Kim Hellemans’ talk “Your brain on exercise” was a great success at the first science café of the academic year on Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at the Sunnyside branch of the Ottawa Public Library.
Physics Professor and Canada Research Chair in Medical Physics, Dr. David Rogers of Carleton University works diligently in the Laboratory for Radiotherapy Physics on campus. He studies the use of radiation therapy to destroy cancer cells with minimal damage to surrounding tissue.
The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) has elected Carleton’s David Rogers as a fellow in the Academy of Science, Mathematical and Physical Science Division. Rogers received this honour as part of a cohort of 84 newly elected fellows. Election to the academies of the RSC is the highest honour a scholar can achieve in the arts, humanities and sciences.
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A blogger at Scientific American discusses the research conducted by Biology professor Sue Bertram and recent PhD graduate Lauren Fitzsimmons. Bertram and Fitzsimmons examined whether male crickets victory displays were influenced by an audience. Read the blog here.
Professor Storey received this honour at CRYO 2013, the Society for Cryobiology’s annual meeting which was held in Washington, D.C. at the end of July. As one of the new Fellows, Professor Storey gave an invited talk entitled “Living in the cold: a new molecular toolkit for cryobiology in the 21st century”. For more information on the society, visit their website.
The Faculty of Science is offering a new program this year called the Science Learning Communities (SLCs). Incoming first-year students in the Biology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Computer Science programs are eligible to join this new program.
Preserving one's body after death for a possible restoring at a later date has been the material of science fiction for many years. In an article discussing the possibility of this process working in the future, the BBC asked Carleton Biology/Chemistry professor Ken Storey for his opinion.