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Wednesday, March 16, 2022

The Fahmida Rafi Bursary

The Department of Biology is honoured to share that the Fahmida Rafi Bursary has been established to support international women students with demonstrated financial need who are continuing in a Bachelor of Science degree program, with preference given to students enrolled in Biology. Thank you to the Rafi family who established this award in... More

Friday, February 25, 2022

2021-22 Service Excellence Award Recipients – The Biochemistry and Biology Administration Staff

The Biochemistry and Biology Administrative Staff “This team manages both the Department of Biology and Department of Biochemistry. Collectively these two departments oversee more than 1200 UG students across 21 separate BIOL and BIOC programs.at Carleton. That’s a LOT of undergraduate students. Add in the graduate student population (at... More

Friday, February 25, 2022

Grad Research from Jenny Bruin’s Lab: Pollutants and Diabetes

Do certain pollutants cause or contribute to the onset of diabetes? That’s what researchers in Prof. Jenny Bruin’s lab are trying to determine. Bruin, herself, thinks there is a link. Kyle Van Allen – Flame Retardants One of her PhD students, Kyle Van Allen, is focusing his research on a class of chemicals called Flame Retardants... More

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Alumni Spotlight – Graham Perry B.Sc. Biology

Can you give a general overview of what you do now? For the last 2 years, I have been mainly working as a freelance visual storyteller and science communicator. This basically means that I use filmmaking and photography to amplify the stories behind the data in order to help connect non-experts to often complex... More

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Greg Bulte is Exposing the Hidden World of Turtle Mating Behaviour

If someone made a sex tape featuring turtles, would anyone watch? Turns out the answer is yes. Carleton Biology instructor and researcher Grégory Bulté has watched hours of video of turtle mating behaviour—all in the name of science. Bulté, who teaches ecology and evolutionary biology, has studied a group of wild northern map turtles at... More

Monday, February 7, 2022

Lenore Fahrig’s Innovative Landscape Ecology Research Recognized with International Award from BBVA Foundation

Carleton University Chancellor’s Professor of Biology Lenore Fahrig has been awarded the 2022 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Ecology and Conservation Biology category. Shared with biologists Simon A. Levin and Steward T.A. Pickett of the United States, the three winners have been recognized for adding the spatial... More

Monday, February 7, 2022

Faculty of Science 2021 Highlights!!

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Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Eleven Experiential Learning Projects Awarded Funding Through CUELF – Greg Bulte in Biology

Eleven projects have been awarded funding through the first round of the 2021-22 Carleton University Experiential Learning Fund (CUELF) to create and enhance experiential learning opportunities for Carleton students. We are proud to recognize and celebrate the important work being done by our colleagues across campus. Learn about the exciting... More

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Ken Storey Explains “How Arctic Frogs Survive Being Frozen Alive” – Real Science Video

Research on How Arctic Frogs survive being frozen alive can be used to help preserve the life of human organs being donated for transplants? Carleton's Ken Storey explains in the video below    ... More

Monday, December 20, 2021

Faculty of Science 2021 Excellence Award Recipients- Heath MacMillan, Tim Xing, Jenny Bruin and Martha Mullally

Each year we present awards to faculty and instructors in honour of their outstanding work in teaching, supervising and mentoring our students, as well as excellence in research and the impactful contributions they have made in the overall performance of their duties. On Dec. 16, Interim Dean of Science, Maria DeRosa named the recipients for... More

Thursday, December 2, 2021

Confirmed by Carleton’s Shane Gero, Rare white sperm whale — like Moby Dick — captured on video

A sperm whale with the same rare colouring as the fictional Moby Dick has been spotted off the coast of Jamaica. A video of the white whale was posted on Facebook Tuesday by SOS Dolfijn, a rescue organization for stranded whales and dolphins based in the Netherlands. The distant, blurry video shows some of the... More

Thursday, December 2, 2021

Scientists Are Running Out of Salmon to Study, Steven Cooke

For years, Steven Cooke, a biologist at Carleton University in Ottawa, has been traveling to British Columbia to research Pacific salmon migrations. But on the west coast, salmon populations are in dire straits. Several of the populations Cooke studies, including those in the Fraser River, have crashed to the point that even taking a... More

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