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Langara College is located within an urban green space with a number of pollinator gardens on site, but a survey of pollinator diversity and number is needed to understand how urban green spaces affect pollinators and how to best enhance on-campus…

Eight short films by students of the Department of Film Arts at Langara College. Despite superlative 1950s parenting, something's gone wrong with the children in Methods in good breeding. In a war-torn apocalypse, the last survivors struggle to…

"I am laying foundation for the creation of two linked, site-specific plays about humanity surviving the climate crisis: one live-online and multi-media, the second outdoors, low-tech, in a tent. There are two areas of research: Covid-friendly…

Deals with the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 from the perspectives of W.A. Pritchard, a central participant, and Norman Penner, a historian of the strike. Topics include the historical record of the strike, the Red Scare Menace, socialism in…

Open to anyone who uses visual and material culture in their pedagogical practices, Open Art Histories (OAH) offers a dynamic and collaborative space for Open Education Resources (OERs) and serves as a virtual community and repository for art and…

While there has been extensive research comparing the thinking styles of Chinese and European American students, there is relatively little looking at Indian students. The goal of this project was to determine if Indian students categorize objects…

Grace MacInnis, M.L.A., reminisces about her father, J.S. Woodsworth, M.P. and reform politics in Canada during the first half of the twentieth century. Topics covered includes conscientious objecting, the Winnipeg General Strike 1919, labour…

Accurate labeling of phase connectivity in electrical distribution systems is important for maintenance and operations but is often erroneous or missing. In my project, we presented a process to identify which smart meters must be in the same phase…

The purpose of the 3-year study funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada is to investigate and improve outcomes for international students (IS) along the Study-Work-Stay pathway with the goal of aligning student intent…

Third Place Winner - Langara Open Student Scholar Prize 2021

Accurate labeling of phase connectivity in electrical distribution systems is important for maintenance and operations but is often erroneous or missing. In my project, we presented a process to identify which smart meters must be in the same phase…

This study critically examines how international South Asian students attending Langara College view education. The intention of this work is to understand the academic and behavioural rationale of South Asian international students.

William A. Pritchard reminisces about his experiences as Reeve of Burnaby, B.C. from 1932-1935 and his involvement in left wing politics in the 1930s in Western Canada. The discussion also refers to many individuals who were members of the Socialist…

First Place Winner - Langara Student Scholar Prize 2021

This book is mainly adapted from the first four chapters of the open source calculus textbook titled APEX calculus, Version 3.0, by Gregory Hartman, department of applied mathematics, Virginia Military Institute. This complete calculus book is under…

We sought to create a computer simulation of rolling locust swarms. Rather than having the locusts move ad-hoc, we setup and equations that, when solved, would describe their movement. Most of our time and energy was devoted to 1) creating sensible…

Eight short films by students of the Department of Film Arts at Langara College. In Sparrow, a priest confronts his inner demons when he lets in a street girl who's not who she appears to be. Zeldon's excursion shadows a schizophrenic teen…

Previous research suggests that people may remember information more accurately when the language of retrieval matches that of encoding. We investigated this with 45 ESL student subjects, native language Mandarin or Punjabi, recruited from…

William A. Pritchard reminisces about his experiences as Reeve of Burnaby, B.C. from 1932-1935 and his involvement in left wing politics in the 1930s in Western Canada. The discussion also refers to many individuals who were members of the Socialist…

Second Place - Langara Open Student Scholar Prize 2024

Honorable Mention - Langara Open Student Scholar Prize 2024

Nine short films by emerging filmmakers. With their impending doom pounding at the door, sisterly love is tested like never before in Imminent. A grieving son travels to a whimsical world where he learns a powerful lesson about accepting loss in…

Ten short films by emerging filmmakers. In Job, a man faces a moral dilemma after a computer malfunction gives him the answers to a test. Sidekicks band together to stand up to their supers by creating a superhero union in Sidekicks united. Flying…

Nine short films by emerging filmmakers. In Hunger, two sisters struggle with themselves and others to survive in a crisis-stricken world where food is difficult to grow. Cory grapples with a deep despair in the wake of a faltering relationship with…

Eight short films by emerging filmmakers. In The ghost in the closet, a young man must face his grandmother's ghost with the truth of his identity in order to finally find love. A hopeless romantic trying to find happiness is left alone at a…