Governor General's Gold Medal winners honoured

The Gold Medal winner files across the stage, accepts recognition of the exceptional achievement, then – without a word – disappears into a sea of mortarboards. Or at least that’s the way it’s been for 145 years.

The Governor General's Academic Medal recognizes Canada’s finest scholars, and winners of the Gold Medal have broken new ground in their fields, but they haven’t been given a platform to share it, until now.
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3-Minute Thesis winner examines harm pesticides cause to frogs

Hundreds of hours of reading, thousands of words typed . . . then revised, and then typed again. And to sum it all up? 180 seconds.

The 3-Minute Thesis competition originated at Australia’s University of Queensland in 2008, but it has long since gone global. The competition presents graduate students with a daunting task: distill your dissertation or thesis into a short presentation that can be digested by a non-specialist audience. Oh, and one more thing . . . you only get one PowerPoint slide.

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Biomedical engineering students harness the power of AI

Carleton engineering students are conducting biomedical research on the vanguard of a data-driven health-care revolution. By using Artificial Intelligence (AI), they are mining, processing and analyzing data on an unprecedented scale.
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Kevin Dick, a Biomedical Engineering PhD  student, is using machine learning AI to explore protein interactions, and identify problematic bindings that lead to illness. His research aims to forge a path to therapeutic treatments to prevent those illnesses from occurring in the first place.
 
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The legal implications of cyborgs
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From Terminator to Darth Vader, Hollywood has cast cyborgs as the villains of a dystopian future, but as Tamara Banbury sees it, this fear of body augmentation is misplaced. The master’s student in Legal Studies has been awarded a SSHRC Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship to research the voluntary implantation of technology into human beings. She believes it can make our lives, well, better.

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Data mining Jane Austen
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Before there was Mr. Big, there was Mr. Darcy.
Tall and handsome, wealthy and witty, aloof and arrogant…Fitzwilliam Darcy made a poor first impression in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice before winning the affections of protagonist Elizabeth Bennet with his gentlemanliness and kindness. Elizabeth marries him for love, and preserves the family fortune in the process.

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Are giant lecture halls conducive to learning math?

The new economy isn’t so new anymore, and by now, it’s no secret that Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) graduates are its ultimate commodity. They are the talent that spurs innovation, enhances productivity and builds our ever accelerating high tech future.
But there’s a persistent shortage of STEM graduates, and fixing the problem isn't as simple as flicking a switch and instantly generating a talent pipeline. 

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