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Archive: Student research
13 U of R projects receive top honours at 2025 RCE Saskatchewan Awards
U of R recognized for impact on sustainable development
Making the case for small modular reactors
A Q & A about what role SMRs could play in our energy future
2025 Three Minute Thesis
Winners named the U of R’s 3MT Finale Showcase
Marking World Water Day
A long-term study investigates how water quality is changing in Saskatchewan lakes
Enduring Discoveries
Showcasing the U of R’s long-standing research
Quantum leap
The unlikely beginnings of a physicist
Three Minute Thesis
Research that’s short, sweet, and easy to understand.
Cannabis in care
Research into cannabis use in long-term care homes
Urban wildlife project
A biology student is finding out what wildlife lives in Regina.
Assessing pain in dementia patients
U of R researcher providing ways to help determine when people with dementia are in pain.
More than $7 million announced for U of R research including a project to improve children’s eyewitness testimony
Federal government’s bundled announcement provides funding for dozens of University of Regina researchers.
Why’d you come here?
Students travel from all corners of the globe to work with world-class researchers at the University of Regina
When the bill comes due
U of R economics student finds excessive online shopping an enduring effect of COVID-19.
Science exposed
Vote for University of Regina research photos!
Global connections
Some of our best and brightest minds meet Regina’s business community.
Biology professor receives national award for outstanding graduate mentorship
Dr. Mark Brigham has changed many lives and has created a legacy of highly-trained biologists.
Organic matter found in fossilized 44-million-year-old beetle
An exciting new discovery opens a window to the past.
Silenced Sisters
Silenced Sisters is a student’s photo-based response to the Missing Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) movement.
A picture is worth a thousand emotions
Master’s student Dami Egbeyem has created a way to show us our emotions
Stellar design: The story behind Project Airlock
U of R engineering student’s competition-winning design is attracting interest from the aerospace industry.
Getting the URJ for research
Thanks to undergraduate student Kiegan Lloyd, the University of Regina now has its own undergraduate research journal.
Happy International Bat Week (and Halloween)!
Bat Week runs from October 24 to October 31
Fractured: The gap between mental well-being and farming
Psychology master’s student Cynthia Beck is tailoring an internet-delivered cognitive behaviour course to address the particular needs of farmers and those working in agricultural environments.
Clarifying the Candida-cancer connection
Graduate student Easter Ndlovu is exploring the connection between cancer and Candida.
Climate in a box
PhD student Jared Suchan has developed a climate in a box, called the Bench-Scale Atmospheric Simulator.
Empowering mothers living with schizophrenia
Exploring the lived experiences of mothers living with schizophrenia.
Nocturnal navigators
University of Regina biology students are shining a light on Regina’s most surprising fly-by-night operation.
Accolades
Recognizing U of R researchers
Weeds, bees, and mould
University of Regina graduate students are working to find natural solutions to pressing farming problems.
Reconciliation and the nursing curriculum
Delasi Essien is uncovering the colonial practices embedded within nursing education, and finding ways to deconstruct them.
Little field station on the Prairies
For almost 50 years, the University of Regina’s field station in the Cypress Hills has supported research that has led to internationally significant discoveries.
Accolades
Recognizing U of R researchers
Honouring the Ojibwa language
Natalie Owl is focusing her research on the impacts of the Indian residential school system and negative racist stereotyping on the Ojibwa language.
aen loo pawatamihk (Wolf Dream)
Through her stylized photographs, graduate student Dianne Ouellette explores her connection with wolves and bison while sharing the history and trauma experienced by her family and ancestors.
#SeePainMoreClearly
Thomas Hadjistavropoulos launched a worldwide social media campaign to raise awareness about the assessment and management of pain in older patients with dementia.
Accolades
Recognizing U of R research
Mainly for women
The experience of women living on Prairie farms in the 1930s came alive for undergraduate history student Brandi Adams when she delved into the archives of The Western Producer, a farm weekly that’s been an important source of news for farm families for almost 100 years.
Garbage robot for the win
Hackathons – collaborative computer programming events – provide opportunities for aspiring software engineers to improve their problem-solving and coding skills as they attempt to find innovative solutions to problems.
Natural mood boost in just five minutes
Feeling stressed? Try sitting in a park for five minutes; it might be exactly what you need to boost your mood. That’s what two psychology undergraduate students working in the emerging field of environmental psychology will tell you.