TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY (TWU) USRA

NEW! INTERNAL APPLICATION Deadline for Summer 2021 EXTENDED TO WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 4:00 P.M.

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The TWU USRA application process contains two parts: Part I is to be filled out by the student. Part II is to be filled out by the proposed supervisor. Parts I and II, together with the student’s unofficial transcript(s), must be submitted to the Scholarship Liaison Officer, Office of Research & Graduate Studies, at ORGS@twu.ca from a @mytwu.ca email address.

A student may submit only ONE application to the USRA competition. If a student applies for an NSERC USRA and is not successful, their application will automatically be considered for a TWU USRA.

Amount of Award: Up to $10,200, depending on the term of the award, plus up to $500 for consumables (if applicable)

Term of Award: Up to 16 weeks, and no fewer than 10 weeks (desired term to be indicated on the application)

Undergraduate Research Conference (UGRC) Requirement: USRA recipients are required to present a project at TWU's annual Undergraduate Research Conference in Spring 2022.

Eligibility Criteria:

1. Current enrollment in any undergraduate program.
2. Must have completed at least one semester of post-secondary studies at the deadline of application.
3. May be in the final semester of a program at the time of application, and hold the award over the summer.
4. Minimum GPA of 2.7 required.
5. Identification of a supervisory faculty member and have the research project approved by that faculty member.

Supervisor Eligibility: All tenure-track faculty. Other full-time and sessional TWU faculty who are involved in research may be eligible to supervise, and will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Faculty do not need to be NSERC eligible. A supervisor may submit applications to supervise a maximum of two students in the NSERC and TWU USRA combined.

Forms & Instructions for applicants

• TWU USRA Part I Student Application & Instructions 2021

Forms & Instructions for proposed research supervisors

• TWU USRA Part II.1 Supervisor Application 2021
• TWU USRA Part II.2 Budget Spreadsheet 2021

SUBMIT APPLICATION FORMS & TRANSCRIPTS TO ORGS

2021 TWU USRA RECIPIENTS

*2021 USRA Recipients will present their research at TWU's 2022 Undergraduate Research Conference.

Recipient Name	Supervisor	Research Project
Natalie Szakun	Anita Cote, PhD Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Adaptation to Exercise	Assessing Cardiovascular Risk in Women and Relationships with Physical Activity
Maddisen Brown	Julia Mills, PhD	ILK and Abl in Cancer Cell Survival and Growth
Elyssa Campbell	Tracy Stobbe, PhD, MPP, BJ	Economic Trends and Understandings in 18th and 19th Century British Literature
Gabriella Collins	Angela Wolff, PhD, RN	Guidelines for Healthcare Providers' Application of Patient-Centered Measurement (PCM) Data in Practice
Che-Hsuan (Lucy) Chuang	Paul Rowe, PhD	Religious Freedom in the Contemporary World: the Case of the People’s Republic of China
Hannah Hube	Kelly Arbeau, PhD	Identifying the correlates of fear/anxiety responses and exercise avoidance in person with pain-related chronic illness
Lillian Li	Angela Wolff, PhD, RN	Guidelines for Healthcare Providers' Application of Patient-Centered Measurement (PCM) Data in Practice
Abner Kooner	Sarah Liva, PhD, RN	Developing a socially responsive lens to assess and address postpartum vulnerability during the pandemic and beyond
Jordyn Laird	Valentina Proietti, PhD Philip Laird, PhD	Empathy and Understanding Moral Decision Making
Jade Stobbart	Jaime Palmer-Hague, PhD	Sex Differences in Effectiveness of Gossip
Jillian Sherwood	Kelly Arbeau, PhD	Motivations for using complementary and alternative medicine

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