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January 10, 2023

Piecing Together the Conservation Puzzle: Carleton Partners with Nature Conservancy of Canada to Create High-Tech...

Piecing Together the Conservation Puzzle: Carleton Partners with Nature Conservancy of Canada to Create High-Tech Land Management Tool

Protecting Canada's natural places is an important front in the fight against climate change. Conservation work in forests helps remove greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere, while keeping wetlands intact can mitigate flooding and drought. Moreover,... More

December 15, 2022

The Hidden World Inside Our Homes: Researcher Explores the Role of Fungi in Many Realms,...

The Hidden World Inside Our Homes: Researcher Explores the Role of Fungi in Many Realms, Including the Built Environment

When Keith Seifert walks into a house, he has a hard time stopping himself from looking — and sniffing — around for interesting fungi. "If there's mould in a building, the first thing anybody is going... More

June 14, 2022

Protecting Urban Trees: Carleton Research Aims to Minimize the Threat of Invasive Insects in a...

Protecting Urban Trees: Carleton Research Aims to Minimize the Threat of Invasive Insects in a Changing Climate

When a "derecho" storm pummelled the Ottawa area with winds reaching 190 km/h on May 21, trees falling onto power lines was the main reason 180,000 hydro customers lost electricity. Urban trees play many significant... More

May 3, 2022

Edible Insects: Why Cricket Protein Could be a Game-Changer

Matt Muzzatti, a Carleton PhD student and biologist, is exploring the mass rearing of crickets as an alternative food source.

March 15, 2022

New Research Suggests Link Between Contaminants and Diabetes: Chemicals found in clothing, cookware, furniture &...

New Research Suggests Link Between Contaminants and Diabetes: Chemicals found in clothing, cookware, furniture & pesticides among the reasons

Jenny Bruin is investigating which contaminants are behind the increase in both types of diabetes and is also part of a major project that’s developing insulin-secreting beta cells in a lab that can be transplanted... More

December 7, 2021

Exposing the Hidden World of Turtle Mating Behaviour

If someone made a sex tape featuring turtles, would anyone watch? Turns out the answer is yes. Carleton Biology instructor and researcher Grégory Bulté has watched hours of video of turtle mating behaviour—all in the... More

November 8, 2021

Grad Stories 2021: Finding a True Passion for Insects

About 10 years ago, Serita Fudlosid set foot on the Carleton University campus for the first time to study Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering. However, things did not go exactly according to Fudlosid’s plan—she began to... More

September 21, 2021

Carleton Professor’s Research on Whales Helps Land Best Doc Award at Emmys

It was a late-night text that let biologist and Carleton Scientist-in-Residence Shane Gero know that his work had garnered Hollywood accolades. Secrets of the Whales took home this year’s Emmy in mid-September for Outstanding Documentary... More

September 13, 2021

Stopping the Spread of the Mountain Pine Beetle

A small insect is causing big problems in Canada’s western forests. The mountain pine beetle (MPB) is about the size of a grain of rice and it’s common to find more than 100 of them... More

June 9, 2021

Carleton University App Makes Learning Anatomy Fun with Gaming Challenge

A typical video gamer tries to complete tasks for trophies and other in-game rewards. The benefits of "gamification" also extend to education, as this sense of micro-mastery helps students get through hard tasks like remembering... More

May 13, 2021

Carleton University’s Steven Cooke Becomes Fellow of Famed Explorers Club

Environmental Science and Biology Prof. Steven Cooke has become a fellow of The Explorers Club, joining an illustrious group of current and former members such as astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Sally Ride, film director James... More

April 30, 2021

Carleton Biology Lab Renamed and Bursary Established In Honour of Henrietta Lacks

In 1951, a 31-year-old Black mother of five named Henrietta Lacks was in medical distress and went to Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she was diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer. Despite treatment, she passed away... More