Awards

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Undergraduate Student Research Awards

Information about the NSERC USRA 2012/2013 Competition from the Graduate Studies Office Website.

Note: Hand-written and hard copy applications are no longer acceptable. Students and proposed supervisors must fill out the electronic form directly from the NSERC website. Choose "Login to the system" or "Register as a New User". Eligible students must complete Form 202 – Part I.  Supervisors will complete Form 202 – Part II.  Only complete applications that include Part II will be ranked.

Eligible students should submit the following online by January 16, 2012.

• Part I of Form 202
• An unofficial transcript, printed through Quest
• Note: The proposed supervisor should submit Part II of Form 202 online. 

Jonathan R. Matthews Memorial Award

This annual award is given for the top academic achievement with the highest overall average in third- and fourth-year courses in undergraduate studies (Biology or Biochemistry). The $400 scholarship is named after the late Dr. Jonathan R. Matthews, who earned a PhD from Waterloo in 1976. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Waterloo when he died tragically in a car accident.

Recipients

• 2009 Janet Simons
• 2008 Bradley Frew
• 2007 Marianne Heppleston
• 2006 Kristin Dimmick
• 2005 Howard Chia Hao Hsu
• 2004 Carl Allan White
• 2003 Amy Tung
• 2002 Graeme C. Couture
• 2001 Rebecca L. Pollex
• 2000 Tracey L. Campbell
• 1999 Isolde M. Seiden
• 1998 Shelley L. Stregger
• 1997 Melanie A. Varey
• 1996 John L. Brubacher
• 1995 Charlotte H. Mursell
• 1994 Susan J. Moore
• 1993 Ka-Man V. Lai
• 1992 Caitlin McGregor
• 1991 Ronald B. Winter
• 1990 Joseph A. Martens
• 1989 Cindy J. Hayward
• 1988 Stephen Heard
• 1987 Allan T. VanBrunschot
• 1986 Susan Fraser
• 1985 Chin J. Goh
• 1984 Jacqueline Brown
• 1983 Jeffrey D. Moon
• 1982 Alan B. Rose
• 1981 Pauline A. Byrne
• 1980 Katherine E. Kuhn

For information on this award, please contact Sue Whyte, Coordinator, Undergraduate Studies
Phone: 519-888-4567 ext. 36394

Professor Marilyn Griffith Senior Honours Project Excellence Award

This award, established by her colleagues in the Department of Biology in memory of Dr. Marilyn Griffith, is presented annually to recognize outstanding performance by an undergraduate student in a senior honours research project. During her distinguished career, Dr. Griffith researched how plants cope with cold temperature stress and at the time of her death, she was one of the world’s leading authorities in this area.

Recipients

• 2009 Lauren MacDonald
• 2008 Emily Wendland
• 2007 William Callery, Susan Usjak
• 2006 Lynette Lau
• 2005 Andrew Doxey

Bruce Wyler Kelly Memorial Prize

Recipients

• 2008–2009 Amy Law
• 2008–2009 Jun Wang

J. Frank Brookfield Scholarship

2008–2009 recipients

• Leah Blechschmidt
• Jennifer Campbell
• Randall Cheung
• Sarah Garland
• Cherry Ho
• Samantha Kruger
• Brigid Matheson
• Serena Menezes
• Cam Nguyen
• Jessica Pang
• Harsh Thaker
• Andrew

• Vermeer

Upper Year-Biology Senate Scholarships

2008–2009 recipients

•  Carol Best
•  Shira Davis
•  Christopher Go
•  Chinhyun Lee
•  Janet Emily Simons
•  Marie-Pierre Tendlnd-Frenette