Sigma Xi Excellence in Undergraduate
Research Awards Ceremony

June 3rd, 2005

The Sigma Xi Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award is granted to outstanding young researchers in the
Faculties of Science, Engineering and Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Each Department from these three
Faculties may nominate one undergraduate student who, in the judgment of the Department, has excelled in research.

The award consists of a one year membership in Sigma Xi including a subscription to the excellent magazine
American Scientist .

The McGill-Montreal Chapter of Sigma Xi is grateful to the Deans and Associate Deans of the Faculty of
Science, the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences who have
provided financial support for this award.

Congratulations to the 2005 winners!

Department	Award Recipient	Research Supervisor
Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Science
Plant Science	Patrick Cournoyer	Dr. Marc Fortin
Faculty of Engineering
Chemical Engineering	Sebastien Beaulieu-Bergeron   Jason Tavares	Dr. Phillip Servio   Dr. Sylvain Coulombe
Civil Engineering	Chantale Cardinal-Watkins	Dr. James Nicell
Metals and Materials Engineering	Lindsay Rowland	Dr. James Finch
Faculty of Science
Anatomy and Cell Biology	Véronique Kéna-Cohen	Dr. Alfredo Ribeiro-da-Salva
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences	Blaise Gauvin St-Denis	Dr. John Gyakum
Biochemistry	Denise Cook	Dr. Karine Auclair
Biology	Lauren Lapointe-Shaw	Dr. John Hanrahan (physiology) & Dr. Robert Levine (Biology)
Chemistry	Colin Harvey   Chung Shing Kwok	Dr. Nicolas Moitessier   Dr. Adi Eisenberg
Earth and Planetary Science	Jeffrey Larocque
Geography	Michael Wironen	Dr. Tim Moore
Mathematics	Marco Carone	Dr. Masoud Asgharian
Microbiology and Immunology	Jennifer Slon	Dr. Hervé  Le Moual
Physics	Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine	Dr.  Raymond Laflamme University of Waterloo and the Institute for Quantum Computing
Physiology	Erin Lieberman	Dr. Anne-Marie Lauzon
Psychology	Thien Kim Nguyen	Dr. Barbel Knauper