Home / Grad Student Research
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
--The following story was written by Taia Goguen-Garner Ever wondered what processes your water goes through before it ends up in your glass? Ashley Piche, a Master of Applied Science student in Environmental Engineering at Carleton University has compared the performance difference between biological filtration and conventional filtration of our... More
Thursday, September 27, 2018
--The following story was written by Taia Goguen-Garner. If we only knew a way to have the utmost satisfaction within our neighbourhoods! A Carleton graduate student Lauren Hepburn may have found the answers. Lauren Hepburn did her undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto, specializing in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and minoring in... More
Monday, September 17, 2018
Promoting your graduate research can be a rewarding experience. Depending on whether you are in the social sciences and humanities or in science and engineering, there are different reasons and ways to go about it. There are many benefits to promoting your research: This can help you network with others who are pursuing similar... More
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
PhD candidate Gregory Brown will be featured in the September 20, 2018 premiere of CBC’s true crime series The Detectives. The doctoral researcher and instructor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology worked in policing for 28 years.Find out more by clicking here. You can read more about Brown and his research by clicking... More
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
From Terminator to Darth Vader, Hollywood has cast cyborgs as villains of a dystopian future, but as Tamara Banbury sees it, this fear of body augmentation is misplaced. The master’s student in Legal Studies has been awarded a SSHRC Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship to research the voluntary implantation of technology into... More
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
On July 29th, Carleton's Advanced Cognitive Engineering (ACE) Lab hosted a hackathon that brought together people from different academic backgrounds to test eye-tracking devices to make technologies and gaming more accessible for people with motor disabilities. Three graduate students helped to plan and organize the event. Cognitive Science... More
Social movements try to wage social change in various contexts such as racial justice, immigration policies, environmental issues, and the like. And they use various strategies to do so, ranging from violent to nonviolent strategies. PhD student Nima Orazani, is investigating which of these strategies increases the likelihood of success for social... More
Thursday, July 19, 2018
... More
Monday, July 9, 2018
While growing up in China, Yili Zhou became enthralled with heavy metal music. When she came to Canada and Carleton to pursue her PhD in Political Science, she noticed that people here are also intrigued by the presence of heavy metal music and culture in China. But for a different reason. “Heavy metal music... More
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Carleton University doctoral student, Fahad Ahmad is one of 15 recipients of a unique doctoral scholarship in the social sciences and humanities presented by The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. “I am honoured and thrilled to be awarded the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship for 2018," says Ahmad. "Being part of the foundation... More
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
PhD student Robert Lennox and a team of researchers have discovered that removing predators such as wolves or sharks can have a negative impact on predator and prey populations. Instead, the researchers argue that there are more effective measures that can be taken. The results are available in an academic journal called Biological Conservation.... More
Search