Carleton University Faculty of Science
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In concert with Carleton University’s EDI Action Plan, our faculty launched new initiatives in 2020 and is planning others to help encourage and support female students, and to address the gender imbalance at the graduate, postdoc and faculty levels. #InternationalDayOfWomenInScience

Today we celebrate the #InternationalDayofWomenInScience! Tune in to our Instagram - www.instagram.com/carletonscience - at noon, 1 p.m., 7 p.m., and 8 p.m. today to watch a series of live, virtual fireside chats with Carleton Science students, who will be sharing their experiences as women in science. We hope you can join us. ... #IDWGS #WomeninScience #CarletonScience

Hibernating lemurs and frogsicles. "Turning off" human donor organs to preserve them. Inducing suspended animation to help astronauts in space. This week's Science Café with Carleton Biology PhD candidate Hanane Hadj-Moussa is going to be fascinating! Join her Wednesday, Feb. 10 at 1:30 p.m. ET on Zoom to discover what RNA-based interventions could mean for our world. Register now: http://bit.ly/3tCJ6KK

ICYMI | Carleton Neuroscience Prof. Alfonso Abizaid joined CTV News to discuss why tech is not touch, and the lack of touch is hard on our health. To mitigate pandemic isolation effects on mental health, Abizaid suggests to hug those you can, when you can, and cuddle your pets, or even your cozy blankets. https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca//lack-of-touch-carleton-universi

Love coffee, hate waste? Researchers from the Department of Chemistry at Carleton University are working with Happy Goat Coffee Co. to reduce waste and add value for roasters and coffee growers alike. Learn more at the link!

Enjoy this quick Q&A with this evening's #HerzbergLecture2020 guest speaker, Maria Klawe! Did you know she did some of her first research on Super Mario Bros? It's not too late to register for her talk, Herzberg Lecture 2020: Increasing Diversity in Computer Science at All Levels Thanks to NOVA's Secret Life of Scientists for creating this excellent video!

Paul Villeneuve, professor in Carleton's CHAIM Centre and School of Mathematics and Statistics has received approximately $695,000 in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to support research into cancer rates and deaths among adults living near Canadian nuclear power plants.

Richard Ernst, Scientist-In-Residence in Carleton's Department of Earth Sciences, and master's student and lead author Sara Khawja, along with co-authors, have published a paper in Nature Communications that provides the first geological evidence in support of a dramatic climate change event on Venus. Learn more: http://bit.ly/3kEm8NN

"...Two-Eyed Seeing, Etuaptmumk, has had a lot of traction in medicine and in science education, and I've been kind of on the front end of bringing it to the fisheries realm, of how we can bring together Indigenous knowledge systems alongside western science-based ones to improve our ability to study and understand critical fisheries." Fall 2020 Carleton PhD Biology graduate Andrea J. Reid discusses her studies combining Indigenous knowledge and science in fisheries conservation with CBC Ottawa. Have a listen:

We're #CUproud to share that the winner of the Chancellor’s Medal at Fall 2020 graduation is Sara Katharine Garden, who earned an Honours Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science. Congratulations, Sara! https://newsroom.carleton.ca//medallists-reflect-univers/ #CarletonGrads2020