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Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Carleton Biology's Dr. Steve Cooke will be giving a talk with the City of Ottawa as part of their wildlife speaker series. The talk will be taking place at Ben Franklin Place (101 Centerpoint Drive) on Wednesday, November 27th at 7p.m. To learn more about the talk visit the City of Ottawa Wildlife... More
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
A PhD student in biology who studies cell and molecular responses to stress in Prof. Ken Storey’s lab, Hadj-Moussa worked with fellow PhD student Samantha Logan to identify jumbo squid microRNA in research funded through experiment.com, a crowdfunding platform for scientific experiments. Read the full Carleton Newsroom article by Tyrone Burke... More
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Thursday, Nov 7, 2019 7:00 P.M. 378 University Center Join us and listen to Andrea Reid talk about her work on Indigenizing Fisheries Research. Andrea Reid is a Nisga'a Ph.D. Candidate in Biology at Carleton University. For her interdisciplinary and inclusive approach to fish and fisheries research in East Africa, the South Pacific, Southeast... More
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
The Department of Biology supports the Global Climate Strike of Friday, September 27, and recognizes this event as an important demonstration of our collective desire and need for action on climate change. This is a youth-led movement and we encourage the participation of students as well as faculty and staff. While students remain responsible... More
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Carleton University's professor Bill Willmore mentors student Bhavya Mohan, tackling and researching alternatives to cancer treatment. Mohan, beginning his mentorship at only 11 years old, demonstrates a strong drive, innovative ideas and significant knowledge related to Willmore's research. Throughout the years, Mohan goes on to winning the top... More
Friday, July 12, 2019
Biology PhD Student, Jordanna Bergman, is conducting research as part of a three-year project to determine the impact of human activities on the health of the Rideau ecosystem and help Parks Canada come up with effective management policies. Bergman and undergraduate Biology students Gagliardi and Killeen are catching and tagging pike and bass on... More
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Biology PhD candidate Erin Vanzyl has received a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) to support her research involving gene splicing. The scholarship provides recipients with $50,000 a year for three years during their doctoral studies. “This is further evidence of Carleton fostering leading researchers in the area of health and biomedical... More
Monday, April 1, 2019
Each year the Biology Department awards 1 TA Excellence Award as one of the ways we acknowledge the efforts of our teaching assistants. This year we had many nominees, but 2 were particularly outstanding. Therefore, we decided to award 2 TA Excellence Awards for the 2018-19 year to Melanie Scallion and Winston Campeau! Congratulations to... More
Monday, March 18, 2019
Melody Gavel, a master's student from the Department of Biology, has won Carleton University's 2019 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. Melody is a part of the Forbes lab and Robinson lab (Environment and Climate Change Canada) and her research focuses on the impact of pesticides (neonicotinoids) on frog immune systems. Melody also won the... More
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Andrea Reid, a Ph.D. student at Carleton University in Dr. Steven J. Cooke's Lab, has won the 2019 Partners in Research Young Researcher Ambassador Award. Andrea is doing her research in British Columbia, studying the migration biology of Pacific salmon, and as part of her research she interviewed elders from across the province to... More
Monday, February 4, 2019
Congratulations to Jared Browning, Genevieve Ferguson and Adelle Strobel for their exceptional work, earning each of them a Department of Biology Outstanding Thesis Award. The winners were announced by Dr. Tom Sherratt on Tuesday 29 January 2019 at the Carmody Lecture.... More
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
A new teaching tool is being developed to help teachers bring real-world fish information to classrooms across Canada. Jacqueline Chapman, a PhD student in the Biology Department at Carleton University has been working with a team of colleagues and professionals to develop AquaTrax. Explains Chapman: “Aquatrax focuses specifically on... More
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