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Carleton University’s Mark Forbes, a professor of biology and associate vice-president (Research), has been honoured with the 2014 Robert Arnold Wardle Award by the Parasitism, Immunity and Environment Section of the Canadian Society of Zoologists. The award recognizes Forbes’ outstanding contributions to...
Whether it’s the spawning of sockeye salmon in the Pacific, the metabolic rate of a Bahamian bonefish or the hybridization of largemouth bass in Illinois, when it comes to fish, Carleton University biology and environmental science professor Steven Cooke is fully committed — hook, line and sinker. As he writes on...
Carleton University’s Jeffrey Smith, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry, is part of a team that’s been awarded a three-year Collaborative Health Research Project (CHRP) grant of almost $800,000. CHRP is a joint initiative between Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) and Natural Sciences and...
When newcomers seek employment in Canada, the services they are often provided are more a general assistance model instead of specific needs by sector. A new initiative by the federal government wants to assess whether a sector-specific approach to training and employer engagement improves newcomers’ employment...
Ericsson Fellow Xinrui Zhang is researching a pattern-driven approach to make Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) safer and more secure while maintaining reasonable efficiency. Since the effectiveness of ML has been validated in various fields, there are tremendous needs to develop diverse ML-based systems and...
Manuella Vincter was instrumental in enabling the science underneath the discovery of the Higgs boson, including making sure the detector was able to identify some of the particles the Higgs boson produces, that led scientists to make the Nobel prize-winning discovery at the European Organization for Nuclear Research...
For some of us, it’s a hot slice of pizza. For others, a cold bowl of ice cream. But the very concept of comfort food says something about where we turn to in times of trouble—and for many of us, it is toward the kitchen. “Stress can lead to overeating and weight gain. It is not...
It is time for a major shift in the way that we approach the climate problem. That’s the message of Pathways to Net Zero a new report from Transition Accelerator, a pan-Canadian Charity that works with groups across the country to solve business and social challenges while building viable transition pathways to a...
The novel coronavirus is tiny. At just 0.12 microns across, it is less than 1/500th the width of a single human hair. It is so small that it can be carried in tiny droplets called aerosols. These are as fine as mist, and can stay aloft for hours in some indoor environments. Masks and...
Keeping Covid-19 in check is a fight on many fronts. Public health authorities must conduct diagnostic testing and contact tracing to react quickly to symptoms and infection. An informed public must abide by safety measures such as physical distancing, wearing masks and hand washing. And researchers, no matter their...