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Science is for Everyone: How Carleton's Faculty of Science is bringing community together one Café at a time
By Lauren Hicks The Science Café In 2008, the Dean of Science kick-started the Science Café—an outreach initiative aimed at…
Encrypt, Decode: The Role of Math in Information Security Throughout History
Daniel Panario, School of Mathematics and Statistics For centuries, mathematics has provided methods and ideas to hide information. These mathematical…
Chronic Pain: Uncovering a Path Towards Better Treatments
Michael Hildebrand, Department of Neuroscience The inability to effectively and safely treat chronic pain is one of the major public…
Deep Underground, Looking for Dark Matter
Simon Viel, Department of Physics Dark matter is one of the main mysteries in fundamental physics today. Everything we can…
From Molten Magma to Modern World: Exploring the Early History of Earth
Hanika Rizo, Department of Earth Sciences Rocky planets like the Earth formed in the first hundreds of millions of years…
2019: UNESCO International Year of the Periodic Table of the Elements. Fun and Insights on the 150th Anniversary of Mendeleev's First Table
Jeff Manthorpe, Department of Chemistry On March 6, 1869, at a meeting of the Russian Chemical Society, Dmitri Mendeleev publicly…
Vaccine Research and Development: Challenges and Successes!
Erling Rud, Department of Health Sciences Since Edward Jenner’s discovery that giving a boy cowpox could protect people from the…
Children and Online Safety
Sonia Chiasson, School of Computer Science In this talk, I will present research that we have conducted over the last…
Kill Cancer, Save the Rest! Advancing Cancer Radiation Therapy With Physics
Rowan Thomson, Department of Physics Cancer affects many Canadians with 1 in 2 people expected to develop the disease in…
Lessons from Earth’s Geological History for Modern Climate Change
Richard Ernst, Department of Earth Sciences Earth’s history is characterized by dramatic climate changes, including global warming (Hothouse events), global…
Can Humans Hibernate? Maybe....
Jeff Smith, Department of Chemistry Growing up in Canada, most people are familiar with the concept of hibernation. We see…
The Flaws of nature
Andrew Simons, Department of Biology The living world seems to provide an endless array of examples of exquisitely designed features:…
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