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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
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Giving Bats a Home The importance of trees as Bat Habitat in City Backyards 3MT (3 Minute Thesis Competition) https://youtu.be/Pxhd3EZKz-Y Lauren Moretto Masters Student Biology Supervisor: Lenore... More
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Growing up in O'Leary, P.E.I., Andrea Reid says she studied every National Geographic she could get her hands on. Now the society behind the magazine is funding her PhD research. Reid, a National Geographic explorer, is working on a project called Reef to Aquarium. It looks at ways of making the aquarium trade more sustainable,... More
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
PhD Biology student Andrea Reid won an NSERC Aboriginal Ambassador Award. She is also a National Geographic Young Explorer. Recently, she returned from a trip to north-central BC. Read Andrea's full blog where she describes what she did up North. Cooke... More
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
As a child, PhD candidate Vivian Nguyen wasn’t particularly interested in fish. In fact, she was much more intrigued by birds. “I owned one of those Audubon bird guidebooks and bird callers,” says Nguyen. “I was really into understanding animal behavior and used to draw comic strips of various animal behaviours that I saw... More
Thursday, September 7, 2017
At the height of the Zika virus threat, Carleton Biology graduate student Tom Kazmirchuk (Golshani Lab) was reading a news article outlining how infants were being born with a serious condition called microcephaly as a result of the Zika infection. “At this time I came up with the idea to design peptide-based therapeutics.” To learn... More
Friday, March 3, 2017
William Twardek speaks to Ottawa Morning about his research and living in an ice-fishing hut for a month. Original soucre: CBC February 10,... More
Friday, February 24, 2017
Biology postdoctoral fellow (Bennett Lab) has published a nation-wide study investigating the commitment of Canadians to preserving endangered species. To learn more about McCune's research and to read the study, visit the Carleton... More
Friday, February 17, 2017
Biology Alumna Genevieve Perkins (Masters Graduate from the Fahrig Lab) is back in Ottawa after she cycled more than 30,000 kilometers from B.C. to Patagonia. Read the full story of her adventure here.. ... More
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