2018 September to December

Alice Rollini

2017 September to December

Samuel McAughey

2017 January to April

Meredith Fraser

2016 January to April

Stephen Chew

2015 September to December

Georgia Denbigh

2015 January to April

Britteny Ellen

My name is Brittney and I completed BIO 3800 Experiential Learning in my third year of university. I thoroughly enjoyed this learning experience and being a part of the Gunawardena lab. Through this experience, I have gained further knowledge of plant programmed cell death. Experiential learning provided a hands-on experience which allowed me to further develop both my experimental design and presentation skills. Based on this positive experience, I have decided to continue work in the Gunawardena lab as an honours student. I would highly recommend Experiential Learning to other students, as it was a great learning experience.

2014 January to April

Paul Parks

2013 Sepetmber to December

James Sayre

Hi, my name is James Sayre. I am a 3rd year biology student with a keen interest for what I'm studying. Outside of school, I am a member of the Royal Canadian Naval Reserves. I have been in the armed forces for nearly three years, joining in 2010. I first meet Dr. Gunawardena in her Diversity of plants lecture. She had spoken about her research of PCD (Programmed Cell Death) in class and very quickly grabbed my attention with her work. I had always been interested in working in a genuine biology lab, and when I heard about Experiential learning, I had to take the opportunity which presented its self. Having sent out some introductory letters to some of the biology faculty to show my interest, Dr. Gunawardena replied asking if I was interested in pursuing research. I jumped at the chance and haven’t looked back since. I feel very lucky to be able to help with Dr. Gunawardena's work, and am looking forward to continuing to volunteer in her lab. My time doing experiential learning has been some of the most enriching work I have done to date, and I highly recommend others who are interested in research work to pursue it as well.

2013 January to April

Angelica Camilo

My involvement in the Experimental Learning program was extremely advantageous, as I was able to participate in a research study for the first time while gaining excess knowledge on the mechanics behind designing an experiment. My experience was everything I expected and more, as I was able to fully grasp the amount of hard work it takes to execute a successful experiment. I found my research to be exceptionally interesting and I would definitely recommend this program to other students in the Faculty of Science.

Malik Ali

I am currently in my fourth year of study at Dalhousie University in my Bachelor of Science major in biology degree. I began working in the PCD lab since the summer of 2012 and recently completed the experiential learning course with the lace plant. A recurring issue of infected lace plant corms had me searching through various protocols in order to identify the most efficient sterilizing technique to be able to reintroduce the infected corms in to sterile conditions. In total three different protocols were tested using green viable lace plant corms.  Ethanol and bleach, bleach alone, and finally mercuric chloride were the different sterilizing chemicals used throughout the duration of the experiment. In addition, out of the three sterilizing agents the mercuric chloride provided the most promising results. Nonetheless, I am currently continuing my experiential learning research project as a volunteer to provide more reproducible data for a publication under the supervision of Dr. Gunawardena.

2012 Sepetmber to December

Trevor Warnor