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Monique Power started her studies at the University of Ottawa unsure of where she would end up, much like many other first year students. She knew her interests included science and plants so she opted for the biology program at the Faculty of Science. Little did she know that she was going to graduate in a worldwide pandemic and work on research to create an edible vaccine using lettuce.

The name Antoine Cantin is familiar to many.

Communicating science is an intrinsic part of a scientist’s career.

During his postdoctoral research training in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Saeid Molladavoudi perfected the skills required to succeed in his professional career. Today, Saeid excels as a Lead Data Scientist in the Data Science Division at Statistics Canada.

Patrick Nadeau’s background in Biology, obtained through his undergraduate degree at the University of Ottawa, has proven to be extremely valuable in his current role of Executive Director at Ottawa Riverkeeper.

Following a successful PhD in Ireland, Andrew Schaeffer joined the University of Ottawa as an NSERC Postdoctoral Scholar in 2015. He then earned a prestigious Banting postdoctoral fellowship to pursue his research on active seismic regions in Canada.

While working as a postdoctoral fellow with Professor David Bryce, Vijith Kumar built on his research experience in supramolecular chemistry by exploring organic crystal engineering with novel non-covalent interactions such as chalcogen and tetrel bonding.

Mina Ghahremani, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biology, is the proud recipient of the Ragai Ibrahim 2020 Award.

Ron Shah, a gifted PhD graduate who worked with Professor Derek Pratt, significantly advanced the development of antioxidant therapies for the treatment of degenerative disease.

Subduction zones are boundaries between tectonic plates where Earth’s largest earthquakes occur.