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The School of Graduate Studies and UNB Libraries' Harriet Irving Library Research Commons announce the winners of this year's Images of Research Challenge

The 2025 editions of the Images of Research Challenge invited UNB graduate students to submit an image they believe encapsulates their research and to explain in 200 words or less its association to their research.  The challenge was adjudicated by a cross-disciplinary panel of UNB faculty, and the winners were announced March 27th at the annual Graduate Student Research Conference, held in Harriet Irving Library Research Commons.

Winners of the Images of Research 2025 Challenge are:

First Place:

Tides of Change, by Liam Brennan, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Applied Science and Engineering

Second Place:

Sweet Illusion: Natural or Engineered, by Elena Vladimirova, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management

Third Place:

Organized Chaos, by Zachary Titus, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

Honourable Mention:

Plants and Bacteria: Symbiotic Relationship, by Isabela Freire, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science

Honourable Mention:

Shoes are Extraordinary Media, by Ryan Drew, Interdisciplinary Studies

Audience Choice Award:

Little Canadian Plates, by Heidi Lauwerijssen, Faculty of Kinesiology

2025 Winter Graduate Booster 3: Humanities and Social Sciences Research Impact Workshop

Step up your research. Introductory research sessions featuring UNB professors, librarians, & library professionals.

With Erin Spinney, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Politics
And Julie Morris, Collections Analysis and Bibliometrics Librarian

This 90-minute workshop will support Humanities and Social Science (HSS) researchers looking to use bibliometrics and research impact metrics to strengthen storytelling about their research records, such as for the purposes of supporting assessment packages, grant applications, and other scholarly profiles. Focus will be paid to incorporating research metrics in a way that goes beyond using traditional research impact metrics, and that showcases the research story in a discipline-appropriate way.

Pack your laptop and CV because there will be a hands-on activity that allows participants to engage with their own research impact story.

Have you tried Scopus AI?

Scopus AI is an AI-driven research tool that uses the Scopus peer-reviewed research repository to help users understand and navigate unfamiliar academic content. Scopus AI generates summaries based on Scopus abstracts with references to help decipher complex content, facilitate deeper exploration, and provide academic insights.

• It’s built on the corpus of Scopus abstracts
• It lets you learn AI query formation
• It produces concise and expanded summaries of your topic with links to Scopus entries
• It draws concept maps of your topic
• It identifies foundational papers that are key to your topic
• It identifies topic experts.

Visit https://elsevier.libguides.com/Scopus/ScopusAI or look for the link on the Scopus database.