GRADflix Videos

GRADflix videos showcase the diversity of research being conducted by graduate students at Queen's. On this page you can view video submissions from each year that Queen's has held a GRADflix competition.

Winner of GRADflix 2025 - Yu Yan Li


Yu Yan Li (PhD, Civil Engineering) - Buried but Not Forgotten: The Aging of Landfill Barriers


Sofia Guest (MSc, Geography) - Snowfall on White Glacier


Sara McPherson (MSc, Biology) - The Cdk8 Story


Olamide Olanrewaju (MBI, Biomedical Informatics) - Leveraging Image Registration to Improve Cancer Image Analysis


Audrey Frappier (MASc, Civil Engineering) - Sequestering Carbon Dioxide by Mineralization

Winner of GRADflix 2025 - Cassidy Laub


Monica Ayachit (PhD, Chemistry) - The science behind catching and releasing drugs into the human body


Cassidy Laub (MSc, Translational Medicine) - The Impact of Cancer Treatment Delays


Martina Jakubchik-Paloheimo (PhD, Geography) - Community-based participatory research to support the preservation of Indigenous Shuar knowledge and territory the Cordillera de Transkutukú


Bilen Araya (PhD, Rehabilitation Science) - Empty nest: The experience of infertility


Martha Ortega Santos (MSc, Translational Medicine) - From Pollen to Plate: Exploring Pollen Food Allergy Syndrome in Southeastern Ontario


Yijun Xu (MSc, Psychology) - Promoting Healthy and Eco-Friendly Food Choice


Sara Stickley (PhD, Experimental Medicine) - Trust your gut… microbiota: It may be the key to uncovering childhood asthma risk