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Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Pete Neathway is an I-CUREUS participant in the Engineering-Physics program, assisting Professor Ye's “Novel Materials for, and Approaches to, the Design of Microphotonic Devices” project. On his project and I-CUREUS, he says: Having the opportunity to build on one’s education in a practical setting truly solidifies both the understanding... More
Friday, August 31, 2018
Jason Hlang is an I-CUREUS participant in the Aerospace Stream B program. He assisted Professor Laliberte on the project "Conversion of RC aircraft into UAVs for work as flying laboratories and geophysical survey platforms." Through this project, Jason had the opportunity to to gain experience working with composite materials, designing... More
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Meaghan Shaw is an I-CUREUS participant in the Psychology program, assisting Professor Milyavskaya's "The Differential Effects of Ego Depletion and Boredom on Task Performance" project. She says: I am very thankful I got the opportunity with I-CUREUS this semester as it really allowed me to learn so many knew things about research that I... More
Sara Siddiqi is an I-CUREUS participant in the Health Science program, assisting Professor Salmaso's "Examining the Effects of Fibroblast Growth Factor 2 on Perineuronal Nets" project. This involves investigating how PNNs are altered in both the cortex and hippocampus of FGF2KO and wildtype (WT) mice treated with a FGF2 injection. Of her... More
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
The application form for the 2017-2018 I-CUREUS Program is now open and available to applicants. Please refer to the general information for I-CUREUS should you wish to see what's new this year and for information about the program. Note: applications take a minimum of 3-weeks to process. No applicants should plan to start their... More
Monday, June 26, 2017
By Bianca Chan, TLS Staff Writer Five Carleton students were among a group of undergraduates who took to the stage in Memphis earlier this year to prove that it is not only graduate students who are conducting influential research. Nina Frimpong, Vicky Madge, Travis Swan, Anne Wilson and Crystal Wong represented Carleton at the... More
Monday, March 13, 2017
Arlin Otto is an I-CUREUS participant in the Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Engineering program. She says: My research was in structural fire safety engineering under the supervision of Dr. John Gales. My role in this research was to create the test plan, make the test samples, and perform and analyze the results from the... More
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Each year the Office of the Provost and Vice President (Academic) through the Discovery Centre sends a handful of students to represent the Carleton and Canada at the US National Conference on Undergraduate Research. This year's conference in Memphis, Tennessee from April 6-8, 2017. Students who apply through the Discovery Centre are considered... More
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Undergraduate research is alive and well at Carleton and growing steadily each year! The Discovery Centre was pleased to host an undergraduate conference on March 30th to celebrate the work completed by participants of the Centre's I-CUREUS and Badar Travel Award programs. The students concise presentations were well received, by an audience of... More
Thursday, March 3, 2016
As an I-CUREUS participant , I provided technical support for existing projects within the Solar Energy Systems Laboratory (SESL) and conducted my own research for an upcoming project on compact thermal energy storage. My project support included assisting my colleagues in the SESL with setting up apparatus used for the experimentation components... More
As an I-CUREUS participant my role was in the capacity of research assistant, I worked under the supervision of Dr. Andy Adler from the department of Systems and Computer Engineering. This project was part of an Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) project with the Ottawa Hospital, General Campus. I designed a protocol for collecting real... More
My I-CUREUS project has been a continuation of work I've done over the past two summers in Carleton's ATLAS group. The ATLAS is one of the four large particle detectors in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and was one of the two involved in the observations of the Higgs boson announced in 2012.... More
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