Julia Beth Ewaschuk

Julia Beth Ewaschuk will receive the Governor General's Gold Medal, awarded to the graduate student with the highest academic standing.Ewaschuk was born in Elliot Lake, Ontario, and attended Marion M. Graham Collegiate in Saskatoon.She earned a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition in 1999 and a Ph.D. in Nutrition in 2004 from the U of S. Ewaschuk held the prestigious NSERC Canada Scholarship, and will receive the U of S Graduate Thesis Award in the Life Sciences at Spring Convocation.Her research has led to a new understanding of the origins of metabolic acidosis, a condition present in neonatal diarrhea and major source of economic loss to livestock enterprises in Canada.She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta, studying the molecular mechanisms by which probiotics can treat inflammatory bowel disease.