with contributions nothing short of outstanding.

Victor Aziz, Faculty of Engineering and Design, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering

In the Mechanical and Biomedical engineering program Victor has a commitment for problem solving. He has strong organizational skills while projecting self-confidence onto colleagues, building their trust and commitment as a team. Las summer he joined a team of biomedical engineers exploring spray characterization of pharmaceutical aerosols with a partnered company, Coraltec Inc. (Toronto, ON). He has worked diligently on an I-CUREUS research grant in the biomedical engineering field. Victor looks beyond his studies with volunteer positions with the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society and as vice-president of 杏吧原创 University鈥檚 Biomedical Engineering Society (CUBES).

Health Care Product Design Group, Faculty of Engineering, School of Industrial Design

The following five听students: Evelyn Choi, Eric Cross, Bryce Booth Dawson, Rhys Jones and Benjamin Miller were nominated together as part of the Health Care Product Design Group. Their commitment to undergraduate research and community engagement relating to the Canadian health care context is impressive. Extensive research, site visits, consultations, design and prototyping went into the health care products that were created. The students worked with both industry experts, and consulted with fellow communication students to create product prototypes. Their products are impressive.

Thank you to all who nominated students for the 2015-16 Provost Scholar Award. Please also read听about the .

Due to the variety of work done in these areas across the University and within individual experience the Awards were granted to a diverse group of hard working students who excelled in one or more of the areas of undergraduate research, community engagement, internationalization and immersive learning.

Congratulations to all those awarded with the 2015 Provost Scholars Award who are presented below, by faculty:

Faculty of听Public Affairs

Christine Ackerley – School of Journalism & Communications

Christine is an outstanding undergraduate student who has spent many hours as a research assistant in the area of knowledge mobilization with the Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) project and contributed time to the very successful C2U Expo that attracted hundreds of participants from around the globe. She was also the winner of the 2014 Faculty of Public Affairs undegraduate research showcase and received the University Medal in journalism for achieving the highest academic standing in her graduating class.

Emma Bider – School of Journalism & African Studies

Emma Bider has excelled in both her Journalism and African Studies courses and has displayed an ongoing interest in international studies. As part of her Journalism program, she participated in an exchange program to the Netherlands from February to June 2013. After completing the exchange, she did an internship in July 2013 at the CBC鈥檚 London, England office. In her courses for her African Studies degree, she has been keen to push her understandings of Africa, its diasporas and its implications for differently situated Africans and the wider international affairs. To that end, she took the African Studies Abroad course in May 2014 and emerged as one of the student leaders on that course. Emma assisted with the wider community engagement activities of the Institute of African Studies (IAS). She has been an active member of the IAS Student Association and has written articles for the biannual newsletter.

Frohan Foroutan – Department of Economics

Frohan鈥檚 engagement with the 杏吧原创 community and beyond has not gone unnoticed by her professors and students alike. As a Bounce Back Facilitator, volunteer with School of Linguistics and Language Studies (SLaLS), serving on the executive of the 杏吧原创 Undergraduate Economics and Math societies, and with the 鈥淎sk Frohan鈥� Project, she is valued by your peers. In addition, her听academic research, invitations to present at conferences and the ability to maintain a consistently high academic standing, make her an ideal candidate of the Provost Scholar Award.

Pleased听by the Award Frohan stated: “I am honoured to know that I am among the few who won Provost Scholar Award. As a student, I always strive to learn my academics besides being engaged as much as possible within 杏吧原创鈥檚 community. I hope to continue my higher level studies with successful results and contribute positively to 杏吧原创鈥檚 Community.”

Carly Jacuk – Department of Legal Studies

Carly Jacuk鈥檚 program of study focuses on human rights, social justice and harm reduction approaches to pressing socio-legal issues. At 杏吧原创, she works as an Enriched Support Program Facilitator for the Centre for Initiatives in Education, facilitating weekly workshops for AESP and ESP students and she has also volunteered with the Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities.听Her extracurricular work also has global impact. She volunteers for the United Nations Association of Canada where she helped to build informational resources for delegates. She is the Director, Editor-in-Chief of the 2015 Canadian International Model United Nations, the largest model conference hosted by the United Nations Association of Canada. Carly has put her energies as a volunteer, research assistant and proactive leader in extracurricular activities that have enriched the 杏吧原创 community and advanced its reputation as a capital university that is globally engaged.

Faculty of Science

Rhys Abdeen – Department of Neuroscience

Rhys Abdeen has been volunteering at the Science Student Success Centre (SSSC) since 2011, where he meets one-on-one with students in the Faculty of Science and gives them advice, tips and referrals to help them meet their academic, career and social goals. He has been especially active helping First Generation Students and students at-risk by mentoring them and providing them with emotional support during very stressful times in their lives. Last summer, he took on the role of the Math Matters Supervisor, planning the Math Matters program and working with incoming students who wish to brush up on their math skills before classes begin. His involvement in Math Matters has been crucial to the success of the program.

Sumiya Abdirashid – Department of Neuroscience

Sumiya Abdirashid has been volunteering at the Science Student Success Centre (SSSC) at 杏吧原创 University for the last few years. She meets one-on-one with other students in the Faculty of Science and gives them advice, tips and referrals to help them meet their academic, career and social goals. She also participates in events and activities that help to build a community within the faculty. Not only was she a part of the 杏吧原创 Relay for Life organizing committee (which took an incredible amount of time and energy), but she also helped organize a Relay for Life team for the SSSC and organized fundraising activities for the team. She managed this while also being a Third-Year Representative and Event Planner for the 杏吧原创 Neuroscience Society, working as a residence fellow and maintaining a consistently high average in school.

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Betul Alaca – Department of Psychology

Betul Alaca鈥檚 commitment to extracurricular undergraduate research and embracing projects in the wider community speak highly to her character. She is very active and her long-term commitments with her participation in the I-CUREUS program, work as a teaching assistant, attendance at a Halifax conference and through her other volunteer work. The combination of both academic and her activities outside her course work, highlight her commitment to excelling in all areas of her life.

Khadija Ali Ahmed – Department of Law

Khadija’s initiative within the 杏吧原创 community and beyond has earned her leadership roles and recognition. As part of her work as a research assistant in the Legal Studies Department, Khadija was awarded the Mitacs Globalink research award which allowed her to听travel to the听European Court of Human Rights within Turkey on work related to gender issues. Further internationalization in her academics has taken Khadija to an internship role at the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia where she learned about American legal procedures. She has gained further work experience in a number of Co-op placements in a Canadian policy-work context. Khadija has听a听long resume of community engagement participating in the听review team for the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health’s project “Dare to Dream.”

Joshua Eisbrenner – Department of Psychology听

Joshua鈥檚 dedication to his studies while committing so much time and energy to helping others is commendable. Joshua was responsible for creating an open learning environment, always took a genuine interest in others in the CIE ESP Peer mentor program and in his role as a workshop facilitator. He also took on further initiatives, such as developing the 鈥業nside Scoop鈥� and speaking at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences BA Orientation, as well as providing mentorship to student and resident of Harvest House 鈥� all of which speaks to his incredible commitment to engage further with the community and his dedication to the success of other undergraduate students.

Hollis Peirce – Department of History

Hollis鈥� interest in his research, as well as his dedication to pursuing it speak highly of his commitment finding innovative ways in which digital humanities can contribute to multiple aspects of life. Your numerous activities, including your presentation of a poster at 鈥楤ig Data Day,鈥� establishing and running 鈥楾HATCamp鈥� and for being the first student named as the Graham Undergraduate Digital History Research Fellow due to your hard work all exemplify the core principles of Provost Scholars. Hollis attended the University of Victoria Digital Humanities Summer Institute twice and, as a result, was able to make important connections that benefitted the wider community.

A call for nominations for the 2016 Provost Scholars Award will come from the Office of the Provost & Vice President (Academic) in the fall of 2015.