The Department of Physics at Carleton offers a wide set of programs at both the undergraduate and graduate level. The department is also is engaged in intensive research in Particle Physics and Medical Physics. Carleton University is a full member of TRIUMF: Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics.

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Carleton Physicists Awarded Prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

A team of Carleton University researchers from the Department of Physics have been honoured with the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, awarded to the international ATLAS Collaboration for its significant…

Provost Scholar Award Recipients Announced

Congratulations to Aya Tessier!

4th-year physics student wins the Provost Scholar Award and the Peter J. Ricketts Outstanding Provost Scholar Award! She is the first physics student to win the Provost Scholar…

World Autism Awareness Day: Support your collegues and students

Prof. Heather Logan has developed a guide to supporting autistic colleagues and students, freely available here:
https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F2410.17929&data=05%…

Improving Radiation Therapy

New Research Focuses on Better Ways to Diagnose and Treat Cancer

Full Story by Dan Rubinstein

Congratulations to Eva Anderson for the successful defense of her MSc thesis!

Eva successfully defended her thesis, "Separating the vascular and nonvascular sources of magnetic susceptibility in physiological MRI techniques based on the reversible transverse relaxation rate, R2’“, before the winter…

NSERC USRA Summer 2025

For those of you who are intending to apply for an NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA), you should bear in mind the impending deadlines for these applications.

For further information on applying for an…

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