Christopher Cole, 2019

4 Nov, 2019

Christopher Cole is a DPhil student in the Genomic Medicine and Statistics programme at the University of Oxford. Born in London and raised in Ottawa, Chris has always been passionate about bringing genomics from bench to bedside. He began his career in this field by...

Karly Drabot, 2019

4 Nov, 2019

Why are women so persistently underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) fields? In Canada, women make up 22% of the STEM workforce, only a 2% increase since 1987. Even though diversity in STEM fields is associated with greater innovation...

Hugo Lepage, 2019

4 Nov, 2019

Hugo Lepage is studying for a doctoral at Cambridge University in theoretical physics. The focus of his PhD is the theory and simulation of quantum information processing. This work can be understood as part of the attempt to establish quantum computing.  In normal...

Farhana Rahman, 2019

4 Nov, 2019

A PhD student at the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, a South Asian social activist helping refugees – particularly women and girls – in Afghanistan and Bangladesh, the co-founder of a Canadian non-profit organisation: these are the many hats that...

Samer Kurdi, 2019

4 Nov, 2019

Samer Kurdi was born in Amman, Jordan and moved to Canada with his family at the age of seven. The challenges of being a newcomer to Canada, including the language barrier and the culture shock, were building blocks of Samer’s identity and established his hardworking...