Awards 2025 Kelowna
CSHS Student Awards – 2025 Kelowna
Graduate Student Oral Presentations
- First place: Miriam
Fenniri (University of British Columbia): Chemically profiling
the mysterious colour polymorphism in salmonberries (Rubus
spectabilis Pursh.
- Second place:
Laura Carruthers (University of Saskatchewan): Improving
nitrogen use efficiency and reducing nitrous oxide emissions in
potato production.
- Third place: Sara
Davis (University of British Columbia): Responses of grapevine (Vitis
vinifera L.) to heat and drought: Vine physiology and grape
aroma.
Graduate Student Poster Presentations
- First place: Dane
Harder (University of Saskatchewan): Investigating the soil
carbon content of urban soils in relationship to the growth and
health of Fraxinus pennsylvanica.
- Second place: Daniel
Gaudet (University of British Columbia): A single laboratory
validation for kynurenine and related metabolites in St. John’s
wort (Hypericum perforatum L.).
- Third place: Emily
Foster (University of Fraser Valley): Melatonin supplementation
enhances heat tolerance of Fragaria vesca, Yellow Wonder
Strawberry.
Student Travel Award
- Ifesinachi Nelson Ezeh
(University of Guelph): Robot vs. Tractor: Weed management in
beet and carrot fields in organic and mineral soils