{"id":9246,"date":"2020-06-25T10:48:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T14:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=9246"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:47","slug":"biology-students-win-big-at-association-of-canadian-universities-of-northern-studies-acuns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2020\/biology-students-win-big-at-association-of-canadian-universities-of-northern-studies-acuns\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology Students Win Big at Association of Canadian Universities of Northern Studies (ACUNS)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Biology Students Win Big at Association of Canadian Universities of Northern Studies (ACUNS)\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Congratulations to PhD candidates Willow English and William Twardek who recently won scholarships from ACUNS. Willow English, a student in both the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/joseph-bennett\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bennett lab<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/dr-paul-smith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Smith Lab<\/a>, has won the Canadian Northern Studies Trust (CNST) Scholarship for her research on <em>Carry-over effects in Arctic-breeding shorebirds: a cross-species comparison<\/em>. William Twardek, a student in the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/steven-j-cooke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cooke lab<\/a>, has won the Polar Knowledge Canada POLAR Scholarship for his research on <em>Assessing the fate of returning upper Yukon River Chinook Salmon.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about these recipients research at: <a href=\"https:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/2020\/41943\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/2020\/41943\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to PhD candidates Willow English and William Twardek who recently won scholarships from ACUNS. Willow English, a student in both the Bennett lab and the Smith Lab, has won the Canadian Northern Studies Trust (CNST) Scholarship for her research on Carry-over effects in Arctic-breeding shorebirds: a cross-species comparison. William Twardek, a student in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grad-student-news","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9248,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9246\/revisions\/9248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}