Faculty of Science 2021 Highlights
That’s a wrap on 2021!
Below is a collection of awards news, research achievements, top stories, student successes, event recordings, and alumni highlights. Thank You to our faculty, staff, and students, and to all our partners on and off campus, who helped to make all of this possible.
Year-End Video
Faculty Awards
- The 2021 Teaching Excellence, Research Excellence, Impact, and EDI Award Recipients
- Chemistry Prof. Maria DeRosa Receives 2021 Grants4Ag Award for Agricultural Sustainability Research
- Biology Prof. Shane Gero’s Research on Whales Helps Land Best Doc Award at Emmys
- Martha Mullally Awarded Carleton University Chair in Teaching Innovation
- Biology professors Jenny Bruin, Mark Forbes, and Heath MacMillan receive Faculty Graduate Mentoring Awards
- Biology Prof. Lenore Fahrig Earns Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
- Physics Prof. Manuella Vincter Recognized with Prestigious Henry Marshall Tory Medal from Royal Society of Canada
- Biology’s Steven Cooke Awarded Highly Cited Researcher 2021, Becomes Fellow of Famed Explorers Club, and is Named a Top Influential Biologist
- Biology’s Heath MacMillan receives Early Researcher Award
- Computer Science Prof. Yuhong Guo Named to CIFAR AI Chairs Program
- Chemistry Prof. Maria DeRosa is Appointed Interim Dean of Science
- Biology Prof. Jennifer Bruin Awarded CIHR Team Grant for Diabetes Research
- Biology’s Ian Pulsifer Named 2021 Carleton University Teaching Award Recipient
- Computer Science Prof. Prosenjit Bose, Computer Science Prof. Sonia Chiasson, and Neuroscience Prof. Hongyu Sun named 2021 Research Achievement Award Winners
- Physics Instructor Andrew Robinson and Food Science Instructor Véronic Bézaire named 2021 Achievement Award Winners
- Carleton Science student wins the Rubik’s cube speed-solving competition and meets the inventor of the Rubik’s cube!
Research Highlights and Other Top Stories
- Biology Prof. Catherine Cullingham’s Research: Stopping the Spread of the Mountain Pine Beetle
- Neuroscience Prof. Natalina Salmaso Contributes Astrocyte Research to the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) International Research Collaboration
- Research partnership led by Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science Prof. Vivian Nguyen sheds light on the knowledge exchange landscape in the forest sciences
- CFI funding enables upgrades to Carleton Physics-led projects in the search for dark matter
- Carleton Neuroscience Prof. Alfonso Abizaid Explores Effects of Ghrelin, Stress and Metabolism on Women
- Biology Prof. Gregory Bulte uses 3D-printed animal replicas to study mating behaviours
- Carleton chemists look beyond the bean to tackle coffee waste
- Biology Prof. Heath MacMillan Explores Genes that Lead to Cell Death in Insects
- Carleton Biology Lab Renamed and Bursary Established In Honour of Henrietta Lacks
- Prof. Farah Hosseinian grows saffron at Carleton
- Carleton University App Makes Learning Anatomy Fun with Gaming Challenge
- Carleton Undergrad’s Research Discovers Ancient Gray Wolves Adapted to Survive
- Carleton and Ericsson collaborate to shape the next generation of telecommunications technologies
- Celebrating Carleton Leaders on International Women’s Day
- Using Artificial Intelligence Tools to Protect Canadian Land with Conservation in Mind
- Research by Carleton Neuroscience Prof. Argel Aguilar-Valles Helps Demystify Major Depression
- Biology PhD Student Matt Muzzatti Partners with Dining Services to Deliver Pop-Up Cricket Dining Event (watch Edible Insects Story Highlight)
- Carleton Launches CU@Kanata in Hub350, Canada’s largest tech park in Kanata North
- Carleton Neuroscience Celebrates 10 Years of Growth and Impact
- New Ancient Crocodile Relative Discovered by Earth Sciences Prof. Michael J. Ryan
Alumni Highlights
- The Science Student Success Centre hosts the 2021 Science Student Alumni Mixer
- Just published! A special alumni edition of Eureka! magazine
Event Highlights
- Geoheritage Day
- Life Sciences Day 4.1 at Carleton University
- Data Day 8.0
- The 22nd Annual Biology Butterfly Show
- 2021 Discovery Lecture: From Black Widow Spiders to Helping Young Academics Rise
- The 2021 Fields-Carleton Distinguished Lecture: Time Series Approaches to Compare COVID-19 Mortality
- The 2021 Herzberg Lecture: Immune Responses to SARS CoV-2
- Science and Sustainability
- Chemistry Magic Show – Special Holiday Edition for Elementary and Secondary Schools
Science Café
- MicroRNA: Can We Use Natural Gene Silencers to Solve Human Problems?
- Understanding the Workings of Novel Antidepressants
- Advancing Trauma- and Violence-Informed Physical Activity Programming
- A Gut Feeling About Stress with Neuroscience Prof. Alfonso Abizaid
- Probing the Infinitesimal to the Infinite with the ATLAS Experiment at CERN
- Quantum Entanglement
- Sugar and the Hungry Brain with Neuroscientist Melissa Chee
- A New Generation of Blood Donors: Challenging inequities in donor screening policies
- Could Yellowstone Erupt With Catastrophic Global Consequences? (Possibly. Not Likely)
ACE EDI Event Series
- EDI Teaching Toolkit for Instructors
- The Social Context of STEM Education with Bryan Dewsbury
- Unconscious Bias in STEM Education, Training and Research
Graduation Celebration
- Great Grads 2021: Neha Khanna Finds Future Path Through Neuroscience Research and Carleton Mental Health Student Supports
- Great Grads 2021: Biology Doctorate’s Research Dives Into World of Freshwater Fisheries
- Researcher of Extreme Animal Adaptation Wins Governor General’s Gold Medal
- Great Grads 2021: Discovering a Passion for Insects
- Health Sciences Graduate Wins Board of Governors Award for Outstanding Community Achievement
- A message of congratulations from Maria DeRosa, Interim Dean of Science
- The Atlantic’s Ed Yong Delivers Graduation Lecture