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Our Research News

December 3, 2020

Smart Homes For Aging in Place

November 27, 2020

Three Carleton Faculty Earn Places on the 2020 Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers List

November 25, 2020

Carleton’s Roslyn Dakin Wins George A. Bartholomew Award

November 16, 2020

Carleton Researcher Receives CIHR Funding to Study Health Impacts on Adults Living Near Canadian Nuclear Power Plants

November 16, 2020

Carleton Professor’s Research on Dramatic Climate Change on Venus Published in Nature Communications

November 9, 2020

Carleton Faculty Receive CFI Funding for Infrastructure to Research Molecular Biology of COVID-19

November 3, 2020

Carleton and Bruyère Researchers Receive Grant to help Long-Term Care Homes Protect Themselves from COVID

Winnie Ye holding up a piece of chip technology

October 30, 2020

Carleton Electronics Prof. Winnie Ye Appointed IEEE Canada’s Chair of Women in Engineering

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

November 25, 2020

Using AI and Big Data to Identify a Potential COVID-19 Peptide Treatment

November 23, 2020

Canadian Science Policy Centre Awards Robert Slater with Lifetime Achievement Award and Recognizes Andrea Reid’s Research

November 23, 2020

Three Carleton Researchers Recognized as Highly Cited Researchers

November 19, 2020

Funding from Canada Foundation for Innovation to provide infrastructure for the study of the molecular biology of the SARS-CoV-2 virus at Carleton

Our Highlighted Researchers

Carmen Robertson

Canada Research Chair in North American Indigenous Visual and Material Culture

Stanley Winer

Canada Research Chair in Public Policy

Sheryl Hamilton

Canada Research Professor in Communications, Law and Governance

Sonia Chiasson

Canada Research Chair in User-centric Cybersecurity

Ken Storey

Canada Research Chair in Molecular Physiology

Mark Boulay

Canada Research Chair in Particle Astrophysics and Subatomic Physics

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