Third Year Undergraduate Summer Research Assistantships

2004 Announcement

On behalf of its Highly Qualified Personnel Committee, the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network is pleased to announce the winners of the2004 Third-Year Undergraduate Summer Research Assistantships. Each award is valued at $8000 ($6000 from the Network, $2000 from the Network Employer). Twenty-three job descriptions for positions with Network researchers were advertised on the Network web site (http://www.cllrnet.ca). Each of the ten successful students was assigned to one of these positions based primarily on - interest. Forty-five applications were received from highly qualified undergraduate students in Biology, Communications, Education, English, Health Sciences, Human-Computer Interaction, Linguistics, Psychology, Social Work, and Speech and Audiology. Three applications were received from students attending Maritime universities, thirteen from students at Quebec institutions, twenty-two from students at Ontario universities, four from Alberta students, and three from students in British Columbia.

Special thanks to the volunteer adjudicators for their invaluable help reviewing applications, and to Sonya Symons, HQPC-UGRA Coordinator:

Research Assistants will have the opportunity to:

• Work with Canada's leading researchers in the fields of child language and literacy
• Develop research skills - important for future undergraduate and graduate scholarship and career development,
• Explore their own interests specific interests in topic of speech and language, audiology, psychology, neuroscience, education, early education, child development, linguistics and other fields of research related to language and literacy.

The Third-Year Undergraduate Summer Research Assistantship program is one way in which the Network develops highly qualified personnel with interests, research and interdisciplinary networking skills in language and literacy to produce knowledge that is critical to Canada's productivity, economic growth, public policy and quality of life.

The 2004 Award Winners and their Network Supervisors

Research Assistant	Network Employer
Marie-Elaine Bélanger University of Ottawa	Dr. Janet Olds Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Dr. Robin Gaines University of Ottawa
Ho-Young Chung University of Victoria	Dr. Linda Siegel University of British Columbia
Brooke Fletcher Carleton University	Dr. Nancy J. Cohen University of Toronto Hincks-Dellcrest Institute
Kim Génier University of Ottawa	Dr. Alain Desrochers University of Ottawa
Deniz Gokceokan McMaster University	Dr. Laurel J. Trainor McMaster University
Julie Hachey University of Waterloo	Dr. Kathleen Bloom University of Waterloo
Kristen Hodges University of Guelph	Dr. Sunita Shankar University of Waterloo
Marilyn Plourde Université Laval	Dr. Simon Grondin Université Laval
Tiffany Pursoo University of Guelph	Dr. Mary Ann Evans University of Guelph
Pamela Seeds Queen's University	Dr. Rosemary Tannock The Hospital for Sick Children

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