Recognition for Graduate Student Excellence Trent graduate students were granted prestigious scholarships and recognition for their research. Indigenous Environmental Studies student Brigitte Evering received the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Canada’s most prestigious scholarship for doctoral students, valued at $150,000 for her Ph.D. research studying frameworks for mutually beneficial knowledge collaboration concerning environmental issues.
Graduate students were recognized with awards for their poster presentations on research they conducted on the North at the ArcticNet conference held in Ottawa: n
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Annabelle Baya, ENLS Ph.D. third place in the Natural Sciences – Marine category
Kaitlin Breton-Honeyman, ENLS Ph.D. second place in Health and Social Sciences
Meghan Buckham, CDS/IS M.A. third place in Health and Social Sciences n
Jennie Knopp, ENLS Ph.D. first place in ASA Art Exhibit n
Tasha Beeds, of Indigenous Studies, received a $105,000 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship for her study of violence in Indigenous women’s lives through the exploration of Cree consciousness and the âtayôhkêwina (Sacred Stories).
Jenn Robus, ENLS M.Sc. second place in ASA Art Exhibit n
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Agata Durkalec CDS/IS M.A. honourable mention in the Inuit partnership award
Trent Indigenous Studies Ph.D. candidate Christine Sy received recognition for innovative research in the field. She was awarded a $5000 Harshman Fellowship for her research examining Anishinaabe women and the sugar bush economy in the Great Lakes region during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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