Students take on the world
The Faculty of Arts and Science was well represented when this year’s Global Undergraduate Awards were announced. FAS earned one Regional Winner and three Highly Commended honours.
The Global Undergraduate Awards is the world’s leading undergraduate awards program which recognizes top undergraduate work, shares this work with a global audience, and connects students across cultures and disciplines.
This year, Queen’s University saw a significant increase in student participation, with nearly double the submissions of the average of the past four years, reflecting a growing enthusiasm among students to share their undergraduate coursework and research for the chance be recognized.
The FAS winners included:
Regional Winner (USA and Canada)
- Caryn Wei Ya Xie (Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) and Bachelor of Education), Visual Arts Category. Title of submission: cyber.
"The awarded body of work, 'cyber,' chronicles a personal family history of immigration in a uniquely Chinese Canadian context," explains Caryn. "My family collected scores of digital images across decades — assigning sentimentality to the most mundane of events — out of a desire to replace the very same documentary artifacts they lost through the process of migration. Born from that photographic archive, 'cyber' represents my own attempt to manifest my family’s lost, secret history through painting."
The highest performing Highly Commended Entrant in each Region is named a Regional Winner of their category. They are published and receive a certificate of recognition from Undergraduate Awards.
Highly Commended
- Leo Yang (PPE (Politics, Philosophy, and Economics) specialization, Art History Minor), Politics and International Relations Category. Title of submission: The All-Contributing Principle: Linking Civic Engagement to Youth Suffrage.
- Savannah Summers (Joint Honours Political Studies and Psychology), Politics and International Relations Category. Title of submission: The Commodification of Women’s Beauty and Sexuality; OnlyFans as a Soft Defensive Countermovement in the Age of Neoliberalism.
- Vaishnavi Suganthan (Major in Political Studies and Minor in Sociology), Politics and International Relations Category. Title of submission: Deportation ASMR: Digital Spectacle and Racialized Capitalism.
Entrants whose paper or project ranked in the top 10 per cent of submissions in their category, are shortlisted as Highly Commended Entrants. They are published and receive a certificate of recognition from Undergraduate Awards.
This year, 347 institutions participated with 2,400 submissions in total. Of that number, only 85 universities had students awarded for their work.
Learn more about the Global Undergraduate Awards .