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March 23, 2023

Understanding Social Media’s Influence on the Economy

What do Tesla and Meta have in common? One manufactures electric vehicles, the other operates social media platforms. Yet economically, their connection is closer than it appears. Social media's influence on financial markets has connected... More

September 30, 2022

Carleton Opens Groundbreaking Ericsson-Carleton Mobile Wireless Lab

Carleton University community members, government officials and industry representatives gathered to mark the official opening of the Ericsson-Carleton Mobile Wireless Lab in Carleton’s ARISE building.

August 9, 2022

The Risks of Media Concentration

On July 8, a major Rogers Communications outage impacted more than 12 million customers and knocked about one-quarter of the country off the internet. Cellphones on the Rogers network could not make 911 calls. Government... More

April 7, 2022

Connecting Fans, Athletes and Brands: App Helps Athletes Build Their Brand and Partnerships

Ottawa Redblacks wide receiver and former Carleton Ravens student-athlete Nate Behar has developed a tool that may help, recently launching an app called FireWork that provides a solution for athletes to develop partnerships with brands... More

April 5, 2022

Boosting the Cognitive and Emotional Aspects of Education with Virtual Reality

Virtual reality can take students to the edge of an erupting volcano—or into the inner workings of the human body. “We can create all kinds of immersive environments that are difficult or impossible to have... More

March 29, 2022

Student-Designed Robot Could Change the Future of Common Heart Surgery

Roughly 15,000 people in Canada undergo coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery each year, improving heart function due to disease, heart attack or other complications. Recovery from this highly invasive procedure can take up to... 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

June 7, 2021

Carleton Students Find Career Success After Working on Parliament Hill Rehabilitation Project

When Shawn Duke moved to Ottawa from Nigeria to study Architecture at Carleton University, he wasn’t aware of the historical significance of the buildings on Parliament Hill. He planned to get a degree, find a... More

March 2, 2021

Carleton Launches Effort with Industry and Government to Help Women Pursuing STEM Careers

As we approach International Women’s Day on March 8, 2021 and mark the start of International Womxn’s Week in Ottawa, it remains a hard truth that systemic roadblocks are still faced by many women pursuing... More

November 26, 2020

Using AI and Big Data to Identify a Potential COVID-19 Peptide Treatment

On a molecular level, humans are susceptible to COVID-19 because a virus protein is able to bind to a human protein. If that interaction can be stopped, so could this disease. Researchers at Carleton University... More

November 24, 2020

Carleton’s CIMS Lab Wins National Academic Innovation Spotlight Award

Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS) Lab has won CanBIM’s National Academic Innovation Spotlight award for their work on the Carleton Digital Campus project. For the past few years, CIMS has been working on creating a... More

August 25, 2020

Making Health Social: Crowdsourcing Real-Time Wearable Tech Data for Pandemic Response

This past spring, Carleton University established an internal funding opportunity to support pioneering and time-sensitive research aimed at developing solutions to a variety of challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Known as CU COVID-19 Rapid... More