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Faculty “frosh” By Kristelle Lapointe

A leader in discovery and innovation, the Faculty of Science is committed to ensuring an outstanding learning experience
for its students. Here’s what the newest tenure-track teachers and researchers in our dynamic faculty are working on.

Wayne Horn joined the School of Mathematics and Statistics as a Term I Instructor in September Faculty news
2006 and was confirmed in January 2010. As the Math Tutorial Centre director, which he has been
since 2007, he is responsible for the scheduling and monitoring of 30 to 40 TAs each semester. In
2007, he was awarded a Faculty of Science Teaching Award for the 2007-2008 school year. As the
Chair of the Recruitment Committee since 2008, Wayne Horn is proud of the committee’s accomplish-
ments and of the steady increase in enrollment.

Farah Hosseinian joined the Department of Chemistry in July 2009 as an Assistant Professor. Her
research discipline is Food Chemistry and Food Functionality; she employs many aspects of food chemistry
principles to understand the relationships between chemical structure and function in living organisms. Her
laboratory is focused on extraction and characterizing the mechanisms of antioxidant activity of two major bio-
actives, alkylresorcinols (ARs) in cereal bran and melatonin in sour cherries, in food and biological membranes
in vitro. She is also interested in prebiotics activity of cereal bran, berries and sour cherries.

Christine Laurendeau completed her PhD in Computer Science at Carleton University in 2009
and subsequently, joined the School of Computer Science in July of that year, as an Instructor I.
Between 1989 and 1997, she worked as a software researcher and designer in the high tech industry,
Photos: GradTrak entitled The Tortoise Chronicles in a way to engage students in the task of implementing C++ pro-
for Bell Canada, SHL Systemhouse and Nortel Networks. She has also created an assignment series
gramming for a purpose. Her research interests include Wireless Security, Vehicular Communications,
Wireless Access Networks, and Wireless Communication.

Gabriel O. Sawakuchi joined the Department of Physics as an Assistant Professor in April 2010. He
heads the Radiation Dosimetry Laboratory, which he created and brought over to Carleton University. His
research in medical physics focuses on radiation measurements of therapeutic x-ray, electron, proton and
heavy-ion beams, aiming on developing and establishing new, reliable and cost-effective dosimeters in the
clinic and Monte Carlo simulations of proton and heavy-ion therapeutic beams (hadron therapy), aiming on
determining current limitations and uncertainties, and further developing the field of hadron therapy.

Kudos from Carleton puter Science was awarded the Carleton University Teaching

Achievement Award for his teaching development project
By Kristelle Lapointe
proposal titled iPhone development camp. Eric Hua, from the
School of Mathematics and Statistics, was awarded the Ex-
It is with pride that the Faculty of Science presents its 2009 recip- cellence in Teaching Sessional Lecturer Awards on the basis
ients of Carleton’s annual Teaching and Research Achievement of his methodological teaching strategies and his dedication
Awards and of the Faculty of Science’s own Teaching Awards. to education and to his students.
The Faculty of Science Teaching Awards were awarded to
shkan Golshani, Associate Professor in the Department the four following faculty members: Jeff Dawson, Assistant
Aof Biology; Nicola Santoro, Professor in the School of Professor in the Department of Biology; Maria DeRosa, As-
Computer Science and Brett Stevens, Associate Professor in sistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry; Manuella
the School of Mathematics and Statistics were each awarded Vincter, Associate Professor in the Department of Physics;
the Carleton University Research Achievement Award. and Nigel Waltho, Instructor II in the Department of Biology
Dwight Deugo, Associate Professor in the School of Com- Congratulation to all recipients!

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