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March 17, 2025

The Future of Food: New Lab Cooking Up Innovative 3D Printed Meals

About one in six people suffer from dysphagia, a medical term that means difficulty swallowing. Symptoms can include pain, gagging and an inability or reluctance to eat, and while the condition can develop at any... More

March 12, 2025

Stopping Infectious Diseases: Researchers Develop Rapid-Response Treatment Centre

Ebola is one of the most virulent diseases on the planet. Spread through contact with the bodily fluids of somebody who is infected, its symptoms can include fever, muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhea and internal and... More

February 21, 2025

Reforming Global Apparel Supply Chains: How Can Companies Ensure their Suppliers Aren’t Exploiting Workers?

In the 1990s, Nike was outed for using sweatshops and child labour to make shoes. In April 2013, an eight-story commercial building collapsed on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing more than 1,100 people, mostly... More

February 11, 2025

Improving Radiation Therapy

Nearly 45 per cent of Canadians will develop cancer at some point in their lifetime and one in five will die from the disease. Radiation therapy, which uses beams of intense energy to kill cancer... More

January 28, 2025

Reducing Food Waste: Carleton Researchers Help Develop a More Sustainable Food System

Almost half of all food produced in Canada goes to waste. That’s more than 21 million tonnes every year, worth a staggering $58 billion. Around the world, about one billion meals a day are squandered,... More

January 24, 2025

Supporting Social Work in Somalia: Newcomers to Ottawa Give Back Through Carleton

For many Somalis, daily life in their homeland is complicated and, at times, dangerous. The country in East Africa has experienced an ongoing civil war since the 1980s. Drought frequently devastates crops and more than... More

January 13, 2025

Humanizing Artificial Intelligence: Making AI More Effective and Reducing Risks by Replicating Our Brains

Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool that can enhance our lives in many ways, but it has significant limitations and poses serious risks. These limitations include bias and a lack of ethics. Among the risks... More

December 16, 2024

Carleton University’s Top 10 Stories of 2024

2024 was a remarkable year at Carleton University, filled with groundbreaking research, transformative initiatives and achievements that underscore our commitment to innovation and community impact.

December 12, 2024

Waste Not, Want Not: Transforming Things We Throw Away into Biofuel and Valuable Chemicals

One of the biggest contributors to the climate crisis is our throw-away society. From household waste and single-use plastics to byproducts from food production, we burn fossil fuels and spend money to truck our “garbage”... More

November 26, 2024

Fast-Tracking Drug Therapies: Private Sector Partnerships Expedite Pharmaceutical Research

Drug development is a complex, costly and time-consuming process. To ensure that pharmaceuticals are safe and effective, the interval between a laboratory breakthrough and a therapy that’s ready for clinical trials can be a decade... More

November 22, 2024

Safeguarding Newborn Health: Engineering Solutions to Protect Canada’s Most Vulnerable Patients

Every year in Canada, approximately 15,000 newborns are admitted to neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Whether premature births or full-term babies with pressing medical conditions, they are among the most vulnerable patients in the country’s... More

May 31, 2024

Remapping and Remembering: A Digital Map to Revitalize Indigenous Placenames

Share As Indigenous elders age, the original placenames used to navigate the land we live on in Canada run the risk of being lost to time. To ensure this important information is remembered, recorded and... More