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Carleton Experts Available: World Mental Health Day

Wednesday, Oct. 10 is World Mental Health Day and Carleton experts are available to comment on topics related to mental health. Andrea Howard Associate Professor, Department of Psychology Phone:  613-520-2600, ext. 3055 Email:    andrea.howard@carleton.ca Howard is available to discuss topics related to her research on mental health and substance use in adolescence, the transition to adulthood and university student mental health. Howard’s current studies include evaluating the developmental course of substance use from late childhood to the mid-20s, comparing people with and without childhood histories of ADHD; the intersection of self-control, mental health and alcohol use in undergraduate students; and well-being during the transition to university. Kim Hellemans Instructor III, Department Chair, Department of Neuroscience Phone: 613-520-2600, ext. 2973 Email:   Kim.Hellemans@carleton.ca…

Building Healthy Futures with Health Sciences

Wearing a white lab coat and blue nitrile gloves, Carleton student Elia Palladino sits at a bench in a large open-concept laboratory on the third floor of the university's new Health Sciences Building, painstakingly using a pipette to squirt six microlitres of a synthetic dye solution into each of the 384 tiny compartments in a rectangular plastic plate. Palladino, a third-year Health Sciences major, is chipping away at an experiment that's investigating the impact of maternal malnutrition on the transfer of B vitamin folate and the pseudovitamin inositol from mother to fetus through the placenta. Low levels of folic acid in the mother are linked to poor fetal growth and neural tube defects — which hinder brain and spinal development…

Carleton Projects Aimed at Promoting Science Receive NSERC Funding

Projects led by Carleton University’s Alfonso Abizaid  and a team of researchers based in the Cooke Lab will receive funding as part of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) PromoScience program. Working in Steven Cooke’s lab, a team led by PhD student Jacqueline Chapman has created AquaTrax which will provide a free, curriculum-based resource for teachers focused on migration, ecology and conservation bringing the movement of wild animals into classrooms across Canada. The program will provide educators with: An accessible web-based platform and multimedia; Lesson plans with real-world data collected by scientists; Modules for juniors (Grades 4 to 6), intermediates (Grades 7 to 10), and senior (Grades 11 to 12). “AquaTrax was created through the desire…

Carleton University Art Gallery Launches Fall Exhibitions

After a week of rallies, music, talks and other events to celebrate Carleton University’s past, present and future, it seemed fitting to cap off Throwback 2018 with a nod to the brave visionaries who explore and illuminate our evolving place in society through art. The Carleton University Art Gallery welcomed about 150 visitors Sept. 17 to celebrate the opening of its fall exhibitions—Alootook Ipellie: Walking Both Sides of an Invisible Border and Here Be Dragons/Attention, dragons! The Ipellie exhibition—the first-ever retrospective of the Inuk artist’s work—includes more than 100 pieces spanning about 30 years of influential drawings, comic illustrations, design work and writings. A Wide Breadth of Interpretation Here Be Dragons showcases the works of seven contemporary artists who, through…

Minding the Brain

Carleton University Neuroscience Prof. Kim Hellemans and Cognitive and Computer Science Prof. Jim Davies are well known for their innovative and enthusiastic approach to teaching and extensive expertise in their fields. Now the duo is taking their knowledge and devotion to education to a new platform beyond lecture halls or seminar rooms. Their podcast, Minding the Brain, focuses on the science behind the human mind and brain. The monthly episodes explore a diverse range of topics, from stress and social networks to marijuana and concussions. Typically, episodes cycle back and forth between Davies and Hellemans as they interview each other about brain and mind topics related to their scientific backgrounds and research. They  often feature guests as well. "We aim…

Carleton to Host 2018 Throwback Celebration

Carleton University will welcome thousands of alumni, students and community members to campus for Throwback – the annual Homecoming celebration. The week-long festivities honour the brilliant minds and athletic spirit in the Carleton community and its network of 158,000 alumni. The celebration kicks off Sept. 10 and concludes Sept. 17. Media and members of the public are welcome to attend Throwback events, including: Minding the Brain: Live Podcast When: Monday, Sept. 10, 2018, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Where: Room 2017, Dunton Tower, Carleton Info: Registration is available online. Attendees can submit questions in advance by tweeting to @MindingtheBrain or through the registration form. The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Science will host a…

Welcome to the New Academic Year at Carleton

The future starts now at Carleton. Following a successful 75th anniversary year in 2017-2018, students, faculty and staff returning for the fall term will come back to a campus that has changed in several significant ways, most notably a new president, new chair of the Board of Governors, new senior administrators, new buildings and new academic programs. With a stable base and a solid financial footing, Carleton is well positioned to explore new directions and seize new opportunities. This evolution is part of the university’s continued growth from a small institution with strong local roots into a hub of research and teaching excellence that has ever-expanding community, national and international connections. “Carleton is the kind of university that’s really going…

Banners Highlight Throwback and Panda Game

If you find yourself on Carleton University's campus, look up — you'll notice something special fluttering in the breeze. Building on the success of the CU75 campaign, when banners and giant billboards popped up across campus to showcase some of Carleton's diverse and talented alumni, faculty and students, the university has launched a new street banner campaign ahead of two of the community's biggest events of the year - Throwback Homecoming Week and the 50th Panda Game. "We have great momentum following Carleton's 75th anniversary year," says Carleton President Benoit-Antoine Bacon. "I'm excited to feel the energy with the fall, with Throwback and the Panda Game, and to start planning the future of our university." The banners welcome visitors to…

Resilience, Purpose and Gratitude

On July 1, Benoit-Antoine Bacon began his five-year term as the 15th President and Vice-Chancellor of Carleton University. Bacon brings a depth of experience to the role, having previously served as Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic) at Queen’s University and Provost and Vice-President (Academic Affairs) at Concordia University, as well as Dean of Arts and Science and Chief Negotiator for the association of professors at Bishop’s University. He completed his PhD at the University of Montreal, in his hometown, studying the neurophysiology of visual perception. Bacon’s work in neuroscience gives him “under-the-hood” insight into the inner workings of the human brain and informs his approach to leadership. “It is so important,” he says, “to see reality as it really is, and…

Solving the Parkinson’s Puzzle

Anybody who visits Chemistry Prof. Maria DeRosa's laboratory on the third floor of Carleton University's Steacie Building will see a landscape of labelled bottles, Styrofoam coolers, refrigerators and long black counters covered with beakers, computers and microscopes. In one corner, dozens of thin plastic tubes fan out from a machine the size of a bar fridge, connecting amber bottles of clear, purple and golden liquids to a nozzle inside a metal box. To an outsider, the lab may look cluttered, but it's ground zero for a meticulous research project that has the potential to help spark a medical breakthrough. Prof. Maria DeRosa In 2016, for nine months, that mechanical nozzle rhythmically whizzed and clicked as it squirted droplets from the…