Congratulations to participants in the « Three minute thesis » faculty competition – 2024 edition
On March 18, the 2024 edition of the « Three minute thesis » faculty competition was held in the cafeteria of the Pavillon l’Abitibi-Price. We’d like to congratulate the 8 candidates in the French-language section and the 4 candidates in the English-language section for their courage and preparation!
Here are the evening’s two grand finalists who will represent the Faculty of Forestry, Geography and Geomatics (FFGG) at the institutional competitions on March 26 (live webcast on the FESP YouTube channel starting at noon):
- Alex Mary for best French-language presentation (“Toasting biosourced adhesives”, directed by Véronic Landry and Pierre Blanchet) and one of the public’s favorites. She won two $180 prizes (CRMR and CEF).
- Vahideh Akbari for best presentation in English (Let’s dance on the denser floor, directed by Véronic Landry) and one of the audience’s favorites. She won two $180 prizes (CRDIG and FFGG).
From left to right: Vahideh Akbari and Alex Mary
Special thanks to Alexandre Morin-Bernard, who hosted the evening with brio, to Marc Gervais and Janani Sivarajah, for daring to play the teachers’ duel, and to our three judges for their assessments and comments throughout the evening: Rémi Georges, Francis Roy and Marie-Hélène Vandersmissen.
Animator : Alexandre Morin-Bernard
Judges: from left to right:  Rémi Georges, Francis Roy et Marie-Hélène Vandersmissen.
Thank you to the enthusiastic audience who turned out in such large numbers. Thank you for your commitment to faculty life! We would also like to thank the Forest Science Week (SSF), the Center for Forest Studies (CEF), the Geospatial Data and Intelligence Research Centre (GDIRC) and the Renewable Materials Research Centre (RMRC) for their ongoing commitment to this event.
Below is a complete list of all participants in the 2024 « Three minute thesis » faculty competition! We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all the candidates for accepting this challenge, demonstrating remarkable commitment and courage. We would particularly like to thank the student members of the CRMR (Liza Abid, Sandra Abou Haidar, Marius Le Maréchal, Alex Mary, Vahideh Akbari and Sanjoy Roy) for their excellent representation of our Centre.
  French-language participants :
- Liza Abid – Lignin: An Ecological Epic
- Sandra Abou Haidar – Cold plasma wood treatment: an innovative approach for a sustainable future
- Marie Alibert – Northern lakes in mutation!
- Dominic Bartolacci – Planting pits: aerated soil and dream trees
- Marius Le Mar̩chal РBiophysical carbon in urban environments: biophysical and socio-economic considerations
- Alex Mary – Here’s to biosourced adhesives!
- Élisabeth Petitclerc – Contribution to the Wemotaci Atikamekw integrated forest management plan
- Yassmine Zada – How to get water through culverts?
English-speaking participants
- Vahideh Akbari – Let’s make the wood harder
- Sanjoy Roy – Evaluating ‘climate-smart silviculture’ for mitigating carbon emissions in the Balsam Fir-White Birch forests in Quebec under climate change
- Negar Shabanpour – Identifying urban human GHG-activities through place-based Textual content