{"id":52209,"date":"2026-04-14T11:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/?p=52209"},"modified":"2026-05-25T10:22:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:22:56","slug":"carleton-students-showcase-research-and-collaborative-teaching-projects-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2026\/carleton-students-showcase-research-and-collaborative-teaching-projects-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Students Showcase Research and Collaborative Teaching Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton Students Showcase Research and Collaborative Teaching Projects\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

The Carleton community came together on April 9 to celebrate student research and collaborative teaching projects at the 2026 I-CUREUS and SaPP Showcase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The annual event provides an opportunity for students who participated in the Internship-Carleton University Research Experience for Undergraduate Students (I-CUREUS)<\/a> and Students as Partners Program (SaPP)<\/a> to share their work and celebrate their achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, 30 undergraduate students participated in the showcase, highlighting their projects, showcasing their skills and how they applied their disciplinary knowledge in an impactful way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SaPP<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Students in SaPP gain hands-on work experience by collaborating with instructors, librarians and teaching support staff on course design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Katelyn<\/a>
For her SaPP project, fourth-year psychology major Katelyn Martin helped streamline content in a health psychology lab.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fourth-year psychology major Katelyn Martin partnered with Prof. Rachel Burns<\/a> to streamline content in a third-year health psychology lab with the goal of engraining research skills in students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martin had previously taken the course and was able to conduct a review from a student\u2019s perspective. She gained hands-on experience and transferable skills in many aspects of course design, from conducting a literature review to updating slideshows with enhanced accessibility and creating learning guides for students and teacher guides for the TAs who lead the lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen [Prof. Burns] approached me with this idea, I thought back to my experience and how much I valued the guidance that I had in the lab and how much I think that that laid the foundation for my fourth-year thesis,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was really interesting to me to hopefully help future generations of people taking the class to actually feel empowered like I did and hopefully help to improve their experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martin\u2019s career goal is to teach, and she\u2019ll be starting her master\u2019s in the fall. From going through the course design process and seeing how decisions were made, she says her experience in the Students as Partners Program will be a perfect complement to the TAship she\u2019ll be doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeing able to experience this as an undergrad and having the extra support of working with a staff member to shape some ideas, I\u2019ll be able to really think about it more independently once I’m doing a TAship in the fall and starting my masters,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Josefine<\/a>
Third-year student, Josefine Lukaszek, explored how Carleton\u2019s journalism program can better prepare students to enter the field as video journalists.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Third-year journalism student, Josefine Lukaszek, partnered with Prof. Kanina Holmes<\/a> to explore how Carleton\u2019s journalism program can better prepare students to enter the field as video journalists, working with both established and emerging media. They compared Carleton\u2019s current curriculum with offerings at other post-secondary institutions and surveyed job postings to identify the skills expected from recent graduates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cComing together and learning how to continuously adapt to changes in the field is so important,\u201d Lukaszek says. \u201cWe compete with algorithms, TikTok and other storytellers who aren\u2019t necessarily very factual, and that\u2019s something that we need to continue pursuing and learning how to adapt to, so journalism is still remaining prevalent and factual even among all of those changes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following her experience, Lukaszek says she would tell anyone considering participating in SaPP to go for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere’s only opportunity to learn and so many connections to build,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s very inspiring. I\u2019m standing here and I\u2019m looking at all these smart young students who are doing this work, and I feel inspired. I’m so happy to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I-CUREUS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Students in I-CUREUS conduct research in their program or an area of interest. In the process, they build connections and gain exposure to research techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Sam<\/a>
Sam Mallow examined the integration of Indigenous Knowledge into undergraduate STEM courses.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sam Mallow worked with Prof. Martha Mullally<\/a> to examine the integration of Indigenous Knowledge into undergraduate STEM courses through the Collaborative Indigenous Learning Bundles<\/a>. Through interviews with professors, they identified barriers and successful strategies for implementing the Bundles and then developed a practical toolkit to support instructors with incorporating Bundles into their own courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mallow was particularly interested in this project after taking the Maternal and Child Health Bundle in a course last year. He says he realized there was so much he didn\u2019t know and so much that could be applied to his own program. He wanted to make sure other students could access the information in the Bundles because it had been so beneficial to his own learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking ahead, Mallow says he thinks this I-CUREUS experience will benefit his career goals by helping him understand how to weave principles of Western science together with Indigenous science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m hoping to go into health care and I think understanding things like that would help me be able to generate different kinds of research ideas from my peers and just approach medicine in a way that I hope will be really beneficial to any patients that I work with,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Samuel<\/a>
Samuel Smith helped develop three low-cost teaching devices that can be integrated in high schools, summer camps, museums and remote communities in Canada.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Biomedical and mechanical engineering student, Samuel Smith, worked with Prof. Andrew Harris<\/a> to develop three low-cost teaching devices that are easy to manufacture. The devices can be integrated in high schools, summer camps, museums and remote communities in Canada, with the goal of promoting curiosity in studying physics, engineering and biomedical engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris is Smith\u2019s capstone professor, and he flagged this project as something that might interest the fifth-year student. Smith founded a biomedical engineering design team at Carleton, BioCARE<\/a>, with the goal of engaging more people in biomedical engineering, so this project aligned perfectly with what he was trying to achieve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking towards his career, he says the experience in I-CUREUS has been helpful in gaining hands-on experience, learning about research methods and seeing the design process from start to finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think any practical experience is super valuable,\u201d he says. \u201cWith research projects…it teaches you to think critically and solve problems as you go along. You need to think on the fly and come up with different solutions for very specific problems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Browse through the showcase program<\/a> to learn more about the projects presented at this year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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