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February 15, 2019

Health in Your Pocket

Medicine is more complicated than ever these days, with questions about data privacy and targeting illness using your individual genome – but it's not the first time the health system faced rapid change. Nearly a... More

February 14, 2019

Focus on Feminism: Canada 150 Chair Heading to Carleton

Shireen Hassim, an internationally renowned expert in feminist theory, politics, social movements and collective action, spent the 2017-2018 academic year as a distinguished visiting professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. But after... More

February 12, 2019

City Partners: Carleton Focuses on Collaboration

Carleton University is woven into the fabric of Ottawa, and in today’s age of partnerships, the university’s collaborations with government, industry and non-profit institutions will play a key role in its ability to successfully navigate... More

February 12, 2019

Catalyst for Change: Curating Indigenous Art Means Starting a Conversation

If you’re an Indigenous woman in Canada who wants to nurture and grow the vibrancy and capacity of your community, you can choose many paths — politician, teacher, mother, consultant and activist. Or you could... More

February 11, 2019

Top Teaching: Sarah Todd

Each September, Sarah Todd begins her undergraduate class with the “teeth flossing challenge.” Her assignment for the class is twice-daily flossing—something few of them are doing. It quickly becomes a lesson in how difficult it... More

February 6, 2019

Nibbling on Success

Plant-based, celiac, peanut allergic, lacto-ovo vegetarian . . . somewhere along the line, ordering food for a large group became almost comically complex. Ours is an age of dietary limitations, and while providing snacks as... More

February 6, 2019

Launching the Healthy End of Life Project

“Seventy-five per cent of Canadians want to die at home,” journalist André Picard wrote in the Globe and Mail last year, “but only 15 per cent actually do.” “The majority — 61 per cent —... More

February 1, 2019

David Chariandy’s First Semester

Far from the ever-evolving Scarborough Bluffs that featured in his debut novel Soucouyant, where erosion induces a state of constant reinvention to those malleable cliffs of sand and clay, a young David Chariandy struggled to... More