Celebrating our Students

Provost Scholar Awards

Funded by the Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) and administered by the Discovery Centre for Undergraduate Research and Engagement, the Provost Scholar Award recognizes exceptional student accomplishments. The award is valued at $1,000 and is given to undergraduate students who have demonstrated outstanding achievements in research, community engagement, immersive learning and/or international activities.

2018-2019 Recipients

Zaynab Al-Hemed, Faculty of Public Affairs
Alaa Azan, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
MacKenzie Brannen, Faculty of Engineering and Design
Rebecca Butler, Faculty of Science
Allysa Czerwinsky, Faculty of Public Affairs
Julianne Dumont, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Mohamed Hozayen, Faculty of Engineering and Design
Gemma Rod, Sprott School of Business
Kayla Schumacker, Faculty of Science

Peter J. Ricketts Outstanding Provost Scholar Award

Provost Scholar Award Recipient Mohamed Hozayen — Provost Jerry Tomberlin presents Mohamed Hozayen with the Peter J. Ricketts Outstanding Provost Scholar Award

This award is given to an outstanding recipient of the Provost Scholar Award. The award is named for Peter J. Ricketts, who served as the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) at Carleton for eight years. The inaugural award, worth an additional $1,000, was presented to Computer Systems Engineering student Mohamed Hozayen.

Hozayen maintained his spot on the Dean’s Honour List while taking part in research through a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council award and the I-CUREUS program (Internship-Carleton University Research Experience for Undergraduate Students). He’s also been published four times, an extremely rare feat for an undergraduate student.

Hozayen says support from his professors helped him succeed.

“Dr. Adrian Chan is the first professor I did research with after first year, in his Biomedical Signal Quality Analysis Laboratory, and he had a significant impact on me as a person,” he says.

Their work together resulted in a publication in the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications. Another publication he co-authored, a paper in the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement journal, showed his research on real-time patient monitoring using pressure-sensitive mats with Prof. James Green.

After his second year, Hozayen conducted research with Green at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. It’s here that Hozayen designed Patient Monitor Data Import software that imports and parses multiple data streams from patient monitors in order to help researchers with data acquisition and analysis. And he’s not slowing down anytime soon. Right now, he’s working full-time as a researcher at Carleton. Next year, he’ll start his master’s with Prof. Halim Yanikomeroglu and, eventually, he wants to create his own company.

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Supporting Undergraduate Research

Commerce student Gemma Rod presents her research to Provost Jerry Tomberlin at the I-CUREUS Conference

67 undergraduate students received funding through The Internship-Carleton University Research Experience for Undergraduate Students (I-CUREUS) program. Administered by the Discovery Centre, I-CUREUS provides funding for students to conduct faculty-supervised research.

Over 40 students showcased their research through presentations and posters at the I-CUREUS Conference hosted by the Discovery Centre in April 2018

Five undergraduate students presented their research at the Inquiry@Queen’s conference hosted by Queen’s University in March 2018

Four students travelled to Kennesaw State University to present their research at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR)

Spotlight on I-CUREUS: Engineering Student Developing Software to Support Health-Care Research

Carleton student Naman Sethi_350x230 — Second-year student Naman Sethi

When Naman Sethi started his degree last year at Carleton University, he hoped that one day he could use his education and experience to make a contribution to the health-care field.

He didn’t realize his chance to make an impact would come so soon.

The second-year Software Engineering student is one of 67 Carleton undergraduate student interns working on research in collaboration with Carleton faculty members as part of the Internship-Carleton University Research Experience for Undergraduate Students (I-CUREUS) program.

Managed by the Discovery Centre for Undergraduate Research and Engagement, I-CUREUS provides funding support for undergraduate students engaged in research.

Working with Prof. James Green (Department of Systems and Computer Engineering), Sethi is developing a multi-stream integrated data viewer for a patient monitoring research project led by Green in collaboration with IBM and CHEO’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

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