{"id":73581,"date":"2021-02-11T12:16:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T17:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=73581"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:26","slug":"carleton-expert-available-international-day-of-women-and-girls-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2021\/carleton-expert-available-international-day-of-women-and-girls-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Expert Available &#8211; International Day of Women and Girls in Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton Expert Available &#8211; International Day of Women and Girls in Science\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Today is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/observances\/women-and-girls-in-science-day\">International Day of Women and Girls in Science<\/a> and this year\u2019s theme is &#8220;Women Scientists at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19.&#8221; A Carleton expert is available to comment on related topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kim Hellemans<\/strong><strong><br>\n<\/strong>Department Chair, Department of Neuroscience<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email<\/strong>: <a href=\"mailto:Kim.Hellemans@carleton.ca\">Kim.Hellemans@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hellemans is available to discuss her ongoing work exploring how COVID-19 is impacting student mental health and substance use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hellemans&#8217; research interest lies in the study of vulnerability to mental illness. Her current research examines how prenatal exposure to alcohol influences later life susceptibility to mental illness. In the past, her research explored the role of adverse environmental experiences in susceptibility to drug addiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hellmans is also interested in sex differences in mental illnesses; depression is twice as common among women. She is a co-host of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mindingthebrainpodcast.com\/\">Minding the Brain podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media Contact<\/strong><strong><br>\n<\/strong>Steven Reid<br>\nMedia Relations Officer<br>\nCarleton University<br>\n613-265-6613<br>\n<a href=\"mailto:Elizabeth.Murphy@carleton.ca\">Steven.Reid3@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Follow us on Twitter<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/cunewsroom\">www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom<\/a><br>\n<strong>COVID 19 Updates:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/coronavirus-covid-19\/messages\/\">https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/coronavirus-covid-19\/messages\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and this year\u2019s theme is &#8220;Women Scientists at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19.&#8221; A Carleton expert is available to comment on related topics. Kim Hellemans Department Chair, Department of Neuroscience Email: Kim.Hellemans@carleton.ca Hellemans is available to discuss her ongoing work exploring how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":73515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[1640],"class_list":["post-73581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experts-available","tag-department-of-neuroscience"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73589,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73581\/revisions\/73589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}