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Friday, February 5, 2021

Chuck Macdonald Discusses Bismuth on CBC’s Element of Surprise Radio Segment

Bismuth is booming at Carleton! Chuck Macdonald, Dean of Science and professor of chemistry at Carleton, recently discussed his research on bismuth, a key ingredient found in Pepto-Bismol, on CBC Radio. Learn why the opalescent element is effective in treating upset stomachs and discover its many other uses. Listen... More

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Faculty of Science 2020 Excellence Awards

On Dec. 21, Dean of Science Chuck Macdonald named the recipients for 2020 at our annual holiday event. Congratulations to the awardees! Impact Award Veronic Bezaire, Department of Chemistry   Read... More

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Towards a Cure: Carleton Research Team Working on Stem Cell Therapy to Reverse Type 1 Diabetes

Carleton’s Jenny Bruin is part of a team of researchers that has been awarded a 5-year, $3 million grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and JDRF Canada to develop a novel therapy that transplants insulin-secreting cells derived from stem cells into patients with Type 1 diabetes. “We want to replace them with beta... More

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Carleton Scientists Use AI and Big Data to Identify a Potential COVID-19 Peptide Treatment

Using artificial intelligence and Canada’s most powerful supercomputer, Ashkan Golshani and Frank Dehne analyzed millions of possible protein interactions. They have been developing algorithms that predict protein communications and potential drug treatments since 2003 and, using the IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer, they were able to predict... More

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Carleton Researchers Developing Anti-Viral Peptide Treatments To Help Disrupt Inflammatory Responses to COVID-19

Treatments for COVID-19 can help us manage the pandemic, even without a vaccine. Carleton bioinformatics researchers, Biology Prof. Kyle Biggar and Systems and Computer Engineering Prof. James Green, are using artificial intelligence to identify the protein interactions that could be responsible for COVID-19’s most severe symptoms, and working... More

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Dr. Farah Hosseinian, Improving Purée-Based Foods Can Help COVID-19 Patients Who Have Difficulty Swallowing

Puree-based foods can help – but they have their own set challenges. Too thick, and some patients can’t swallow. Too runny, and they can choke. For Orleans-based food processing company Apetito HFS, this created a challenge. The company makes foods for health care providers across Canada, and after their puree-based chicken soup was frozen,... More

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Funding from Canada Foundation for Innovation to provide infrastructure for the study of the molecular biology of the SARS-CoV-2 virus at Carleton

Alex Wong, Kyle Biggar, Edana Cassol, and Ashkan Golshani have received $250,000 from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) Exceptional Opportunities Fund. The funds will provide needed equipment to bolster six ongoing research projects to fight COVID-19. Read... More

Friday, November 13, 2020

Bigger and Wong Apart of The Nine Carleton University Projects Receive Funding from NSERC Alliance COVID-19 Grants

Nine Carleton University projects received a total of $450,000 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Alliance COVID-19 Grants to support a broad range of work, involving collaborations with the public, not-for-profit sectors and industry to address pandemic-related research and technical challenges.... More

Friday, November 13, 2020

Chemistry’s David McMullin and Amy Rand Receive CFI Funding to Support Research Benefiting All Canadians

McMullin and Rand are among several other Carleton researchers who received funding from CFI’s JELF earlier this year for their work on manufacturing nanoparticles, understanding how animals fly, monitoring water pollution, and strengthening endangered languages.... More

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Biochemistry Professor Kenneth Storey Speaks on Animal Hibernation in this Published Article with CBC Radio

Biochemistry Professor Kenneth Storey from the Storey lab. Comments on hibernating tendencies, and certain rehabilitating traits some animals go through once they are through hibernating in a CBC radio article. When ground squirrels emerge in the spring after hibernating all winter, their guts shrink to about half their original weight, but their... More

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Biochemistry Professor Myron Smith Receives a Write-Up in the Canadian Science Publishing Blog

Biochemistry Professor Myron Smith of the Smith lab, has a paper published with the Canadian Science Publishing. The paper touches on volatile organic compounds, and whether or not they can save bats from white-nose syndrome. The white-nose syndrome fungus, Pseudogymnoascus destructans, colonizes the skin of hibernating bats, leading to... More

Monday, September 21, 2020

Biochemistry Professor David Miller Mentioned in Ottawa Citizen Piece on Hospital Workers and Their Efforts to Protect Themselves with N95 Masks

One of the country’s top arbitrators has been asked to settle a pandemic-related grievance filed by Almonte General Hospital health care workers, who want N95 respirators made available to them. The hospital now issues N95 masks only to staff involved in aerosol-generating medical procedures, such as intubations. Biochemistry Professor David... More

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