{"id":5814,"date":"2026-04-09T11:52:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/?p=5814"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:08:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:08:41","slug":"undergraduate-research-day-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/2026\/undergraduate-research-day-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Research Day 2026"},"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                        Undergraduate Research Day 2026\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Carleton University\u2019s Department of Chemistry, Food Science and Nanoscience hosted its annual Undergraduate Research Day on April 9th, 2026. Research Day is a celebration of the research of the undergraduate students in both Chemistry and Food Science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Undergraduate students participating in CHEM 4908 and FOOD 4908 shared their research to colleagues and faculty with an oral poster presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to all of the students for sharing your innovate research&nbsp; and thank you to our volunteers for helping celebrate with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to all of our winners!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1st Place<\/span>: Irina Popescu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supervisor: Tyler Avis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research Title: Effect of Surfactin on Microbial Growth and Membrane Domain Redistribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/138\/2026\/04\/Irina-Tyler.jpg\" alt=\"Irina Popsecu and supervisor Tyler Avis\" class=\"wp-image-5815\" title=\"News\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/138\/2026\/04\/Irina-Tyler.jpg 600w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/138\/2026\/04\/Irina-Tyler-512x683.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/138\/2026\/04\/Irina-Tyler-320x427.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2nd Place<\/span>: Nika Rezaei Shad<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supervisor: Daniel Gregoire<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research Title: Functional Characterization of Pet-Degrading Genes Recovered from Electronic Waste Using E. Coli as a Model Host<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/138\/2026\/04\/Daniel-Nika.jpg\" alt=\"Nika Rezaei Shad and supervisor Daniel Gregoire\" class=\"wp-image-5816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/138\/2026\/04\/Daniel-Nika.jpg 800w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/138\/2026\/04\/Daniel-Nika-512x384.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/138\/2026\/04\/Daniel-Nika-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/138\/2026\/04\/Daniel-Nika-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University\u2019s Department of Chemistry, Food Science and Nanoscience hosted its annual Undergraduate Research Day on April 9th, 2026. Research Day is a celebration of the research of the undergraduate students in both Chemistry and Food Science. Undergraduate students participating in CHEM 4908 and FOOD 4908 shared their research to colleagues and faculty with an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":5815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5820,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5814\/revisions\/5820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}