POLAR Northern Resident Scholarship recipients

2023-2024

Aimee Yurris

Pursuing a Master of Science at the University of Waterloo School of Public Health Sciences.

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Aimee Yurris

Amanda Buffalo

PhD student at the University of Toronto in the department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning and holds a Doctor of Education from the Department of Social Justice Education.

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Amanda Buffalo

Christine Dunbar

She received her undergraduate degree at Lethbridge College in Ecosystem Management in 2022, where she completed an undergraduate thesis on arsenic trioxide within soils near Giant Mine, NWT.

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Christine Dunbar

Devin Wittig

A Yukon-based researcher residing in Dakwäkäda (Haines Junction), currently focused on studying the Gaat Héeni within the Taku River Tlingit First Nation (TRTFN) territory.

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Devin Wittig

Jessie Olson

Growing up in the Northwest Territories inspired Jessie to become a Veterinary Technician, as veterinary care in the Northwest Territories is limited and inaccessible to most communities.

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Jessie Olson

Lois Moorcroft

PhD student at the University of Toronto in the OISE department of Social Justice Education who works in northern communities for social and environmental justice.

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Lois Moorcroft

2022-2023

Kelsey Chamberlin

University of Northern British Columbia: Bodies of Strength: Pathways to Adolescent Reproductive Justice in Northern British Columbia

Kaylee Woldum

Western University: Co-Developing a Two-Eyed Seeing Approach to Archaeology Education

Charlotte Rentmeister

Wilfrid Laurier University: The Social and Spatial Predictors for Muskox Habitat Selection in Mainland NWT

Lucy Bell

Simon Fraser University: Tying the Liis: Haida Repatriation as Reconciliation

Amy Caughey

University of Guelph: Niqivut Silalu Asijipalliajuq: Our Food and Climate Change

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