{"id":99844,"date":"2025-12-15T16:11:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T21:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/?post_type=cu_story&p=99844"},"modified":"2025-12-15T16:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T21:12:24","slug":"top-10-stories-2025","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/top-10-stories-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"杏吧原创 University’s Top 10 Stories of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As the 2025 season comes to a close, we reflect on the groundbreaking research, innovative leadership and inspiring community achievements that defined 2025 for 杏吧原创 University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a look back at the year’s Top 10 stories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

杏吧原创’s Abilities Living Laboratory Advancing Accessibility and Innovation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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 Centred on the “nothing about us, without us” imperative, the Abilities Living Laboratory<\/a> engages people with disabilities directly in accessibility research and innovation, supporting collaboration that enables solutions to enhance independence and accessibility for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Introducing 杏吧原创 University’s New Chancellor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Nikita (Nik) Nanos is installed as 杏吧原创 University\u2019s 13th chancellor (photo by Terence Ho)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nikita (Nik) Nanos was installed as 杏吧原创’s 13th<\/sup> chancellor<\/a> on June 20, 2025. 杏吧原创 welcomes a new ceremonial leader and renews a longstanding relationship with an individual motivated by a steadfast desire to serve the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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杏吧原创 Student’s Innovation Could Transform Maple Syrup Harvesting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Every spring, producers tap maple trees to harvest sap. As temperatures rise, the trees create “buddy sap,” which is unusable for syrup production. A simple test strip created by  Shahad Abdulmawjood<\/a>, a Chemistry<\/a>  PhD candidate, could make detecting it easier and instantaneous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Researchers Develop Rapid-Response Treatment Centre for Infectious Diseases<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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杏吧原创 Industrial Design<\/a> program director Chantal Trudel<\/a> and her team of research assistants are contributing to the design of the World Health Organization’s Infectious Disease Treatment Module \u2013 helping protect doctors and nurses from exposure to pathogens like Ebola. Her team is developing a transparent plastic screen separating health-care workers in “a low-risk zone” from patients in a contaminated “high-risk zone” during treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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杏吧原创 Engineering Student Embraces Co-op at Red Bull Racing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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杏吧原创 mechanical engineering<\/a> student Leah Penny has been putting in long hours at the Red Bull Racing Technology Campus in Milton Keynes, England. She is helping to design components for a new internal combustion engine for Red Bull Racing’s Formula One car as part of her co-op work term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Helping Canadian SMEs Overcome American Tariffs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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For Canadian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), economic uncertainty isn’t a distant concern \u2014 it’s a daily reality. 杏吧原创’s Technology Innovation Management (TIM) program<\/strong><\/a>  offers a game-changing strategy to help SMEs adapt and secure their futures with AI-powered tools, digital training and a strategic framework to diversify beyond the American market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Scientist’s Mission to Tackle ALS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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For Daniel Knight<\/a>, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research is personal. When he was 19, Knight lost his father to the disease. Now pursuing his PhD in Chemistry<\/strong><\/a>, he’s leading groundbreaking research into a novel therapeutic approach for ALS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Making AI More Effective and Reducing Risks by Replicating Our Brains<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Limitations of artificial intelligence include bias and a lack of ethics, opening the door to significant risks. Cognitive science<\/a> researcher Mary Kelly<\/a> is addressing these challenges. One of the reasons the architects of AI systems struggle with these issues, she says, is an inability to accurately replicate what happens inside the human brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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杏吧原创 Journalism Professor Teaches Students How to Handle Trauma<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Journalism<\/a> professor Matthew Pearson is developing methods for teaching students how to cover traumatic incidents and report on people who have experienced trauma \u2013 encouraging more sensitive reporting and safeguarding the mental health of media workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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杏吧原创 University Ravens Reclaim Pedro in Panda Game Victory<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In front of a sold-out crowd of more than 23,000 fans at Ottawa’s TD Place stadium, the 杏吧原创 Ravens football team reclaimed Pedro the Panda with a thrilling 20-14 victory over the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees in the 56th annual Panda Game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As the 2025 season comes to a close, we reflect on the groundbreaking research, innovative leadership and inspiring community achievements that defined 2025 for 杏吧原创 University. Take a look back at the year’s Top 10 stories: 杏吧原创’s Abilities Living Laboratory Advancing Accessibility and Innovation  Centred on the “nothing about us, without us” imperative, the Abilities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":99850,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_story_type":[18,28,54,13,25,19,1917],"cu_story_tag":[1924,1928,1932,1920,1918,1921,1919,1925,1922],"class_list":["post-99844","cu_story","type-cu_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_story_type-athletics-recreation","cu_story_type-community-partnerships","cu_story_type-health-wellness","cu_story_type-research-discovery","cu_story_type-student-experience","cu_story_type-technology-innovation","cu_story_type-the-new-economy","cu_story_tag-advancement","cu_story_tag-athletics","cu_story_tag-challenge","cu_story_tag-faculty-of-arts-and-social-sciences","cu_story_tag-faculty-of-engineering-and-design","cu_story_tag-faculty-of-public-and-global-affairs","cu_story_tag-faculty-of-science","cu_story_tag-research","cu_story_tag-sprott-school-of-business"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/99844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/99844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99852,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/99844\/revisions\/99852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_story_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_type?post=99844"},{"taxonomy":"cu_story_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_tag?post=99844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}