The U of T COVID-19 Student Engagement Award provides financial support to U of T students working in collaboration with one another on projects that contribute to building and fostering a global community during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Successful projects are supported by the Office of the Vice-President, International, University of Toronto Mississauga, University of Toronto Scarborough, Faculty of Arts & Science, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, Rotman School of Management, OISE, and the Centre for International Experience.
The following is a list of successful projects and project teams:
| Project Title | Project Team |
|---|---|
| "Ripple Food Box"-An Innovative Approach to Reduce Food Waste | Cheng Pan, XinWang Wang |
| ‘Leave it in Quarantine’: COVID-19 Health Promotion Music Video and Graphics Campaign | Isfandyar Virani, Sadi Wali |
| “COVID-19 Perspectives” | Ashwini Selvakumaran, Aishwarya Patel |
| “What is essential is invisible to the eye”: Cross-cultural patterns of gender, minority, and low-income representation in children’s drawings of Essential Workers | Diana Peragine, Laura MacMullin, Danielle Jacobson, Tanya Manchanda, Jordana Schiralli, Joanna Matthews, Chiara Simeon-Spezzaferro, Nida Mustafa, Lindsay Coome, Laura Gravelsins, Claire Murray |
| 3D PPE GTHA | Chengming (Peter) Zhang, Anser Daud, Yousuf Ahmed, Isra Hussein, Christopher McChesney, Manon Feasson, Carlos Khalil |
| A MORE EQUITABLE APPROACH TO COVID-19; Tackling Race-Based Inequalities | Ranie Ahmed Kiran Nabi, Omer Jamal, Waleed Ishak |
| A Music-for-Coping Toolkit: Guidelines and Applications of Neurologic Music Therapy during the Covid-19 Pandemic | Tara Henechowicz, Nicole Richard, Marija Pranjić, Kyurim Kang, Lauren Cole, Gloria Tian |
| A proposal for the development of an App for self-reporting of COVID-19 associated symptoms | Sulaiman Jalloh Patrick Bampanga, Abhinav Mohan, Leticia Nndagang, Kuda Masalila |
| A rapid review of national COVID-19 task forces. | Victoria Haldane, Garrett Morgan |
| A review of long-term care policy changes implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic: a Canadian analysis | Danielle Just, Caroline Variath |
| A Room of One's Own | Hui Wen Zheng, Katie Kwang, Benita Leong |
| Academic and Financial Issues Associated with Online Schooling: Recommendations for Staff and Students to Optimize Learning Experience and Success | Vince Escalante, Sai Cheong (Kris), Wong Phuoc Tran |
| Addressing Educational Inequality Amidst COVID-19 and Beyond | Omar Elbardisy, Jan Lim, Kulsuma Alimirah Afkae , Jeffrey Yat-Heng Leung" |
| After the Virus | Jessica Singh Sarina Sharma, Rena Wang, Simren Sharma |
| Agent – Based Modelling in Global Health: An Analysis of Various Social Distancing Policies using COBWEB | Adebisi Akande Dina Bernstein, Leshi Yang, Muhammad Anas Ansar, Yi Yue Jiang, Yuzhou Pan |
| An Investigation of Canadian Natural Products as Potential Drug Candidates Against Viral Infection | Zhiyu Wang, John MacMillan |
| Analysis of Economic Impact Caused by COVID-19 Pandemic and Comparisons to that Caused by Past Public Crises | Weiqing Wang, Zhiya Lou, Guanyao Liang, Jincheng Leng, Ziyi Wang, Jiaru Li, Xiaoli Yang |
| Assessing the Effectiveness of Videos for Exergaming Technology for use with Isolated Older Adults During COVID-19 Pandemic | Sharon Ferguson, Chelsea Ferguson, YouZhi Hu |
| Assessing the global effect of public health interventions on COVID-19 pandemic growth and unemployment | Mohammad Kaviul Khan, Michael Moon, Thai-Son Tang, Jerry Lin |
| Assessing the Need for Virtual Medical Care in Canadian Communities Using Machine Learning Models and Predictive Analysis | Abdula Maher, Esmat Sahak, Ahmed Kaimkhani |
| Avoiding Disaster: Comparing National Fiscal Responses to the COVID-19 crisis | Zeus Eden, Subham Rai |
| Bridgespace: Global Student Engagement Platform | Hayden Cheung, Sarina Wong, Lauren Hung, Kira Cheung |
| Capture 7/20 Photography Project | Astrid Ling, Aishwarya Patel |
| Case studies on the response of local and global examination boards to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic | Wijdan Tariq, Yasin Tariq |
| Children’s e-book to address the loss of a family member during the COVID-19 pandemic | Zafiro Andrade, Laura Chavira |
| Chinatown Student Pantry | Chiyi Tam, Simon Qu |
| Communicating the Impossible: Universities’ Responses to COVID-19 | Michael O'Shea, Leping Mou |
| Comparative Nonprofit Policy Impact Analysis Tool | Vivian Cheng, Taskeen Nawabc, Austin Ray |
| Computational modeling of COVID-19 pathogenesis to determine risk levels of infectivity and potential disease outcomes | Henry Quach, Jonas Yeung, Jacky Chen, Ben Xu |
| Connect-19 | Siddharthan Lakshmanan, Shivam Kapila |
| Coping with COVID-19: Promoting Mandated Health Behaviours and Protecting Mental Health | Angela Smith, Arasteh Gatchpazian, Ali Javeed |
| COVID-19 & Planetary Health Advocacy Toolkit | Danielle Toccalino Anna Cooper Reed, Victoria Haldane, Colin Sue-Chue-Lam, Anson Cheung |
| COVID-19 and International Human Rights: A Global Advocacy Messaging Campaign Using Digital Storytelling to Support Sub-Saharan African Communities | Jiamin Shi, Sherry Hao |
| COVID-19 and the Surge of Distance Learning – From a Global, Community-Level Perspective | Angelina Ouyang, Sukhmani Khaira |
| COVID-19 Central Web-Site | Yuliya Lytvyn, Andreea Damian |
| COVID-19 Crisis Management: a 360 Perspective | Priyanjli Sharma, Michelle Nurse, Avani Bhardwaj, Emma Sas |
| COVID-19 Drug Evidence Initiative | Sameera Toenjes, William Plaetzer, Avery Loi, Arvind Sing Grewal,Christopher Tse, Joseph Li, Truong Dao |
| COVID-19 Indigenous Health Partnership | Sterling Stutz, Thilaxcy Yohathasan |
| COVID-19 Long-Term Care Redeployment Policy Analysis | Kinza Malik, Danielle Gray, Nma Jerry-Egemba |
| COVID-19 Mortality Forecasts Model Website Portal for Regional Uploads and Data Visualization Project | Maggie Ma, MD Zarif Mahmud, Kamal Rai |
| COVID-19 University Response Consolidation (CURECON) Project | Syed Zain Ahmad, Marium Vahed, Nikhil Bhambra, Abbigayle Teixeira-Barreira, Gautier Boyrie, Emily Nguyen, Martina Facchin |
| COVID19Recovery | Leo Zhu, Julia Lee, Grace Guo, Sissi Zhu, Juliana Lee |
| Creative Flow | Sylvie Stojanovski, Siena Heesoo Jang, Lamia Firasta, Siham Karamali |
| Data Analysis Educational Package Tool | Yichao Chen, Jiahao We Yuxin Du, Xu Li, Ziying Xia" |
| Delivery of Remote Oncology Pharmacy Medication Management Services in Response to COVID-19: Development and Dissemination of a Process Map | Maria Marchese Angela Heintzman |
| Democracy in the Time of COVID-19: A Policy Paper for Latin America | Zihan Pang, Shauna McLean, Paraney Babuharan, Xiao Alvin Yang |
| Different Boat, Same Storm: Kindling Empathy Amidst a Global Pandemic | Atharv Agrawal, Abhayjeet Singh Sachal, Elijah Meadow Ramraj |
| Disinformation Labs | Shien Yue Choy, Krishanu Ranwan |
| Documenting the Post-COVID City | Jillian Sprenger, Katy Tiper |
| Early Literacy Development in Young Readers | Insiya Bhalloo, Siobhan Galeazzi-Stirling, Claire (Ying Ying) Liu |
| Easing the burden: A dashboard to track COVID-19 financial aid across the globe | Adam Lam, Mubtaseem Zaman |
| El CafeciTO - “Radio Viral” | Raquel Serrano, Leonardo Pinna Cosenza |
| Engineering Think Tank | Lilian Kabelle, Marie Merci Ishimwe, Ngone Lo |
| Environmental Impacts of Hand Hygiene Practices: Handwashing with Soap and Alcohol-Based Hand Rubbing | Daniel Tse, Pedro Torres-Basanta, Lisa MacTavish |
| Equipment trade website business model and interface design | Tianyi Yu, Minjing Xu |
| Equity in COVID-19 pandemic policy: An international Delphi study to identify global priorities | Tara Upshaw, Chloe Brown |
| EXCITE Webinar Series | Yang Xiang, Xiaojie Shen, Zhangran Sun, Wantong Zhong, Lu Lin, Zixuan Chen, Peiwen Zhou |
| False Freedom: biocarding, bio-surveillance and pedagogies for community care in the world of Covid-19 | Yasmine Hassen, Ian Liujia Tian, Jann Houston |
| FFGI COVID-19 Engagement Project | Kuuku Quagraine, Elizabeth Wai |
| Financial Literacy for Youth | Katarina Sladic, Samar Totonchy |
| Finding Our Power Together: Indigenous and Allied Approaches to Supporting Youth During COVID-19 | Nicole Ineese-Nash, Maggie Stein |
| Finding Voices | David Wong, Julie Porrot, Hudson Yuen, Yee-Jeung Yuen (Janessa Yuen), Brian Chan |
| Flatten the Negativity | Karishma Shah, Nimit Vediya |
| Get educated on the subject, stop with the misinformation | Rosa Yang, Yinghui Liu, Yihe Zhang, Tianyi Tang, Xinyu Zhou |
| Guide to Covid-19 | Khadija, Hosseini Pinar Kahraman |
| HandAssure - Mobile Application | Shreyes, Dugar Ashna Malhotra |
| Healing by the Arts | Nahyun Lee, Junhyeok Hong, Chaemin Kim |
| Health & safety, transparency, and revenue resilience in public transit | Denis Burkov, Melbin Thomas Jose |
| Home Alone: 2020 | Jana Nitschke, Valerie Marshal |
| Home-based COVID-19 Self-care System | Ramtin Mojtahedi, Saeed Shakib |
| How faith-based beliefs affect physical distancing behavior during a pandemic: An exploration through socio-cultural perspectives | Shamim Ahmed, Sharmin Majumder |
| iAscend | Brandon Yu, Ahmedullah Shah, Alessia Priore, Theodora Girgis |
| iCommunity | Nadira Kamalia, Natalie Ashgriz, Anoosha Rahim |
| Identification and mitigation of COVID-19 misinformation generated by religious belief | Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Prianka Roy, Priyank Chandra, Ishtiaque Ahmed |
| Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on post-secondary communities | Anna Lai, Julia Xu |
| INITIO | Siyi (Megan) Liu, Mary (Nghi) Ngo, Abigail Chase, Rayana Azar |
| Jumpstart your HR career! | Suet Ying Zoey So, Tian Xie, Monica (Jiwei) Lei, Lilian Ma, Margaret (Tianqi) Zhu, Viki (Yichen) Tao |
| Knowledge Without Borders | Songeun You, Daniel Lu |
| Learning Even More From SARS: A Comparative Policy Analysis of the SARS and COVID-19 Canadian Pandemic Responses | Michael Lee, Fanny Cheng, Grace Xu |
| Learning in the Time of Corona: A slice of life podcast from Mumbai & Houston | Laurel Bingman, Guaravi Lobo |
| Making COVID-19 Science Accessible For All | Amir Alam Arellano Saab, Katrina Hass |
| Mashkiki gitigaanan | Rebecca Beaulne-Stuebing, Kristen Bos |
| MBAinCanada - Taking care of your entire Graduate application journey! | Priti Kairamkonda, Korawit Booranakit |
| Measuring the Impact of COVID-19 on Graduate Student Mental Health and Well-being | Daniel Harris, Christa Orchard, Miranda Loutet, David Kinitz |
| Mindfulness Measures: Survey Data Collection of Mental Health Effects of COVID-19 on Students | Heba Qazilbash, Mehwish Siddiqui, Neha Matharu |
| Mitigating stigmatization, ensuring food security and preventing the transmission of COVID-19 in Bangladesh and Canada | Tahsin Reza Tasnim Reza, Mahiya Nasrin, Nithila Sivakumar, Clara Chick, Thanoshan Ariyanayagam |
| Music for the Mind' : A music therapy podcast | Meera Mohindra, Lia Weng |
| Navigating sleep and well-being during COVD-19: How do dreams help us make sense of our new global reality? | Erica Kilius, Leela McKinnon |
| Network and evolutionary analysis of SARS-CoV-2: a vaccine perspective | Tom Ouellette, Jim Shaw |
| Neurodiversity and the New Normal: How Covid-19 is Impacting Neurodivergent People in a Changing Workplace Landscape | Eliana Bravos, David To |
| Nutrition support for hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in Malawi | Allison Daniel, Isabel Potani |
| On the global socio-political impacts of COVID-19 lockdown measures: A Comparative Study | Eric Raju, Sara Rasikh |
| Open access epidemiological data and an interactive dashboard to monitor the COVID-19 outbreak | Isha Berry, Jean-Paul Soucy, Shelby Sturrock, Vinyas Harish |
| Pandemic Meal Prepping: Global Community Building and Knowledge Sharing through a Collaborative Cookbook | Rajpreet Sidhu, Leeza Gheerawo, Maria Mateus, Mira Hennawy |
| Pandemic Positivity | Vanessa Ip, Esma Boztas |
| Pharmacist: Pandemic, Patients, Pills | Yousif Jaheinsha, Fadi Alkass |
| Physical and Mental Health Among Cancer Survivors during the COVID-19 Pandemic | Allyson Tabaczynski, Denise Bastas, Alexis Whitehorn |
| Portable emergency tent | Yi Zhang, Siqi Wang |
| Post-viral fatigue syndrome: The impact of COVID-19 on Black and visible minorities | Arij Elmi, Setareh (Tara) Farahani |
| Primary school children’s storybook on planetary health and COVID-19 | Yina Shan, Victoria Haldane |
| Projecting the supply and use of pristine and reprocessed N95 respirators in a hospital | Paul Chen, Matthew Yau, Tommaso Alba, Krish Bilimoria, Shangmou (Samuel) Wu |
| Pursuing Liveness: Realizing Performance Frameworks amid COVID-19 Digital Culture | Tyler Cunningham, Joyce To |
| Quantifying effects of community based public health measures in controlling COVID-19 epidemics: a comparative modeling study in China, Iceland, Italy and Canada | Jianhui Gao Zhiyong Huang |
| Quarantine Performance: Global Responses to COVID-19 in the Performing Arts | Nae Hanashiro Avila, Sebastian Samur |
| RCPT - Tech Talks | Michael Strusievici, Haoming Gu, Sami Rasheed, Prahalad Ravi, Amedeo Cunsolo, Konstantinos Papaspyridis" |
| Reimagining Accountability and Global Governance | Alissa Wang, Alessandra Cicci, Michael Motala |
| Religious Communities and Networks in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic | Janani Mandayam Comar, Kathryn Geddes |
| Renewed Perspectives | Shenwei Hu, Thea vu Nguyen |
| Risk Informed Reopening Policy Proposal | Aishwarya Arun Nair, Ashley Chiedza Mutasa, Joshua Dingani Mvunga |
| Safe At-Home Testing of Covid-19 | Aditya Raina, Rajarshi Das Gupta |
| Shared Isolation: The Music of Nature in the Midst of COVID-19 | Nicole Percifield, Gavin Fraser, Geoffrey Conquer, Patrick Moldowan |
| Six Feet Apart | Joelle Weir, Cassandra Minott, Ahmed Aldarraji, Lucy Stark |
| Soap for 237 | Lesley Lepawa Sikapa, Semtetam Patience Fakembe, Providence Mapingire |
| Soap for All | Gabrielle Carelli Yamamoto, Lorenzo Kogler Anele |
| Social Contagion of COVID-19 | Shameemah Khan, Laila Shim, Sara Daou |
| Songs in Self Isolation | Yash Verma, Shai Genis, Nikko Gimpaya, Karam Elsolh |
| Speculating COVID-19 | Celeste Pang, Jack Jiang, Jordan Bryson, Zarin Tasnim, Sophia Jaworski, Do-Hyeong Meong, Ian Liujia Tian |
| Start Here>>Resource creation for students as online and blended learners | Teresa Avery, Preeti Raman |
| STEAM Theme Virtual Escape Room Experience | Sandhya Mylabathula, Swapna Mylabathula |
| Stitch | Meimenat (Chen-Hui) Cheng, Mina Yip |
| Student Parents support Initiative | Preeti Raman, Nidhi Sachdeva |
| Studio Babble: Creative Engagement in the Age of COVID-19 | Gemma Robinson, Aisling Beers, Declan Roberts, Jay Potts, Savanna Blade, Sheetza McGarry |
| Study of Political and Economic Influences on Social Distancing Behaviour in the United States | Liam Keating, Daphne Imahori, Muhammed Wadee |
| Survey: Impact of COVID-19 on Graduate Students in Canada | Sivani Baskaran, Frank Telfer, Maegan Ong, Dawn Bannerman, Caroline Pao, Samantha McWhither, Bryony McAllister, Isabella Lim, Vidhant Pal, Farah Qaiser, Kali Iyer |
| Tackling Issues of Food Insecurity in a COVID-19 Era | Selina Quibrantar, Blair Laluces, Camille Reyes, Kenyon Nisbett |
| Tackling Shortages of N95 Masks with a Simple, Effective, and Removable Desiccant Strip Design | Ziting (Judy) Xia, Purushoth Thavendran, Amro Aswad, Jingyi (Jenny) Wei, Xiaoou (Bessie) Li |
| The "Us" in Virus Podcast | Brady Liu, Kathy Xu, En Su Lee |
| The #UofTreesGrowAtHomeChallenge | Dana Dallal, Laiba Hasan, Candee Gao, Melissa Young, Jessica Patel, Joanna Mo |
| The Association of Social Isolation and Quarantine on Mental Health | Samiha Sultana, Aswini Kuruparan, Oshini Kehelwathugoda, Shawanah Rahman, Hiral Patel, Rushali Patel |
| The Contaminated U.S. Labour Market by COVID-19: Unemployment Spikes and Spreading Speed of the Novel Coronavirus | Yingying Zhou, Ning Ye |
| The Coronavirus Chronicles | Nicola Bijvoet, Edina Bijvoet |
| The COVID Action Hub | Denise Lee, Melanie Seabrook, Emma Seabrook, Shiyi Zhang |
| The COVID-19 Information Project | Chirag Chopra, Xin Yi Lim, Samiha Tahsin, Paranjay Sahanii |
| The Effects of COVID-19 Responses on Racialized Communities | Jooheon Lee, Hannah Rolfe |
| The future of protein design: a machine learning approach to COVID-19 outbreak | Tianyu Lu, Joseph Bellissimo, Hannah So, Rochelle Wang, Shea-sarah Garcia, Danielle Serra, Rose Talebi, Edward Shen, Xiaotong Wang, Adriana Diaz, Lozano Patrino, Gamen Liu |
| The Global Appreciation Project | Helen Loo Yau, Cindy Yang, Jenny Lou, Raymond Chen |
| The Global Artistic Manifestations of COVID-19 | Ben Sprenger, Ally Fraser |
| The Humanitarian Taskforce | Ishika Soni, Satwik Chugh, Shuchi Jain, Ralph Sayegh, Dania Kassim, Yashmit Sutodia |
| The need for mental health medication management for the university student population during COVID-19 | Andrea Massey, Nichelle Benny Gerard |
| The RehabINK podcast | Julia Rybkina, Kyla Alsbury, Adora Chui, Lucas Crosby, Mikaela Stiver, Bernice Lau, Nivetha Chandran, Jacqueline Nestico, Analyssa Cardenas, Chelsea Chua, David Houston |
| The Rise to Thrive Foundation | Daniel Pye, Marcos Gouvea, Leonardo Barboza |
| The role of past pollution inequities on current COVID-19 exacerbations | Jill Furzer, Boriana Miloucheva |
| The World Journal of COVID-19 | Franklin Perez, Joshua Perez, Nolan Merchan |
| Together we Learn: Fostering an online learning community in an Engineering Science undergraduate course | Rubaina Khan, Nikita Dawe |
| Transnational Mentorship During the COVID-19 Outbreak | Yan Hei Kelly Choi, Yefeng Zhang, Sanjana Bhatnagar, Victoriya Kozhemyakina, Tsitsi Macherera |
| UnityOR: a digital assistant for the operating room | Ingrid Grozavu, Daniel Szulc, Brandon Ho |
| University College Online Orientation | Andrea Estrabillo, Vaishnavi (Vaish) Vijayan |
| Unpacking Covid-19 Impacts on Youth in Guadalajara | Mduduzi Mhlanga, Kanishka Sikri, Anushay Irfan Khan |
| Using Data Visualization and Crowdsourcing Survey to study COVID-19 Testing Capacity, Protocol, and Barriers in Canada | Kuan Liu, Rose Garrett, Alexandra Bushby, Thai-Son Tang, Maxwell Garrett" |
| Utilising UVC light to disinfect supplies | Aaditi Lnu, Melbin Thomas, Rohit Mathew |
| We Are Together 2020 | Sherry Liu, Ariel Zhu, Linda Huang |
| We're in this Together: Mapping Resilience, Solidarity, and Hope during a Global Pandemic | Dina Sabie, Cansu Ekmekcioglu Dedeoglu |
| What Causes Elevated Risk in COVID-19? Discover Exposure & Genetic Factors at Play | Yu-Chung Lin, Boxi Lin |
| Youth Climate Action During COVID and Beyond: A global index | Meaghan Angel, Nelsen Elsholtz, Syeda Hasan |
| YSYF Hygiene and Stories from Doryumu Project | Sauliha Alli, Shile Adeyoyin |
