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April 7, 2020

Carleton University Therapy Dogs Offering Virtual Cheer on Instagram

In mere days as a result of the pandemic, Carleton University’s campus was emptied of students, faculty, staff and, well, dogs. Carleton’s Therapy Dogs are no longer able to physically engage with students. But that... More

April 1, 2020

Positive Advice from Carleton Experts: Navigating Challenge and Uncertainty

When the world starts spinning out of control, feeling lost and afraid is a natural reaction. When the touchstones on which we typically rely for reassurance are no longer solid, it’s tough to know where... More

March 30, 2020

Carleton Journalism Students Finish Term by Covering Pandemic Issues

In mid-March, when Carleton University cancelled face-to-face classes and moved to alternative modes of instruction for the rest of the term, third-year Journalism student Sarah MacFarlane left the city to be with her family near... More

March 25, 2020

Carleton’s Josh Greenberg on Risk Communication During COVID-19

One of the certainties of the COVID-19 public health crisis is just how inconsistent public health messaging has been over the last few weeks. While the virus ripped through China and Europe before arriving in... More

January 24, 2020

Carleton Helps Get the Word Out in Indigenous Communities

While reviewing hospital records from the Sioux Lookout Health Centre in northern Ontario, Tom Kovesi noticed a high number of children had symptoms of respiratory conditions that can be caused by mold. A pediatric respirologist... More

September 27, 2019

Pollutants and Diabetes: Carleton Lab Makes New Discoveries

Jenny Bruin wants to better understand what environmental factors contribute to the onset and development of diabetes. Her lab has completed a number of studies with a particular pollutant called dioxin, and in almost every... More

March 25, 2019

Reducing Stigma During the Opioid Crisis

On average, about 11 people die every day in Canada because of opioids, mostly the result of accidental overdoses. It is a devastating health crisis and a complex social issue where the entwined challenges are... More

October 23, 2018

Madness in Modern Times

The history of mental illness is a dark and fragmented one. "You can go to asylums in the United States and they've got graveyards" made up of "rows and rows of . . . these... More

October 1, 2018

Building Healthy Futures with Health Sciences

Wearing a white lab coat and blue nitrile gloves, Carleton student Elia Palladino sits at a bench in a large open-concept laboratory on the third floor of the university's new Health Sciences Building, painstakingly using... More

August 20, 2018

Beating a Brain Injury

On Sept. 6, Etienne Coon-Come Masiringi officially begins his second day as a third-year Social Work student at Carleton University. A year ago to the date, he was in dramatically different circumstances. On Sept. 6,... More

July 16, 2018

Solving the Parkinson’s Puzzle

Anybody who visits Chemistry Prof. Maria DeRosa's laboratory on the third floor of Carleton University's Steacie Building will see a landscape of labelled bottles, Styrofoam coolers, refrigerators and long black counters covered with beakers, computers... More

July 9, 2018

The Hurt Blocker

Mike Hildebrand fell asleep on the job once, in the parking lot of The Ottawa Hospital’s Civic Campus. It’s understandable, considering the demands of his research. Hildebrand, a Neuroscience professor at Carleton, is trying to... More