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Our Research News

August 4, 2020

Journey of Discovery: Carleton’s Amy Rand Focuses on Pollutants

July 27, 2020

PhD Graduate’s Medical Imaging Research Wins Prestigious Medal

July 22, 2020

NSERC Funding Enables Carleton Faculty to Continue Valuable and Diverse Research

July 21, 2020

Living With a Pandemic: Canadians Anxious about the Current Risk and Future Course of COVID-19

July 21, 2020

New Funding Supports Carleton Research Aimed at Protecting the Most Vulnerable Patients

July 16, 2020

Carleton Researchers Receive SSHRC Funding for Projects that Benefit Canada and the World

July 7, 2020

Carleton University’s Melissa Chee Unveils New Knowledge on the Brain’s Zone of Uncertainty

June 26, 2020

OVPRI and ITS Collaborate to Support Researchers

More News

Featured Research Strengths

Autonomous Systems, Engineering and Design

Driving the Next Generation: Richard Yu Receives Funding to Train Students In Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Technology

Cybersecurity and Public Safety

5G Network Security Researcher Delves Deeper with Notable NSERC Support

COVID-19, Health and Wellness

Carleton Researchers Checking Wastewater for Signs of COVID-19

Physics

Carleton Experimental Physicists Design and Validate New Technology for CERN’s High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider

Our Research Stories

July 30, 2020

Carleton Mentoring High Schoolers Keen on Research

July 20, 2020

Carleton University Rapid Response Research Grants: E-Health, Technology, AI and Autonomous Systems

July 15, 2020

Fighting Misinformation and Helping the Front Lines: Partners in Refugee Research Network Respond to Pandemic

July 15, 2020

Carleton University Rapid Response Research Grants: International and Indigenous Communities

Our Highlighted Researchers

Carmen Robertson

Canada Research Chair in North American Indigenous Visual and Material Culture

Winnie Ye

Canada Research Chair in Nano-scale IC Design for Reliable Opto-Electronics and Sensors

Stephan Gruber

Canada Research Chair in Climate Change Impacts/Adaption in Northern Canada

Mark Boulay

Canada Research Chair in Particle Astrophysics and Subatomic Physics

Ellen Waterman

Helmut Kallmann Chair for Music in Canada

Nadia Abu-Zahra

Joint Chair in Women's Studies

Quick Facts

Externally sponsored research funding (2017-18)

$70.3M

Total internally and externally sponsored research funding (2017-18)

$92M

Ranking: Increase in research income (2017 to 2018)

#1