SUBMISSIONS 2025

A black secondary school student in VR headset using virtual chemistry tools in a simple digital lab environment.
Thinking Beyond the Classroom Walls: Using Virtual Chemistry to Overcome Resource Barriers
by Abdulmalik Abbas
A silhouetted figure atop a hill reaches for a heart-shaped balloon against a purple and blue twilight sky.
Youth, Care, and the Fragile Thread of Hope
by Aidan Lee
A Cautiously Optimistic Agent
by Alireza Kazemipour
Magnified view of stainless steel surface showing abstract patterns of swirls and scratches from surface defects and contaminants.
Steel Canvas: Abstract Expressionism in Stainless Steel Surfaces
by Allison Thome
Walking in Two Worlds: Indigenous Language Learning in a Digital Age Using Virtual Reality Technology
by Allyson Lynch
Reflection in a teary eye shows participant’s story, symbolizing the researcher’s deep emotional connection to fieldwork.
A Moment that Stayed With Me
by Anna Gerami
Electric vehicle charging hub with cars and a lounge, set against Banff’s Rocky Mountains and town buildings.
Bridging Nature and Innovation: The Future of Travel in Banff
by Anna Gerami
A layered visualization of the 1st and 2nd KKK along with the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Manipulation of Memory
by Anthony Gallipoli
An anticancer drug and its receptor interacting with each other inside a cancer cell.
Vibration of Hope
by Antonio Vega
Color-enhanced cryo-SEM image of a lignin-gelatin hydrogel bead with a porous, web-like surface.
Blossom of Frost, Fleur de Givre
by Aria Khalili
This image shows a surgeon working. The glowing crescent represents the meniscus and the promise of helping the body heal itself.
The Crescent of Hope
by Ashif Rahman
A black beetle with orange markings stands on top of a dead mouse. Several small mites crawl on the beetle's body.
Bucket of Mice
by Bennett Grappone
~35 bison on a road in Wood Buffalo National Park run toward a wolf on the right side of the road bordering the forest edge.
Unbroken Relationships
by Brennan Stanfield
A boot holds down a wood frame in the snow as a hand pulls a string tightly to stretch a moose hide.
Pass on the Teachings
by Carla Taylor
Sunset over the grassland at Mattheis Research Ranch, Alberta, Canada with researchers walking back after a long day of fieldwork.
Twilight of Discovery: An Exhausting but Rewarding Journey in the Prairies
by Chathuranga De Silva
Relative intensity map of iron content in minerals, represented by a colour gradient from blue (low) to pink (high).
Distribution of Iron in a Mineralized Vein by EPMA
by Cole Graham
Three Indigenous women in ribbon skirts hold a feather, rattle, and drum, framed by sunlight streaming through a window.
Coming Full Circle: Honouring the Spiritual Element of Educational Research
by Danielle Voyageur
My great friend and colleague, Preston Tran and I, gaining experience in the fermentation suite at AFDP on South Campus.
BFF’s: Best Friends Fermenting
by Domenic Marano
Mussels clustered between barnacle-crusted rocks in a tide pool, a habitat threatened by invasive crabs and climate change.
Tension in the Tides
by Dustin Doty
Raw primal cuts on a conveyor pass through a cold plasma tunnel in a food processing facility for surface sterilization.
Cold Plasma Sterilization for Enhanced Food Safety
by Ella Sun
Two women, Non-African and African in vibrant African print dresses sit apart on benches, outdoors, in front of a building.
Styled Across Continents
by Elsie Rebecca Osei
A man and a baby meet forehead to forehead
This is what I want to Remember, Always
by Fatema Albar
Fresh beer, wet brewer’s spent grain (BSG), dried BSG powder, and bioactive peptide-rich hydrolysate arranged side by side.
Spent but Spectacular
by Gihan Wijelath Arachchige
Blurred patient and clinician hands surround a data flower visualizing key decisional needs to facilitate cannabis decisions.
A Flower of Hope Bridging the Divide: Exploring Cannabis Decisional Needs Behind Hesitation
by Heba Aref
Image of a duck-billed dinosaur, showing a new cheek muscle or ligament revealed by histology of skull bones
Building the Exoparia
by Henry Sharpe
The loss of a century-old mountain refuge dismantled due to climate change.
Abbot Pass Hut: The Lost Heritage
by Hossein Rasaei
Dressed Meat Carcass arranged for quality evaluation, while edible meat by-products are piled for garbage.
Beyond the Carcass: Valorization of Canadian Meat By-Products
by Ifedayo Bello
A montage of 53 weevil species from around the world, highlighting their diverse colors, forms, and sizes.
A World of Weevils
by Jake Lewis
A person in a white mask sits at a table staring at a phone; red threads form direct lines from the mask’s eyes to the screen
Faceless in the Midst of the Feed
by Jaron Tan
Healthy lung vasculature with adequate branching and diseased lung vasculature with rarified vessel branching
Vascular Rarefaction
by Jennie Vu
A colourful painting depicts neighbourhood houses and buildings with people gathering inside and in the front garden.
Emergent Landscapes: Urban Gardens and Bicycle Infrastructure Explored in Painting through the Lens of Human Ecology – Material Culture
by Jill Thomson
Cartoon of a person going to vote. A thought bubble reads “Who am I?” The choices on the ballot are autocracy or democracy.
Democracy on the Ballot
by Kathryn Kincaid
Cash from a ‘100 trillion poems’ slot machine falls into piles of books. Two laptops show stock market graphs for literary value.
The Economics of Literary Value
by Kevin Kvas
Grayscale visualization of turbulent airflow patterns using smoke structures within a sewer pipe cross-section.
Flowing Insights: Illuminating Turbulance in Sewer Airflows
by Khaled Mohamed
Numerous green crabs piled on top of each other.
Green Crab Galore
by Kiara Kattler
Aerial view of a young boreal mixed wood forest with scattered legacy trees rising above a uniform, vibrant green canopy.
Nature’s Quilt: Patterns of Regeneration
by Kyle Dues
Gloomy vs. vibrant scene contrasts pureed and 3D printed food shapes on a plate, symbolizing hope for dysphagia diets.
3D Food Printing: A New Outlook on Life
by Laura Lopez-Aldana
Fluorescent micrograph of a fungal rhizomorph; bright cyan patches indicate local membrane depolarisation zones.
Electrical Activity in an Armillaria Ostoyae Rhizomorph
by Liam Easton
From Core to Pore: How Water Moves Through Tiny Spaces to Displace Oil
From Core to Pore: How Water Moves Through Tiny Spaces to Displace Oil
by Lixing Lin
An image of an AI agent intertwined with the human heart.
Using AI for Improving Precision Health and Medical Decision Making
by Mahvash Siavashpour
A beautiful landscape with sea, mountains, and plants above a disruptive volcanic eruption of fractured bones and immune chaos.
Tectonic Therapy: When Immunity Shifts the Ground Beneath
by Manar Elsayed
A mannequin mid-scan using iPad and Structure Sensor, with spine depth deviations shown on BackSCNR website and VS Code.
Behind the Visible Curve
by Mariam Ezzat
Two researchers stand before a lighthouse under a starry sky on a remote island, evoking solitude, connection, and climate ties.
Under the Same Sky: Echoes from a Remote Fishing Community
by Marina Banuet-Martinez
Microscopic image of oleosomes, resembling a cratered moon, symbolizing the parallels between medicine and space exploration.
Oleosome Moon
by Marlon III Mallillin
A woman weaving a shawl on a traditional loom, representing cultural heritage and women’s economic empowerment.
Weaving Her Own Path: a Journey towards Empowerment and Self-Reliance
by Masoma Akbari
Swirling bands of molten metal and light intertwining, symbolizing the layered creation process of metal 3D printing.
Layer by Layer: The Thermal Symphony of Metal 3D Printing
by Mia Abdulla
Fibre Reinforcement in Asphalt Cracking
When Asphalt Breaks, Fibres Step In
by Mohamed Saleh
Engineer using a Meta Quest 3 headset to overlay a virtual CAD model onto a real jet engine with an AR interface visible.
Revolutionizing Computer-Aided Design with AR-CAD: The Future of Interactive Design
by Muhammad Talha
Satellite image of a meandering ice-covered river, cutting through a thawing brown and green landscape.
The River’s Pulse: Tracking Change from Space
by Nafeez Islam
A 360 camera and a mic. In the background, a reel-to-reel tape player sits on a stage with a podium.
Reel-to-Reel-to-360°
by Natasha D’Amours
A veiled woman’s translucent figure overlays a bombed cityscape, capturing resilience and empowerment amid violent conflict.
Hope and Hazard: Women Entrepreneurs in the Heart of Violent Conflict
by Omima Elkailani
Bacterial colonies after Gibson assembly, representing the pivotal moment before confirming genetic modifications in the Plasmid.
Selective Voices: The Positive Colony Speaks
by Prabhsimran Singh
A researcher gazes at a shimmering flow chamber filled with nanobubbles suspended in liquid.
The Dance of the Nanobubbles: Illuminating the Microscopic World
by Prithviraj V
A gloved hand holds glowing microparticles against a cosmic background, symbolizing precision drug delivery in diabetes treatment.
Where Precision Meets Possibility
by Pulkit Kumar
A street performer balances on a unicycle at night while holding a flaming staff.
On the Edge: Balancing Privacy and Fairness in Machine Learning
by Rabeya Bosri
Garmin watch on wrist recording health data facing a snow-covered bridge symbolizing the uncertain journey of chronic illness.
Bridging the MILES
by Ritika Sharma
Illustration of climate disaster, mangroves, urban skyline, and footprints symbolizing climate-induced migration.
Tracing Footprints through Flooded Soil: Climate-Induced Migration in the Sundarbans
by Rohini Chatterjee
Microscopic image of a 100-million-year-old rock showing alternating sand and mud layers deformed by ancient minuscule worms.
Worm World
by Sara Biddle
Trying to view the heart from different positions illustrates the need for echo cardiography fusion.
The Rise of Echo Fusion
by Sharanya Balachandran
Plasma a Cool Revolution in Science
Where Energy Meets Matter: Visualizing Plasma in Action
by Shivani Sonkar
A hand holds a glass filled with soil, water, and a small plant, over brown mulch, with a blurred green background.
Thirsty Forests: The Invisible Side of Drought
by Sofia Moreno Piña
Image of a burned tibia captured with a microscope, showing a saw kerf and heat fracture, viewed under filtered lighting.
When Violence Disappears
by Tristan Mula
Actors perform in an outdoor community theatre, engaging a seated rural audience in a participatory drama.
Theatre for Change
by Valentine Ukoh
A young child with eyes closed and cheeks puffed out, attempting to hold their breath for as long as possible during imaging.
Blurred by Breathing, Restored by Learning
by Varsha Kesavan
An offering of Native Hawaiian flowers wrapped in ti leaves placed on the ground near the rim of a volcanic caldera.
Hoʻokupu: An Offering to Tūtū Pele
by Vivian Giang
Mixed media painting of a face split into two with a tree replacing the mouth, nose, and forehead.
The Blurring of Imperfect Pieces
by Wanas Radwan
A caribou drinks at a pond with lichens and dry grass nearby, and a wildfire reflected in the water hints at climate change.
Edge of Survival: Caribou and Climate Change
by Wendy Zou
An oil painting of blooming canola flowers with pests and pathogens around the frame, representing canola farming challenges.
A Blooming ‘Canola Painting’ Beckons – Even to Pests
by Xinlong Dong
A person sits quietly on a bench under a tree; the drooping branches have been digitally edited to resemble neurons.
A Mind Reaching Out
by Zijia Yu