Undergraduate Research Scholarship
Front row, left to right: Mirana Rambelo, Sador Bereketab, Erin Burnley, Leanne Trepanier, Shayna Dehaan - Middle row, left to right: Ella McIlroy, Christina Bi, Emma McGurk, Layan Rasoul, Mégan Filiatrault - Back row, left to right: Karim Hage, Sanjeevani Kumar, Nathan Biniam, Hertek Gill, Étienne Bélanger, Valeria Vasilyeva
The Faculty of Science of the University of Ottawa offers 16 Undergraduate Research Scholarships of $10,000 each.
Unique to the Faculty of Science
The Undergraduate Research Scholarship gives students the opportunity to live a very unique experience. The recipients work with scientists and take part in important scientific discoveries before they even start their studies.
This award gives students the opportunity to work with one of the University of Ottawa's world-class research groups. They earn $3,750 as a research assistant to one of the professors during the summer (July and August) before their first year of studies. They can also expand their research experience and contribution the following summer (May, June, July and August) if they do well in their first year of studies. They will earn $6,250 for the second summer employment.
Various research domains
Assistantships are available in various areas of medicine and science: biochemistry, biology, biopharmaceutical science, biotechnology, chemistry, environmental science, geology, immunology, mathematics and statistics, microbiology, neurology, pharmacology, physics, physiology, virology.
Am I eligible?
Every year, sixteen (16) scholarships are awarded to exceptional students from across the country. To qualify, candidates must be Canadian citizen or permanent resident, have an admission average of at least 92 per cent, be registered full-time, for the first time, in an undergraduate program of the Faculty of Science, and most importantly, demonstrate research skills and involvement in extracurricular activities of a scientific nature.
Application process
You can apply for scholarships and bursaries as soon as you've applied to the University of Ottawa and have received your uoAccess ID and password.
To apply, please use the Online Scholarships and Bursaries tool, accessible through uoZone. You have until March 15th to submit your application.
- Log into uoZone.
- Select the Applications tab.
- In Applications, click on Online Scholarships and Bursaries.
- Create your Student Profile.
- Accept the Notice of Collection of Personal Information
- Click on View and apply for scholarships.
- In the list of scholarships and bursaries, check the box located to the left of the Undergraduate Research Scholarship (721130101000).
- Click on Add to my list, at the bottom of the page.
- Upload all required documents in Online Scholarships and Bursaries and submit your application.
- Track your application directly from the Online Scholarships and Bursaries tool home page.
Past recipients
| Name | School | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Justen Choueiry | École secondaire catholique Franco-Cité | Ottawa ON |
| Sijyl Fasih | Elmwood School | Ottawa ON |
| Jessica Holmes | École secondaire catholique Pierre-Savard | Ottawa ON |
| Danny Ke | Bell High School | Ottawa ON |
| Alisha Labinaz | Colonel By Secondary School | Ottawa ON |
| Jonathan Laliberté | Redeemer Christian High School | Ottawa ON |
| Eve Lindroos | Marymount Academy | Sudbury ON |
| Oana Mirel | Northern Secondary School | Toronto ON |
| Geneviève O’Keefe | École secondaire catholique Béatrice-Desloges | Ottawa ON |
| Saadeddine Omaiche | Collège catholique Samuel Genest | Ottawa ON |
| Jean-Louis Parmasad | École secondaire publique Maurice-Lapointe | Ottawa ON |
| Rahna Rasouli | Nepean High School | Ottawa ON |
| Jenna Rossi | École secondaire Gisèle-Lalonde | Ottawa ON |
| Keili Shepherd | Glebe Collegiate Institute | Ottawa ON |
| Alexander Skerjanc | Hillcrest High School | Ottawa ON |
| Brenda Truong | Notre-Dame High School | Ottawa ON |
| Name | School | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Cédric Albert | Polyvalente Louis-Mailloux | Caraquet NB |
| Olivier Brandts-Longtin | Lisgar Collegiate Institute | Ottawa ON |
| Alison Cane | Citadel High School | Halifax NS |
| Tyler Dacosta | École secondaire catholique Thériault | Timmins ON |
| Olivia Dupuis | École secondaire catholique de Casselman | Casselman ON |
| Keshav Goel | Lisgar Collegiate Institute | Ottawa ON |
| Florence Grenapin | Lycée Claudel | Ottawa ON |
| Rishi Gupta | Lisgar Collegiate Institute | Ottawa ON |
| Mikaël Ladouceur | École secondaire La Citadelle | Cornwall ON |
| Lukas Lesniak | Lycée Claudel | Ottawa ON |
| Amit Scheer | Colonel By Secondary School | Ottawa ON |
| Ayni Sharif | Lisgar Collegiate Institute | Ottawa ON |
| Mariam Taktek | Lycée Claudel | Ottawa ON |
| Madisyn Turcotte | St Ignatius High School | Thunder Bay ON |
2015-2016
| Name | School | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Shobhitha Balasubramaniam | Three Oaks Senior High School | Summerside PE |
| Iona Buchanan | Sir Robert Borden High School | Ottawa ON |
| Yike Cheng | Colonel By Secondary School | Ottawa ON |
| Mélanie Cyr | Polyvalente Thomas-Albert | Grand Sault NB |
| Valérie Desjardins | École secondaire catholique Béatrice-Desloges | Ottawa ON |
| Jérémie Gagnon-Bischoff | Cégep de l'Outaouais | Gatineau QC |
| Stephen Ronald Harrigan | École secondaire Louis-Riel | Ottawa ON |
| Teresa-Rose Kattackal | Colonel By Secondary School | Ottawa ON |
| Fiona Macdonald | Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate and Vocational Institute | Thunder Bay ON |
| Zachary Roberts | Sir William Mulock Secondary School | Newmarket ON |
| Laurie-Anne Roy | École secondaire Daniel-Johnson | Pointes-aux-Trembles QC |
| Alexander Sorrini | All Saints Catholic High School | Ottawa ON |
| Hanna Tang | Bell High School | Ottawa ON |
| Gayashan Tennakoon | Colonel By Secondary School | Ottawa ON |
| Anastasia Turner | École secondaire catholique Pierre-Savard | Ottawa ON |
| Tanya Yeuchyk | Woodroffe High School | Ottawa ON |
| Name | School | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Anirudh Agarwa | Bell High School | Ottawa ON |
| Cristina Andronic | St Paul's Catholic High School | Ottawa ON |
| Pamela Bejjani | Collège catholique Samuel-Genest | Ottawa ON |
| Vincent Berthiaume | Lycée Claudel | Ottawa ON |
| Dominic Cyr | École secondaire catholique Béatrice-Desloges | Ottawa ON |
| Annie Dicaire | École secondaire catholique de Plantagenet | Plantagenet ON |
| Alexis Genge | Menihek High School | Labrador City NL |
| Jamie Ghossein | École secondaire catholique Franco-Cité | Ottawa ON |
| Heidi Li | Colonel By Secondary School | Ottawa ON |
| Andrea Liu | Lisgar Collegiate Institute | Ottawa ON |
| Kedous Mekbib | Colonel By Secondary School | Ottawa ON |
| Milica Novakovic | Moira Secondary School | Belleville ON |
| Mélanie Routh | Collège catholique Samuel-Genest | Ottawa ON |
| Céline Sayed | École secondaire catholique Franco-Cité | Ottawa ON |
| Yanna Steimle | Cégep de Sherbrooke | Sherbrooke QC |
| Sarah Veber | Gonzaga High School | St-John's NL |
| Name | School | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Aida Ahrari | Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute | Kitchener ON |
| Stéphane Aubin | Collège catholique Samuel-Genest | Ottawa ON |
| Anabel Bergeron | Collège catholique Samuel-Genest | Ottawa ON |
| Patrick Bluth | Geraldton Composite High School | Geraldton ON |
| Dima Hage | Collège catholique Samuel-Genest | Ottawa ON |
| Martin Hanzel | Bell High School | Ottawa ON |
| Jason Kwan | Bell High School | Ottawa ON |
| Isabelle Labeca-Gordon | Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School | Toronto ON |
| Simon Martel | Collège catholique Samuel-Genest | Ottawa ON |
| David McCann | Brantford Collegiate Institute and Vocation School | Brantford ON |
| Dhanuddara Mohottalage | Longfields Davidson Heights Secondary Sch | Nepean ON |
| Justin Morin | École secondaire Thériault | Timmins ON |
| Vincent Nguyen | All Saints Catholic High School | Kanata ON |
| Mariam Shlepchyan | École secondaire de l'Ile | Gatineau QC |
| Howard Wong | St Joan of Arc Catholic Secondary School | Mississauga ON |
| Sarah Zankar | École secondaire Roméo Dallaire | Barrie ON |
| Name | School | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Samy Abidib | Yarmouth Consolidated Memorial High School | Yarmouth NS |
| Julien Bejjani | École secondaire catholique Franco-Cité | Ottawa ON |
| Alexandre Brandts-Longtin | Lisgar Collegiate Institute | Ottawa ON |
| Victoria-Marie Cusson | Collège catholique Samuel-Genest | Ottawa ON |
| Emma Duchesne | École secondaire du Versant | Gatineau QC |
| Johnathon Joey Irani | Collège catholique Samuel-Genest | Ottawa ON |
| François Lagacé | École secondaire catholique Béatrice-Desloges | Orléans ON |
| Hugo Larocque | Collège catholique Samuel-Genest | Ottawa ON |
| Emma Lynn | Ashbury College | Ottawa ON |
| Michelle Maklin | Collège catholique Franco-Ouest | Ottawa ON |
| Matthew Peacock | École secondaire publique De La Salle | Ottawa ON |
| Michael Phan | St. Joan of Arc Catholic Secondary School | Mississauga ON |
| Curtis Quan | Colonel By Secondary School | Gloucester ON |
| Alicia Sit | St. Matthew Catholic High School | Orleans ON |
| Rabéa Taleb | École secondaire Mont-Bleu | Gatineau QC |
| Rebecca Xu | Colonel By Secondary School | Gloucester ON |
| Name | School | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Bénard-Séguin, Étienne | École secondaire catholique Marie-Rivier | Kingston, ON |
| Fiona D'Arcy | St. Joseph’s College School | Toronto, ON |
| Nuiok Dicaire | École secondaire catholique de Plantagenet | Plantagenet, ON |
| Michael Dysart | South Carleton High School | Richmond, ON |
| Roxana Filip | West Carleton Secondary School | Dunrobin, ON |
| Fadi Hage | Collège catholique Samuel-Genest | Ottawa, ON |
| Matthew Horton | École secondaire catholique Garneau | Ottawa, ON |
| Amy-Jayne Hutchings | All Saints Catholic High School | Kanata, ON |
| Avni Jain | Glebe Collegiate Institute | Ottawa, ON |
| Kaitlin Kharas | Ashbury College | Ottawa, ON |
| Melissa Maltez | Collège catholique Samuel-Genest | Ottawa, ON |
| Daniel O’Neil | École secondaire catholique La Citadelle | Cornwall, ON |
| MathieuPaquette | Cégep de l’Outaouais | Gatineau, QC |
| Hwan Hee Son | St. Malachy’s Memorial High School | Saint John, NB |
| Prashanth Srinivasan | Colonel By Secondary School | Gloucester, ON |
| Isabelle St-Hilaire | École secondaire publique De La Salle | Ottawa, ON |
| Name | School | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Paula Adler | Gloucester High School | Gloucester, ON |
| Samuel Buteau | Collège Saint-Alexandre de la Gatineau | Gatineau, QC |
| Michele-Renée Byham | École secondaire catholique de Hawkesbury | Hawkesbury, ON |
| Alison Castle | Hillfield Strathallan College | Hamilton, ON |
| Saba Chowdhry | Bell High School | Nepean, ON |
| Lyndsay Glass | Sydenham High School | Sydenham, ON |
| Ali Hage | Collège catholique Samuel-Genest | Ottawa, ON |
| Clayton Hall | St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic High School | Russell, ON |
| Alison Hamilton | Hillcrest High School | Ottawa, ON |
| Alexandre Leclerc | Mount Maunganui College | Mount Maunganui, NZ |
| Patrick Moon | École secondaire catholique Marie-Rivier | Kingston, ON |
| Chelsea Nadeau-Towaij | Glebe Collegiate Institute | Ottawa, ON |
| Kathleen Peters | Saint Peter Catholic High School | Orleans, ON |
| Julien Roy | École secondaire catholique l’Escale | Rockland, ON |
| Midhun Thomas | Titchfield High School | Port Antonio, Jamaica |
| Yang Xu | Lisgar Collegiate Institute | Ottawa, ON |
| Name | School | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Brianna Conway | Mother Teresa H.S. | Nepean, ON |
| Amanda Daniels | Sir Winston Churchill CVI | Thunder Bay, ON |
| Amanpreet Dhaliwal | Hillcrest H.S | Ottawa, ON |
| Rina Halili | Elmwood School | Ottawa, ON |
| Huda Amareh | Ottawa Islamic School | Nepean, ON |
| Stan Hatko | Holy Trinity C.H.S. | Kanata, ON |
| Stephanie Mack | Colonel By S.S. | Gloucester, ON |
| Katherine McDonald | Ashbury College | Ottawa, ON |
| Samantha Graitson | Mother Teresa H.S. | Nepean, ON |
| Alen Antoun | Collège Samuel-Genest | Ottawa, ON |
| Simon Laplante | École Secondaire Nouvelle-Alliance | Barrie, ON |
| Victor Malkov | Bell H.S. | Nepean, ON |
| Declan Lu | Bell H.S. | Nepean, ON |
| Ernest Martinez-Schargel | Lycée Claudel | Ottawa, ON |
| Nathascha Lacroix | Colonel By S.S. | Gloucester, ON |
| Name | School | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Levannia Lildhar | Donald A. Wilson Secondary School | Whitby, ON |
| Mélissa Brunet | École secondaire Gisèle-Lalonde | Orléans, ON |
| Wendy Zhang | Sir Robert Borden High School | Nepean, ON |
| Véronique Doucet | École secondaire Macdonald-Cartier | Sudbury, ON |
| Marie-Ève Chartrand | École secondaire Béatrice-Desloges | Orléans, ON |
| Chris Euler | Bracebridge and Muskoka Lakes Sec. Schoo | Bracebridge, ON |
| Prashanthi Baskaran | Elmwood School | Ottawa, ON |
| Hymn Mach | Bell High School | Ottawa, ON |
| Kyle Briggs | Hampton High School | Hampton, NB |
| Michael Lynn | Ashbury College | Ottawa, ON |
| Jeffry Quan | St. Pius High School | Ottawa, ON |
| Erik Yao | Moira Secondary School | Belleville, ON |
| Maria Merziotis | Hillcrest High School | Ottawa, ON |
| Name | School | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Anu Ananth | Lisgar Collegiate Institute | Ottawa, ON |
| Pascale Bouchard Cannon | École Secondaire de Rochebelle | Ste-Foy, QC |
| Danielle Denis | St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic High School | Russell, ON |
| Alexandra Elise Fottinger | Elmwood School | Ottawa, ON |
| Matt Goodmurphy | Seaway District High School | Iroquois, ON |
| Julie Gupta | Cairine Wilson Secondary School | Ottawa, ON |
| Melissa Kohlman | Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School | Peterborough, ON |
| Jennifer Jiayi Liu | Bell High School | Ottawa, ON |
| Jonathan Cres Mayo | Vanier College | Montréal, QC |
| Sameh Mansour | St. Matthew High School | Orleans, ON |
| Sophie Malboeuf | École secondaire catholique L'Escale | Rockland, ON |
| Vanessa Mongeon | École secondaire catholique Nouvelle-Alliance | Barrie, ON |
| Georges Nassrallah | École secondaire catholique Franco-Cité | Ottawa, ON |
| Mahtab Ziaei | Bell High School | Ottawa, ON |
| Radoslav Zinoviev | Colonel By Secondary School | Ottawa, ON |
| Name | School | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Alexandrea Watters | Rideau District High School | Elgin, ON |
| Benjamin Chung | Upper Canada College | Toronto, ON |
| Carmen Fletcher | Hammarskjold High School | Thunder Bay, ON |
| Christian Roy | École secondaire régionale de Hawkesbury | Hawkesbury, ON |
| Éric Imbeault-Fréchette | École secondaire Saint-Francois-Xavier | Sarnia, ON |
| Howard Yang | Gloucester High School | Gloucester, ON |
| Jennifer Kasbary | College Samuel-Genest | Ottawa, ON |
| Mohamed El-Salfiti | Merivale High School | Nepean, ON |
| Niket Gandhi | Bell High School | Nepean, ON |
| Ramya Krishnan | Colonel By Secondary School | Gloucester, ON |
| Shelly Luu | Jarvis Collegiate Institute | Toronto, ON |
| Yue (Yolanda) Jiang | Canterbury High School | Ottawa, ON |
| Name | School | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Bianca Amaral-Stewart | Hillcrest High School | Ottawa, ON |
| Cathy Sun | Bell High School | Ottawa, ON |
| Christine Lévesque | Cité des Jeunes A.-M.-Sormany | Edmunston, NB |
| Erika Swinton | Gloucester High School | Ottawa, ON |
| Ghadi Antoun | Collège Catholique Samuel-Genest | Ottawa, ON |
| Jeewanjit Gill | Merivale High School | Ottawa, ON |
| Kim Miredin | École Secondaire du Versant | Gatineau, QC |
| Marisa Rossi | Collège Catholique Samuel-Genest | Ottawa, ON |
| Nancy Maltez | Collège Catholique Samuel-Genest | Ottawa, ON |
| Robert Godin | École Secondaire Népisiguit | Bathurst, NB |
| Shuang Ye Qiao | Lisgar Collegiate Institute | Ottawa, ON |
| Name | School | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Arielle Rochman | Merivale High School | Ottawa, ON |
| Dave Hills | Denis Morris High School | St. Catharines, ON |
| Flora Lafferthon | Hawthorn School for Girls T.A. | North York, ON |
| Katarina Vulic | Blakelock High School | Oakville, ON |
| Lida Tohidi | Gloucester High School | Ottawa, ON |
| Marija Antonic | A.Y. Jackson S. School | Kanata, ON |
| Qian Zhu | Lisgar Collegiate Institute | Ottawa, ON |
| Ragunath Singaravelu | Fellowes High School | Pembroke, ON |
| Name | School | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Adrian Maler | North Dundas D. H. S. | Chesterville, ON |
| Eleanor Bell | Eastview Secondary School | Barrie, ON |
| Emily Laura Erie Campling | Kingston C. V. Institute | Kingston, ON |
| Emily Rose Gerrie | Runnymede C. Institute | Toronto, ON |
| Lydia Weiskopf | École sec. c. Algonquin | North Bay, ON |
| Marco Marsias Llamazares | Lisgar Collegiate Institute | Ottawa, ON |
| Mohamed Abdi | Ridgemont High School | Ottawa, ON |
| Prateek Khatri | Hillcrest High School | Ottawa, ON |
| Yaseen Mottiar | Fellowes High School | Pembroke, ON |
| Yuan Yao | Bloor Collegiate Institute | Toronto, ON |
| Name | School | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Augene Seong | École Victor-Brodeur | Victoria, CB |
| Henrietta Parnas | Hillfield-Strathalian College | Hamilton, ON |
| Karl Dawson | Sir Wilfrid Laurier | Orléans, ON |
| Lina Shoppoff | École secondaire de Hearst | Hearst, ON |
| Maude Marie Boulanger | Collège cat. Samuel-Genest | Gloucester, ON |
| Nathalie Loh | Sir Winston Churchill C.V.I. | Thunder Bay, ON |
| Nicholas Potvin | Colonel By Sec. School | Ottawa, ON |
| Ram Venkatesh | Lisgar Collegiate Institute | Ottawa, ON |
| Ananth Robert Johns | Collège cat. Samuel-Genest | Gloucester, ON |
| Name | School | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Basil Hubbard | Saint Thomas More C.S.S. | Hamilton, ON |
| Dominique McMahon | Sydney Academy H. S. | Sydney, NE |
| Fan Mo | Lisgar Collegiate Institute | Ottawa, ON |
| Gaytri Dubey | Hillcrest High School | Ottawa, ON |
| Lamiaa Migahed | École sec. De La Salle | Ottawa, ON |
| Marie-Claude Robert | École sec. La Citadelle | Cornwall, ON |
| Megan Apsimon | Glebe Collegiate Institute | Ottawa, ON |
| Sasha High | Gloucester High School | Gloucester, ON |
| Name | School | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Anne-Marie Boulanger | Collège cat. Samuel-Genest | Gloucester, ON |
| Ariel Burns | Merivale High School | Ottawa, ON |
| Lauren Fratesi | Sir James Dunn C.V.School | Sault Ste-Marie, ON |
| Marie-Hélène Dugal | École secondaire St-Joseph | Hull, QC |
| Mélissa Toupin | Collège cat. Samuel-Genest | Gloucester, ON |
| Siba Haykal | Collège cat. Samuel-Genest | Gloucester, ON |
| Thomas Arnason | Immaculata High School | Ottawa, ON |
| Name | School | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Bonnie Scott | Canterbury High School | Ottawa, ON |
| Derek Prosser | Lester B. Pearson H. S. | Gloucester, ON |
| Guillaume Desjardins | Lycée Claudel | Ottawa, ON |
| Michael Russell | Colonel By Secondary School | Gloucester, ON |
| Nathalie Renaud | Collège cat. Samuel-Genest | Ottawa, ON |
| Raman Pall | Gloucester High School | Gloucester, ON |
| Valérie Campagna-Slater | Collège cat. Samuel-Genest | Ottawa, ON |
| Name | School | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Anne Mader | Dartmouth High School | Dartmouth, NE |
| Jennifer Hareta Holtzman | Lisgar Collegiate Institute | Ottawa, ON |
| Kathy-Sarah Focsanéanu | Lester B. Pearson Cat. H.S. | Gloucester, ON |
| Nicolas Sabourin | Le Petit Séminaire de Québec | Hull, QC |
| Setu Purohit | Fredericton High School | Frédéricton, NB |
| Zhimin Du | Aden Bowman Collegiate | Régina, SK |