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Thursday, April 22, 2021

TA Excellence Award Winners!

Five our amazing Graduate Students in Biology have won TA Excellence Awards. We are so proud of them all!!... More

Monday, April 12, 2021

Noa Gang a PhD candidate in Biology Wins Poster Award at Life Sciences Day for Her Amazing Research

Noa Gang a PhD candidate in Biology, is examining the impact of man-made environmental toxins on beta cells in the pancreas. Gang works in a Diabetes and toxicology lab where the impact of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) on human health are studied. “These chemicals are being phased out, however due to their resistance to degradation,... More

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Research Study by Carleton University’s Rachel Buxton – Want to Improve Your Health? A New Study Says Head into Nature and Absorb the Sounds

A recently published study from Carleton University’s Rachel Buxton, research scientist in the Department of Biology, and researchers from Michigan State University, Colorado State University and the National Park Service analyzed studies on the outcomes of listening to natural sounds and found striking human health benefits. Wolves howling,... More

Thursday, March 18, 2021

2020-21 Faculty Graduate Mentoring Awards – Congratulations to Jenny Bruin, Mark Forbes, Heath MacMillan

On March 17, 2021, seven faculty members were presented with a Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award. Congratulations to all! Below are the winners and quotes taken from their nominators’ letters. Sponsored by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs and the Office of the Vice-President (Research and International), these awards recognize... More

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Mark Forbes explains how Arctic sea ducks develop herd immunity from avian cholera

Herd immunity, when a threshold proportion of a population becomes immune to a disease-causing organism, reducing or stopping further transmission, is very much in the news. Avian cholera much less so. But there is an intersection between these two subjects that appears to have played out over eight summers between 2005 and 2012 at... More

Monday, March 1, 2021

Carleton’s Highly Cited Researchers: Lenore Fahrig’s Habitat Fragmentation Research Updates Understanding of Biodiversity Loss

Lenore Fahrig, Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Biology is one of the most cited researchers in the field of ecology. Her 2003 Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Biodiversity paper is the most cited paper on habitat fragmentation in the world, with over 7500 citations noted on Google Scholar at the time of writing. It’s no... More

Thursday, February 25, 2021

Carleton’s Highly Cited Researchers: Prof. Steven Cooke is Reevaluating How Research Impact is Measured

One might think that inclusion on the 2020 Web of Science Group’s Highly Cited Researchers list and holding the top spot on Google Scholar in fish ecology research are signs of scientific success. But to Steven Cooke, a professor in Carleton University’s Department of Biology and Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science,... More

Monday, February 22, 2021

Cryptic sex: How female and unisexual animals reproduce ‘asexually’ — without males

Author: Dr. Root Gorelick - Professor, Biology, Carleton University Not all species need sperm to fertilize an egg for sexual reproduction. Some species need sperm in order to induce completion of egg nucleus development, but then never use the sperm’s DNA. I describe how this self-sexual reproduction occurs in many animals, including some... More

Thursday, February 11, 2021

Striving for Gender Equity: Celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Roslyn Dakin, a relatively new biology professor at Carleton and a member of the science EDI committee, believes that role models have a tremendous influence on the university and career choices made by girls. Since starting at Carleton in 2019, Dakin has been struck by the number and variety of ways for undergrads to get involved... More

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

Friday, February 5, 2021

Study credits herd immunity for stopping avian cholera among sea ducks

In this study, researchers from Carleton University (CU) and scientists at Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) followed the effects of avian cholera over an eight-year period on a population of northern common eider ducks returning to breed in Nunavut. This large sea duck species breeds in the Arctic and nests on northern islands or... More

Friday, February 5, 2021

Grad Research: Looking at Improving the Lives of People Living With Chronic Pain

Living with chronic pain is something many people know too well, and is very much something that affects their lives. Stephanie Norlock, a second-year Master’s Neuroscience student has been using computational approaches to study pathological mechanisms driving chronic pain within the spinal cord.   “Understanding functional differences... More

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