Congratulations to undergraduate honours student Monorme Chaudhury, who won first-place in the inaugural Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) and Undergraduate Research Opportunities (URO) Arts Undergraduate Research Award competition.
The AUSxURO awards recognizes undergraduate students from the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia who demonstrated excellence, independence, and dedication to their research, and went above and beyond to contribute to their fields. All five winners and an additional two runner-ups have had their abstracts published in a special edition of the Canadian Journal of Undergraduate Research (CJUR).
Chaudhury’s research explored the intergenerational differences of first-generation immigrants and their second-generation children within the South Asian diaspora in Canada. Her project examined how individual beliefs and values shape communication between first-generation parents and their second-generation young adult children, and how second-generation young adults negotiate their multicultural identities. Her findings reinforced the importance of acknowledging the underlying differences in acculturation experiences that allow the first- and second-generation immigrants to establish trusting parent-child relationships.
