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New Faces, New Buildings

Changes to the campus skyline — and the university’s senior leadership — usher in a new academic year at Carleton. Construction is nearing completion on the Health Sciences Building and the move-in date is scheduled for some point after November, with an official opening expected in early 2018. “This is a big step for our Health Sciences and Neuroscience programs,” says Dwight Deugo, interim dean of the Faculty of Science, referring to two of the building’s main occupants. “It will be great for them to have this dedicated purpose-built space.” Construction is nearing completion on the Health Sciences Building and the move-in date is scheduled for some point after November, with an official opening expected in early 2018. (Photo: Mike Pinder) Around…

Indigenous Mental Health

The Great White Bear’s feet are planted firmly on Earth as it stretches toward the heavens to connect with the Creator, but in its skyward reach, this symbol of Nishnawbe Aski Nation is vulnerable. It lifts itself up, but its heart is exposed to anyone seeking to destroy its life. Nishnawbe Aski Nation’s youth are the hope for its future and some, like the Great White Bear, are rising. But not all are living to reach their full potential. The group of 49 communities in northwestern Ontario is facing a suicide crisis. Nishnawbe Aski has among the highest suicide rates in the world among children under 15 years of age. In the past year alone, three communities have declared a…

Carleton 3MT

When Samuel Dubois first considered pursuing his master’s in Architecture at Carleton University, he had his mind set on a project about municipal libraries in Quebec. But when his supervisor learned he was from the asbestos mining town of Thetford in Quebec, she suggested he focus on his hometown. And so, Dubois decided to create a utopian district in Thetford, where the last asbestos mine closed in 2012. His project earned him first place (and people’s choice award) at the Carleton 3MT competition on March 15, where he impressed a four-judge panel with a three-minute, one-slide presentation of his thesis. Samuel Dubois won first place (and people's choice award) at the Carleton 3MT competition on March 15. “My grandfather worked…

Indigenous Communities

Two years ago, when a report called “Origins of Lateral Violence in Aboriginal Communities” was launched at a sunrise ceremony on the site of the former residential school in the northwestern Ontario town of Sioux Lookout, a local leader and residential school survivor had a suggestion for the study’s main author. “Why don’t you do something up here,” Garnet Angeconeb said to Amy Bombay, the Aboriginal Healing Foundation research consultant and Carleton PhD graduate who wrote the report with her thesis advisors, health psychologist Kim Matheson and behavioural neuroscientist Hymie Anisman. “Can you do something for our youth?” That question — and a desire among Indigenous leaders and academic researchers to work together for positive change — was the inspiration behind…

Matchmaker for Tech Innovators

Technology companies can spark economic growth and community development. That's certainly the case in Ottawa, where the dynamic tech sector is a cornerstone of the economy. And it's starting to happen in northern Israel's Galilee region, where Arab-Israeli entrepreneurs are creating companies, attracting investors, and sowing the seeds of cross-cultural and international collaboration. Tech firms from the two countries came together at Carleton University on January 12 at the largest bilateral matchmaking event of its kind ever held on Canadian soil, a day of presentations and one-on-one meetings connecting Ontario businesses with firms from Israel's Arab community that could benefit from partnerships with one another. "An exchange of ideas and people from around the world working together creates a climate…

Health Labs of the Future

Carleton University is building on the future of some of its newest and most popular programs as it breaks ground on construction of a $52-million Health Sciences Building. The seven-story, 120,000-square-foot building will house the Health Sciences and Neuroscience programs at the south end of what has long been a parking lot in front of the University Centre and Steacie Building. Occupancy is set for August 2017. "Newer programs like Neuroscience and Mental Health and the Bachelor in Health Sciences are growing quickly," says Malcolm Butler, dean of the Faculty of Science. "The new building will accommodate that growth into the future." Carleton launched the Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience and Mental Health in 2011, followed by the Bachelor of…