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In the past year, Cooke’s expertise
has spread far and wide. Last
December, he represented Canada
in Laos at a United Nations (UN)
international workshop on the status
of inland fisheries. He has been
commissioned by the UN to work with
two others to develop a global code of Research news
conduct for recreational fisheries and
by the Privy Council Office to be a peer
reviewer for the Cohen Commission
on the 2009 sockeye salmon collapse
in B.C. Since March, he has been
Chair of the Sea Lamprey Research
Board, a scientific committee of the
Great Lakes Fishery Commission, and
he has recently been appointed as a
science editor for the major American
Fisheries Society journal, Fisheries.
His co-authored paper on the use of
genomics to identify signatures of
Pacific salmon that die en route to
spawning grounds was published in Biology and environmental science professor Steven Cooke’s research on fish often takes him out in the field
Science last January. so he can observe his subject matter in their natural environment. He and the other researchers on his team
primarily focus on determining the consequences of natural and human-induced stressors on fish.

More research and faculty recognized...

Research facilities at Carleton receive $1.9 Erich Vogt, the CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal science during the preceding 10 years or for
million from the Canadian Foundation for recognizes and encourages outstanding significant additions to a previous outstanding
Innovation experimental or theoretical contributions to contribution to biological science.
Of those facilities recognized by CFI, two subatomic physics.
were research facilities headed by Chemistry Physics professor David Rogers received the
professor Sean Barry and Physics professor Computer Science professor nominated for William D. Coolidge Award, only the fourth
Gabriel Sawakuchi. the 2011 Manning Innovation Award Canadian ever to receive this award.
Dwight Deugo, associate professor at the The Coolidge award is the highest honour
Science faculty awarded Ontario Research School of Computer Science, has been given out by the American Association
Grants nominated for the 2011 Manning Innovation of Physicists in Medicine. Rogers, Canada
Chemistry professor Jeffrey Smith received Award for his iParked.ca parking system. Research Chair in Medical Physics, also
a Research Infrastructure grant from the Since 1982, the Ernest C. Manning Awards received a 2011 Research Achievement Award
provincial government for his work on Foundation has been recognizing and from Carleton.
investigating lipids, a major building block of encouraging innovation in Canada.
cells. His work could lead to new treatments Distinguished research professor named
for diseases. Also recognized with an Early Professor Ken Storey honoured by the Royal Fellow
Researcher Award was Biology and Computer Canadian Society of Zoologists Donald Dawson, professor emeritus in
Science professor Michel Dumontier. His Ken Storey, Canada Research Chair in Carleton’s School of Mathematics and
team is developing data-sharing communities Molecular Physiology, and a Biology and Statistics, was elected a Fellow of the Royal
among biologists that will help accelerate Biochemistry professor, was awarded the Society of London. Professor Dawson is one of
scientific discoveries. prestigious Fry Medal from the Canadian the world’s leading researchers in probability
Society of Zoologists. The award is given and random processes.
Professor David Sinclair awarded the to a Canadian zoologist who has made an
inaugural CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal outstanding contribution to knowledge and Computer Science professor elected to the
Carleton’s David Sinclair received the inaugural understanding of an area in zoology. This Royal Society of Canada
Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) award follows on the heels of Professor Professor Paul Van Oorschot has been
-TRIUMF Vogt medal for his exceptional vision Storey’s being awarded the prestigious elected to the Royal Society of Canada for
and contributions to the study of neutrino Flavelle Medal from the Royal Society of his “exceptional contribution to Canadian
physics in the pioneering Sudbury Neutrino Canada late last year. Established in 1924, intellectual life and advancing knowledge and
Observation (SNO). Named in honour of top the Flavelle Medal is biennially awarded for scholarship in Canada”
Canadian researcher and nuclear physicist, an outstanding contribution to biological

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