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Wednesday, October 11, 2017
PhD Student Sarah Thorne has always been interested in storytelling. And coming from a home with older siblings, there was always some kind of video game console in her house. So when it came time to choose a research topic for her graduate studies, it made sense to put the two together and research... More
Friday, October 6, 2017
Carleton graduate student Alexander Castleton has been awarded a 2017-18 Fulbright Scholarship. Fulbright Canada supports extraordinary students and scholars and offers new and exciting opportunities to prospective students and alumni. Castleton, who is pursuing his PhD in Sociology, is using the $15,000 USD award funds to study at the University... More
Friday, September 22, 2017
By studying lava tubes on Earth, graduate students are hoping to find out more about life on Mars. Lava tubes are natural formations caused by flowing lava when a volcano erupts. They can date back millennia (and longer) and cool into long networks of caves. “Lava tubes are important,” explains master’s student, Andrew Hay,... More
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
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
Monday, September 11, 2017
As a child, PhD candidate Vivian Nguyen wasn’t particularly interested in fish. In fact, she was much more intrigued by birds. “I owned one of those Audubon bird guidebooks and bird callers,” says Nguyen. “I was really into understanding animal behavior and used to draw comic strips of various animal behaviours that I saw... More
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
In February 2016, the World Health Organization declared a Public Health Emergency in regards to the Zika virus in the Americas. At the height of the Zika virus threat. Carleton Biology graduate student Tom Kazmirchuk was reading a news article outlining how infants were being born with a serious condition called microcephaly as a... More
Friday, August 25, 2017
Update: Gord Downie, the legendary lead singer of the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, died on Tuesday, October 17at the age of 53. Like millions of Canadians, Carleton graduate student Michelle MacQueen tuned into the CBC broadcast of the last show of the beloved rock band The Tragically Hip. At some point between... More
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Four graduate and 11 undergraduate journalism students headed North this summer to participate in a month-long experiential learning project called Stories North. This initiative was created by Prof. Kanina Holmes, who worked for both CBC radio and television out of Whitehorse between 1995 and 2003. In a course outline, Holmes wrote: “In... More
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
While working as a physicist for Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Ltd. (formerly Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd), Andrew Erlandson decided the time was right to return to school. His employer was not only willing to pay for his PhD but also allow him to spend eight months a year at Carleton to carry out his... More
Monday, July 24, 2017
Have you ever been at a concert, or perhaps a sporting event, where all of a sudden your cell phone didn’t have a signal? This happens because when groups of people congregate in these places, they often exceed the capacity of nearby cell towers. Carleton student Irem Bor is working to solve problems like... More
Thursday, June 29, 2017
BJ'16 graduate Anaïs Voski is one of four Canadians this year to win a Mackenzie King Travelling Scholarship for graduate studies abroad. Worth $10,500, the scholarship will allow her to pursue a master's degree in international relations and politics at the University of Cambridge starting this fall. In his will, Mackenzie King expressed the... More
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Alice Wilson had always wanted to visit Canada’s North. Now, the Carleton MSc in Geography student conducts research on Richards Island near the Beaufort Sea, 100 km north of the community of Inuvik in the Northwest Territories. It is a remote research site, only accessible by helicopter, with no running water or electricity. “I absolutely... More
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