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Carleton University has successfully completed testing and will soon start building cutting-edge gas detectors to upgrade the ATLAS detector. Quick Facts: The detectors are over a metre square and will ensure the experiment for the high-luminosity operation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) continues past 2018. These...
Carleton University’s Banu Örmeci, Canada Research Chair in Wastewater Treatment Engineering and professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has won a 2014 Imperial Oil University Research Award. The award includes $25,000 in funding to support Örmeci’s research. It can be...
The Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Innovation for Ontario announced today that two researchers from Carleton’s Department of Geography and Environmental Studies are recipients of Early Researcher Awards (ERA). Each researcher will receive $140,000 to support research in a broad range of topics,...
The Canadian Media Concentration Research Project has posted the results of its study of the state of media, telecom and internet concentration in Canada based on new 2012 data. The full post can be found here. The report examines competition and concentration trends from 1984 until 2012 in fifteen different sectors...
Two Carleton researchers have published groundbreaking research that estimates the cost of air pollution sources like vehicles and power plants. The paper, by Carleton PhD student Amanda Pappin and Engineering Prof. Amir Hakami, was published in the Environmental Health Perspectives journal. It provides a sobering...
A new paper by Carleton’s Joanna Pozzulo, professor of psychology, says eyewitness errors don’t necessarily influence jury verdicts but can influence jurors’ perceptions of the eyewitness. “Our aim was to examine how the age of the eyewitness and the number of descriptive errors made when recalling the...
Tomorrow morning, the particle physics lab at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will present the latest results from the ATLAS and CMS collaboration in their search for the Standard Model Higgs boson. Carleton researchers who are involved in the ATLAS experiment at CERN are available to speak to...
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has announced Public Outreach Grants for two Carleton University researchers. Geography Professor Fraser Taylor and Communications Professor André Turcotte have been awarded grants for their research projects. In total, Taylor will receive $97,683, while...
Allie Davidson says she “never understood how learning about stupid algebra in high school” was ever going to get her anywhere. When she didn’t get the grades the get into university, she considered taking a year off. Instead she enrolled in Carleton’s enriched support program, and is now finishing up an...
Buildings of the future will need to be designed and operated to have a much smaller environmental footprint. That's why the professors of Carleton’s Building Performance Research Centre are eking out every efficiency they can from building designs. Their goal is to develop tools, technologies, and methods to reduce...